“Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos!” (immortal line of Homer Simpson from “Citizen Kang”, Treehouse of Horror VII, Season 8 episode 1 – featuring those recurring aliens of Halloween episodes, Kodos and Kang). Of course, Article 1 Section 2 of the Constitution that only natural born citizens can be President would disqualify the- “NEEERD!”

TOP 10 SF BOOKS

(SPECIAL MENTION: CULT & PULP)

I’ve ranked my Top 10 SF Books, but science fiction is too prolific – and phantasmagorical – a genre to be confined to a mere top ten books or even my usual list of special mentions.

Instead, as I do for fantasy books, I have two lists of special mentions – one classic and the other cult and pulp.

This is obviously the latter – for those SF books or works that don’t quite that iconic status or recognition within popular culture and imagination of my classic special mentions but I like them anyway!

That or they’re an enduring influence on me despite (or perhaps because of) their “cult & pulp” status.