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Edition Number 238 11th December 2001
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Pos | Title | Type | Author/Editor | Score
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1 A Song of Ice and Fire S George R. Martin 8.91 (154)
2 Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien 8.90 (1323)
3 Ender's Game S1 Orson Scott Card 8.66 (1077)
4 The Vorkosigan Series S Lois M. Bujold 8.63 (134)
5 Krew Elfow F A. Sapkowski 8.50 (34)
6 Roadside Picnic A & B Strugatski 8.47 (75)
7 The Discworld Series S Terry Pratchett 8.44 (56)
8 Dune. S1 Frank Herbert 8.41 (1104)
9 The Lions of Al-Rassan Guy G. Kay 8.37 (118)
10 Palindor S1 D.R. Evans 8.35 (29)
11 Tigana Guy G. Kay 8.34 (280)
12 Armor. John Steakley 8.32 (43)
^13 The Hyperion Cantos S Dan Simmons 8.32 (522)
14 A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge 8.32 (335)
15 The Deed of Paksennarion S Elizabeth Moon 8.28 (61)
16 The Dragon Never Sleeps Glen Cook 8.27 (22)
17 The Stars my Destination Alfred Bester 8.27 (285)
18 Tales of the Continuing Time S Daniel Keys Moran 8.24 (75)
19 Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes 8.24 (230)
20 Replay. Ken Grimwood 8.23 (62)
21 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein 8.22 (500)
22 The Nine Billion Names of God C Arthur C. Clarke 8.22 (34)
23 The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien 8.21 (811)
24 Bridge of Birds S1 Barry Hughart 8.21 (90)
25 The Annals of the Black Company S Glen Cook 8.20 (140)
26 Lord of Light Roger Zelazny 8.20 (290)
^27 The Once and Future King T.H. White 8.19 (117)
28 The Princess Bride William Goldman 8.19 (129)
29 The Coldfire Trilogy S C.S. Friedman 8.19 (53)
30 By the Sword Mercedes Lackey 8.18 (33)
31 Doors of his Face, Lamps of his Mouth C Roger Zelazny 8.17
(45)
^32 Deathbird Stories C Harlan Ellison 8.17 (20)
33 The Best of Cordwainer Smith C Cordwainer Smith 8.17 (34)
34 Watership Down Richard Adams 8.16 (165)
35 Persistence of Vision C John Varley 8.15 (57)
^36 Hard to be a God A & B Strugatski 8.14 (32)
37 Stone of Tears S2 Terry Goodkind 8.14 (108)
38 The Blue Sword Robin McKinley 8.14 (44)
39 Memory, Sorrow and Thorn S Tad Williams 8.14 (235)
40 The Demolished Man Alfred Bester 8.13 (250)
41 True Names Vernor Vinge 8.13 (76)
^42 Beetle in the Anthill A & B Strugatski 8.13 (19)
43 The First Chronicles of Amber S Roger Zelazny 8.13 (436)
44 Snow Crash Neal Stephenson 8.13 (341)
^45 Fiasco Stanislaw Lem 8.12 (21)
46 1984 George Orwell 8.12 (460)
47 Quarantine Greg Egan 8.11 (43)
48 The Hero and the Crown Robin McKinley 8.11 (34)
49 Norstrilia Cordwainer Smith 8.10 (64)
^50 The Cyberiad Stanislaw Lem 8.09 (94)
51 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 8.09 (127)
^52 The Invincible Stanislaw Lem 8.08 (29)
^53 Vlad the Assassin Series S Steven Brust 8.08 (125)
54 The Last Unicorn Peter Beagle 8.08 (61)
55 The Anubis Gates Tim Powers 8.07 (175)
56 Player of Games Iain M. Banks 8.07 (174)
^57 Green Hills of Earth C Robert A. Heinlein 8.07 (73)
^58 Soldier of the Mist S1 Gene Wolfe 8.06 (23)
^59 The Island of Doctor Death and ... C Gene Wolfe 8.06 (16)
60 Startide Rising David Brin 8.06 (440)
61 The Foundation Trilogy S Isaac Asimov 8.06 (791)
62 The Book of the New Sun S Gene Wolfe 8.06 (232)
^63 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe S1 C.S. Lewis 8.05
(296)
64 Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 8.05 (142)
65 Something Wicked this Way Comes Ray Bradbury 8.05 (116)
66 Tea with the Black Dragon R.A. MacAvoy 8.04 (57)
67 The Dark Elf Trilogy S R.A. Salvatore 8.04 (54)
68 Raising the Stones Sheri S. Tepper 8.04 (29)
69 A Wizard of Earthsea S1 Ursula Le Guin 8.04 (396)
70 God Stalk S1 P.C. Hodgell 8.03 (21)
^71 Crystal Express C Bruce Sterling 8.03 (20)
72 Dying Inside Robert Silverberg 8.03 (74)
73 Magic's Pawn S1 Mercedes Lackey 8.02 (74)
74 On Stranger Tides Tim Powers 8.02 (45)
75 The Crystal Cave S1 Mary Stewart 8.02 (42)
76 Ubik Philip K. Dick 8.02 (159)
77 Way Station Clifford Simak 8.01 (194)
^78 The Fionavar Tapestry S Guy G. Kay 8.01 (189)
79 Harpist in the Wind S3 Patricia McKillip 8.01 (72)
^80 A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller 8.01 (352)
81 Arrow's Fall S3 Mercedes Lackey 8.01 (32)
^82 The Tactics of Mistake S2 Gordon Dickson 8.01 (39)
83 Futurological Congress Stanislaw Lem 8.00 (60)
84 The Shadow Rising S4 Robert Jordan 8.00 (513)
^85 Against a Dark Background Iain M. Banks 8.00 (54)
^86 Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut 8.00 (124)
87 Voice of the Whirlwind Walter J. Williams 8.00 (37)
^88 Legend. S1 David Gemmell 8.00 (39)
89 A Song for Arbonne Guy G. Kay 8.00 (142)
90 Neutron Star C Larry Niven 8.00 (153)
91 More than Human Theodore Sturgeon 7.99 (126)
92 The Madness Season C.S. Friedman 7.99 (20)
^93 The Middle Kingdom S1 David Wingrove 7.99 (23)
94 The Door into Summer Robert A. Heinlein 7.99 (212)
^95 A Night in the Lonesome October Roger Zelazny 7.98 (42)
^96 Assassin's Apprentice S1 Robin Hobb 7.98 (53)
^97 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy S1 Douglas Adams 7.98
(653)
98 Brightness Reef S1 David Brin 7.98 (63)
99 The Chrysalids John Wyndham 7.97 (97)
100 Expanded Universe C Robert A. Heinlein 7.97 (47)
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{S1} indicates that the book is the 1'st book in a series.
{C} indicates a collection of short stories.
{A} indicates an anthology.
{F} indicates that the book is not available in English.
* indicates that the book was not on the chart last week.
^ indicates that the book has risen from last week's position.
{SA1} and {SB1} distinguish the first books from different series.
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NOTE 1 : When voting for series, _The Book of the New Sun_ will refer
to the first four books. _The Urth Cycle_ includes _The Urth of the
New Sun_. Also _The Chronicles of Amber_ refers to all ten books. You
are also allowed to vote for each book in the series individually.
NOTE 2 : The series below are listed in order of publication rather than
internal chronology.
The Hyperion Cantos
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Hyperion S1 8.29 (481)
Fall of Hyperion S2 7.88 (303)
Endymion S3 8.20 (124)
Rise of Endymion S4 7.71 (70)
The Deed of Paksennarion
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The Sheepfarmer's Daughter S1 8.25 (46)
Divided Allegiance S2 7.87 (38)
Oath of Gold S3 8.29 (42)
The Annals of the Black Company
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The Black Company S1 7.97 (122)
Shadows Linger S2 7.94 (73)
The White Rose S3 8.28 (75)
The Silver Spike S4 7.79 (56)
Shadow Games S5 8.11 (61)
Dreams of Steel S6 7.99 (56)
The First Chronicles of Amber
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Nine Princes in Amber S1 7.92 (407)
The Guns of Avalon S2 8.16 (296)
Sign of the Unicorn S3 8.08 (283)
The Hand of Oberon S4 8.07 (286)
The Courts of Chaos S5 8.09 (285)
The Coldfire Trilogy
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Black Sun Rising S1 8.05 (41)
When True Night Falls S2 8.14 (38)
Crown of Shadows S3 7.61 (29)
Memory, Sorrow and Thorn
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The Dragonbone Chair S1 7.80 (212)
The Stone of Farewell S2 8.12 (167)
To Green Angel Tower S3 8.03 (169)
The Last Herald Mage Trilogy
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Magic's Pawn S1 8.09 (65)
Magic's Promise S2 7.80 (61)
Magic's Price S3 8.03 (68)
Wheel of Time Series
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The Eye of the World S1 7.97 (500)
The Great Hunt S2 8.00 (480)
The Dragon Reborn S3 8.03 (477)
The Shadow Rising S4 8.07 (463)
The Fires of Heaven S5 8.00 (459)
Lord of Chaos S6 8.00 (438)
A Crown of Swords S7 7.93 (256)
The Path of Daggers S8 5.62 (23)
P.S. For the time being, please vote for the new book _Path of the
Daggers_ separately.
The Arrows Trilogy
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Arrows of the Queen S1 8.01 (31)
Arrow's Flight S2 7.63 (27)
Arrow's Fall S3 8.04 (26)
Foundation Series
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Foundation S1 8.03 (734)
Foundation and Empire S2 7.96 (594)
Second Foundation S3 7.98 (603)
Foundation's Edge S4 6.98 (224)
Foundation and Earth S5 6.82 (206)
Prelude to Foundation S6 6.82 (190)
Forward the Foundation S7 6.90 (168)
Vlad the Assassin Series
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Jhereg S1 7.54 (119)
Yendi S2 8.00 (71)
Teckla S3 7.45 (57)
Taltos. S4 8.02 (59)
Phoenix. S5 7.51 (50)
Athyra S6 7.17 (48)
Orca. S7 6.85 (35)
Dragon. S8 5.73 (5)
The Illuminatus Trilogy
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The Eye in the Pyramid S1 8.00 (53)
The Golden Apple S2 7.96 (57)
Leviathan S3 7.98 (53)
The Empire Trilogy
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Daughter of the Empire S1 7.88 (112)
Servant of the Empire S2 7.96 (111)
Mistress of the Empire S3 8.00 (98)
The Book of the New Sun / The Urth Cycle
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The Shadow of the Torturer S1 7.91 (216)
The Claw of the Conciliator S2 7.88 (188)
The Sword of the Lictor S3 7.98 (169)
The Citadel of the Autarch S4 7.99 (169)
The Urth of the New Sun S5 7.34 (68)
The Fionavar Tapestry
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The Summer Tree S1 7.78 (167)
The Wandering Fire S2 7.95 (152)
The Darkest Road S3 7.98 (150)
All of the following novels are not part of "series" as such. Instead
of all belonging to a single story, they are more or less separate
novels set in the same universe. Because of this, could you please vote
for each of the books comprising the series individually (instead of
having one vote for the entire series).
The Vorkosigan Series
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Shards of Honor 8.23 (113)
Barrayar 8.15 (125)
The Warrior's Apprentice 8.12 (119)
Borders of Infinity 7.98 (79)
The Vor Game 7.78 (103)
Ethan of Athos 7.25 (70)
Falling Free 7.32 (70)
Brothers in Arms 7.91 (78)
Mirror Dance 8.58 (108)
Cetaganda 6.79 (60)
Memory. 8.19 (49)
Komarr 6.97 (31)
A Civil Campaign 6.73 (7)
Tales of the Continuing Time
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Emerald Eyes 8.22 (28)
The Armageddon Blues 7.16 (17)
The Long Run 8.15 (71)
The Last Dancer 8.18 (61)
The Discworld Series
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The Colour of Magic 7.51 (138)
The Light Fantastic 7.65 (109)
Equal Rites 7.52 (98)
Mort. 7.77 (131)
Sourcery 7.60 (81)
Wyrd Sisters 7.83 (88)
Pyramids 7.40 (95)
Guards! Guards! 8.06 (106)
Eric. 7.54 (79)
Moving Pictures 7.68 (70)
Reaper Man 8.23 (91)
Witches Abroad 8.02 (78)
Small Gods 7.97 (101)
Lords and Ladies 7.74 (77)
Men at Arms 8.29 (86)
Soul Music 8.08 (61)
Interesting Times 8.39 (51)
Maskerade 7.47 (34)
Feet of Clay 7.22 (34)
Hogfather 6.25 (20)
Jingo 6.31 (19)
The Last Continent 4.64 (9)
Carpe Jugulum 4.97 (9) |