Greatest Science Fiction Novel Tournament: Week 37, Round 4 November 19, 2017 The last round that lasts more than one week begins right here. The brackets to date can be seen here. Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
2001 or Time Machine? I had to stew on that one for a while.
Time Machine is highly influential. 2001 made a good movie, but I don’t consider the (sort of later) novel his best work.
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I think that’s how I came to my decision as well. I basically asked myself, “If someone put both books in front of me right now, which would I want to re-read?”
Now if it was Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama, things would have turned out differently.