O.K. I had to do this one.

This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. The instructions seem to be different for everyone posting these things, so I'll bold what I read and italicize the ones I own but haven't read yet (the only one I never finished was Red Mars, which I finally gave up on about 150 pages in because it was boring politics and I had no sympathy for the characters other than one minor one, which fortunately isn't on the list). I put asterisks next to some of my favorites, although some of them I read too long ago to be sure.


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Yes, I read/own a lot of books. How did you guess?;) Actually a few I wasn't entirely sure of because I may have read them a while ago and forgotten, but this should be pretty close.

Ideas

So why is it that I've been coming up with so many really good game ideas lately (I have at least 4 I actually want to make), yet I've come up with maybe 2 SF story ideas in the past 6-7 years. Obviously the idea well isn't dry, it's just not working for everything I want it to work for! It is pretty frustrating.

I guess maybe it's because I'm making games and not writing stories, but it's hard to write without ideas, so it's kind of a catch 22.

BTW, maybe it'll help if I can actually fit a fiction writing class into my schedule one of these semesters at USC. I really want to, since T.C. Boyle teaches some of the more advanced fiction writing classes there.