As the subject line says, I need a list of "defining" SF... and thought the folks here would be able to help build it.
What are the stories that defined what science fiction was "supposed to be like," for the times that the stories were published? The medium doesn't matter - print, film, radio-play, anime, those Colliers' Magazine stories about possible space stations, whatever - but the stories have to be about The Future. (Or, at least, what was the future for the time the stories were published. "The Year 199x" counts if the story was written in the 1980s...)
What goes on this list?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
What are the stories that defined what science fiction was "supposed to be like," for the times that the stories were published? The medium doesn't matter - print, film, radio-play, anime, those Colliers' Magazine stories about possible space stations, whatever - but the stories have to be about The Future. (Or, at least, what was the future for the time the stories were published. "The Year 199x" counts if the story was written in the 1980s...)
What goes on this list?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012