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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Downpour Deal of the Week -- exp 25 Jan
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Winner of the 1960 Hugo Award for Best Novel
One of Modern Library's 100 Best English-Language Novels of the Twentieth Century....
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Downpour's blurb that they had a deal on one of the 100 best English novels of the 20th century attracted my attention.
It turns out that Starship Troopers appears in the top 100 only on the list generated by an online internet poll conducted in 1998.
You can read the internet poll's top 100 results
here. To give you a taste of the 1998 online voters' sentiments, here are the novels selected as the top 10 of the 20th century:
- ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
- THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
- BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
- THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
- 1984 by George Orwell
- ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
- WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
- MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
- FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard