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I glimpsed this list of "75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time" by Esquire magazine on Reddit (it was published two years ago as Top 50, since expanded). Then @hamsterwoman linked a meme version so now I have motivation to write it up, and wow do I have thoughts. If nothing else, bingo has been good for broad exposure/note-taking so I remember things!

Bold: I've read it

Italics: I haven't read this book but I've read something else by that writer

Indents/question marks: I /may/ have read this author but it was at an early age when I was blitzing through a lot of the classics and could not tell you a darn thing about it (there are several of these, I was hungry for SF as a youth but not the most retentive).

( If I had a nickel... )
In conclusion, I don't know how anyone does cut text on DW because the formatting is atrocious, and I will buy you as much peanuts, crackerjack, and soma cubes as you can get for ten cents.

These are just the stuff currently under my username at Ao3.

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Thoughts:
I had to include the "he asked" tag in the first one to meet the three-sentence limit in the three-sentence ficathon, and so that forced my hand for the "he asked" later on as well. (I only included the first of the three-sentence fics.)
I like present tense for Les Miz. I think I already knew that.
I really like the range of fandoms here, in general. Hmm, maybe I should sign up for "not prime time" after all?
I also like how I have to use line in the literal sense because there are so many poetic things eventually.
The "the planet of Earth" one is a relatively bleak and not-that-funny beginning given the nature of the rest of the story.
Considered on their own, the third of these just might be my favorite.