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May. 21st, 2003 10:44 pm
kengr: (antenna girl)
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The SF & Fantasy book thing. Swiped from [livejournal.com profile] gridlore and [livejournal.com profile] kightp.



Books I've read in bold.

Science Fiction Novels
Dune, Frank Herbert
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
only the original
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke

Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card I did read the magazine stories it wsas based on
Hyperion, Dan Simmons
Gateway, Frederik Pohl
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Startide Rising, David Brin
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells

The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
Downbelow Station, C.J. Cherryh
Ringworld, Larry Niven
2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Mote in God's Eye, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Way Station, Clifford D. Simak

Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon
Dying Inside, Robert Silverberg
The City and the Stars, Arthur C. Clarke
Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany not on a bet
Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
City, Clifford D. Simak
Cyteen, C.J. Cherryh
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
Earth Abides, George R. Stewart
The Door Into Summer, Robert A. Heinlein

Last and First Men, Olaf Stapledon
Ubik, Philip K. Dick
Norstrilia, Cordwainer Smith
The Witches of Karres, James H. Schmitz
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Have Space Suit -- Will Travel, Robert A. Heinlein
Time Enough for Love, Robert A. Heinlein
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov
"Riverworld" series, Philip Jose Farmer


Fantasy Novels
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
"Earthsea" series, Ursula K. Le Guin
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

"Gormenghast" series, Mervyn Peake
The Once and Future King, T.H. White
Little, Big, John Crowley
Nine Princes in Amber, Roger ZelaznyAnd the rest of the series
"The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant", Stephen R. DonaldsonAnd never will again!!
Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
"The Belgariad", David Eddings
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers
"The Dying Earth" series, Jack Vance
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradleygave up after severasl attempts to start it
The Stand, Stephen King
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Riddle-Master of Hed, Patricia A. McKillipNot sure. If I did, it was a *long* time ago
The Worm Ouroboros, E.R. Eddison
Glory Road, Robert A. Heinlein
Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock
"Alvin Maker" series, Orson Scott Card
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
Witch World, Andre Norton

"The Fionavar Tapestry", Guy Gavriel Kay
Deryni Rising, Katherine Kurtz
"Discworld" series, Terry Pratchett
"Elric" series, Michael Moorcock
some of them
Replay, Ken Grimwood
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
"Fafhrd & Gray Mouser" series, Fritz Leiber
The Incomplete Enchanter, Fletcher Pratt & L. Sprague de Camp
and the story that wasn't in that book

Day-um!

Date: 2003-05-22 10:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lolleeroberts.livejournal.com
Uh, you've got a couple of unbold spots in SF there, Shadow.

Seriously, I'm impressed.

Re: Day-um!

Date: 2003-05-22 10:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lolleeroberts.livejournal.com
Oh, and I meant to add "AOL" to the Thomas Covenant books. Were they not a waste of paper?

Re: Day-um!

Date: 2003-05-23 11:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lolleeroberts.livejournal.com
I always pictured Donaldson sitting at the typewriter with a Roget's in his hand, yelling "I've got a thesaurus and I'm not afraid to use it!" I kept reading because I just couldn't believe that he could take such good concepts and ideas and screw them up so badly. The Blood Guard and the Giants were incredibly inspired, but the language! Ack! And I understand the concept of the antihero, but Covenant was such a wishywashy mess. It's been twenty years and I still want the days I wasted on those books back.

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