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Originally Posted by Kasper Hviid
I think you misunderstood the foundation of the article. She didn't just criticize a random bunch of old sci-fi novels. What she talk about is a 2011 vote based list of "Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books".
I think it makes sense to criticize which books a majority of readers chooses to place at the top 100. What she aims at is not the old books themselves, but the preferences of readers, present time.
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A good point, although a couple of things occur to me:
Firstly, the extent to which the vote reflects readers current tastes. Often people will cite 'great' books in such surveys but they may not have read them for a goodly while. Also, a great many of these "top 100" surveys that get bandied about are often a pre-selected list that the voters effectively put into order.
Secondly, a list of "top 100 general fiction" would presumably have some equally problematic books. It would be interesting to see whether the proportion was higher, lower or about the same as SFF.