Talk:Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels

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Brave New World?[edit]

I've seen this list before, and every time I think, no Brave New World?

Brave New World is better than nearly all the books on this list, and it's a much smarter book than nearly all of them put together. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.19.63.222 (talk) 05:15, 25 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Brave New World was published in 1932. This article is about a book whose scope is English-language publications 1949–1984, and that is stated in the book's full title.

And same for the companion book about fantasy, although we abbreviate its title here: Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels, An English-Language Selection, 1946–1987. --P64 (talk) 18:43, 25 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"100 best"/"Top 100" lists are common, as are "10 best"/"Top 10". You must be thinking of another one. Or perhaps a book parallel to Michael Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books co-written with James Cawthorn (Carroll & Graf 1988 --whose title is not restrictive, but I'm guessing about the scope.

--P64 (talk) 18:39, 25 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

if anon 76.19.63.222 can find sources to write an article on Moorcock and Cawthorn's book, it can be placed as a "see also" in this article. I also dont know if the book covers BNW, but we cant mention BNW in this article, unfortunately, for the reasons above. the only thing to do is write articles on notable "best of" titles, which do include BNW, and link them from here.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 20:00, 25 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

so weird that john calvin batchelor is in this list, but his wp article doesnt reference his writing career much at all. (mercurywoodrose not logged in)