Random House list....

[blpurdom]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Rachel Bray" <bray.262 at o...> wrote:
> OK...that's a bit better.  With the Board's List I've read 
> 32.  With the Reader's List, I've read 45.  That's a bit 
> better than NPR's list.
> 
> I'm rather taken back by all the L. Ron Hubbard books that 
> made the Reader's List.  Interesting.
 
Funny, I get only 10 out of 100 on the Board's list and 25 on the 
Reader's List (which has "A Prayer for Owen Meany."  Yay!).

In general, though, I noticed a lot more science fiction on the 
reader's list, and almost none on the NPR list or the board list.  I 
think many people don't consider this literature, when some of the 
best writing I've ever read is SF.  OTOH, even on the reader's list, 
where's Ursula LeGuin?  Where's Isaac Asimov?  Where's Arthur C. 
Clarke and Fred Pohl and Robert Silverberg and L. Sprague de Camp 
and...I could go on and on.  

Since my father-in-law and many of our friends are SF writers, this 
miffs me.  I know that Michael Swanwick and Gardner Dozois aren't as 
well known as the above people, but then LeGuin, Asimov et al 
weren't on the list either.  What gives?  And no Terry Pratchett?  

--Barb