NPR Top 100 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Vote

NPR recently asked readers to submit their favorite Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, and now they are asking readers to vote on the compiled list. If you're looking for a few titles to squeeze in during the remaining weeks of summer, then this is a fantastic place to look for suggestions. And if your geeklings are old enough to be into genre fiction, then you just hit the jackpot in your quest for ways to educate and enlighten them.

NPR describes the selection process:

Last month we asked you, our audience, to nominate titles for a top-100 list of the best science fiction and fantasy ever written. The response was overwhelming — almost 5,000 of you posted to the NPR site alone, and many thousands more offered suggestions on Facebook.

We've tabulated those suggestions and, with the help of an expert panel, narrowed the list to a manageable field of a few hundred titles.

The voting page is over here on NPR. Everyone gets 10 votes, which sounds like a lot, until you see how many fantastic books are on the list.

To get things started, here are the top ten I chose, after much deliberation:

• Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert
• The Fionavar Tapestry Trilogy, by Guy Gavriel Kay
• A Fire Upon The Deep, by Vernor Vinge
• More Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon
• Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
• Revelation Space, by Alistair Reynolds
• Stranger In A Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
• Tigana, by Guy Gavriel Kay
• Watership Down, by Richard Adams

Head over to NPR for the full list of titles and to begin the agonization over your own top ten....