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The sci-fi list, which claims to be maintained by an Australian wildlife ranger, also has top TV, films, and short fiction. Online voting is allowed, though I couldn’t find any way to tell how the votes are counted, or how many votes actually separate different places on the list. So far I’ve been able to vote two days in a row. The books and short fiction lists actually go 200 deep.
Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale comes in #74, which is fine, but nowhere to be found is her equally dystopian Oryx and Crake. And, just to revert to the heart of the classical canon, of course Robert Heinlein’s all over the list, and of course Stranger in a Strange Land is his top finisher at #6 — but why is his next finisher Starship Troopers (#10), a mediocre effort compared to its rough contemporaries The Puppet Masters (#68) and The Door into Summer (#72)?
