NPR listeners picked 100 Scifi and Fantasy novels this summer, and SFSIGNAL has produced a helpful chart for this list. On it, you’ll see a strong logical flow of questions and answers like this:
Where should I start: Fantasy or SciFi?
No, I’d rather not be seen in that area of the bookstore.
We won’t tell. Prefer a drama?
No. I just watched The Notebook last night?
Postmodern mind-bender?
No.
Interested in Dystopian fiction?
Yes. I’m a sucker for worst case scenarios.
Totalitarian or world gone mad?
Madness
Do manufactured humans interest you?
No.
Which question most frightens you?
Who needs Free Will?
Recommended: A Clockwork Orange
Or take this example:
Where should I start: Fantasy or SciFi?
No. Can’t I have both?
You can have it all. Into the future or the past?
Future
Math Geek?
Yes.
Recommended: Anathem