Narrowing NPR's Top 100 SF/Fantasy Titles Down to 10

NPR is taking votes on a list of 100 science fiction and fantasy titles (treating series as a single title) to pick the top 10 of all time. My vote in alphabetical order:

1. Animal Farm by George Orwell (right genre?)
2. The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
3. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
4. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
5. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
6. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury'
7. Old Man's War by John Scalzi
8. Ringworld by Larry Niven
9. A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin
10. The Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust

It was hard to omit:

• The Black Company Series, by Glen Cook (the first trilogy only)
• The Book Of The New Sun, by Gene Wolfe (loved it, but decided one book per author)
• The Conan The Barbarian Series, by R.E. Howard (my blushes)
• The Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert (the first four, anyway)
• The Elric Saga, by Michael Moorcock (would have come in 11th if I could have kept voting)
  
• Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser Series, by Fritz Leiber
• Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
• Flowers For Algernon, by Daniel Keys (love it, but query re genre)
• The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman (I really loved it; toss up between it an Scalzi's OMW, Scalzi wins by nose)
• The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov (Loved the first trilogy, hated the last few books with a passion)
• Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (wrong genre?)
• Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett (it especially pained me to omit Pratchett)
• I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov (excellent until he decided to merge it w/ Foundation universe)
• The Mistborn Series, by Brandon Sanderson (best system of magic ever)
  
• The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein (a favorite of my youth)
• The Saga Of Pliocene Exile, by Julian May when I was a teenager I wanted to grow up to be Marc)
• The Stainless Steel Rat Books, by Harry Harrison (the first few, anyway)
• The Stand, by Stephen King (best post-apocalyptic book ever)
• Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein (great political thesis and solid military SF; I still want to be in the Mobile Infantry when I group up)
• Stranger In A Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein (made more sense when I reread it in college while enjoying recreational stimulants)
• To Say Nothing Of The Dog, by Connie Willis (fun mix-mash with the beloved Three Men in a Boat)
• The Worm Ouroboros, by E.R. Edison (just makes me happy)

On the other hand, it was easy to omit:

• Battlefield Earth, by L. Ron Hubbard -- Awful book, awful person, horrible movie
  
• The Belgariad, by David Eddings -- bloated and juvenile travelogue; I HATE travelogue fantasy
• The Callahan's Series, by Spider Robinson -- liked the early stories, but he milked it too long
  
• Contact, by Carl Sagan -- he should have stuck to documentaries
• The Dark Tower Series, by Stephen King -- Bad case of bloat
• The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood -- bad case of Mary Sue-ism/agit prop
  
• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams -- I honestly just don't get it
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke -- hugely overrated snooze fest
  
• The Malazan Book Of The Fallen Series, by Steven Erikson -- another bloated series
• The Number Of The Beast, by Robert Heinlein-- self-indulgent crap from his declining years
• The Princess Bride, by William Goldman -- better movie than book, plus not really SF/fantasy
• The Riverworld Series, by Philip Jose Farmer -- should have stopped with first book
• The Shannara Trilogy, by Terry Brooks -- really bad Tolkien ripoff; led to second worst case of series bloat ever
• Time Enough For Love, by Robert Heinlein -- even worse self-indulgent crap from an over the hill ex-master
• The Watchmen, by Alan Moore -- what's it doing on this list?
• Watership Down, by Richard Adams -- WTF is it doing on this list?
• The Wheel Of Time Series, by Robert Jordan -- Worst case of bloat in publishing history
• Wicked, by Gregory Maguire -- wrong genre