Mysterious Science Book

Capsule reviews and rankings of over three thousand science fiction titles, each given a rating from zero to four stars. Very fun to browse. Pringle obviously couldn't be familiar with *all* these titles, so he wisely quotes from published reviews a fair amount. Unfortunately, sometimes it's painfully apparent he's relying on a secondary source even when he doesn't use a quote. For instance, his "plot summary" for Frank Herbert's "Destination: Void" is actually a description of what happens on the very last page of that book! This made me wonder how much of that goes on for books I'm completely unfamiliar with. That's why I dock one star from what would otherwise be a 4-star rating.

Nonetheless, I had fun making a to-read list out of things that sounded interesting (I often did cross-checking with Goodreads and Amazon reviews for titles that sounded intriguing). I'm only importing that to-read list piecemeal to Goodreads, as it's rather huge.

Also note it was published in 1990, so it's missing the most recent two decades of science fiction writing.