Shoemaker's list
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james_davis_nicollIn the course of checking Stephenson's debut in the November 1971 Analog, I came across a discussion of Martin Shoemaker's poll of Analog readers. Shoemaker was asking for recommended stories published prior to 1940.
Votes cast: 33
Who Goes There by John W. Campbell, Jr. (25)
Twilight by John W. Campbell, Jr (25)
A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum (20)
Helen O'Loy by Lester Del Rey (19)
Night by John W. Campbell, (17)
Forgetfulness by John W. Campbell (14)
Black Destroyer by A. E. Van Vogt (13)
The Lost Machine by John Beynon Harris (13)
Marooned Off Vesta by Isaac Asimov (12)
Sands of Time by P. Schuyler Miller (11)
The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster (11)
Promixa Centauri by Murray Leinster (10)
The Color Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft (10)
Armageddon 2419 by Philip Nowlan (9)
Life Line by Robert A. Heinlein (9)
Robot's Return by Robert Moore Williams (8)
The Adaptive Ultimate by Stanley G. Weinbaum (8)
I, Robot by Eando Binder (8)
The Johnny Black Stories by L. Sprague de Camp (8)
The New Accelerator by H. G. Wells (7)
The Country of the Blind by H. G. Wells (7)
He Who Shrank by Henry Hasse (7)
Politics by Murray Leinster (7)
The Blue Giraffe by L. Sprague de Camp (7)
The Faithful by Lester del Rey (7)
The Golden Egg by H. G. Wells (6)
Shambleau by C. L. Moore (6)
Within the Pyramid by R. de Witt Miller (6)
The Shadow Out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft (6)
The Runaway Skyscraper by Murray Leinster (6)
The Girl in the Golden Atom by Ray Cummings (6)
The Mad Planet series by Murray Leinster (6)
Old Faithful by Raymond Z. Gallun (6)
Seeds of the Dusk Raymond Z. Gallun (6)
He Hath Wings by Edmond Hamilton (6)
Votes cast: 33
Who Goes There by John W. Campbell, Jr. (25)
Twilight by John W. Campbell, Jr (25)
A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum (20)
Helen O'Loy by Lester Del Rey (19)
Night by John W. Campbell, (17)
Forgetfulness by John W. Campbell (14)
Black Destroyer by A. E. Van Vogt (13)
The Lost Machine by John Beynon Harris (13)
Marooned Off Vesta by Isaac Asimov (12)
Sands of Time by P. Schuyler Miller (11)
The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster (11)
Promixa Centauri by Murray Leinster (10)
The Color Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft (10)
Armageddon 2419 by Philip Nowlan (9)
Life Line by Robert A. Heinlein (9)
Robot's Return by Robert Moore Williams (8)
The Adaptive Ultimate by Stanley G. Weinbaum (8)
I, Robot by Eando Binder (8)
The Johnny Black Stories by L. Sprague de Camp (8)
The New Accelerator by H. G. Wells (7)
The Country of the Blind by H. G. Wells (7)
He Who Shrank by Henry Hasse (7)
Politics by Murray Leinster (7)
The Blue Giraffe by L. Sprague de Camp (7)
The Faithful by Lester del Rey (7)
The Golden Egg by H. G. Wells (6)
Shambleau by C. L. Moore (6)
Within the Pyramid by R. de Witt Miller (6)
The Shadow Out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft (6)
The Runaway Skyscraper by Murray Leinster (6)
The Girl in the Golden Atom by Ray Cummings (6)
The Mad Planet series by Murray Leinster (6)
Old Faithful by Raymond Z. Gallun (6)
Seeds of the Dusk Raymond Z. Gallun (6)
He Hath Wings by Edmond Hamilton (6)
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Date: 2025-04-27 05:04 pm (UTC)"Marooned Off Vesta"
"The Machine Stops"
"Proxima Centauri", recently.
"The Color Out of Space"
"Life-Line"
"The New Accelerator"
"Shambleau"
A sort of sign of the tone of "The Machine Stops" is that the daring explorer briefly meets a woman native to the world that he has chosen to visit and they do not fall in love, which with other writers in the list would be inevitable. Also, Forster was gay, but tropes are tropes.
Robert Carnegie
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Date: 2025-04-27 08:54 pm (UTC)Who Goes There by John W. Campbell, Jr. (25)
A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum (20)
Helen O'Loy by Lester Del Rey (19)
Black Destroyer by A. E. Van Vogt (13)
Marooned Off Vesta by Isaac Asimov (12)
The Adaptive Ultimate by Stanley G. Weinbaum (8)
The Country of the Blind by H. G. Wells (7)