Books read in 2006
Submitted by Slinkyboy on Wed, 11/15/2006 - 12:03
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- 1. Sleipner - Linda Evans
- 2. The Honor of the Queen - David Weber
- 3. Green Rider - Kristen Britain
- 4. Bat Wing - Sax Rohmer
- 5. Red Unicorn - Tanith Lee
- 6. Fire-Tongue - Sax Rohmer
- 7. Mother of Demons - Eric Flint
- 8. The Laughing Corpse - Laurel K. Hamilton
- 9. Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris
- 10. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- 11. Jumper - Stephen Gould
- 12. Black on Black - K. D. Wentworth
- 13. Stars over Stars - K. D. Wentworth
- 14. The Purple Cloud - M. P. Shiel
- 15. The Land that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 16. The People that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 17. Out of Time's Abyss - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 18. Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu
- 19. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
- 20. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Edgar Allan Poe
- 21. Becoming a Vessel God Can Use - Donna Partow
- 22. A Columbus of Space - Garrett Serviss
- 23. Agent to the Stars - John Scalzi
- 24. Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker
- 25. Brood of the Witch Queen - Sax Rohmer
- 26. The Silent War - Ben Bova
- 27. The Lark and the Wren - Mercedes Lackey
- 28. Fire in the Mist - Holly Lisle
- 29. Icerigger - Alan Dean Foster
- 30. Ayesha: The Return of She - H. Rider Haggard
- 31. Vertical Run - Joseph Garber
- 32. Time Bandits - Stuart Briscoe
- 33. Circus of the Damned - Laurel K. Hamilton
- 34. The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
- 35. Club Dead - Charlaine Harris
- 36. Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 37. The Return of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 38. 84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
- 39. The Jewel of Seven Stars - Bram Stoker
- 40. Replicator Run - Rainer Rey
- 41. The Beasts of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 42. Beyond Thirty - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 43. The Green Gods - N. C. Henneberg
- 44. The Glass Warrior - Robert Vardeman
- 45. Phantoms on the Wind - Robert Vardeman
- 46. A Symphony of Storms - Robert Vardeman
- 47. The Complete Idiot's Guide to a Career in Computer Programming - Jesse Liberty
- 48. Your Money Counts - Howard Dayton
- 49. Don't Bite the Sun - Tanith Lee
- 50. A Strange Discovery - Charles R. Dake
- 51. The Son of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 52. Drinking Sapphire Wine - Tanith Lee
- 53. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 54. Electric Forest - Tanith Lee
- 55. The Monster Men - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 56. The Hostile Hospital - Lemony Snicket
- 57. Chocky - John Wyndham
- 58. The Carniverous Carnival - Lemony Snicket
- 59. The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
- 60. The Valley of the Flame - Henry Kuttner
- 61. The Moon Maid - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 62. The Creature from Beyond Infinity - Henry Kuttner
- 63. The Slippery Slope - Lemony Snicket
- 64. Fanny Hill - John Cleland
- 65. Stowaway to Mars - John Wyndham
- 66. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- 67. Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
- 68. The Grim Grotto - Lemony Snicket
- 69. A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
- 70. The Sign of the Four - Arthur Conan Doyle
- 71. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
- 72. Lacey and His Friends - David Drake
- 73. The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
- 74. The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
- 75. The Dark World - Henry Kuttner
- 76. The Penultimate Peril - Lemony Snicket
- 77. The Time Axis - Henry Kuttner
- 78. The End - Lemony Snicket
Author Comments:
Listed in the order I finished them, as I'm usually reading 2 or 3 books at a time.
Cloned From:
I've read Shiel's The Purple Cloud and enjoyed it, although I thought it got a little monotonous towards the end. You seem to like early sci-fi/fantasy--I'm with you all the way on that. Have you seen the U of Nebraska's Bison series of early sci-fi? I've discovered some good stuff through them.
If you like end of the world kind of stuff, try Richard Jefferies' After London, from the 1880s I believe. Hard to find, but I really enjoyed it.
Johnny Waco
Yeah, the last couple of years especially, I’ve really gotten into science fiction and fantasy stories from around the turn of the century (that would be 20th century of course.) It’s fascinating to me that popular authors from 100 years ago may be practically unknown now. I find that a lot of these stories are really fantastic… and of course they have the added benefit of being in the public domain, so a lot of them are available on the internet for free.Thanks for the reference to U of Nebraska's Bison series. I’ll check it out.
Some of my favorite sources for finding these old works so far have been:1. Tartarus Press’s Guide to Supernatural fiction -- I think this is where I first heard about Shiel’s The Purple Cloud.
2. Violet Books’s Lost Race Checklist -- This is a fantastic resource for learning about books/authors for this genre. Actually finding the books afterward is a little tougher, but it’s a great place to start.
3. Magic Dragon’s SF Timeline -- This site lists significant works of science fiction by decade. I actually just found this site, and I’m pretty excited about the possibility of discovering works/authors I’ve never heard of before.Project Gutenberg has a copy After London, so I’ve just added it to my To Read list. It sounds like just my kind of thing. Thanks!
I'm definitely going to check out the websites you linked to.
Do you download the books from the internet on to a portable device? I've never found reading at a computer very comfortable, but I'm impressed by the sheer amount of books you can get from Gutenberg, etc.
Johnny Waco
I've never used a portable device for downloading/reading books, although I've been interested in the idea for a while.All the free online reading I do (which is quite a bit), I do sitting in front of a regular old computer. It's amazing how quickly you can get used to it if you give it a chance. Although I will admit I have to take regular breaks to look around to avoid getting headaches (but the same thing applies when reading actual physical books, so... hmm, maybe it's about time I admit I need glasses.)