Crowdsourcing Literacy - Literally

Monday, March 29. 2010

Crowdsourcing Literacy - Literally

This weekend The No 1 Son asked what the best Science Fiction books were. Umm...dunno says I. A quick check on teh InterWebz brought about a number of unsatisfactory sources (as in I don't know what the best 10 are, but I know that book isn't in it). In short, you wind up with one of two problems when you look at these sorts of lists - they are either:

- Lists by Critics/Journalists etc and thus are not representative of what most people actually like

- Crowdsourced by people who are not YOUR crowd.

So, a quick poll on Twitter - crowdsourcing from my crowd, as it were, revealed that the following are the Top 10:

1. Foundation Series (Isaac Asimov) - 3 recommendations
2. Accelerando (Charles Stross) - 2 recommendations

3 - 14 (One Recommendation each)

- Time Machine & The Country of the Blind (H G Wells)
- Makers (Cory Doctorow)
- Counting Heads (David Marusek)
- Snowcrash (Neal Stephenson)
- The stars my destination (Alfred Bester)
- Neutron Star (Larry Niven)
- Cities in Flight (James Blish)
- Dune series (Frank Herbert)
- Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
- 2001 (Arthur C Clarke)
- Ubik (Philip K. Dick)
- HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

So there we are - if you disagree put your Top 3 in the comments and I will live update the list.

Posted by Alan Patrick in Social Networks at 09:31 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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Can't argue with Foundation, or Brave New World, but what about something by Philip K Dick in the top 3. How about The Man in the High Castle?

#1 Richard Beddard (Homepage) on 2010-03-29 11:20 (Reply)

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