{"id":1465,"date":"2011-08-18T10:21:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T17:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2011-08-18T10:41:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T17:41:53","slug":"pulp-stories-among-npr-top-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2011\/08\/18\/pulp-stories-among-npr-top-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulp stories among NPR top 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

While caught up in an unexpected uproar<\/a> last week, I missed the release of NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books<\/a>.
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\n\"\"<\/a>Well, it really wasn’t NPR’s picks; rather, listeners and visitors to the NPR website nominated and voted on the top books. A “panel of experts” \u2014 John Clute<\/strong>, Farah Mendelsohn<\/strong> and Gary K. Wolfe<\/strong> \u2014 sorted through the nominees and weeded out those that didn’t meet the criteria.<\/p>\n

NPR set five guidelines<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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  1. You could nominate only five titles per post.<\/li>\n
  2. No young-adult or children’s titles.<\/li>\n
  3. No horror or paranormal romance titles.<\/li>\n
  4. It was okay to nominate a series.<\/li>\n
  5. That meant a series of books, not simply books by the same author or on the same topic.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I was happy to see pulp stories represented among the top 100 books. (That sort of goes against the general notion that stories in the pulp magazines weren’t very good, doesn’t it? But we all knew that anyway.)<\/p>\n

    Here are the books that originated in the pulps, where they ranked and their authors:<\/p>\n

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    1. \u201cThe Foundation Trilogy,\u201d by Isaac Asimov<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
    2. \u201cI, Robot,\u201d by Asimov<\/li>\n
    3. \u201cThe Martian Chronicles,\u201d by Ray Bradbury<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
    4. \u201cThe Conan the Barbarian Series,\u201d by Robert E. Howard<\/strong><\/a> (Mark Schultz<\/strong> is also credited here, but he was the illustrator in some of the newer editions.)<\/li>\n
    5. \u201cThe Illustrated Man,\u201d by Bradbury<\/li>\n
    6. \u201cThe Caves of Steel,\u201d by Asimov<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Did I miss any others?<\/p>\n

      (Tip of the hat to Mike Glyer<\/strong> over at File 770<\/a>. His “Results of NPR Top 100 SF&F Survey”<\/a> led me to the rankings.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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