Top 10 Sci-Fi books back in 1999

According to the internet (usenet) in 1999, this was the top 10 sci-fi books.
00:00 - Intro
00:19 - 10 - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
00:35 - 9 - The Stars my Destination - Alfred Bester
00:55 - 8 - A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
01:18 - 7 - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
01:33 - 6 - The Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons
01:46 - 5 - Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
02:07 - 4 - Dune - Frank Herbert
02:26 - 3 - Picnic on the Roadside - A & B Strugatski
03:04 - 2 - The Vorkosigan Series - Lois McMaster Bujold
03:18 - 1 - Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

[@Talking_Story]

Enjoyed both of these. Thanks.

[@NevsBookChannel]

Awesome, thank you!

[@thesci-fished]

I enjoyed both, nice!

[@NevsBookChannel]

Looking at your channel, am I right in guessing you've read a lot of these?

[@thesci-fished]

@@NevsBookChannel Thank you 😊 all except for roadside picnic, I'll have to check that one out 👍

[@jan2bratt]

I'm surprised there is no Ray Bradbury on this list. I haven't heard of some of these but have read Dune and the first Enders Game and Flowers for Algernon book. Just last month I read one of the Vorkosigan series, I've read a couple others in the series also. This was interesting, thanks for sharing.

[@NevsBookChannel]

Bradbury has one book lower down on the list. I'm thinking of doing a video going through the full 100 (without as much editing). Interested?

[@jan2bratt]

@@NevsBookChannel I'd watch it! Fun to find out which books are still popular these days.

[@NevsBookChannel]

@@jan2bratt ok! That’s enough encouragement for me!

[@danmacarro]

These are very eclectic choices (to me at least) no Asimov, no Le Guin, no Bradbury, no Vonnegut no 19th century classics, and Cyberpunk like neuromancer and snow crash books were out as well? I would also think Douglas Adams would at least get a nod from university students from Adelaide in 1999 if I read the original post correctly. Myself ive read "Moon is..", Algernon I do not think you can't help but appreciate it, but I don't think I need to re-read, and Ive read basically everything in Enderverse, but I personally prefer the Bean "Quartet" to the Ender one. As those get more and more religious and philosophical and just too ponderous (I think Speaker is still really good). The Bean quartet, I think just more actiony and similar reading level to Ender's Game. They're about the wars on Earth by Ender's battle school friends and Peter's rise to Hegemon after Ender enters lightspeed travel (stuff just summarized in basically one page at the End of the original). I think I had to finally put Children of the Mind down at like age 13 as way too much for me, but was able to just fly through the Bean books as they were coming out! I still just prefer them now because I read with such excitement at an early age, even if im now old enough to appreciate the heady concepts of Ender's adulthood books

[@NevsBookChannel]

Yeah, I do still plan on going through the top 100 which has some of the Asimov and Clarke. Still, not a lot. And it’s been way too long since I read an Enderverse book!