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    this list.</li>
<li class="packed"><strong><u><a href="../../reviews/books/0-671-45070-0.html">The Book Of The New
    Sun</a>, by Gene Wolfe</u></strong>: 
    Incredibly influential and important fantasy-flavored SF that should
    be much higher on the list than this.</li>
<li class="packed"><strong><u>The Thrawn Trilogy, by Timothy Zahn</u></strong>: 
    This is a <cite>Star Wars</cite> media tie-in series, and one of the few of
    that type that I've read.  I remember quite enjoying it a long time
    ago, and it's on the list to re-read at some point.</li>
<li class="packed">The Outlander Series, by Diana Gabaldan: 
    The only thing on this list that I've never even heard of.</li>
<li class="packed">The Elric Saga, by Michael Moorcock: 
    Definitely want to read this at some point, once I figure out the
    right place to start and probably after I've read some other
    Moorcock.</li>
<li class="packed">The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury: 
    Waiting to see if I like the better-known Bradbury first.</li>
<li class="packed"><strong><u><a href="../../reviews/books/0-515-13881-9.html">Sunshine</a>, by Robin
    McKinley</u></strong>: 
    Quite possibly the best urban fantasy (in the modern definition) that
    I've ever read.</li>
<li class="packed"><strong><u><a href="../../reviews/books/0-812-51528-5.html">A Fire Upon The Deep</a>,
    by Vernor Vinge</u></strong>: 
    A little overrated, but it has a fun rendition of Usenet and some
    neat aliens.</li>
<li class="packed"><strong>The Caves Of Steel, by Isaac Asimov</strong>: 
    Read long ago.  Enjoyed it, but don't remember being grabbed by it.
    There's a bit too much Asimov on this list.</li>
<li class="packed"><strong><u><a href="../../reviews/books/0-553-56073-5.html">The Mars Trilogy</a>, by
    Kim Stanley Robinson</u></strong>: 
    The most detailed and in-depth politics that you'll find in SF, even
    more than Le Guin, at the cost of being mind-numbingly boring.  Very
    ambitious, but just doesn't move fast enough or have enough plot.
    Robinson is less a novelist than a political and hard science essayist
    in the form of a novel.</li>
<li class="packed"><strong><u>Lucifer's Hammer, by Larry Niven &amp; Jerry Pournelle</u></strong>: 
    Large-screen disaster novel with a heavy helping of libertarian
    utopian politics.  Does not belong anywhere near this list.</li>
<li class="packed"><strong><u><a href="../../reviews/books/0-553-56273-8.html">Doomsday Book</a>, by
    Connie Willis</u></strong>: 
    The best of Willis's time travel novels, with fewer communication
    failures and frantic faffing about than the other ones.  Borderline
    for this list, but probably deserves to be here.</li>
<li class="packed"><strong><u><a href="../../reviews/books/0-345-45940-7.html">Perdido Street Station</a>,
    by China Mieville</u></strong>: 
    Revolutionary fantasy.  The founding book of New Weird.  I think
    <a href="../../reviews/books/0-345-44438-8.html">The Scar</a> is a better
    book, but I can't argue with this being here.</li>
<li class="packed">The Xanth Series, by Piers Anthony: I've been warned off these.</li>
<li class="packed"><strong><u>The Space Trilogy, by C.S. Lewis</u></strong>: 
    I need to re-read this and write long reviews of them, since I have a
    lot to say about them.  But they need to be read in the context of the
    Christian faith to make any sense.</li>
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