19. This style of debunking seems kind of silly and old-fashioned and cringe now, but the more I look at the State of Things today the more I appreciate it.
20. A haunting, melancholy exploration of mortality and eternity that also includes long digressions about how much the author hates the IRS and why liberals are opposing apartheid Wrong. In other words, the perfect Golden Age SciFi book.
21. The Fall of the Roman Empire, retold one the future by the bastard daughter of the regime's last loyal soldier. Frankly, pretty bad history, but a great story.
23. If you know me at all I've probably yelled at you about why you should read these books. You should read these books! A stunning amalgamation of hard sci-fi and space opera, deserves to be part of the essential science fiction canon.
24. I often describe this book as "perfect", in that I do not think there is any way that it could tell the story it tells better than it does. One of the best fantasy books I've ever read, undoubtedly the best treatment of fantasy religion.
While I'm glad he found success, I really do regret that it was Westerfeld's YA Dystopia stuff that became popular and not his amazing sci-fi or alt-history work.
I do think that the chapter on the Cottingley Fairies really ought to be a standard school study media. People really need to work on their Skepticism (*not* cynicism) antibodies.
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