Interesting! That might explain the discrepancy. Wonder why American bookstores shelve it in Adult Fiction but Irish bookstores regard it as Children's Literature?
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Interesting! That might explain the discrepancy. Wonder why American bookstores shelve it in Adult Fiction but Irish bookstores regard it as Children's Literature?
Americans understand that bunnies can be serious business?
Hm. That makes perfect sense, actually. Hadn't thought of it that way.
If I were to guess wildly, maybe because the books have so much horrible things happen to the bunnies they're not deemed suitable for children in the US (or anyway not as children's literature per se)?
Or something?
I've read Flowers for Algernon, same year I read Canticle for Lebowitz, in my attempt to bone up on classics, still ongoing.
Love both books.
Never seen Charly.
A Song of Ice and Fire would have placed high on the list even if this vote had been held before the HBO series. The book series is very popular.
One that was not offered up for vote but I definitely think would deserve a place would be the original Dragonlance trilogy. It was absolutely astounding.
Re Orwell: Remember Schiller and Asimov.
But the die-hard antiCommunists who are still quaking can enjoy LeGuin's The Dispossessed and Zamyatin's We. And should have noticed that it was strange that We didn't make the list.
Jules Verne in particular seems like a name that readers of SF seem to remember from the first couple of pages in the literature textbook and from old movies. Charly may not be much heard of for the younger people here, but Cliff Robertson's nomination for a scifi film was extremely memorable. This was before scifi became a favorite vehicle for marvelous spectable and action.
But the die-hard antiCommunists who are still quaking can enjoy LeGuin's The Dispossessed and Zamyatin's We. And should have noticed that it was strange that We didn't make the list.
Jules Verne in particular seems like a name that readers of SF seem to remember from the first couple of pages in the literature textbook and from old movies. Charly may not be much heard of for the younger people here, but Cliff Robertson's nomination for a scifi film was extremely memorable. This was before scifi became a favorite vehicle for marvelous spectable and action.
IIRC, the spine had the word "fiction" printed on it by the publisher. So that was often our default. (Unless for some reason we knew "better")
Which meant that the publisher wanted it shelved in the mainstream adult fiction section, not SciFi or Children's.
Often, it all comes down to marketing decisions . . . .
Dead and buried, collapsed under it's own rotting corpse.
I mean, we need to define what we're talking about when we talk about Communism, frankly. What is Communism? What is Marxism? What is Socialism, and Leninism, and Maoism, and Stalinism?
There are all these competing -isms, and competing definitions of these -isms. We're all throwing around these words without a strong definition of each one, and that's a recipe for poor communication.
I'm glad the Mars trilogy made the list. It should've done better than 95th, though.
That is an AMAZING trilogy. I want to read it again in the next couple of years.
One of my favourite Sci Fi book series ever. They describe the setting (Mars, conflict on Earth, etc) so well without sacrificing a compelling story. Great stuff.
A big, epic tale, but characters and intimacy are not sacrificed on the altar of sweeping events and big ideas. That's takes some writing to pull off.
Besides, Mars has always been one of my favorite settings.
Besides, Mars has always been one of my favorite settings.
In the context I've been using it, almost tautological. I've used Stalinism to mean the Soviet Union when Stalin was the country's leader, and depictions of totalitarianism influenced by this specific period in the country's history.
Another question as relevant is this: What is anti-Communism?
