Top 10 SF?

For some reason I’d never thought of this. I was scrolling through YouTube a couple of nights ago and came across a video by some previously unknown guy who listed his top ten science fiction books. Again, not sure why this idea of ranking SF never crossed my mind. I won’t go into details on his list, but it caused me to stop and think a little. What would be in my top ten? And the more I thought about it, the more I realized I might not have enough SF books to populate such a list. I write quite a bit of SF, but I don’t necessarily read a lot of it. As a percentage of what I read, that number was higher when I was younger. And a lot of that consisted of SF that wouldn’t crack the top ten, like Star Trek and Star Wars books. You remember those, right? Branded offerings by a variety of authors, inconsistent storylines, some good, some horrible, some in the middle. “Real“ SF? I suppose there was plenty of that mixed in there, too. Classics by Heinlein, Clarke, Herbert, etc., some of which I thought good and some over my head. All that to say: what would be on my list? Good question. I’ll have to think about it some more.

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