Re: Dhalgren: fair enough! Yeah, it's kind of unbelievable I haven't read Neuromancer (I've read some short stuff by Gibson, like "Burning Chrome") -- though I seem for whatever reason to have missed out on a lot of Cyberpunk in general (I haven't read any of Sterling or McHugh's novels either). Another of those holes, I guess.
The original list did have Wells, which I struck out due to personally not really being a fan. Heh, I read a lot of time-travel (didn't we all), but I feel like a lot of it was short stories, not novels -- I suppose Crowley's "Great Work of Time," being a novella, could perhaps be put on? Oh! And there's Card's Pastwatch, which I do actually like better than Ender's Game, though I think if one Card has to go on the list, especially if it's a list of books that had an impact on me personally, it probably has to be Ender's Game. I suppose there's time travel in some of the books on the list: The Stars My Destination, Doomsday Book, Behold the Man, Garden of Iden -- though in all those cases I suppose the time travel itself is not the point, it's more of a plot gimmick.
(Hmm, what would you call the canonical time-travel short stories? "All You Zombies" is the one that comes immediately to mind... "A Sound of Thunder" of course... "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" ... and then of course "Story of Your Life," though that's already on the list.)
I guess I'm OK with Vinge and Bujold holding down Space Opera (even though I suppose they're not completely typical examples), though this all is making me more likely to read the Expanse. (I actually own the first book, and ase has already pinged me on this, but it often takes me about 3-4 nudges to actually read something.)
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The original list did have Wells, which I struck out due to personally not really being a fan. Heh, I read a lot of time-travel (didn't we all), but I feel like a lot of it was short stories, not novels -- I suppose Crowley's "Great Work of Time," being a novella, could perhaps be put on? Oh! And there's Card's Pastwatch, which I do actually like better than Ender's Game, though I think if one Card has to go on the list, especially if it's a list of books that had an impact on me personally, it probably has to be Ender's Game. I suppose there's time travel in some of the books on the list: The Stars My Destination, Doomsday Book, Behold the Man, Garden of Iden -- though in all those cases I suppose the time travel itself is not the point, it's more of a plot gimmick.
(Hmm, what would you call the canonical time-travel short stories? "All You Zombies" is the one that comes immediately to mind... "A Sound of Thunder" of course... "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" ... and then of course "Story of Your Life," though that's already on the list.)
I guess I'm OK with Vinge and Bujold holding down Space Opera (even though I suppose they're not completely typical examples), though this all is making me more likely to read the Expanse. (I actually own the first book, and