This is an interesting list. It’s missing some of the true great classics, like Frankenstein, and it has a number of unusual, less well known titles, but there’s a lot to like on it. There’s certainly a lot for people to disagree about, but it may well have your less often cited favorites, too. What do you think?
Really pleased to see 17776 getting some recognition. I don’t even like American football and I love that story.
I couldn’t decide if I wanted to add that one to my reading list or not. I hadn’t heard of it before, and I’m not at all a sports guy, but it sounds interesting.
It’s not purely text. Wikipedia describes it as “a serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative”, which I think is pretty accurate.
Link here: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
I got around to reading 17776 today. That was fun, thanks for the recommendation!
Awesome, glad you enjoyed it!
Well that’s… really interesting. I love it when people experiment with new ways of telling a story. That might move this up much higher on my list. Thanks for the link.
It’s chaos, but Jon Bois is amazing at putting order to even the most chaotic things. If you don’t know him, he’s purely a sports guy, but he has a number of video series on YouTube that are absolutely great watches, regardless of whether you like sports. I hate (American) football, but he has a number of videos I watched intently, because he does a great job of analyzing random number sets and plotting them out in a way that is visually appealing. Guy is a nut, and it makes for great television (obviously not TV but yeah).
If American Football was like that I would probably watch it.
Yeah, the 17776 version sounds way more entertaining. Especially if it is commentated by three sapient space probes.