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Our [New Scientist] writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time
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Good to see a list not containing just the obvious stuff.
I've read about a third of this list, and the others sound good.
The only one I'm not sure about is flatland.
It's old, more of an essay, interesting enough.
Flatland is worth reading, though admittedly it was decades ago that I read it (it may even have been high school). It's clever; written in the late 1800s as a commentary on Victorian society and social classes. It's from the POV of characters in a 2D universe, with forays about 1D and 3D universes. As a side note, it has a bit about a potential 4D universe, and it was written before Einstein's relativity theory got people talking about higher dimensions. As I recall, it's fairly short.
I've read ten of the twenty one. The fact that it was so different than these types of lists tend to be, without being a bunch of fan fiction or whatever, is why I posted it. Just seemed like an interesting list. Of the ones I've read, I didn't dislike any of them, though there are some I certainly wouldn't have put on an all-time greats list myself.