Books: To Read: By Author: Novels

Submitted by dgeiser13 on Sun, 06/12/2005 - 10:25
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  • Clive Barker - The Damnation Game (1985)
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  • John Barnes - The Man who Pulled Down the Sky (1986); Sin of Origin (1988); Orbital Resonance (1991); A Million Open Doors (1992); Mother of Storms (1994) [Hu]; Kaleidoscope Century (1995); One for the Morning Glory (1996); Earth Made of Glass (1998); Finity (1999); Candle (2000); The Merchant of Souls (2001); The Sky So Big and Black (2002); The Duke of Uranium (2002); Princess of the Aerie (2003); In the Hall of the Martian King (2003); Gaudeamus (2004); The Armies of Memory (2006)
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  • Steven Barnes - Dream Park (1981); The Descent of Anansi (1982); Streetlethal (1983); The Legacy of Heorot (1987); The Barsoom Project (1989); The Voodoo Game (1991); Beowulf’s Children (1995)
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  • Stephen Baxter - Raft (1991); Timelike Infinity (1992); Flux (1993); Anti-Ice (1993); The Time Ships (1995) [Hu, JWC, PKD]; Ring (1994); Voyage (1996); Titan (1997); Moonseed (1997); Vacuum Diagrams (1997)[PKD]; Silverhair (1999); Manifold: Time (1999); Longtusk (2000); Manifold: Space (2000); Icebones (2001); Manifold: Origin (2001); Reality Dust (2002); Phase Space (2002); Evolution (2002); Riding the Rock (2002); Coalescent (2003); Exultant (2004); Transcendent (2005); Resplendent (2006)
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  • Greg Bear - The Infinity Concerto (1984); Blood Music (1985) [Hu]; Eon (1985); The Serpent Mage (1986); The Forge of God (1987) [Hu]; Eternity (1988); Queen of Angels (1990) [Hu]; Anvil of Stars (1992); Moving Mars (1993) [Hu, Ne]; Legacy (1995); / (Slant) (1997); Dinosaur Summer (1998); Darwin's Radio (1999) [Hu, Ne]; Vitals (2002)
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  • Gregory Benford - In the Ocean of Night (1977); If the Stars Are Gods (1977); Timescape (1980) [BSFA, JWC, Ne]; Against Infinity (1983); Across the Sea of Suns (1984); Artifact (1985); Heart of the Comet (1986); Great Sky River (1987); Tides of Light (1989); Furious Gulf (1995); Sailing Bright Eternity (1995); Cosm (1999); The Martian Race (2000); Eater (2001);
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  • Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man (1952) [Hu]; The Stars My Destination (1956); The Computer Connection (1975) [Hu]; Golem 100 (1980)
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  • James Blish - A Case of Conscience (1958) [Hu]
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  • David Brin - Sundiver (1980); Startide Rising (1983) [Hu, Lo, Ne]; The Practice Effect (1984); The Postman (1985) [Hu, JWC, Lo]; Heart of the Comet (1986); The Uplift War (1987) [Hu, Lo]; Earth (1990) [Hu]; Glory Season (1993) [Hu]; Brightness Reef (1995) [Hu]; Infinity's Shore (1996); River of Time (1997); Heaven's Reach (1998); Kiln People (2002) [Hu]; The Life Eaters (2004)
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  • Steven Brust - Jhereg (1983); Yendi (1984); Teckla (1987)
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  • Tobias Buckell - Crystal Rain (2006) [Lo 3]; Ragamuffin (2007) [Ne]; Sly Mongoose (2008)
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  • M.M. Buckner - HyperThought (2003); Neurolink (2004); War Surf (2005)
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  • Algis Budrys - Who? (1958) [Hu]; Rogue Moon (1960) [Hu]
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  • Pat Cadigan - Mindplayers (1987); Synners (1991) [ACC]; Fools (1992) [ACC]; Tea From an Empty Cup (1998); Dervish is Digital (2000)
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  • Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game (1985) [Hu, Ne]; Speaker for the Dead (1986) [Hu, Lo, Ne]; Seventh Son (1987) [Hu]; Red Prophet (1988) [Hu]; Prentice Alvin (1989) [Hu]; Xenocide (1991) [Hu]; Children of the Mind (1996); Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996); Ender's Shadow (1999); Shadow of the Hegemon (2001); Shadow Puppets (2002); Shadow of the Giant (2005)
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  • Caleb Carr - The Alienist (1994); The Angel of Darkness (1997); Killing Time (2000); The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes (2005)
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  • Mark Clifton - The Forever Machine (1955) [Hu]
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  • Douglas Coupland - Generation X (1991); Shampoo Planet (1992); Microserfs (1995); Girlfriend in a Coma (1997); Miss Wyoming (1999); All Families Are Psychotic (2001); Eleanor Rigby (2004)
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  • John Cramer - Twistor (1989); Einstein's Bridge (1997)
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  • Michael Crichton - The Andromeda Strain (1969); The Terminal Man (1972); Congo (1980); Sphere (1987); Jurassic Park (1990); The Lost World (1995)
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  • Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach (1961); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964); Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972); Danny: The Champion of the World (1975)
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  • Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle (1962) [Hu]; The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964) [Ne]; Dr. Bloodmoney (1965) [Ne]; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) [Ne]; A Maze of Death (1970); Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974) [Hu, JWC]; A Scanner Darkly [BSFA]
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  • Thomas M. Disch - The Genocides (1965) [Ne]; Camp Concentration (1968); 334 (1974) [Ne]; On Wings of Song (1979) [Hu, JWC, Ne]; The Businessman (1984); The M.D.: A Horror Story (1991) [St]; The Priest (1994); The Sub (1999)
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  • Cory Doctorow - Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003); A Place So Foreign and 8 More [Su]; Eastern Standard Tribe (2004); Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (2005); Little Brother (2008) [Hu]
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  • Stephen R. Donaldson - Lord Foul's Bane (1977); The Illearth War (1977); The Power that Preserves (1977); The Wounded Land (1980); The One Tree (1982); White Gold Wielder (1983)
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  • David Louis Edelman - Infoquake (2006)
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  • Greg Egan - An Unusual Angle (1983); Quarantine (1992); Permutation City (1994); Distress (1995); Diaspora (1997); Teranesia (1999); Schild's Ladder (2002); Incandescence (2008)
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  • Philip José Farmer - Night of Light (1965); To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971) [Hu]; The Fabulous Riverboat (1971); The Magic Labyrinth (1980); The Dark Design (1977); The Unreasoning Mask (1981); Gods of Riverworld (1983); Dayworld (1985); Dayworld Rebel (1987); Dayworld Breakup (1990)
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  • Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair (2001); Lost in a Good Book (2002); The Well of Lost Plots (2003); Something Rotten (2004)
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  • Michael Flynn - Eifelheim (2006) [Hu]
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  • Alan Dean Foster - The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972); Bloodhype (1973); Icerigger (1974); Midworld (1975); Orphan Star (1977); The End of the Matter (1977); Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978); Alien (1979); Mission to Moulokin (1979); Cachalot (1980); Nor Crystal Tears (1982); For Love of Mother-Not (1983); The Deluge Drivers (1987);
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  • Neil Gaiman - Good Omens (1990); American Gods (2001) [BS, Hu, Ne]; Anansi Boys (2005); The Graveyard Book (2008) [Hu]
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  • David Gerrold - When Harlie Was One (1972) [Hu]; The Man Who Folded Himself (1973) [Hu]; A Matter for Men (1983); A Day for Damnation (1984); A Rage for Revenge (1989); A Season for Slaughter (1992); Jumping Off the Planet (2000); Bouncing Off the Moon (2001); Leaping to the Stars (2002)
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  • William Gibson - Neuromancer (1984) [Hu, Ne, PKD]; Count Zero (1986) [Hu]; Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) [Hu]; The Difference Engine (1990); Virtual Light (1993) [Hu]; Idoru (1996); All Tomorrow's Parties (1999); Pattern Recognition (2003); Spook Country (2007)
  • Jon Courtenay Grimwood -
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  • Joe Haldeman - War Year (1972); The Forever War (1975) [Hu, Lo, Ne]; Mindbridge (1976) [Hu]; Planet of Judgment (1977); All My Sins Remembered (1977); World Without End (1979); Worlds (1981); Worlds Apart (1983); Tool of the Trade (1987); Buying Time (1989); The Hemingway Hoax (1990); Worlds Enough and Time (1992); 1968 (1995); Forever Peace (1997) [Hu, JWC, Ne]; Forever Free (1999); The Coming (2000); Guardian (2002); Camouflage (2004); Old Twentieth (2005); The Accidental Time Machine (2007); Marsbound (2008)
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  • Peter F. Hamilton - Mindstar Rising (1993); A Quantum Murder (1994); The Nano Flower (1995); The Reality Dysfunction Part I: Emergence (1996) [Lo:11]; The Reality Dysfunction Part 2: Expansion (1996) [Lo:11]; The Neutronium Alchemist Part 1: Consolidation (1997); The Neutronium Alchemist Part 2: Conflict (1997); Lightstorm (1998); The Naked God Part 1: Flight (1999); The Naked God Part 2: Faith (1999); Fallen Dragon (2001); Misspent Youth (2002); Pandora's Star (2004); Judas Unchained (2005); The Dreaming Void (2007)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein - For Us; The Living: A Comedy of Customs (1939); Methuselah's Children (1941); Beyond This Horizon (1942); Rocket Ship Galileo (1947); Space Cadet (1948); Red Planet (1949); Sixth Column (1949); Farmer in the Sky (1950); The Puppet Masters (1951); Between Planets (1951); The Rolling Stones (1952); Starman Jones (1953); The Star Beast (1954); Tunnel in the Sky (1955); Double Star (1956) [Hu]; Time for the Stars (1956); The Door into Summer (1957); Citizen of the Galaxy (1957); Have Spacesuit - Will Travel (1958) [Hu]; Starship Troopers (1959) [Hu]; Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) [Hu]; Glory Road (1963) [Hu]; Podkayne of Mars (1963); Farnham's Freehold (1965); The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) [Hu, Ne]; I Will Fear No Evil (1970); Time Enough for Love (1973) [Hu]; The Number of the Beast (1980); Friday (1982) [Hu]; Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984) [Hu]; The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985); To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987)
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  • Frank Herbert - Dune World [Hu]; Dune (1965) [Hu, Ne]; Children of Dune (1976) [Hu]
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  • Nick Hornby - High Fidelity (1995); About a Boy (1998); How to Be Good (2002); The Polysyllabic Spree (2004); A Long Way Down (2005)
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  • John Irving - Setting Free the Bears (1968); The Water-Method Man (1972); The 158-Pound Marriage (1974); The World According to Garp (1978); The Hotel New Hampshire (1981); The Cider House Rules (1985); A Prayer for Owen Meany (1988); A Son of the Circus (1994); A Widow for One Year (1998); The Fourth Hand (2001); Until I Find You (2005)
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  • Stephen King - Carrie (1974); 'Salem's Lot (1975); Rage (1977); The Shining (1977); The Stand (1978); The Long Walk (1979); The Dead Zone (1979); Firestarter (1980); Roadwork (1981); Cujo (1981); The Running Man (1982); Pet Sematary (1983); Christine (1983); Thinner (1984); The Eyes of the Dragon (1985); It (1986); The Tommyknockers (1987); Misery (1987) [BS]; The Dark Half (1989); Needful Things (1991); Gerald's Game (1992); Dolores Claiborne (1992); Insomnia (1994); Rose Madder (1995); The Green Mile (1996) [BS]; Bag of Bones (1998) [BS]; The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999); Dreamcatcher (2001); From a Buick 8 (2002); The Colorado Kid (2005); Cell (2006)
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  • Marc Laidlaw - Dad's Nuke (1985); Neon Lotus (1988); Kalifornia (1993); The Orchid Eater (1994); The 37th Mandala (1996); The Third Force (1996)
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  • Joe R. Lansdale - The Drive-In (1988); Savage Season (1990)
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  • Paul Levinson - The Silk Code (1999); Borrowed Tides (2001); The Consciousness Plague (2002); The Pixel Eye (2003); The Plot to Save Socrates (2006)
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  • Jeff Long - The Descent (1999)
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  • Ken MacLeod - Learning the World (2005) [Hu]
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  • George R.R. Martin - A Feast for Crows (2005) [Hu]
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  • Robert R. McCammon - Swan Song (1987);
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  • Wil McCarthy - Aggressor Six (1994); Flies from the Amber (1995); Murder in the Solid State (1996); The Fall of Sirius (1996); Bloom (1998); The Collapsium (2000); The Wellstone (2003); Lost in Transmission (2004); To Crush The Moon (2005)
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  • Jack McDevitt - The Hercules Text (1986); A Talent for War (1989) [1/3-A]; The Engines of God (1995); Ancient Shores (1996); Eternity Road (1997); Moonfall (1998); Infinity Beach (2001); Deepsix (2001); Chindi (2002); Omega (2003) [JWC]; Polaris (2004) [2/3-A]; Seeker (2005) [3/3-A]; Odyssey (2006)
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  • Ian McDonald - River of Gods (2004) [Hu]; Brasyl (2007) [Hu]
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  • Christopher Moore - Practical Demonkeeping: A Comedy of Horrors (1992); Coyote Blue (1994); Bloodsucking Friends (1995); Island of the Sequined Love Nun (1997); The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (1999); Lamb (2002); Fluke (2003); The Stupidest Angel (2004)
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  • Richard K. Morgan - Altered Carbon (2002) [PKD]; Broken Angels (2003); Market Forces (2004) [JWC]; Woken Furies (2005); Thirteen (2007)
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  • James Morrow - City of Truth (1980); Only Begotten Daughter (1990) [WF]; Towing Jehovah (1994) [Hu,WF]; Blameless in Abaddon (1996)
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  • Larry Niven - Ringworld (1970) [Hu, Lo, Ne]; Protector [Hu]; The Mote in God's Eye (1974) [Hu]; Inferno (1975) [Hu]; Lucifer's Hammer (1977) [Hu]; The Magic Goes Away (1978); The Ringworld Engineers (1980) [Hu]; Oath of Fealty (1981); The Flight of the Horse (1981); The Integral Trees [Hu, Lo]; Footfall [Hu]; The Gripping Hand (1993); The Ringworld Throne (1996); Ringworld's Children (2004)
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  • Frederik Pohl - The Space Merchants (1952); Wolfbane (1957); Man Plus (1976) [Hu, Ne]; Gateway (1977) [Hu, JWC, Lo, Ne]; Jem (1979) [Hu]; Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980) [Hu]; Heechee Rendezvous (1984); The Years of the City [JWC]; The Annals of the Heechee (1987); The Boy Who Would Live Forever (2004)
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  • Jerry Pournelle - The Mote in God's Eye (1974) [Hu]; Inferno (1975) [Hu]; Lucifer's Hammer (1977); Oath of Fealty (1981); Footfall (1985) [Hu]; The Legacy of Heorot (1987); The Gripping Hand (1993); Beowulf's Children (1995)
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  • Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic (1983); The Light Fantastic (1986); Equal Rites (1987); Good Omens (1990)
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  • Alastair Reynolds - Revelation Space (2000) [BSFA, Lo: 22]; Chasm City (2001) [BSFA, Lo: 9]; Redemption Ark (2002) [Lo: 4]; Absolution Gap (2003) [Lo: 6]; Century Rain (2004) [Lo: 15]; Pushing Ice (2005) [Lo: 11]; The Prefect (2007); House of Suns (2008)
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  • Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire (1976); The Vampire Lestat (1985); The Queen of the Damned (1988)
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  • Frank Riley - The Forever Machine (1955) [Hu]
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  • Kim Stanley Robinson - The Wild Shore (1984); Icehenge (1984); The Memory of Whiteness (1985); The Gold Coast (1988); Pacific Edge (1990) [JWC]; A Short, Sharp Shock (1990); Red Mars (1992) [Hu, Ne]; Green Mars (1994) [Hu]; Blue Mars (1996) [Hu]; Antarctica (1997); The Years of Rice and Salt (2002) [Hu]; Forty Signs of Rain (2004); Fifty Degrees Below (2005); Sixty Days and Counting (2007)
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  • Spider Robinson - Telempath (1976); Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (1977); Stardance (1978); Antinomy (1980); The Best of All Possible Worlds (1980); Time Travelers Strictly Cash (1981); Mindkiller (1982); Melancholy Elephants (1984); Night of Power (1985); Callahan's Secret (1986); Time Pressure (1987); Callahan's Lady (1989); Copyright Violation (1990); True Minds (1990); Starseed (1991); Kill the Editor (1991); Lady Slings the Booze (1992); Off the Wall at Callahan's (1994); The Callahan Touch (1993); Starmind (1995); Callahan's Legacy (1996); Lifehouse (1997); User Friendly (1998); Callahan's Key (2000); The Free Lunch (2001); By Any Other Name; God is an Iron and Other Stories; Callahan's Con (2003); Very Bad Deaths (2004)
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  • Rudy Rucker - White Light (1980); Spacetime Donuts (1981); Software (1982) [PKD]; The Sex Sphere (1983); Master of Space and Time (1984); The Secret of Life (1985); Wetware (1988) [PKD]; The Hollow Earth (1990); The Hacker and the Ants (1994); Freeware (1997); Saucer Wisdom (1999); Realware (2000); Spaceland (2002); As Above; So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel (2002); Frek and the Elixir (2004); Mathematicians in Love (2006); Postsingular (2007)
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  • John Sandford - The Fool's Run (1989)
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  • Robert J. Sawyer - Golden Fleece (1990); Far-Seer (1992); Fossil Hunter (1993); Foreigner (1993); End of an Era (1994); The Terminal Experiment (1995) [Hu, Ne]; Starplex (1996) [Hu]; Frameshift (1997) [Hu]; Illegal Alien (1997); Factoring Humanity (1998) [Hu]; Flashforward (1999); Calculating God (2000) [Hu]; Hominids (2002) [Hu]; Humans (2003) [Hu]; Hybrids (2004); Mindscan (2005); Rollback (2007) [Hu]
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  • John Scalzi - Old Man's War (2005) [Hu]; The Ghost Brigades (2006); The Android's Dream (2006); The Last Colony (2007) [Hu]; Zoe's Tale (2008) [Hu]
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  • Lewis Shiner - Frontera (1984); Deserted Cities of the Heart (1988); Slam (1990); Glimpses (1993) [WF]; Say Goodbye (1999)
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  • John Shirley - Transmaniacon (1979); Dracula in Love (1979); City Come A-Walkin' (1980); Three-Ring Psychus (1980); The Brigade (1981); Cellars (1982); Eclipse (1985); In Darkness Waiting (1988); Kamus of Kadizar: The Black Hole of Carcosa (1988); Eclipse Penumbra (1988); A Splendid Chaos (1988); Eclipse Corona (1990); Wetbones (1991); Silicon Embrace (1996); Demons (2000); The View From Hell (2001); Her Hunger (2001); ...And the Angel with Television Eyes (2001); Spider Moon (2002); Crawlers (2003)
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  • Dan Simmons - Song of Kali (1985) [WF]; Phases of Gravity (1989); Carrion Comfort (1989) [BS]; Hyperion (1989) [Hu, Lo]; The Fall of Hyperion (1990) [Hu, Lo]; Entropy's Bed at Midnight (1990); Prayers to Broken Stones (1990); Summer of Night (1991); The Hollow Man (1992); Children of the Night (1992); Summer Sketches (1992); Lovedeath (1993); Fires of Eden (1995); Endymion (1996); The Rise of Endymion (1997) [Hu]; The Crook Factory (1999); Darwin's Blade (2000); Hardcase (2001); A Winter Haunting (2002); Hard Freeze (2002); Ilium (2003) [Hu]; Hard As Nails (2003); Olympos (2005); The Terror (2007); Drood: A Novel (2009)
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  • Wen Spencer - Alien Taste (2001); Tainted Trail (2002); Bitter Waters (2003); Dog Warrior (2004)
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  • Allen Steele - Chronospace (2001); Coyote (2002)
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  • Neal Stephenson - The Big U (1984); Zodiac (1988); Snow Crash (1992); Interface (1993); The Diamond Age (1995) [Hu]; The Cobweb (1996); Cryptonomicon (1999) [Hu]; Quicksilver (2003) [ACC]; The Confusion (2004); The System of the World (2004); Anathem (2008) [Hu]
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  • Bruce Sterling - Involution Ocean (1977); The Artificial Kid (1980); Islands in the Net (1988) [Hu, JWC]; The Difference Engine (1990); Heavy Weather (1994); Holy Fire (1996) [Hu]; Distraction (1998) [ACC, Hu]; Zeitgeist (2000); The Zenith Angle (2004); The Caryatids (2009)
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  • S.M. Stirling - Dies the Fire (2004)
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  • Peter Straub - Marriages (1973); Julia (1976); If You Could See Me Now (1976); Ghost Story (1979); Shadowland (1980); Floating Dragon (1982); The Talisman (1984); Under Venus (1985); Koko (1998) [WF]; Mystery (1990); The Throat (1993) [BS]; The Hellfire Club (1995); Mr. X (1999) [BS]; Black House (2001); Lost Boy Lost Girl (2003) [BS]; In the Night Room (2004) [BS]
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  • Charles Stross - The Atrocity Archive (2001); Singularity Sky (2003) [Hu]; Iron Sunrise (2004) [Hu]; The Family Trade (2004); The Hidden Family (2005); Accelerando (2005); The Clan Corporate (2005); Glasshouse (2006) [Hu]; The Jennifer Morgue (2006); The Merchant's War (2007); Halting State (2007) [Hu]; Saturn's Children (2008) [Hu]
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  • John Sundman - Acts of the Apostles (1999)
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  • Michael Swanwick - In the Drift (1984); Vacuum Flowers (1987); Stations of the Tide (1991) [Hu, Ne]; Griffin's Egg (1991); The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993); Jack Faust (1997) [Hu]; Bones of the Earth (2002) [Hu]; The Dragons of Babel (2008)
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  • Donna Tartt - The Secret History (1992); The Little Friend (2003)
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  • J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit (1937); The Fellowship of the Ring (1954); The Two Towers (1954); The Return of the King (1955)
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  • John Varley - The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977); Titan (1979) [Hu, Lo]; Wizard (1980) [Hu]; Millennium (1983) [Hu]; Demon (1984); Steel Beach (1992) [Hu]; The Golden Globe (1998); Red Thunder (2003); Mammoth (2005); Red Lightning (2006); Rolling Thunder (2008)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut; Jr. - The Sirens of Titan (1959) [Hu]; Cat's Cradle (1963) [Hu]; Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) [Hu, Ne]; Breakfast of Champions (1973)
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  • Howard Waldrop - The Texas-Israeli War: 1999 (1974); Them Bones (1984)
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Books Added: Arthur C. Clarke Award Winners, Bram Stoker Award Winners, Hugo Award Winners, John W. Campbell Memorial Award Winners, Nebula Award Winners, Philip K. Dick Awards Winners, World Fantasy Award Winners

lukeprog06/15/2005

I haven't even read it, but wouldn't it be great if Hollywood made a big budget adaptation of The Reality Dysfunction and its sequels with a solid writer and director behind it? If the movies were actually good, they could grow up to be Star Wars killers. I desperately want Star Wars killers.

dgeiser1306/15/2005

I think some of the truly great science fiction films have yet to be made. There is such good source material out there in the sci-fi genre which has never really been done right.

When I come across a book, i.e. read, that I feel would make a great movie given good writing, directing, acting and effects, I usually put it here. All of the sci-fi on that list has the potential to be an excellent movie.

dgeiser1304/03/2008

BTW, I finally ended up reading that whole 6 book series and was truly epic and very, very good.

Ubik10/14/2008

Well, youre definitely introducing me to some newer authors (I generally aim my attentions at much older ones)

You seem to be more into cyberpunk though and Im not really into it. I figured since I tried the epitome of cyberpunk already (Neuromancer and Snow Crash) and I didna like, then I must not like cyberpunk. Other than that and some of the fantasy, youve got quite a few interesting "leads" for me to follow.

I'll definitely be checking out Metzger, Cramer, Denton, Michael Marshall Smith, and Levinson. Im also going to give Quarantine a shot, but I fear that Egan's writing may be too scientifical for my taste...

Thanks!

dgeiser1310/14/2008

I saw from your Goodreads site that you are currently reading Doomsday Book. I liked that book quite a bit.

I'm actually not much of a Cyberpunk reader anymore. I was maybe 20 years ago. The whole genre sort of grew stale for me.

Of the 3 Metzger books I think his best is Picoverse followed by Quad World. Quad World is more of a weird fantasy book then science fiction.

John Cramer is the father of science fiction editor Kathryn Cramer and is a physicist by trade. Both of his books are immensely readable.

If I were going to start with Paul Levinson I'd probably read The Silk Code first.

Greg Egan's writing is pretty scientific but if I recall Quarantine isn't too heavy on the science. He also uses a very interesting plot device which I've never seen used by another author. I've not read anyone mention it in any reviews of Quarantine so I'm wondering if I'm the only person who picked up on it or if it was my imagination. I'd be interested in discussing it with another person who has read the book.

Others books I can recommend to you from my "have read" list are...

Horizons by Mary Rosenblum (she is a really terrific writer)
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds (all of his books are uniformly good)
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan (it's not as cyberpunky as it sounds)
Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell
The Atrocity Archive by Charles Stross
Old Man's War by John Scalzi (not as military as it sounds)
Titan by John Varley
Gateway by Frederik Pohl

and a ton of others but I'll stop there.

It's nice meeting a kindred reading spirit.

Ubik10/14/2008

SO when you say "both" of John Cramer's books, youre saying that third book listed on Goodreads is definitely NOT him right? Its some sort of elves/wizards kinda fantasy that looks self-published. I know it cant be him, but I wanted to make sure before I change the author's name over.

Now youve got my interest piqued on Quarantine. I must seek that out. Ive got 7 unread books at home (some ILLs) and more on the way. I added a new category on goodreads entitled 'reading next'. Granted it could always change unexpextedly, but it will show what I intend to read next at this very moment LOL.

Gonna try and add your other recommendations to my list. I already have Stross and Pohl on my list and I keep *considering* that Scalzi work, but I just wasnt sure...you might have pushed me over the edge on that one...

Oh, and I have notes posted about Doomsday book as I am getting through it. So far so good although it took forever to get going.

dgeiser1310/14/2008

Yes, I'm 99.99% sure that The Siege of Haven, the self-published book, is not him. His books are Twistor and Einstein's Bridge.

Let me know if you end up reading Quarantine some day. I'd be interested in seeing if you pick up on his literary device.

Charles Stross' stuff is very weird and I haven't quite been able to get into his science fiction yet. But The Atrocity Archives is more of an IT Department meets The Call of Cthulu sort of series. If you like it he has another book called The Jennifer Morgue with some of the same characters.