Sharp and Pointed has been around for just over three years, and we’ve put up just over 1,000 posts — this is number 1,001 — in 37 categories. Coincidentally, we reached 30,000 hits yesterday.
Science fiction is probably our most popular category, and we’ve put up nearly 100 sci-fi posts. Here, in no particular order, are those we consider the best.
- Anarchist Science Fiction: Essential Novels
- Positive Science Fiction: Iain M. Banks’ “Culture” Novels
- Quote of the Day 3-29-16 (Ken Macleod)
- Quote of the Day 3-6-16 (George Takei)
- Dominion, by C.J. Sansom
- The Martian, by Andy Weir
- Australian Science Fiction Great George Turner (Part I)
- Australian Science Fiction Great George Turner (Part II)
- Australian Science Fiction Great George Turner (Part III)
- He Is Risen
- Abductee Blues
- The Rhesus Chart, by Charles Stross
- Oblivion, Joseph Kosinski director
- A Neglected Sci-Fi Gem: Code of the Lifemaker, by James P. Hogan
- Another Neglected Sci-Fi Gem: The Immortality Option, by James P. Hogan
- Insistence of Vision, by David Brin
- A Cold War Curio: Tomorrow!, by Philip Wylie
- New Earth, by Ben Bova
- The Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi
- Quote of the Day 11-16-15 (Cory Doctorow)
- Lucky Strike, by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Revisiting Silverberg
- Red Planet Blues, by Robert J. Sawyer
- Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson
- Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie
- Intrusion, by Ken Macleod
- Quote of the Day 3-17-15 (Mick Farren)
- He Walked Among Us, by Norman Spinrad
- Aurora, by Kim Stanley Robinson
- We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- TVA Baby, by Terry Bisson
- Solaris Rising 2, Nick Whates ed.
This is the first of our first-1,000 “best of” posts. We’ll shortly be putting up other “best ofs” in several other categories, including Addictions, Anarchism, Atheism, Economics, Humor, Interviews, Music, Politics, Religion, Science, and Skepticism.
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