Top 7.5
Top 7.5 Things I Said while Strapped to the
Water Board
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7.5 |
Look, if you could just tell me
what you want to know I'm sure we could— |
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7 |
Wow is that cold. |
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6 |
"Enemy combatant"? But I don't even fight
parking tickets. |
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5 |
I mean, really, I get the water, but does
it have to be so cold? And would it kill you to give a hand signal or
something before you do that tip thing? Thanks. |
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4 |
Mommy? |
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3 |
Come to think of it, I do have a few
misgivings about the West's decadent culture and American Imperialism. |
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2 |
Did I say "misgivings"? I meant disgust.
Total disgust. |
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1 |
Okay, yes, I did try to sneak a dirty bomb
into the airport. Which airport? JFK. No! O'Hare. Denver? |
Top 7.5 Favorite SF/Fantasy Books
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| 1 |
Little, Big
by John Crowley |
| 2 |
Use of Weapons
by Iain M. Banks |
| 3 |
The Night Watch
by Sean Stewart |
| 4 |
Lord of Light
by Roger Zelazny |
| 5 |
Silverlock
by John Myers Myers |
| 6 |
Dhalgren
by
Samuel R. Delany |
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7 |
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville / A
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin (tie) |
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Hyperion by Dan Simmons, which is
really just the better half of the full novel completed by
Fall of Hyperion |
Top 7.5 Really Good SF and/or Historical Series
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| 1 |
Neal Stephenson's The Baroque
Cycle—Quicksilver, The Confusion, and
The System of the World—plus Cryptonomicon. |
| 2 |
Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey & Maturin novels
(you know, the Master and Commander books). |
| 3 |
Roger Zelazny's First Chronicles of
Amber |
| 4 |
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars
books: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue
Mars. |
| 5 |
John Varley's Gaea
series: Titan,
Wizard, Demon. |
| 6 |
Glen Cook's Black Company
books. |
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Kim Stanley Robinson's California sequence: The Wild
Shore, The Gold Coast (my favorite), and Pacific Edge. |
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Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt.
Okay, it's only one book, but it reads like the best excerpts from 17
historical novels. |
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Top 7.5 Books I Loved When I was 10 and will Continue to
Love No Matter How Bad (or good) They Are
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| 1 |
Any Doc Savage Book,
by Kenneth Robeson, AKA Lester Dent |
| 2 |
Any Captain America Comic by anyone |
| 3 |
Any Hardy Boys Book, by Franklin W. Dixon. |
| 4 |
The Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles, by
Julie Andrews Edwards |
| 5 |
The Well World Series
by Jack L. Chalker. |
| 6 |
The Phantom Toll Booth |
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7 |
The Man Who Folded Himself
by David Gerrold. |
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex
But Were Afraid to Ask (just the good
parts).
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Top 7.5 Unfinished Top 7.5 Lists
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| 1 |
Show-stopping Scenes from deeply Flawed Novels |
| 2 |
Science fiction movies that don't actually
suck (may not be able to find 7.5) |
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| 4 |
Beloved friends that I haven't called or
written in 5 or more years |
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Vaguely unsettling G.I. Joe Poses |
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Books on writing I read while
procrastinating about writing |
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7 |
Songs to listen to on your iPod while
writing fiction |
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Top 3.25 "Meta" Jokes |
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Top 7.5 Vaguely Unsettling G.I. Joe Poses #4: "Coy"