I examine the entrails of the inaugural SciFiScavenger audience survey of the best science fiction books. In this video I look at 15 books that ONE PERSON put in 10th place in their survey responses. These books all scored just one point, but it was important enough for somebody to put in 10th place in their all time top 10. Are there any of them that you'd like to read?
Here is the full list of 51 1-point books, from which I chose the 15 I look at in the video:
The Witches of Karres, James H. Schmitz
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, Jules Verne
Radix, AA Attanasio
The Time Master, Wilson Tucker
Vornan19, Robert Silverberg
The Rift, Nina Allan
Timelike Infinity, Stephen Baxter
The Invisible Man, HG Wells
The Science in Science Fiction, Peter Nichols
Spacemen Blues: A Love Story, Brian Francis Slattery
The Ballad of Halo Jones, Alan Moore
Shadow Hunter, Will Baker
War with the Newts, Karel Capek
When Worlds Collide, Philip Wylie
Reteif: Envoy to New Worlds, Keith Laumer
Ten Low, Stark Holborn
The Lost Fleet: Dauntless, Jack Campbell
The Ring of Ritornel, Charles Harness
The Giver, Lois Lowry
This Immortal, Roger Zelazny
The White Mountains, John Christopher
Semiosis, Sue Burke
The Shattered World, Michael Reaves
The Cabinet, Un-Su Kim
The Black Cloud , Fred Hoyle
Starfish, Peter Watts
The Man in the Maze, Robert Silverberg
Virtual Girl, Amy Thomson
Total War, Jerry Ahern
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Kiln People, David Brin
Alita battle angel, Phil Cadigan
Farmer in the Sky, Robert Heinlein
Galaxias, Stephen Baxter
A Stainless Steel Rat is Born, Harry Harrison
Artificial Condition, Martha Wells
Black Sun Rising, C. S. Friedman
Contact This! A First Contact Anthology, Handley/Cooper/Sawyer
A Matter for Men, David Gerrold
Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle
Ghostwritten, David Mitchell
Makers, Cory Doctorow
Inhabited Island, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
Doggerland, Ben Smith
American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett
Beacon 23, Hugh Howey
Agent of the Imperium, Marc Miller
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days, Alastair Reynolds
A Voyage to Arcturus, David Lindsay
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