Tonight I review Philip K. Dick's 1970 novel "A Maze of Death". I provide a spoiler free plot overview, discuss my likes, my dislikes, make some recommendations and I give it a rating.,
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00:00 Intro
00:52 Plot overview
02:39 What I Liked
05:23 What I didn't like
06:30 Recommendations
07:50 My Goodreads Ranking
Over the last year I have reread over 60 Hugo and/or Nebula award winning Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, and I have been ranking them on the ever growing SF Shed Ladder.
I use the following criteria to help me rank these wonderful novels.
1. Concept (how interesting/unique is the SF or F concept)
2. Execution of the concept
3. Characters (interesting character arcs, relatable, interesting)
4. Writing (how much did i enjoy the writing)
5. How memorable are these novels (the memory test)
6. Plot (interesting twists and turns)
7. Ending (does the ending satisfy)
Playlist of all the Hugo Winning Novels
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGMlrr25EAvnteXr3XCOhER4xmU-Po6B6
Playlist of all the Nebula Winning Novels
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGMlrr25EAvkHtGC90-Kqb3ZCfi0Pu0Qb
The Shed Ladder Rankings
1 Hyperion - Dan Simmons
2 Dune - Frank Herbert
3 Gateway Frederik Pohl
4 A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr
5 Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
6 Way Station - Clifford Symak
7 Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
8 Doomsday Book - Connie WIllis
9 To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer
10 A Case of Conscience - James Blish
11 Tehanu - Ursula LeGuine
12 The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
13 The Dispossessed - Ursula LeGuine
14 The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuine
15 This Immortal - Roger Zelazny
16 The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C Clarke
17 Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
18 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
19 Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
20 Ringworld - Larry Niven
21 The Claw of the Conciliator - Gene Wolfe
22 The Man in the High Castle - Philip K, Dick
23 The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
24 Falling Free - Lois McMaster Bujold
25 Red Mars - Kin Stanley Robinson
26 The Three Body Problem Cixin Liu
27 Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
28 Moving Mars - Greg Bear
29 A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
30 The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
31 Redshirts - John Scalzi
32 Flowers for Algenon - Daniel Keyes
33 Rite of Passage - Alexei Panshin
34 The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
35 Among Others - Jo Walton
36 The Uplift War - David Brin
37 A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge
38 Startide Rising - David Brin
39 The Saint of Bright Doors - Vajra Chandrasekera
40 The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov
41 The City and the City - China Mieville
42 Man Plus - Frederik Pohl
43 Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delaney
44 Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang - Kate Wilhelm
45 Double Star - Robert Heinlein
46 A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
47 Ancillary Justice - Anne Leckie
48 A Time of Changes - Robert Silverberh
49 Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
50 Nettle and Bone - T. Kingfisher
51 Forever Peace - Joe Haldeman
52 The Terminal Experiment - Robert J Sawyer
53 The Quantum Rose - Catherine Asaro
54 The Einstein Intersection - Samuel R. Delaney
55 The Big Time - Fritz Leiber
56 Timescape - Gregory Benford
57 No Enemy But Time - Michael Bishop
58 The Falling Woman - Pat Murphy
59 Slow River - Nicola Griffith
60 The Obelisk Gate - N.K Jemisin
61 The Fifth Season - N.K Jemisin
62 The Stone Sky - N.K Jemisin