Recommended Reading List
The best of the best for those of eclectic tastes: lovers of the
subtle and the fantastic.
Science Fiction
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Poul Anderson
Ensign Flandry, Flandry of Terra,
The Man Who Counts, Ivory and Apes and Peacocks,
The Sorrow of Odin the Goth.
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Piers Anthony
Macroscope.
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Issac Asimov
The End of Eternity, Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun.
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Alfred Bester
The Push of a Finger.
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Iain Banks
Look to Windward, The Player of Games.
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Greg Bear
Blood Music (books on tape by George Guidall), Slant, Forge of God, Anvil of Stars.
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Frederic Brown
Short Stories.
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David Brin
The Uplift War.
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Arthur Clarke
Childhood's End, The Lion of Comarre.
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Philip K. Dick
A Maze of Death, The Crack in Space, Ubik.
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Gordon R. Dickson
The Alien Way, Sleepwalker's World.
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Greg Egan
Diaspora, Our Lady of Chernobyl, Oracle, Yeyuka .
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William Gibson
Neuromancer, Burning Chrome.
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James P. Hogan
Voyage From Yesteryear, The Multiplex Man,
Assassin, Silver Shoes for a Princess.
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Robert Heinlein
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Star Beast, Waldo, Double Star.
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C. M. Kornbluth
The Marching Morons, The Little Black Bag
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Raymond F. Jones
Correspondence Course.
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Larry Niven
Tales of Known Space, The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton, Protector,
World of Ptavvs, The Mote in God's Eye.
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Damon Knight
Rule Golden, Semper Fi.
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Keith Laumer
Knight of Delusions, The Star Treasure,
The House in November, The Ultimax Man,
Hybrid, End as a Hero, A Trip to the City.
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Ursula K. LeGuin
The Left Hand of Darkness, A Wizard of Earthsea.
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Fritz Lieber
The Enchanted Forest.
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Paul McAuley
The Invisible Country.
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Rudy Rucker
Master of Space and Time, White Light.
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James H. Schmitz
The Witches of Karres.
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Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.)
The Screwfly Solution, The Milk of Paradise,
The Man Who Walked Home,
And I Found Me Here On the Cold Hill's Side,
Your Haploid Heart .
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Clifford Simak
Waystation, They Walked Like Men, All Flesh is Grass.
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Brian Stableford
Architects of Emortality.
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Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash, The Diamond Age.
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Bruce Sterling
Crystal Express, The Artificial Kid, Distraction,
Maneki Neko, Taklamakan .
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Michael Swanwick
Vacuum Flowers, The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Collected Short Stories.
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John Varley
The Phantom of Kansas, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank,
Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance, Blue Champagne, Press Enter.
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Vernor Vinge
True Names, A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky.
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Gene Wolfe
The Fifth Head of Cerberus.
Fantasy
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Neil Gaiman + various artists
Sandman Library: Preludes and Nocturnes, The Doll's House,
Dream Country, Season of Mists, A Game of You, Brief Lives,
Fables and Reflections, World's End, The Kindly Ones, The Wake.
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C. S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Chronicles of Narnia.
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Hope Mirrlees
Lud-in-the-Mist.
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Luigi Seraphini
Codex Seraphinianus.
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Bryan Talbot
Adventures of Luther Arkwright, Heart of Empire, One Bad Rat.
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Alan Moore and David Lloyd
V for Vendetta.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit.
Poetry
Mystery
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Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose.
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Philip Kerr
Berlin Noir Trilogy, A Philosophical Investigation.
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Steven Saylor
The Roma Sub Rosa series.
Films
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Stanley Kubrick
2001 Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut,
Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon, Lolita, Spartacus.
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Alfred Hitchcock
North by Northwest, Vertigo.
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John Huston
Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre.
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Terry Gilliam
Brazil.
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Hayao Miyazaki
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away).
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Satoshi Kon
Paprika
General Non-fiction
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Eric Drexler
Engines of Creation.
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William Lareau
Conduct Expected.
Sources for Books
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Books:
Public libraries
San Mateo/Foster City ,
Palo Alto.
New at
Amazon,
used at
Bookfinder, and
Powell's Bookstore,
graphic novels at
Last Gasp Publishing.
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Science fiction:
Reviews at
SF Site,
author pages at
Greg Egan,
Paul McAuley,
Michael Swanwick,
Greg Bear,
Bruce Sterling,
David Brin,
Syne Mitchell,
Iain Banks,
Ursula LeGuin,
Bryan Talbot.
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