BEYONDREALITY
 
  The Fantasy and SF Voting Archive  


     
 
Greetings! and welcome to Beyond Reality, a wellspring of information for bibliophiles of a more outlandish sort. Here, arrayed in all their splendor, lie over five thousand books of the Science Fiction and Fantasy persuasion. The reason for this vast collection? To argue over which is better, of course. What could be more fun than that? This collection is engineered so that anyone may vote on any book, on a scale of one to ten, thereby exalting their personal favorites and consigning those less worthy titles to numeric perdition. Then, as if that weren't enough fun, the results of these voting frenzies are tabulated and posted, both individually, next to each title, and collectively, in a variety of ranked lists, to see which singular books emerge victorious over all their peers. The purpose of it all? Well, other than to keep the maintainer entertained, it serves as a massive suggestion list. See a book of stellar ranking that you haven't read before? Well, perhaps it's time to give it a shot. Seen a book you've been thinking of getting, but find it wallowing in the lowest depths of scoredom, consigned there by numerous people? Perhaps another title would be preferable. Or, if feeling particularly adventurous, you could read it anyway, find it to be a great book, and do your part to shine some positive light on a falsely blighted work. Overall, the goal is simply to have fun, agree with some ratings, scoff at others, post your own, just have a good time, and share your reading wisdom with your peers, around the globe.

If you're a newcomer, or would just like some more detailed information on the ranking, then click here.

Otherwise, on to the collection!

 
     



     
 
A - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
B - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9
C - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8
D - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7
E - 2
F - 2 - 3 - 4
G - 2 - 3 - 4
H - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7
I
J - 2
K - 2 - 3
L - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6
M - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8
N - 2
O
P - 2 - 3 - 4
Q
 
     
     
 
R - 2 - 3 - 4
S - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9
T - 2 - 3
U
V - 2 - 3
W - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7
X
Y
Z
 
     
     
 
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Such a vast volume of titles does not simply fall into one's lap unassisted. A great many websites had already gone the distance in archiving such things; I merely built on their shoulders. In the Fantasy department, by far the most helpful source was the Quasi Derivative Fantasy Book List (which is either gone or down at the moment, a great loss to the internet), a huge collection of Fantasy books and reviews. On the Science Fiction side of things, the Linkoping Science Fiction and Fantasy Archive and the Anachron City Library provided huge databases of book titles, authors, and, perhaps most imporantly, series groupings. Also, interestingly enough, Amazon.com was of great help, both in validating lots of books and authors and in finding the most recent works of many authors that had not yet been added to those sites I collected the lists from in the first place. Without the existence of all of these wonderful sites, this collection's existence would not have come to pass. Such is the power of the Internet.
 
     



  Last updated on: 07.18.2005






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