The NESFA Core Reading List of Fantasy and Science Fiction
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29 October 1997
ab Hugh, Dafydd
HNom NNom nt 1990 The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His
Larinks, a Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk
Abbott, E A
[k] n 1884 Flatland
Abernathy, Ralph
nt 1942 Heritage
Recommended by arl
[a] nt 1954 Pyramid
[a] s 1953 The Rotifers
Ackroyd, Peter
[k,Pf] n 1985 Hawksmoor
Adams, Douglas
n Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
A subtle uchronia. Better SF than Hitchhiker --
cjh
[i] n 1979 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the
Hitchhiker trilogy 1
n 1982 Life, the Universe, and Everything
Hitchhiker trilogy 3. Downhill from the first
book -- arl
n 1980 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Hitchhiker trilogy 2. Downhill from the first
-- arl
Adams, Richard
n 1974 Shardik
Better in many ways than Watership Down -- arl
[Pf] n 1972 Watership Down
Aldiss, Brian W.
[g] nt 1962 A Kind of Artistry
n An Island Called Moreau
Recommended by jr
n 1969 Barefoot in the Head
nf 1973 Billion Year Spree
HNom nv 1978 Enemies of the System
n 1973 Frankenstein Unbound
[Psf] n 1964 Greybeard
NNom n 1982 Heliconia Spring
n 1993 Heliconia Summer
NNom n 1985 Heliconia Winter
[f] nt 1961 Hothouse
Included in 'The Long Afternoon of Earth'
Hugo se Hothouse series
A few Hugos were given out for a series of
stories
[f] s 1957 Let's Be Frank
HNom NNom s 1966 Man in His Time
[Psf] n 1958 Non-Stop
[f] s 1958 Poor Little Warrior!
n 1958 Starship
[i,Psf] n 1962 The Long Afternoon of Earth
Includes 'Hothouse'
[Pf] n 1976 The Malacia Tapestry
Neb nv 1965 The Saliva Tree
HNom NNom nt 1968 Total Environment
nf Trillion Year Spree
Updating of 'Billion Year Spree'
Recommended by mh
s 1958 Who Can Replace a Man?
Recommended by jam and arl
Aldiss, Brian W. and David Wingrove
Hugo nf 1986 Trillion Year Spree
Aldiss, Brian W. and Harry Harrison
nf 1975 Hell's Cartographers
a The Astounding-Analog Reader
Aldridge, Mary C.
NNom s 1989 The Adinkra Cloth
Aldridge, Ray
NNom nt 1991 Gate of Faces
NNom nv 1993 The Beauty Addict
Alexander, Lloyd
n 1967 Taran Wanderer
Part of the 'Prydain' series
n 1960 The Black Cauldron
Part of the 'Prydain' series
n 1964 The Book of Three
Part of the 'Prydain' series
n 1966 The Castle of Llyr
Part of the 'Prydain' series
n 1968 The High King
Part of the 'Prydain' series
Allen, Roger Macbride
n 1988 Orphans of Creation
Recommended by eac
n 1990 The Ring of Charon
A superscience story in the tradition of
Campbell's Arcot, Wade and Morey -- arl
Allen, Steve
[g] s 1955 The Public Hating
Amis, Kingsley
nf 1960 New Maps of Hell
[k,Psf] n 1976 The Alteration
[k,Pf] n 1969 The Green Man
Anderson, Chester
HNom n 1967 The Butterfly Kid
Anderson, Kevin J. and Doug Beason
NNom n 1992 Assemblers of Infinity
Anderson, Poul
nv 1958 A Bicycle Built for Brew
Also titled "The Makeshift Rocket". Recommended
by mlo. Minor -- arl
n 1974 A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
n 1961 After Doomsday
Recommended by jr
n 1954 Brain Wave
Recommended by mlo
nt 1959 Brave to Be a King
Contained in "The Time Patrol". Excellent -- arl
[c,f] nv 1957 Call Me Joe
nt 1962 Critique of Impure Reason
Recommended by mlo
[f] nt 1955 Delenda Est
Incorporated in "The Time Patrol"
nv 1962 Epilog
Recommended by mlo
HNom n 1974 Fire Time
Hugo Neb nt 1972 Goat Song
[f] nt 1961 Hiding Place
Part of "Trader to the Stars"
n 1973 Hrolf Kraki's Saga
Hugo nt 1978 Hunter's Moon
nt 1992 In Memorium
Recommended by mlo
[f] nv 1962 Kings Who Die
NNom [g] s 1968 Kyrie
HNom nt 1965 Marque and Reprisal
Contained in "The Star Fox"
n 1974 Midsummer Tempest, A
Recommended by mlo & po
n 1977 Mirkheim
Hugo [f] nt 1963 No Truce with Kings
n 1971 Operation Chaos
n 1961 Orbit Unlimited
n 1983 Orion Shall Rise
HNom [i,Psf] n 1970 Tau Zero
HNom NNom n 1989 The Boat of a Million Years
[a,i,k,Pf] n 1954 The Broken Sword
Excellent fantasy -- arl & mlo. Current edition
substantially re-written in 70s
NNom n 1971 The Byworlder
n 1965 The Corridors of Time
Recommended by mlo
n 1972 The Dancer from Atlantis
A fine time-travel novel -- po
HNom n 1958 The Enemy Stars
Originally titled "We Have Fed Our Sea"
NNom nv 1970 The Fatal Fulfillment
The Helping Hand
An analysis of the effects of foreign aid -- arl
HNom n 1960 The High Crusade
[f] s 1958 The Last of the Deliverers
Hugo nt 1960 The Longest Voyage
[f,l] nt 1956 The Man Who Came Early
[i] n 1958 The Man Who Counts
Also titled "War of the Wing-Men"
HNom NNom n 1973 The People of the Wind
Hugo Neb nt 1971 The Queen of Air and Darkness
Hugo Neb nv 1981 The Saturn Game
Hugo NNom nt 1968 The Sharing of Flesh
n 1966 The Star Fox
A fix-up novel. Not his best -- arl
c 1991 The Time Patrol
NNom nt 1979 The Ways of Love
HNom n 1972 There Will Be Time
[k,Pf] n 1962 Three Hearts and Three Lions
Superb fantasy -- mlo & arl
c 1964 Time and Stars
c 1966 Trader to the Stars
n 1961 Twilight World
Anderson, Poul and F. N. Waldrop
[e] nt 1947 Tomorrow's Children
Expanded into 'Twilight World'. Recommended by
mlo
Anderson, Poul and Gordon R. Dickson
c 1957 Earthman's Burden
Classic collection of humorous SF. These are
the original 'Hoka' stories.
Anthony, Piers
n 1977 A Spell for Chameleon
First in the interminable Xanth seris. Stop
after this one -- po
HNom NNom n 1967 Chthon
HNom nt 1968 Getting Through University
Contained in 'Prostho Plus'
HNom n 1969 Macroscope
Except the last 20 pages -- jds
n 1968 Omnivore
Recommended by kp
n 1970 Orn
Recommended by kp. Starring a *Diatryma! -- po
n 1976 Ox
Recommended by kp
n 1973 Prostho Plus
Recommended by kp
Anvil, Christopher
[f] s 1962 Gadget vs. Trend
[f] nt 1960 Mind Partner
[f] s 1963 Not in the Literature
[b] nt 1956 Pandora's Planet
The novelette, *not* the novel -- mlo
Armer, Karl Michael
[g] nt 1986 On the Inside Track
Arthur, Robert
[a,f] s 1941 Evolution's End
[f] s 1940 Postpaid to Paradise
Ashwell, Pauline
NNom nv 1991 Man Opening a Door
Written as by 'Paul Ash'
HNom [l] nt 1960 The Lost Kafoozalum
HNom nt 1958 Unwilling to School
Asimov, Isaac
[f] nt 1951 "Breeds There a Man--"
[f] s 1957 A Loint of Paw
Just a bad pun -- arl
[a,b] nt 1953 Belief
[e,f] nt 1945 Blind Alley
One of the very few Asimov stories with
intelligent aliens
[a,f] s 1955 Dreaming Is a Private Thing
[f] s 1946 Evidence
[f,i] n 1942 Foundation
[i] n 1952 Foundation and Empire
Hugo NNom [i] n 1982 Foundation's Edge
Hugo nt 1991 Gold
s 1957 I'm in Marsport without Hilda
[i] c 1950 I, Robot
A collection of the best of the Robot stories
Hugo nf 1994 I. Asimov
Asimov's autobiography. Excellent -- mlo
[f] s 1941 Liar!
[f] nt 1947 Little Lost Robot
[f] s 1950 Misbegotten Missionary
[b,c,d,f] nt 1941 Nightfall
[i] n 1950 Pebble in the Sky
n 1988 Prelude to Foundation
Recommended by po
HNom NNom s 1986 Robot Dreams
n 1953 Second Foundation
[f] s 1940 Strange Playfellow
[f] s 1957 Strikebreaker
HNom nt 1974 That Thou Art Mindful of Him
Hugo Neb nt 1976 The Bicentennial Man
[a,i] n 1954 The Caves of Steel
One of the best SF detective stories ever
written -- arl
HNom nv 1945 The Dead Hand
incorporated in Foundation and Empire
[g] nv 1956 The Dead Past
[Psf] n 1955 The End of Eternity
[f] s 1958 The Feeling of Power
Hugo Neb n 1972 The Gods Themselves
a 1962 The Hugo Winners Vol 1
a 1971 The Hugo Winners Vol 2
a 1971 The Hugo Winners Vol 3
a 1985 The Hugo Winners Vol 4
[f,g] s 1956 The Last Question
[a,c,f] nv 1952 The Martian Way
HNom [a] nv 1945 The Mule
Incorporated in "Foundation and Empire"
[i] n 1957 The Naked Sun
[f] nt 1949 The Red Queen's Race
HNom n 1983 The Robots of Dawn
n 1951 The Stars Like Dust
nv 1958 The Ugly Little Boy
[f] nt 1939 Trends
[g] nt 1970 Waterclap
[f] s 1961 What Is This Thing Called Love?
Atheling, William
ps Pseudonym of James Blish used for critical work
Attanasio, A. A.
NNom n 1981 Radix
Atwood, Margaret
NNom n 1986 The Handmaid's Tale
Bailey, Dale
NNom nt 1995 The Resurrection Man's Legacy
Bailey, Dennis and David Bischoff
NNom s 1976 Tin Woodsman
Baker, Anton Lee
HNom s 1958 They've Been Working On....
Ballard, J. G.
s 1961 Billennium
Recommended by arl
[g] s 1963 Cage of Sand
[g] nt 1960 Chronopolis
[Psf] n 1973 Crash
Recommended by arl
[Psf] n 1975 High-Rise
NNom nt 1982 Myths of the Near Future
[g] s 1971 Prima Belladonna
s 1964 Terminal Beach
n 1964 The Burning World
s 1967 The Cloud Sculptors of Coral D
[k,Psf] n 1966 The Crystal World
Ballard is an acquired taste which I've never
acquired... -- mlo
[Pf] n 1987 The Day of Creation
[Psf] n 1962 The Drownded World
[f] s 1962 The Insane Ones
[Pf] n 1979 The Unlimited Dream Company
[f] nt 1960 The Voices of Time
Balmer, E. and Phillip Wylie
n 1934 After Worlds Collide
For completeists. A letdown from When Worlds
Collide -- arl & mlo
[i] n 1932 When Worlds Collide
Banks, Iain
n 1993 Against a Dark Background
Recommended by kp
n 1988 Consider Phlebas
[Pf] n 1986 The Bridge
n 1990 The Player of Games
n 1992 Use of Weapons
Recommended by kp
Banks, Raymond E.
[f] s 1955 The Short Ones
Barjavel, Rene
[a] n 1943 Ashes, Ashes
n 1970 The Ice People
Threshold of the Stars
Barnes, John
NNom n 1992 A Million Open Doors
HNom NNom N 1994 Mother of Storms
n 1996 One for the Morning Glory
A quirky, funny, and interesting fantasy -- mlo
NNom n 1991 Orbital Resonance
Barrett Jr., Neal
HNom NNom nt 1988 Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus
n 1971 The Leaves of Time
Recommended by arl
Barton, William
HNom nt 1996 Age of Aquarius
Bass, T. J.
NNom n 1971 Half Past Human
NNom n 1974 The Godwhale
Batchelor, John Calvin
[Psf] n 1983 Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica
Bates, Harry
[d] nv 1934 A Matter of Size
[a,d,f] nt 1940 Farewell to the Master
Adapted into the movie "The Day the Earth Stood
Still"
Baum, L. Frank
se Oz Series
[i] n 1900 The Wizard of Oz
Baxter, Stephen
n 1992 The Raft
n 1994 The Ring
Recommended by mlo
HNom n 1995 The Time Ships
Bayley, Barrington J.
[l] s 1965 All the King's Men
Beagle, Peter S.
[Pf] n 1960 Fine and Private Place, A
n 1986 The Folk of the Air
[Pf] n 1968 The Last Unicorn
Bear, Greg
NNom n 1985 Blood Music
Hugo Neb nt 1983 Blood Music
n 1985 Eon
HNom Neb nv 1983 Hardfought
HNom Neb n 1993 Moving Mars
NNom s 1982 Petra
HNom n 1990 Queen of Angels
NNom nt 1989 Sisters
Hugo Neb [g] s 1986 Tangents
HNom NNom n 1987 The Forge of God
n 1984 The Infinity Concerto
n 1986 The Serpent Mage
Beaumont, Charles
The Howling Man
Recommended by sj
[f] s 1955 The Vanishing American
Beerbohm, Max
s 1920 Enoch Soames
Bell, M. Shayne
HNom s 1994 Mrs. Lincoln's China
Bellairs, John
c 1966 St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies
Humor
n 1969 The Face in the Frost
One of the best fantasies ever -- mlo, arl
Bellamy, Edward
n 1897 Looking Backward
Benet, Stephen Vincent
s 1937 By the Waters of Babylon
Benford, Gregory
HNom nv 1977 A Snark in the Night
NNom n 1983 Against Infinity
HNom NNom nt 1969 Deeper Than the Darkness
HNom NNom s 1975 Doing Lennon
[g] s 1982 Exposures
NNom n 1988 Great Sky River
HNom nv 1996 Immersion
NNom n 1976 In the Ocean of Night
NNom nt 1992 Matter's End
NNom nv 1986 Newton Sleep
[g] s 1982 Relativistic Effects
NNom nv 1994 Soon Comes Night
NNom nv 1981 Swarmer, Skimmer
n 1989 Tides of Light
Neb [i,Psf] n 1980 Timescape
Benson, D. R.
n 1978 ...And Having Writ
Berryman, John
[g] nt 1939 Special Flight
Bester, Alfred
[a,d,f] s 1941 Adam and No Eve
[a,c,f] s 1954 Fondly Fahrenheit
[a] nv 1942 Hell Is Forever
[a,f] s 1952 Hobson's Choice
[f] s 1950 Oddy and Id
[a] s 1951 Of Time and Third Avenue
NNom nt 1972 The Animal Fair
HNom n 1975 The Computer Connection
Also known by the following titles... 'Golem
100', "The Indian Giver", "Minotaur in a Mushroom Maze"
Hugo [a,i,Psf] n 1952 The Demolished Man
HNom s 1974 The Four-Hour Fugue
HNom [g] s 1958 The Men Who Murdered Mohammed
HNom [f,g,l] nt 1959 The Pi Man
[f] nt 1942 The Push of a Finger
[a] nt 1954 The Starcomber
[i,Psf] n 1956 The Stars My Destination
[f] nt 1963 They Don't Make Life Like They Used To
[a,f] nt 1953 Time Is the Traitor
Bethke, Bruce
ss 1987 It Came from the Slushpile
Recommended by arl
Bettelheim, Bruno
nf 1976 The Uses of Enchantment
Bierce, Ambrose
s? 1891 Occurrence at Owl Creek
Recommended by dgg
Biggle Jr., Lloyd
HNom nt 1961 Monument
nt 1961 The Still, Small Voice
Expanded into the novel 'The Still, Small Voice
of the Trumpets' in 1968.
[f] nv 1957 The Tunesmith
n 1966 Watchers of the Dark
Binder, Eando
c 1937 Anton York, Immortal
Of historical interest only -- mlo
[a,f] s 1939 I, Robot
Bishop, Michael
HNom NNom nt 1985 A Gift from the Graylanders
NNom nv 1991 Apartheid, Superstrings and Mordecai Thubana
HNom N 1994 Brittle Innings
HNom s 1974 Cathadonian Odyssey
n 1992 Count Geiger's Blues
HNom NNom nv 1973 Death and Designation Among the Asadi
s 1986 Facetti's Tomorrow
NNom nv 1983 Her Habiline Husband
NNom s 1992 Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly
Lustrous Cats
Neb [Psf] n 1982 No Enemy But Time
NNom nv 1974 On the Street of the Serpents
HNom s 1975 Rogue Tomato
NNom nv 1983 The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis
NNom s 1989 The Ommatidium Miniatures
HNom Neb nt 1981 The Quickening
HNom NNom nv 1976 The Samurai and the Willows
HNom NNom nv 1973 The White Otters of Childhood
nt 1973 The Windows in Dante's Hell
n 1988 Unicorn Mountain
NNom s 1979 Vernalfast Morning
HNom NV 1994 Vri de Coeur
[Pf] n 1984 Who Made Stevie Crye?
Bisson, Terry
Hugo Neb s 1990 Bears Discover Fire
HNom s 1994 Dead Man's Curve
HNom NNom s 1993 England Underway
NNom nt 1993 Necronauts
HNom s 1991 Press Ann
HNom nt 1993 The Shadow Knows
NNom s 1991 They're Made Out of Meat
Bixby, Jerome
[a,c,f] s 1953 It's a *Good* Life
A classic horror tale
[a] s 1954 The Holes Around Mars
Puns, puns, puns -- arl
Blaylock, James P.
n 1987 Land of Dreams
Recommended by po
NNom s 1985 Paper Dragons
[Pf] n 1984 The Digging Leviathan
Blish, James
[f] s 1956 A Work of Art
[a,g] nt 1954 Beep
NNom [k,Pf] n 1968 Black Easter
[a] nt 1952 Bridge
Incorporated into 'Cities in Flight'
Hugo [i,Psf] n 1958 Case of Conscience, A
[a,f] s 1953 Common Time
n 1964 Doctor Mirabilis
[i] n 1955 Earthman Come Home
Part of "Cities in Flight" series
[c] nv 1953 Earthman Come Home
Included in the novel of the same name
s 1966 How Beautiful with Banners
Recommended by arl
[a] n 1952 Jack of Eagles
[i] n 1962 Life for the Stars, A
Part of "Cities in Flight series"
nf 1970 More Issues at Hand
written using pseudonym of William Atheling
n 1957 Seedling Stars, The
Fixup novel
[a,f] s 1941 Solar Plexus
[a,c,g] nt 1952 Surface Tension
Incorporated in a radically different version
in "The Seedling Stars". Superb -- po
[a] nt 1953 Testament of Andros
[a,e] s 1949 The Box
[k,Pf] n 1971 The Day After Judgement
nf 1964 The Issue at Hand
Written using pseudonym of William Atheling
[i] n 1958 The Triumph of Time
Part of "Cities in Flight" series. AKA 'A Clash
of Cymbals'
[a] nv 1941 There Shall Be No Darkness
[i] n 1957 They Shall Have Stars
Part of "Cities in Flight" series
[a] s 1941 Tiger Ride
[a] s 1955 Watershed
Incorporated in "The Seedling Stars"
HNom nv 1969 We All Die Naked
Bloch, Robert
s 1956 A Way of Life
Minor, but funny in a fannish manner -- arl
[g] s 1955 I Do Not Love Thee, Doctor Fell
Hugo s 1958 That Hell-Bound Train
s 1951 The Man Who Collected Poe
s 1950 The Shadow from the Steeple
s 1935 The Shambler from the Stars
[f] s 1939 The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton
Block, Lawrence
[f] s 1959 Make a Prison
Bond, Nelson
[a,f] s 1946 Conquerer's Island
n 1950 Lancelot Biggs, Spaceman
A fix-up novel. Suggested by arl
[f] nt 1939 Pilgrimage
Bone, J. F.
[f] s 1961 A Prize for Edie
nv Insidekick
Recommended by mlo
HNom [b] s 1958 Triggerman
Borges, Jorge Luis
The Garden of the Forking Paths
s 1941 The Library of Babel
[g] s 1941 Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
NNom s 1975 Utopia of a Tired Man
Boucher, Anthony
[f] s 1954 Balaam
[f] nv 1942 Barrier
[a] s 1945 Mr. Lupescu
[d,f] s 1943 Q. U. R.
n 1942 Rocket to the Morgue
Mystery set in SF writer's group with many
recognizeable people
[f] s 1941 Snulbug
[a] nv 1942 The Compleat Werewolf
[a,c,f] s 1951 The Quest for Saint Aquin
[e] s 1952 The Star Dummy
[a] s 1943 They Bite
Boulle, Pierre
n 1963 Planet of the Apes
This novel was written before the movies were
made
Bova, Ben
n 1972 As on a Darkling Plain
NNom s 1993 Inspiration
a 1973 SF Hall of Fame Vol 2
Bova, Ben and Harlan Ellison
HNom s 1970 Brillo
Brackett, Leigh
[a,f] nt 1943 The Halfling
[a] nt 1949 The Lake of Gone Forever
[Psf] n 1955 The Long Tomorrow
[k] n 1949 The Sword of Rhiannon
Classic lost Mars novel. Great! - arl
[f] nt 1945 The Vanishing Venusians
[a,f] nt 1944 The Veil of Astellar
Bradbury, Ray
[Pf] n 1957 Dandelion Wine
A loose fix-up novel
[a,i,Psf] n 1951 Fahrenheit 451
Originally titled "The Fireman"
[a,f] s 1949 Kaleidoscope
[a,c,f] s 1948 Mars Is Heaven!
Incorporated in "The Martian Chronicles"
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Recommended by jam
s 1949 The Exiles
Incorporated into "The Martian Chronicles"
[f] s 1951 The Fire Balloons
n 1972 The Halloween Tree
c 1951 The Illustrated Man
[i,Psf] c 1958 The Martian Chronicles
This is not a novel, but a collection of
loosely-related stories
[f] s 1946 The Million Year Picnic
Incorporated in "The Martian Chronicles"
[f] s 1952 The Pedestrian
[f] s 1952 The Sound of Thunder
s? 1946 The Veldt
[f] s 1950 There Will Come Soft Rains
s 1950 Usher II
[f,g] s 1947 Zero Hour
Bradbury, Ray and Leigh Brackett
[f] nv 1946 Lorelei of the Red Mist
Bradley, Marion Zimmer
n 1964 The Bloody Sun
Original version, *NOT* the 1979 re-write! -- po
HNom n 1977 The Forbidden Tower
n 1983 The Mists of Avalon
HNom n 1961 The Sword of Aldones
[f] nt 1959 The Wind People
n 1971 The World Wreckers
Bramah, Ernst
n 1928 Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
c 1922 Kai Lung's Golden Hours
Recommended by kp
Brennert, Alan
Neb s 1991 Ma Qui
Bretnor, Reginald
NNom s 1967 Earthwoman
[f] s 1956 The Doorstop
s 1950 The Gnurrs Come From the Voodvork Out
Breuer, Miles J.
[g] s 1930 The Hungry Guinea Pig
Brewster, Kent
NNom s 1995 In the Pound, Near Breaktime
Brin, David
HNom n 1995 Brightness Reef
HNom n 1990 Earth
HNom n 1993 Glory Season
nt 1990 Piecework
Recommended by arl
Hugo Neb [i] n 1983 Startide Rising
n 1980 Sundiver
Hugo s 1984 The Crystal Spheres
HNom s 1988 The Giving Plague
HNom NNom n 1985 The Postman
nv 1982 The Postman
Incorporated in the novel of the same name
n 1984 The Practice Effect
Recommended by kp
Hugo NNom [i] n 1987 The Uplift War
HNom nt 1986 Thor Meets Captain America
[g] nv 1991 What Continues, What Fails...
Bringsvaerd, Tor Aage
[g] s 1968 Codemus
Broderick, Damien
[Psf] n 1980 The Dreaming Dragons
Brown, Fredric
[f] s 1954 Answer
[c,e,f] nt 1944 Arena
[f] s 1941 Armageddon
[a] nv 1949 Come and Go Mad
[a,f] nt 1943 Daymare
[f] s 1953 Hall of Mirrors
[f] s 1948 Knock
[b] s 1949 Letter to a Phoenix
[a] n 1954 Martians Go Home
Expanded from earlier novella of same name
c 1961 Nightmares and Geezenstacks
HNom [f] s 1945 Pi in the Sky
[a,f] s 1946 Placet Is a Crazy Place
n 1953 The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
[d,f] s 1942 The Star Mouse
HNom [a,f] nt 1945 The Waveries
[f] s 1951 The Weapon
[i] n 1949 What Mad Universe
Expanded from shorter 1948 version
Brown, Mary
n 1986 The Unlikely Ones
A creative fantasy -- po
Brown, Rosel George
n 1966 Sibyl Sue Blue
Recommended by arl
Brown, Rosel George and Keith Laumer
n 1966 Earthblood
Broxon, Mildred Downey
NNom nt 1981 Sea Changling
Brunner, John
HNom nv 1971 Dread Empire
Contained in "Traveller in Black"
nt 1955 No Future in It
n 1975 Shockwave Rider
Hugo NNom [Psf] n 1968 Stand on Zanzibar
NNom n 1969 The Jagged Orbit
n 1965 The Long Result
NNom n 1972 The Sheep Look Up
HNom n 1965 The Squares of the City
n 1973 The Stone that Never Came Down
Suggested by cjh
[f] nt 1963 The Totally Rich
c 1966 The Traveler in Black
HNom [i] n 1964 The Whole Man
n 1969 Times Without Number
Brust, Steven
n 1986 Brokedown Palace
It shoulda been a contender... -- po
n 1983 Jhereg
n 1991 The Phoenix Guards
Recommended by kp
n 1987 The Sun, Moon and the Stars
n 1984 To Reign in Hell
Recommended by kp
n 1984 Yendi
Bryant, Edward
HNom Neb [g] s 1979 giANTS
NNom s 1977 Particle Theory
NNom s 1973 Shark
HNom Neb s 1978 Stone
NNom nt 1980 Strata
NNom s 1976 The Hibakusha Gallery
HNom NNom nt 1981 The Thermals of August
Budrys, Algis
s 1975 A Scraping of the Bones
NNom n 1992 Hard Landing
[Psf] n 1977 Michaelmas
[a,f] s 1955 Nobody Bothers Gus
HNom [c,Psf] n 1960 Rogue Moon
[f] s 1956 Silent Brother
HNom s 1958 The Edge of the Sea
[a,f] nt 1954 The End of Summer
[a] nv 1953 The Real People
HNom nv 1975 The Silent Eyes of Time
[f] s 1961 Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night
HNom n 1958 Who?
Bujold, Lois McMaster
Hugo NNom n 1991 Barrayar
HNom Neb n 1988 Falling Free
Dreadful! - cjh
A nice old-time Astounding-style story - jam
HNom n 1996 Memory
Hugo N 1994 Mirror Dance
n 1986 Shards of Honor
Hugo Neb nv 1989 The Mountains of Mourning
Hugo n 1990 The Vor Game
NNom nv 1990 Weatherman
Incorporated into ??
Bulgakov, Mikhail
n 1966 The Master and Margarita
Bull, Emma
HNom NNom n 1991 Bone Dance
n 1994 Finder
Recommended by po & mlo
nt 1992 Silver or Gold
n 1987 War for the Oaks
Perfect -- po
Bulychev, Kirill
[g] s 1977 I Was First to Find You
Bunch, David R.
n 1971 Moderan
A collection of the Moderan stories.
Recommended by arl
Burford, Lolah
n 1972 The Vision of Stephen
Recommended by arl
Burger, Donys
n 1965 Sphereland
Recommended by po
Burgess, Anthony
[i,Psf] n 1962 A Clockwork Orange
Novel was written before the movie was made
n 1982 The End of the World News
Recommended by arl
[g] s 1964 The Muse
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
n 1930 A Fighting Man of Mars
n 1922 At the Earth's Core
n 1941 Llana of Gathol
Minor -- arl
n Out of Time's Abyss
Recommended by po
n 1923 Pellucidar
[i,k] n 1912 Princess of Mars, A
HNom nt 1963 Savage Pellucidar
n 1935 Swords of Mars
n 1933 Tarzan and the Lion Men
Excellent ending with Tarzan in Hollywood -- arl
n 1930 Tarzan at the Earth's Core
[k] n 1912 Tarzan of the Apes
Seminal -- arl
n 1922 The Chessmen of Mars
n 1912 The Gods of Mars
n 1918 The Land That Time Forgot
Recommended by po
n 1928 The Master Mind of Mars
Brain transplants galore -- arl
n The People that Time Forgot
Recommended by po
n 1913 The Return of Tarzan
n 1939 The Synthetic Men of Mars
n 1914 The Warlord of Mars
n 1916 Thuvia, Maid of Mars
Burroughs, William S.
[Pf] n 1981 Cities of the Red Night
[Psf] n 1964 Nova Express
Burstein, Michael A.
HNom s 1995 TeleAbsence
Butler, Octavia
Hugo Neb nt 1984 Bloodchild
n 1984 Clay's Ark
Recommended by po
n 1979 Kindred
Recommended by po
n 1977 Mind of My Mind
Recommended by po
NNom n 1993 Parable of the Sower
Recommended by po
n 1976 Patternmaster
Hugo s 1983 Speech Sounds
NNom nt 1987 The Evening and the Morning and the Night
[Psf] n 1980 The Wild Seed
Recommended by po
Butler, Samuel
n Erewhon
Another one of those 'classics' -- po
Cabell, James Branch
n 1919 Jurgen
Quite controversial in its day, but hopelessly
dateed today -- it's adolescent giggling at sex -- mlo
Cadigan, Pat
HNom NNom s 1987 Angel
HNom nt 1991 Dispatches from the Revolution
HNom NNom nv 1990 Fool to Believe
Incorporated into "Fools"
NNom s 1986 Pretty Boy Crossover
NNom n 1991 Synners
NNom s 1990 The Power and the Passion
HNom nt 1992 True Faces
Cady, Jack
HNom Neb nv 1993 The Night We Buried Road Dog
Calvino, Italo
[g] s 1968 A Sign in Space
[g] s 1968 The Spiral
Campbell, John W.
ps See also pseudonym Don A. Stuart
a 1934 Atomic Power
Written as by 'Don A. Stuart'
[g] s 1934 Atomic Power
Written under the pseudonym of 'Don A. Stuart'
s 1935 Blindness
Written as by "Don A. Stuart"
[a,f] nv 1939 Cloak of Aesir
Written as by "Don A. Stuart"
[a] nt 1938 Dead Knowledge
[d,g] nt 1937 Forgetfulness
Written as by "Don A. Stuart"
n 1961 Invaders from the Infinite
Classic super science. Arcot-Wade-Morey #3
n 1956 Islands of Space
Classic super science. Arcot-Wade-Morey #2
s 1935 Night
Recommended by arl
a 1962 Prologue to Analog
Excellent collection of SF from Astounding from
the 50's
a 1952 The ASF Anthology
n 1953 The Black Star Passes
Classic super science. Arcot-Wade-Morey #1
n 1935 The Mightiest Machine
The ultimate super-science novel of the 30's
n 1951 The Moon Is Hell
Not very good -- mlo
[c] s 1934 Twilight
Written as by "Don A. Stuart"
[c,d] nv 1938 Who Goes There?
"Possibly the best SF story ever written." --
Isaac Asimov
Campbell, Ramsey
ss 1989 Meeting the Author
Recommended by arl
[Pf] n 1986 The Hungry Moon
Capek, Karl
[i] n 1920 R. U. R.
The original robot story and the source of the
word 'robot'.
[i] n 1936 War with the Newts
An sf analogy to WW II.
Card, Orson Scott
HNom nt 1989 Dogwalker
Hugo Neb [i] n 1985 Ender's Game
nt 1977 Ender's Game
Expanded into the Hugo-winning novel of the
same name
Hugo nv 1987 Eye for Eye
n 1983 Hart's Hope
Really strange fantasy -- po
HNom NNom nt 1986 Hatrack River
Incorporated in "Seventh Son"
HNom NNom s 1989 Lost Boys
HNom NNom nt 1978 Mikal's Songbird
HNom NNom n 1989 Prentice Alvin
HNom NNom n 1988 Red Prophet
HNom n 1987 Seventh Son
HNom nv 1979 Songhouse
Hugo Neb n 1986 Speaker for the Dead
HNom NNom nt 1985 The Fringe
nv 1990 The Originist
The best Foundation story ever written,
Asimov's included. It keeps Asimov's feel and is much better written --
mlo
HNom NNom s 1979 Unaccompanied Sonata
n 1987 Wyrms
Minor -- kp. Seriously underrated -- po
HNom n 1991 Xenocide
Carlson, William K.
NNom nv 1975 Sunrise West
Carr, John Dickson
[a,k] n 1951 The Devil in Velvet
Time travel, mystery & romance
Carr, Terry
s Best of the Year anthologies
His whole series of Best of the Year books,
both with DAW and lone, is excellent -- mlo
NNom n 1976 Cirque
HNom NNom s 1968 The Dance of the Changer and the Three
Carrere, Emmanuel
n 1990 Gothic Romance
Excellent and unjustly neglected -- arl
Carrington, Grant
NNom nt 1976 His Hour Upon the Stage
Carroll, Jonathan
n 1987 Bones of the Moon
[Pf] n 1980 Land of Laughs
HNom nv 1992 Uh-Oh City
Carroll, Lewis
[i,k] n 1865 Alice in Wonderland
[i,k] n 1871 Through the Looking Glass
Carter, Angela
[Psf] n 1969 Heroes and Villains
[Pf] n 1984 Nights at the Circus
[k,Pf] n 1972 The Infernal Desire Machine of Dr. Hoffman
[Pf] n 1977 The Passion of New Eve
Carter, Paul A.
[f] nt 1946 The Last Objective
Cartmill, Cleve
[f] nt 1944 Deadline
A definitive (and nearly the only) example of
SF's predictive abilities -- mlo
[d] s 1942 The Link
Chambers, Robert W.
n 1895 The King in Yellow
Became a cult book in the Chthulu Mythos!
Chandler, A. Bertram
se Commodore Grimes series
HNom [a,f] nv 1945 Giant Killer
[f] s 1957 The Cage
nt 1969 The Kinsolving's Planet Irregulars
Chant, Joy
[Pf] n 1970 Red Moon and Black Mountain
n 1977 The Grey Mane of Morning
Chappell, Fred
ss 1991 The Somewhere Doors
Recommended by arl
Charnas, Suzy McKee
HNom nt 1996 Beauty and the Opera or the Phanton Beast
Hugo NNom s 1989 Boobs
NNom nt 1986 Listening to Brahms
n 1978 Motherlines
Recommended by arl
NNom [Pf] n 1981 The Vampire Tapestry
Neb nv 1980 Unicorn Tapestry
[Psf] n 1974 Walk to the End of the World
Cherryh, C. J.
n 1976 Brothers of Earth
Hugo NNom s 1978 Cassandra
n 1986 Chanur's Homecoming
HNom n 1985 Cuckoo's Egg
Hugo n 1988 Cyteen
Hugo n 1981 Downbelow Station
n 1991 Heavy Time
Recommended by cjh
n 1982 Merchanter's Luck
After reading this book, 'Downbelow Station'
make sense -- po
n 1980 Serpent's Reach
Recommended by kp
HNom NNom n 1978 The Faded Sun: Kesrith
n 1978 The Faded Sun: Shon'jir
The best of that series -- po
n 1985 The Kif Strike Back
Recommended by cjh
The other volumes in series are Chanur's Venture and Chanur's
Homecoming.
HNom n 1982 The Pride of Chanur
HNom nv 1985 The Scapegoat
n Tripoint
Do you know the *whole* story? -- cjh
Chiang, Ted
HNom Neb nt 1990 Tower of Babylon
HNom nt 1991 Understand
Chilson, Robert
n 1989 Men Like Rats
Recommended by po
Christopher, John
n 1971 Beyond the Burning Lands
2nd in 'Prince in Waiting' series. Recommended
by po
[Psf] n 1956 No Blade of Grass
AKA 'The Death of Grass'
n 1970 Prince in Waiting
First in series. Recommended by po
n 1967 The City of Gold and Lead
Part of the Tripods series. Recommended by kp
n 1968 The Pool of Fire
Part of the Tripods series. Recommended by kp
n 1972 The Sword of the Spirits
3rd in 'Prince in Waiting' series. Recommended
by po
n 1967 The White Mountains
Part of the Tripods series. Recommended by kp
Clark, John D.
s 1937 Minus Planet
Not great, but the first SF story to eal with
anti-matter -- arl
Clarke, Arthur C.
s 1951 "If I Forget Thee, O Earth..."
Recommended by mlo
n 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey
HNom n 1982 2010: Odyssey two
HNom n 1962 A Fall of Moondust
HNom Neb [g] nv 1971 A Meeting with Medusa
[a,i] n 1948 Against the Fall of Night
Rewritten as 'The City and the Stars'
s 1961 Before Eden
[a,i,Psf] n 1953 Childhood's End
Good, but overrated -- mlo
[f] s 1961 Death and the Senator
n 1955 Earthlight
Recommended by mlo
s 1953 Encounter at Dawn
[e,f] s 1949 History Lesson
[f] s 1960 I Remember Babylon
A prediction story which is coming true, but
completely reversed!
nt 1953 Jupiter V
Recommended by mlo
[e] s 1946 Loophole
Hugo Neb n 1973 Rendezvous With Rama
[e,f] s 1946 Rescue Party
n 1951 Sands of Mars
s 1951 Second Dawn
j
[f] nt 1951 Superiority
[f] s 1946 Technical Error
[i,Psf] n 1956 The City and the Stars
Major re-write of 'Against the Fall of Night'
and greatly improved. Clarke's best, in my opinion -- mlo
[a,f] s 1954 The Deep Range
Expanded into novel of same name
[f] s 1947 The Fires Within
s 1953 The Forgotten Enemy
Hugo Neb n 1979 The Fountains of Paradise
[g] s 1965 The Longest Science Fiction Story Ever Told
[c,f] s 1953 The Nine Billion Names of God
nv 1950 The Road to the Sea
Recommended by mlo
s 1951 The Sentinel
Recommended by mlo
nt 1957 The Songs of Distant Earth
Later expanded into a novel of the same name
Hugo [f,g] s 1955 The Star
nt 1949 The Wall of Darkness
s 1952 Time's Arrow
s 1949 Transcience
Recommended by mlo
[g] s 1971 Transit of Earth
Clayton, Jo
n 1986 Skeen's Leap
n 1986 Skeen's Return
n 1987 Skeen's Search
Clement, Hal
n 1958 Close to Critical
n 1957 Cycle of Fire
Recommended by kp
nt 1952 Halo
Recommended by arl
[f] nt 1963 Hot Planet
n 1953 Iceworld
[i,Psf] n 1953 Mission of Gravity
The best hard SF novel ever written. -- mlo, arl
[a,i] n 1949 Needle
[a,f,g] s 1942 Proof
HNom n 1970 Star Light
Hugo s 1945 Uncommon Sense
One of the best SF problem stories ever written
-- mlo
Clifton, Mark
[f] nv 1956 Clerical Error
[f] s 1962 Hang Head, Vandal!
[a] nt 1955 Sense from Thought Divide
[a] nt 1952 Star Bright
[a,f] s 1952 What Have I Done?
[f] nt 1959 What Now Little Man?
Clingerman, Mildred
[a] s 1955 Birds Can't Count
[f] s 1954 Letters from Laura
[a] s 1952 Minister Without Portfolio
Clute, John
Hugo nf 1995 Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia
Clute, John and Peter Nicholls
Hugo nf 1993 The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Cogswell, Theodore
nf 1993 PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for
Twenty-First Century Studies
A collected fanzine of the best writers of the
50s
Cogswell, Theodore R.
HNom nf 1993 PITFCS: The Proceedings of the Institute for
Twenty-First Century Studies
A reprinting of a classic 50's professional
fanzine
[a,c] nv 1952 The Spectre General
Super! -- arl
[a,f] nt 1953 The Wall Around the World
Cole, E. B.
n 1961 The Philosophical Corps
A fix-up novel
Compton, D. G.
NNom n 1970 The Steel Crocodile
n 1974 The Unsleeping Eye
Recommended by arl
Coney, Michael
n 1982 Cat Karina
Recommended by po
n 1984 Gods of the Greataway
Recommended by po
n 1975 Jaws that Bite, the Claws that Catch
Recommended by po
n 1989 King of the Sceptered Isle
Recommended by po
NNom nt 1995 Tea and Hamsters
n 1973 The Hero of Downways
Recommended by po
Conklin, Groff
Groff Conklin was the first great anthologist of the field, and his
anthologies, particularly the earlier ones, are nearly definitive
collections of the great short SF of the time. -- mlo
Many anthologies...
Conner, Mike
Neb nt 1991 Guide Dog
Cooper, Edmund
n 1958 Deadly Image
Recommended by arl
n 1969 Sea-Horse in the Sky
Recommended by po
n 1972 The Overman Culture
Recommended by po
Cooper, Susan
n 1974 Greenwitch
n 1965 Over Sea, Under Stone
n 1977 Silver on the Tree
n 1973 The Dark is Rising
n 1975 The Grey King
Coppel, Alfred
n 1960 Dark December
Recommended by po
Coupling, J. J.
ps Pseudonym of John R. Pierce
[a,f] s 1948 Period Piece
Cowper, Richard
HNom NNom nv 1976 Piper at the Gates of Dawn
HNom nv 1975 The Custodians
NNom n 1979 The Road to Corlay
n 1974 The Twilight of Briareus
Recommended by po
Crook, Compton
ps See pseudonym Stephen Tall
Crowley, John
[Pf] n 1987 Aegypt
[i,Psf] n 1979 Engine Summer
HNom s 1996 Gone
NNom nv 1989 Great Work of Time
HNom NNom [i,Pf] n 1981 Little, Big
HNom NNom s 1985 Snow
Cummings, Ray
n 1922 The Girl in the Golden Atom
The original each-atom-is-a-solar-system story
Curtis, Betsy
HNom s 1968 The Steiger Effect
Daley, Brian
n 1983 A Tapestry of Magics
Recommended by po
Daniel, Tony
HNom s 1995 Life on the Moon
Dann, Jack
NNom s 1978 A Quiet Revolution for Death
NNom nv 1981 Amnesia
NNom nt 1984 Bad Medicine
NNom nt 1983 Blind Shemmy
NNom nt 1979 Camps
Neb nv 1995 Da Vinci Rising
NNom s 1981 Going Under
NNom nv 1973 Junction
NNom n 1984 The Man Who Melted
Davidson, Avram
nf 1993 Adventures in Unhistory
Recommended by mlo
NNom nv 1966 Clash of the Star Kings
NNom nv 1983 Eszterhazy and the Autogondola-Invention
Hugo [f] s 1957 Or All the Seas with Oysters
[g] s 1955 The Golem
[Pf] n 1969 The Phoenix and the Mirror
[l] nt 1961 The Sources of the Nile
NNom nv 1980 There Beneath the Silky Trees and Whelmed in
Deeper Gulphs Than Me
NNom n 1987 Vergil in Averno
NNom nv 1984 Young Doctor Esterhazy
Davidson, Avram and Ward Moore
n 1971 Joyleg
Davis, Chan
[f] s 1959 Adrift on the Policy Level
[f] s 1947 Letter to Ellen
de Camp, L. Sprague
a 1958 An Elephant for Aristotle
Actually, this is historical fiction
s 1958 Aristotle and the Gun
[a] nv 1949 Cosmic Manhunt
nv 1939 Divide and Rule
s 1956 Gun for Dinosaur, A
[e] s 1938 Hyperpilosity
Funny but minor -- arl
[a] s 1955 Judgment Day
[a] n 1941 Land of Unreason
[a,i] n 1939 Lest Darkness Fall
[a] s 1939 Nothing in the Rules
[d,f] nt 1939 The Blue Giraffe
[a] nv 1951 The Continent Makers
[b,f] s 1940 The Exalted
[a,f] s 1939 The Gnarly Man
n 1968 The Goblin Tower
[a] n 1950 The Hand of Zei
[k] n 1951 The Tritonian Ring
[a] n 1942 The Undesired Princess
[f] s 1940 The Warrior Race
[a] nv 1940 The Wheels of If
Hugo nf 1996 Time and Chance
de Camp, L. Sprague and Fletcher Pratt
[a,Pf] n 1941 Castle of Iron
[a,k] n 1941 Land of Unreason
[a,i] n 1940 The Incomplete Enchanter
A collection of the first 3 'Enchanter' stories
n 1953 The Wall of Serpents
de Lint, Charles
n 1987 Jack the Giant Killer
Recommended by cjh
n 1984 Moonheart
n 1989 Svaha
Cyberpunkish fantasy -- po
n 1991 The Little Country
n 1986 Yarrow
Dean, Pamela
n 1991 Tam Lin
Superior fantasy transposition -- dms
del Rey, Lester
[a] s 1951 ...And It Comes Out Here
[a,f] s 1940 Dark Mission
[a,f] s 1939 Day Is Done
[a] nv 1954 For I Am a Jealous People!
Humanity vs. God! -- arl
[c] s 1938 Helen O'Loy
[f] s 1941 Hereafter, Inc.
[a,e] s 1952 Instinct
HNom [a,f] nt 1945 Into Thy Hands
[f] s 1944 Kindness
[c,d,f,i] n 1942 Nerves
[b] s 1949 Over the Top
[a,f] s 1942 The Wings of Night
nv 1951 Wind Between the Worlds
Good! -- arl
Delaney, Joseph H.
HNom nv 1982 Brainchild
HNom nv 1983 In the Face of My Enemy
Delany, Samuel R.
HNom [g] s 1967 Aye, and Gomorrah
HNom Neb n 1966 Babel-17
NNom n 1975 Dhalgren
The most famous unread novel in the field -- mlo
NNom s 1967 Driftglass
HNom NNom nv 1968 Lines of Power
HNom [i,Psf] n 1968 Nova
Old-time space opera by one of SF's major
stylists -- arl
HNom nt 1977 Prismatica
[i] n Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand
n 1965 The Ballad of Beta-2
An underrated piece -- po
HNom Neb n 1967 The Einstein Intersection
Hugo nf 1988 The Motion of Light in Water
HNom nv 1967 The Star-Pit
NNom nv 1979 The Tale of Gorgik
Hugo Neb nt 1969 Time Considered as a Helix of
Semi-Precious Stones
NNom n 1976 Triton
Denton, Bradley
HNom NNom nv 1988 The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead
Comedians
HNom NNom nv 1992 The Territory
Deutsch, A. J.
[a,e,f] s 1950 A Subway Named Mobius
Di Filippo, Paul
s 1993 Campbell's World
A bit of a gimmick story, but enjoyable -- mlo
NNom s 1987 Kid Charlemagne
NNom s 1992 Lennon Spex
DiChario, Nicholas A.
HNom s 1992 The Winterberry
Dick, Philip K.
[a] nt 1955 Autofac
[a] s 1952 Beyond Lies the Wub
[f] s 1955 Captive Market
n 1975 Confessions of a Crap Artist
Not SF
NNom [Psf] n 1968 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
[Psf] n 1965 Dr. Bloodmoney
[i] n Eye in the Sky
HNom nt 1967 Faith of Our Fathers
HNom NNom n 1974 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
[a] s 1954 Foster, You're Dead
[f] s 1963 If There Were No Benny Cemoli
[a,f] s 1953 Imposter
[i,Psf] n 1964 Martian Time Slip
[a,g] nt 1953 Second Variety
[l] s 1963 Stand-by
[a,f] s 1954 The Father-Thing
[a] nt 1954 The Golden Man
[g] s 1953 The Indefatigable Frog
Hugo [i,Psf] n 1962 The Man in the High Castle
One of the best alternate histories -- arl
NNom n 1982 The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
s 1964 The Waterspider
[Psf] n 1965 Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Not to everyone's taste -- mlo
[Psf] n 1959 Time Out of Joint
n 1969 Ubik
nv 1966 We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
Dickens, Charles
[k] nv 1843 A Christmas Carol
Dickson, Gordon R.
[a,f] s 1954 Black Charlie
HNom Neb nt 1966 Call Him Lord
[g] s 1964 Dolphin's Way
HNom [i] c 1959 Dorsai!
Also titled "The Genetic General"
HNom nt 1970 Jean Dupres
Hugo NNom nv 1980 Lost Dorsai
[f] nt 1962 Roofs of Silver
n 1971 Sleepwalker's World
Recommended by po
Hugo [i] nt 1964 Soldier, Ask Not
nt 1984 Steel Brother
Hugo nt 1980 The Cloak and the Staff
Incorporated into 'The Way of the Pilgrim'
[Pf] n 1976 The Dragon and the George
n 1985 The Final Encyclopedia
[i] n 1970 The Tactics of Mistake
n 1987 The Way of the Pilgrim
Recommended by jr
HNom n 1977 Time Storm
n 1968 Wolfling
Disch, Thomas M.
NNom [Psf] n 1974 334
[g] s 1974 Angouleme
NNom nt 1970 Asian Shores
[i,Psf] n 1968 Camp Concentration
[l] s 1964 Now is Forever
HNom NNom [i,Psf] n 1979 On Wings of Song
nt 1967 Problems of Creativeness
Origin of 334, recommended by arl
HNom NNom nv 1980 The Brave Little Toaster
[k,Pf] n 1984 The Businessman
HNom nt 1978 The Man Who Had No Idea
NNom nt 1982 Understanding Human Behavior
NNom s 1988 Voices of the Kill
Donaldson, Stephen R.
"I recommend the Gap series. The first book is very nasty. The
others are also nasty, but not quite to the degree of the first.
However, despite this (maybe in some ways because of this) they are
very good. They are also very imaginative. Sort of a dark space opera,
in which all the characters should have been drowned at birth." -- jam
n A Dark and Hungry God Arises
Gap#3
[Pf] n 1977 Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
A rotten series -- mlo
I liked it -- jam
nv 1984 Daughter of Regals
Recommended by po
n Forbidden Knowledge
Gap#2
n The Real Story: The Gap Into Knowledge
Gap#1
Doyle, Arthur Conan
[k] n 1912 The Lost World
n 1913 The Poison Belt
Dozois, Gardner
Gardner Dozois is probably the best modern editor of SF. His Best
of the Year books are probably the definities post-Carr series.
NNom s 1970 A Dream at Noonday
HNom NNom nt 1972 A Kingdom by the Sea
HNom NNom nv 1971 A Special Kind of Morning
HNom NNom nv 1973 Chains of the Sea
s? Descending
Recommended by dgg
NNom s 1981 Disciples
NNom s 1971 Horse of Air
Neb s 1984 Morning Child
HNom NNom nv 1974 Strangers
HNom NNom s 1983 The Peacemaker
Dozois, Gardner, Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
NNom s 1985 The Gods of Mars
Duane, Diane
n 1983 So You Want to Be a Wizard
Pleasant YA -- po
n 1979 The Door into Fire
Dunsany, Lord
c 1972 Beyond the Fields We Know
n 1922 Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley
c 1959 Gods, Men and Ghosts
Late collection which includes most of the
Pegana stories
n 1926 The Charwoman's Shadow
[i,k] n 1924 The King of Elfland's Daughter
Duntemann, Jeff
HNom s 1980 Cold Hands
HNom s 1980 Guardian
Dyer, S. N.
NNom nt 1992 The July Ward
Eager, Edward
[i] n 1954 Half Magic
n 1956 Knight's Castle
Fine YA fantasy -- po
Eddings, David
n 1982 Pawn of Prophecy
First of looong series after which they start
to degrade -- po
Eddison, E. R.
[a] n 1941 A Fish Dinner in Memison
Widely held to be unreadable -- mlo & kp
n Mistress of Mistresses
Recommended by jam
[k] n 1926 Worm Ouroboros
Edmondson, G. C.
n 1981 To Sail the Century Sea
Recommended by arl
Edwards, Dolton
[b,f] s 1946 Meihem in ce Klasrum
Effinger, George Alec
HNom n 1989 A Fire in the Sun
HNom s 1971 All the Last Wars at Once
HNom nt 1989 Everything But Honor
NNom nv 1989 Marid Changes His Mind
Hugo Neb nt 1988 Schrodinger's Kitten
NNom s 1984 The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean *Everything*
HNom nt 1973 The City on the Sand
s 1979 The Pinch Hitters
Recommended by arl
NNom n 1972 What Entropy Means to Me
HNom NNom n 1987 When Gravity Fails
Egan, Greg
HNom nt 1994 Cocoon
HNom nt 1995 Luminous
HNom nt 1995 Tap
Eisenstein, Phyllis
HNom NNom nv 1981 In the Western Tradition
HNom nt 1982 Nightlife
[Pf] n 1979 Sorcerer's Son
Eklund, Gordon
NNom nt 1970 Dear Aunt Annie
Eklund, Gordon and Gregory Benford
Neb nt 1974 If the Stars Are Gods
Elgin, Suzette Hagin
n 1981 Twelve Fair Kingdoms
Elliott, H. Chandler
n 1955 Reprieve from Paradise
Recommended by arl
Ellison, Harlan
Hugo Neb s 1965 'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the
Ticktockman
HNom Neb nv 1969 A Boy and His Dog
Hugo nt 1974 Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans
a 1972 Again, Dangerous Visions
HNom nv 1980 All the Lies That Are My Life
F&SF version is abridged - full version is in
"Shatterday"
HNom NNom nt 1972 Basilisk
HNom s 1978 Count the Clock That Tells the Time
HNom s 1975 Croatoan
a 1967 Dangerous Visions
HNom s 1966 Delusion for a Dragon Slayer
nf How You Stupidly Blew a Chance....
Ellison's resignation letter to SFWA (found in
'Strange Wine'. Recommended by jr
Hugo s 1967 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Hugo Neb s 1977 Jeffty Is Five
HNom NNom nv 1993 Mefisto in Onyx
NNom s 1972 On the Downhill Side
Hugo NNom nt 1985 Paladin of the Lost Hour
HNom NNom nt 1967 Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes
NNom s 1975 Shatterday
NNom s 1969 Shattered Like a Glass Goblin
Hugo s 1968 The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the
World
Hugo NNom nt 1973 The Deathbird
HNom nt 1988 The Function of Dream Sleep
NNom s 1993 The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore
nt 1978 The New York Review of Bird
The 'Strange Wine' version - the 'Weird Heros'
version has deletions.
HNom NNom nv 1970 The Region Between
Emshwiller, Carol
[f] s 1959 Day at the Beach
[f] s 1957 Hunting Machine
Erlich, Max
n 1949 The Big Eye
Recommended by arl
Ernst, Paul
[e] s 1935 The 32nd of May
Recommended by arl
Eskridge, Kelley
NNom s 1995 Alien Jane
Farley, Ralph Milne
[e] nt 1936 Liquid Life
Recommended by arl. Empathy with an intelligent
virus.
Farmer, Philip Jose
[i,Pf] n 1969 A Feast Unknown
NNom s 1974 After King Kong Fell
n 1960 Flesh
n 1957 Green Odyssey
Good adventure -- po
n 1968 Image of the Beast
n 1964 Inside Outside
Recommended by po
n 1970 Lord Tyger
recommened by David Grubbs
[a] nt 1953 Mother
HNom nt 1960 My Sister's Brother
Originally titled "Open to Me My Sister"
n 1966 Night of Light
Recommended by arl
Hugo NNom nv 1967 Riders of the Purple Wage
n 1983 River of Eternity
recommended by David Grubbs
[a,f] s 1952 Sail On! Sail On!
HNom [f] nt 1959 The Alley Man
HNom nt 1965 The Day of the Great Shout
n 1971 The Fabulous Riverboat
[i] n 1952 The Lovers
See also novel version in 1962
n 1965 The Maker of Universes
[Psf] n 1980 The Unreasoning Mask
Hugo n 1971 To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Farnsworth, Duncan Wright
[a] s 1940 All Roads
Faulkner, William
[a] n 1950 A Fable
Feeley, Gregory
nt 1996 The Weighing of Ayre
Scientific warefare in an alternate 17th
century -- mlo
Fehrenback, R. R.
[f] s 1961 Remember the Alamo
Finney, Charles G.
[k] n 1953 The Circus of Dr. Lao
Finney, Jack
[a,f] s 1951 I'm Scared
[Pf] n 1970 Time and Again
Florance-Guthridge, George
HNom NNom s 1981 The Quiet
Flynn, Michael F.
HNom nv 1986 Eifelheim
n 1996 Firestar
Great near-future SF -- mlo
n 1990 In the Country of the Blind
[g] nv 1990 Mammy Morgan Played the Organ
Her Daddy Beat the Drum
HNom NV 1994 Melodies of the Heart
HNom nv 1987 The Forest of Time
Ford, John M.
n 1989 Casting Fortune
Recommended by cjh. Collection of several
related Liavek stories.
[g] nt 1994 Chromatic Aberration
NNom nt 1996 Erase/Record/Play
NNom nv 1987 Fugue State
n 1993 Growing Up Weightless
[g] s 1984 Heat of Fusion
n 1987 How Much for Just the Planet?
A Star Trek novel and one of the funniest SF
books written -- mlo
[i] n 1983 The Dragon Waiting
n 1988 The Scholars of the Night
Historical thriller
Recommended by cjh, dms and mlo
n 1980 Web of Angels
Early cyberpunk? -- po
Forster, E. M.
[c] nv 1928 The Machine Stops
Forward, Robert
n 1980 Dragon's Egg
Forward, Robert L.
[g] s 1979 The Singing Diamond
Foster, Alan Dean
n 1973 Bloodhype
n 1990 Cyber Way
Navaho detective fantasy
n 1974 Icerigger
Recommended by kp
n 1986 Into the Out Of
n 1989 Quozl
Wonderful aliens -- po
n 1972 The Tar-Aiym Krang
Fowler, Karen Joy
NNom s 1990 Lieserl
NNom n 1992 Sarah Canary
NNom s 1991 The Dark
HNom NNom s 1987 The Faithful Companion at Forty
Fowles, John
[Pf] n 1965 The Magus
Frank, Pat
[i,Psf] n 1959 Alas, Babylon
Recommended by kp
Franson, Robert Wilfred
n 1983 The Shadow of the Ship
Exceptionally interesting 'space' travel -- po
& mlo
Frayn, Michael
[Pf] n 1973 Sweet Dreams
Friedberg, Gertrude
n 1966 The Revolving Boy
Recommended by po
Friend, Oscar J.
[a,f] s 1940 The Impossible Highway
Friesner, Esther
n Elf Defense
Recommended by cjh
Friesner, Esther M.
HNom Neb s 1995 A Birthday
NNom s 1992 All Vows
Neb s 1994 Death and the Librarian
A most moving story -- mlo
n 1988 Druid's Blood
An excellently silly alternate history -- mlo
NNom nt 1994 Jesus at the Bat
n 1986 New York by Knight
Recommended by po
n 1993 Yesterday We Saw Mermaids
Subdued and sad -- po
Fyfe, H. B.
[a] s 1950 In Value Deceived
[a] nv 1952 Moonwalk
[a,b] s 1951 Protected Species
Gaiman, Neil and Terry Pratchett
n 1990 Good Omens
Gallun, Raymond Z.
[e,g] s 1935 Davy Jones' Ambassador
An early sympathetic alien story -- arl
s 1934 Old Faithful
Recommended by arl
[d] nt 1938 Seeds of the Dusk
Galouye, Daniel F.
HNom n 1961 Dark Universe
Gardner, John
[Pf] n 1971 Grendel
Gardner, Martin
[f] s 1948 Thang
Garfinkle, Richard
n 1996 Celestial Matters
Recommended by mlo
Garner, Alan
[k] n 1973 Red Shift
Recommended by po
[Pf] n 1967 The Owl Service
Recommended by po
Garnett, David
HNom s 1986 Still Life
Garrett, Randall
ps See also pseudonym Mark Phillips
s 1978 Backstage Lensman
Superb pastiche of Doc Smith's Lensman series
which was hugely enjoyed by Doc Smith -- mlo
HNom s 1977 Lauralyn
NNom nt 1975 The Final Fighting of Fion MacCumhaill
[f] nv 1961 The Highest Treason
[f] nt 1954 The Hunting Lodge
[g] s 1954 Time Fuze
HNom n 1966 Too Many Magicians
Superb fantasy detective novel -- mlo
Garrett, Randall and Lin Carter
s 1957 Masters of the Metropolis
Marvellous parody of 30's stf yarns -- arl
Garrett, Randall and Robert Silverberg
[b] nt 1956 Sound Decision
n 1959 The Dawning Light
Written under the pseudonym of Robert Randall
n 1957 The Shrouded Planet
Written under the pseudonym of Robert Randall
Gernsback, Hugo
n Ralph 124C41+
Dreadful writing but influential on a
generation of sf writers -- arl
Gerrold, David
NNom nt 1972 In the Deadlands
NNom n 1976 Moonstar Odyssey
n 1972 Space Skimmer
Recommended by kp
HNom NNom [i] n 1973 The Man Who Folded Himself
Hugo Neb NT 1994 The Martian Child
HNom NNom n 1972 When Harlie Was One
Gerrold, David and Larry Niven
n 1971 The Flying Sorcerers
Good SF which is also funny -- mlo
Geston, Mark
n Lords of the Starship
Recommended by arl
Gibson, William
NNom s 1982 Burning Chrome
HNom NNom n 1986 Count Zero
NNom [g] s 1981 Johnny Mnemonic
HNom NNom n 1988 Mona Lisa Overdrive
Hugo Neb [Psf] n 1984 Neuromancer
HNom NNom nt 1986 The Winter Market
HNom n 1993 Virtual Light
Gibson, William and Bruce Sterling
NNom n 1991 The Difference Engine
Gilman, Carolyn
NNom nt 1992 The Honeycrafters
Gilman, Greer
n 1991 Moonwise
Somewhat indescribable fantasy -- po
Godwin, Parke
HNom NNom nt 1981 The Fire When It Comes
Godwin, Tom
[c,f,g] s 1954 The Cold Equations
An important story marred by a forced situation
and dreadful engineering design -- arl
n 1958 The Survivors
Goingback, Owl
NNom s 1995 Grass Dancer
Gold, H. L.
[a,e] nt 1938 A Matter of Form
[a,f] s 1954 Man of Parts
[a] s 1953 The Man with English
[a,f] s 1939 Trouble with Water
Goldin, Stephen
NNom s 1971 The Last Ghost
Golding, William
nt 1956 Envoy Extrordinary
Recommended by arl
[Pf] n 1956 Pincher Martin
[Psf] n 1955 The Inheritors
Goldman, William
n 1973 The Princess Bride
But just the good parts... -- po
Goldstein, Lisa
n 1987 A Mask for the General
NNom s 1992 Alfred
NNom s 1987 Cassandra's Photographs
[Pf] n 1985 The Dream Years
NNom s 1994 The Narcissus Plague
n 1982 The Red Magician
Goonan, Kathleen Ann
NNom s 1996 The String
Gotleib, Phyllis
NNom nv 1972 Son of the Morning
Goulart, Ron
[i] n When the Waker Sleeps
Gould, Steven
n 1992 Jumper
*Great* first novel -- po & mlo
HNom NNom nt 1988 Peaches for Mad Molly
n 1996 Wild Side
Recommended by mlo
Grahame, Kenneth
n 1933 The Wind in the Willows
Grant, C. L.
HNom Neb s 1976 A Crowd of Shadows
Neb nt 1978 A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye
NNom s 1980 Secrets of the Heart
NNom nv 1974 The Rest is Silence
Grant, Richard
[g] s 1981 Drode's Equations
Graves, Robert
[a] n 1945 Hercules My Shipmate
[Pf] n 1949 Seven Days in New Crete
Gray, Alasdir
[Pf] n 1981 Lanark
Green Jr., Robert M.
HNom NNom nt 1966 Apology to Inky
Greenberg, Martin Harry
a 1992 After the King
An excellent original anthology -- a
Festschrift for the Tolkein Centenary -- mlo
Greenhalgh, Zohra
n 1989 Contrarywise
Excellent and peculiar fantasy -- po & mlo
Gregor, Lee
[d] s 1939 Heavy Planet
Grendon, Edward
[f] s 1947 The Figure
Griffith, Nicola
Neb n 1995 Slow River
NNom nv 1995 Yagura
Grimm, Jacob Ludwig and Wilhelm
a 1815 The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Be sure to read an unbowdlerlized version!
Guin, Wyman
[a] nv 1951 Beyond Bedlam
1950 Trigger Tide
Originally as by 'Norman Menasco'. Recommended
by arl
Gunn, Eileen
HNom s 1989 Computer Friendly
HNom s 1988 Stable Strategies for Middle Management
Gunn, James
Hugo nf 1982 Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction
[a,f] s 1955 The Cave of Night
[f] nv 1958 The Immortals
[a] nv 1955 The Joy Ride
NNom nt 1968 The Listeners
[a] s 1952 The Misogynist
Guthridge, George
NNom nt 1995 Mirror or Lop Nor
Haggard, H. Rider
n 1887 Allan Quatermain
n 1885 King Solomon's Mines
[k] n 1886 She
Haldeman II, Jack C. and Jack Dann
NNom s 1982 High Steel
Haldeman, Joe
nv 1995 For White Hill
A wonderful love story -- mlo
Neb s 1992 Graves
HNom nv 1972 Hero
HNom n 1976 Mindbridge
NNom s 1985 More Than the Sum of His Parts
Hugo NNom s 1994 None So Blind
Hugo Neb n 1975 The Forever War
Hugo Neb nv 1990 The Hemingway Hoax
Hugo NNom s 1976 Tricentennial
Hall, Austin and Homer Eon Flint
n 1921 The Blind Spot
Unreadable but important early work -- mlo.
Hard slogging but you can get through it -- arl. A great story in
there, anyway -- po
Hambly, Barbara
n Ishmael
IMHO the best Star Trek novel -- po
n 1988 Those Who Hunt the Night
Recommended by cjh. Good -- arl
Hamilton, Edmond
[f] nt 1949 Alien Earth
n 1961 Battle for the Stars
Pure space opera! -- mlo
s 1936 Devolution
Recommended by arl
[f] s 1943 Exile
HNom n 1945 Red Sun of Danger
n Star Kings
Space opera!
[a] s 1945 The Inn Outside the World
s 1964 The Pro
Possibly Hamilton's best short -- arl
[a,f] nt 1952 What's It Like Out There?
Hand, Elizabeth
Neb nv 1994 Last Summer at Mars Hill
Harness, Charles
HNom NNom nt 1966 An Ornament to His Profession
n 1994 Lunar Justice
Recommended by po
n 1990 Lurid Dreams
Recommended by po
NNom nv 1968 Probable Cause
HNom NNom nt 1966 The Alchemist
n 1981 The Firebird
[a,f] nt 1950 The New Reality
[Psf] n 1953 The Paradox Men
AKA 'Flight into Yesterday'
n 1968 The Ring of Ritornel
Perfectly wonderful -- po
[a] nv 1953 The Rose
n 1982 The Venetian Court
Recommended by po
[a] nv 1948 Time Trap
Harrison, Harry
[j] s 1967 A Criminal Act
a 1973 Astounding - The John W. Campbell Memorial
Anthology
Stories written for this book complete a
half-dozen important series
NNom s 1970 By the Falls
HNom n 1960 Deathworld
[Psf] n 1966 Make Room! Make Room!
HNom n 1961 Planet of the Damned
Original title "Sense of Obligation"
n 1961 The Stainless Steel Rat
This is the first in a long series: ignore all
the rest -- mlo
[f] s 1962 The Streets of Ashkelon
n 1967 The Technicolor Time Machine
n 1984 West of Eden
Harrison, M. John
[Pf] n 1980 A Storm of Wings
[Psf] n 1974 The Centauri Device
Hartwell, David
a 1989 World Treasury of SF
A major modern collection
Hartwell, David and Kathryn Cramer
c 1994 The Ascent of Wonder
A very large collection of hard SF
Harvard Lampoon
nv 1969 Bored of the Rings
A popular parody of Lord of the Rings. Mostly
written by Christopher Cerf. Tedious after a while -- arl
Hasse, Henry
[d] nt 1936 He Who Shrank
Hawkins, Williard
[f] s 1940 The Dwindling Sphere
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
[g] nv 1844 Rappaccini's Daughter
Healy, Raymond J. and J. Francis McComas
a 1946 Famous SF Stories: Adventures in Time and Space
The definitive collection of early short SF
Heinlein, Robert A.
ps See also pseudonym Anson MacDonald
[a] s 1941 ...And He Built a Crooked House
s 1959 All You Zombies
[a] n 1942 Beyond This Horizon
[b] nt 1940 Blowups Happen
[a,d,f] nt 1941 By His Bootstraps
Written as by "Anson Macdonald"
[i] n 1957 Citizen of the Galaxy
The best Heinlein novel -- mlo
[a] s 1940 Coventry
Hugo [i] n 1955 Double Star
The best Heinlein novel -- arl
n 1950 Farmer in the Sky
HNom NNom n 1982 Friday
Not bad for late Heinlein -- mlo
HNom [i,Pf] n 1963 Glory Road
[a,e] s 1942 Goldfish Bowl
Written as by 'Anson MacDonald'
[a] nv 1949 Gulf
HNom [i,Psf] n 1958 Have Spacesuit - Will Travel
[a,e,g] s 1947 It's Great to Be Back!
NNom n 1984 Job: A Comedy of Justice
[a,f] s 1939 Life-Line
nv 1941 Lost Legacy
[a] n 1940 Magic, Inc.
[a,i] n 1941 Methuselah's Children
[f] nt 1939 Misfit
[i] n 1963 Podkayne of Mars
Recommended by po
s 1953 Project Nightmare
[a] n 1949 Red Planet
[a,d] s 1940 Requiem
[a] s 1941 Solution Unsatisfactory
According to Herman Kahn, one of the best
pieces of predictive SF ever written -- arl
n 1948 Space Cadet
n 1953 Starman Jones
Hugo [i] n 1959 Starship Troopers
Hugo [i] n 1961 Stranger in a Strange Land
Originally published version only! -- mlo
[i,Psf] n 1956 The Door Into Summer
[a,g] nt 1947 The Green Hills of Earth
[a] nv 1950 The Man Who Sold the Moon
s 1957 The Man Who Travelled in Elephants
nt 1957 The Menace from Earth
Hugo NNom [i] n 1966 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Also nominated for 1965 due to serialization
overlapping two years! Best RAH novel -- jds
[a,i,Psf] n 1951 The Puppet Masters
Originally published version only! -- mlo
[c,d] nt 1940 The Roads Must Roll
n 1952 The Rolling Stones
[a,Pf] nt 1942 The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
[a] nt 1952 The Year of the Jackpot
[a] s 1941 They
HNom NNom n 1973 Time Enough for Love
In this long book there are a couple of really
good novellas buried in among all the words -- mlo
[i] n 1955 Tunnel in the Sky
A personal favorite -- po
[a,c,e] nv 1941 Universe
Not the earliest, but one of the best of the
generation ship stories -- arl
[a] n 1942 Waldo
[a] s 1941 We Also Walk Dogs
Helprin, Mark
[Pf] n 1983 Winter's Tale
Henderson, Zenna
[a] s 1952 Ararat
A "People" story
HNom nt 1958 Captivity
A "People" story
[a] s 1951 Come On, Wagon!
c 1996 Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of
Zenna Henderson
[i] c 1961 Pilgrimage: the Book of the People
A fix-up novel consisting of about half of the
"People" stories
[a] nt 1955 Pottage
A "People" story
[i] c 1967 The People: No Different Flesh
A collection of most of the "People" stories
not included in "Pilgrimage"
Henneberg, Nathalie-Charles
[g] s 1960 The Blind Pilot
Herbert, Frank
HNom n 1976 Children of Dune
Hugo Neb [i,Psf] n 1965 Dune
Dune was originally published in two parts, the
first of which, "Dune World" was nominated in 1964. A good, but
over-rated book -- mlo
HNom n 1963 Dune World
The first half of "Dune"
n 1973 Hellstrom's Hive
n 1956 Under Pressure
Also titled "Twenty-First Century Sub" and "The
Dragon in the Sea"
n 1970 Whipping Star
Recommended by arl
Hersey, John
n 1974 My Petition for More Space
Recommended by po
n 1960 The Child Buyer
Recommended by po
n 1965 White Lotus
Recommended by po
Hilton, James
[k] n 1933 Lost Horizon
Hinz, Christopher
n 1987 Liege-Killer
Hoban, Russell
[Psf] n 1980 Riddley Walker
Hodgell, P. C.
n 1982 God Stalk
Recommended by po
Hodgson, William Hope
n 1907 The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"
[k] n 1908 The House on the Borderland
[k] n 1912 The Nightland
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki
NNom nv 1993 Haunted Humans
NNom nt 1995 Home for Christmas
NNom n 1995 The Silent Strength of Stones
NNom nt 1993 The Skeleton Key
n 1993 The Thread that Binds the Bones
Recommended by po
Hogan, James P.
n 1977 Inherit the Stars
A good first novel with a great picture of a
momentous scientific discovery in the making -- mlo
[g] s 1981 Making Light
n 1979 The Two Faces of Tomorrow
Recommended by dgg
Holdstock, Robert
[Pf] n 1984 Mythago Wood
Hollis, H. H.
NNom s 1968 Sword Game
NNom nt 1968 The Guerrilla Trees
Holt, Tom
[k] n 1987 Expecting Someone Taller
Minor -- arl. But better than the opera -- po.
Horwood, W
n 1980 Duncton Wood
Howard, Hayden
HNom NNom nt 1966 The Eskimo Invasion
Howard, Robert E.
se Conan Series
Especially the early ones. Few of the pastiches
are worth reading -- arl
[Pf,k] n 1935 Conan the Conquerer
Hoyle, Fred
n 1957 The Black Cloud
Hoyle, Fred and John Elliot
n 1962 A for Andromeda
Hubbard, L. Ron
HNom n 1986 Black Genesis
It's amazing what garbage occasionally gets
nominated -- mlo
[a,k] nv 1940 Fear
[a] n 1940 Final Blackout
A great 'after the war' story -- arl
se Ole' Doc Methuselah stories
Dreadful stories but very popular in their day
-- mlo. As by Rene Lafayette
[a,k] n 1939 Slaves of Sleep
The original book is collected mainly for its
Hannes Bok dj -- arl. But *I* liked the story -- mlo
nv 1940 Typewriter in the Sky
Hughart, Barry
n 1984 Bridge of Birds
Hughes, Zach
[i] n 1972 The Book of Rack the Healer
Hugi, Maurice A
[d,f] nt 1941 Mechanical Mice
Huxley, Aldous
[a] n 1939 After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
[i] n 1939 Brave New World
Huxley, Julian
[e] nt 1927 The Tissue-Culture King
Very early biological cloning and its ethical
consequences -- arl
Ing, Dean
[g] s 1979 Down & Out on Ellfive Prime
HNom NNom nt 1978 The Devil You Don't Know
Israel, Peter
n 1989 I'll Cry When I Kill You
Mystery set at an SF conmvention. Quite nasty
in its characterization -- arl
Jackson, Shirley
[a,l] s 1955 One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts
[k,Pf] n 1959 The Haunting of Hill House
s 1949 The Lottery
[a] s 1950 The Summer People
n 1962 We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Jameson, Malcolm
n Bullard of the Space Patrol
Fixup novel
classic space opera -- arl
[e] s 1939 Children of the "Betsy-B"
nt 1944 Tricky Tonnage
Recommended by arl
Janifer, Lawrence
ps See also pseudonym Mark Phillips
Jennings, Gary
HNom nt 1962 Myrrha
Jeter, K. W.
n 1984 Dr. Adder
[Pf] n 1983 Soul Eater
Jonas, Gerald
NNom nt 1970 Shaker Revival
Jones, Diana Wynne
nf 1996 The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
recommended by mlo
Jones, Dianna Wynne
n 1987 A Tale of Time City
Recommended by po
n 1984 Archer's Goon
n 1975 Eight Days of Luke
n 1984 Fire and Hemlock
s 1990 nad and Dan adn Quaffy
Recommended by arl & mlo
n 1981 The Homeward Bounders
Spooky -- po
n 1988 The Lives of Christopher Chant
Recommended by po
n 1979 The Spell Coats
Recommended by po
Jones, Guy and Constance
[a] n 1945 Peabody's Mermaid
Jones, Raymond F.
[i] n Colossus
Not that good, but one of the first computer
takes over the world stories -- jr
HNom [d,f] s 1945 Correspondence Course
[e,g] s 1947 Person from Porlock
A personal favorite -- mlo
HNom s 1966 Rat Race
n 1952 This Island Earth
Juster, Norman
[i] n Phantom Tollbooth
Kafka, Franz
In the Penal Colony
recommended by arl
s? 1915 The Metamorphosis
Kagan, Janet
n 1988 Hellspark
Recommended by mlo
Hugo NNom nt 1992 The Nutcracker Coup
Kahn, James
n 1980 World Enough and Time
Recommended by po. I didn't like this at all --
mlo
Karr, Phyllis Ann
n 1986 At Amberleaf Fair
Recommended by mlo
n 1982 The Idylls of the Queen
Recommended by po & mlo
Kay, Guy Gavriel
n 1992 A Song for Arbonne
Recommended by po
[Pf] n Silver on the Tree
Part of the Fionvar Tapestry trilogy
[Pf] n 1985 The Summer Tree
Part of the Fionvar Tapestry trilogy
[Pf] n 1986 The Wandering Fire
Part of the Fionvar Tapestry trilogy
n 1993 Tigana
Kaye, Marvin and Parke Godwin
n 1978 Masters of Solitude
Kelleam, Joseph E.
[f] s 1939 Rust
Kelly, James Patrick
NNom nv 1990 Mr. Boy
HNom NNom s 1986 Rat
NNom nt 1984 Saint Theresa of the Aliens
NNom nt 1991 Standing in Line with Mr. Jimmy
Hugo NNom nt 1995 Think Like a Dinosaur
An even more contrived and less important
answer to Godwin's "The Cold Equations" -- mlo
Kennedy, Leigh
NNom s 1983 Her Furry Face
NNom n 1986 The Journal of Nicholas the American
Kerr, Katherine
n 1992 Resurrection
Recommended by arl
Kersh, Gerald
[a] n 1953 Secret Masters
Kessel, John
HNom Neb nv 1982 Another Orphan
HNom NNom s 1991 Buffalo
NNom n 1989 Good News from Outer Space
nt 1990 Invaders
Recommended by arl
NNom s 1988 Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner
HNom NNom nt 1993 The Fanchise
Key, Alexander
n 1968 Escape to Witch Mountain
Recommended by po
Excellent juvenile -- po
Keyes, Daniel
Hugo Neb [Psf] n 1966 Flowers for Algernon
Short story version won Hugo in '60!
Hugo [c,i] s 1959 Flowers for Algernon
King, Stephen
Hugo nf 1981 Danse Macabre
n 1986 It
[Pf] n 1975 Salem's Lot
[Pf] n 1977 The Shining
[i] n 1978 The Stand
NNom nt 1980 The Way Station
Kingsbury, Donald M.
HNom n 1982 Courtship Rite
HNom nv 1979 The Moon Goddess and the Son
[g] nt 1978 To Bring in the Steel
Kipling, Rudyard
.007
Recommended by bz and jb
A Habitation Enforced
Recommended by bz and jb
[j] nt 1912 As Easy as ABC
c Puck of Pook's Hill
Recommended by bz and jb
c Rewards & Fairies
Recommended by bz and jb
nv 1898 The Bridge-Builders
A surprisingly good fantasy in which the gods
of India debate the destruction of a bridge -- mlo
The Brushwood Boy
Recommended by bz and jb
The Ship That Found Herself
Recommended by bz and jb
[g] nv 1909 With the Night Mail
Klein, Gerard
[g] nt 1976 Party Line
[g] s 1973 The Valley of Echoes
Knight, Damon
[a,f] s 1954 Anachron
[a] nt 1953 Babel II
nt 1951 Cabin Boy
Recommended by mlo
[a] nt 1951 Don't Live in the Past
[a] nv 1953 Double Meaning
[f,l] nt 1953 Four in One
HNom s 1976 I See You
s 1958 Idiot Stick
Recommended by mlo
nf 1956 In Search of Wonder
Pioneering criticism of SF
HNom NNom s 1968 Masks
[a] nv 1954 Natural State
[f] s 1950 Not with a Bang
nv 1954 Rule Golden
[f,g] nt 1956 Stranger Station
[a] s 1952 The Analogues
c The Best of Orbit
[c,f] s 1956 The Country of the Kind
[a] nv 1955 The Earth Quarter
nf 1977 The Futurians
Recommended by mlo
[f] s 1960 The Handler
[f] s 1950 To Serve Man
[f] nt 1959 What Rough Beast
[a] nv 1951 World Without Children
Koontz, Dean R.
HNom nv 1970 Beastchild
Kornbluth, C. M.
[a,g] nt 1954 Gomez
c 1997 His Share of Glory -- The Complete Short SF of
C. M. Kornbluth
n 1955 Not This August
HNom nt 1958 Shark Ship
Originally titled "Reap the Dark Tide"
[a] nt 1952 That Share of Glory
HNom s 1958 The Advent on Channel Twelve
[a,f] s 1952 The Altar at Midnight
[f] s 1957 The Education of Tigress McCardle
[a,c,f] nt 1950 The Little Black Bag
[a] s 1952 The Luckiest Man in Denv
[c,a,f] s 1951 The Marching Morons
[f] s 1950 The Mindworm
[f] s 1949 The Only Thing We Learn
[a] s 1953 The Remorseful
[a,f] s 1941 The Rocket of 1955
[a,f] s 1950 The Silly Season
n 1953 The Syndic
[a,f] s 1941 The Words of Guru
HNom s 1958 Theory of Rocketry
[a] nv 1941 Thirteen O'Clock
[f,g,l] nv 1958 Two Dooms
[a,f] nt 1951 With These Hands
Kornbluth, C. M. and Judith Merril
n 1952 Gunner Cade
Writing as Cyril Judd
Kosinski, Jerry
NNom nv 1971 Being There
Kotzwinkle, William
[Pf] n 1977 Fata Morgana
Kress, Nancy
HNom nv 1991 And Wild for to Hold
HNom NNom N 1994 Beggars and Choosers
HNom NNom n 1993 Beggars in Spain
Expanded from the novella of the same name.
Hugo Neb nv 1991 Beggars in Spain
HNom NNom nt 1993 Dancing on Air
HNom nv 1995 Fault Lines
Neb s 1985 Out of All Them Bright Stars
s 1993 The Battle of Long Island
Recommended by mlo
HNom NNom s 1992 The Mountains to Mohammed
HNom nt 1989 The Price of Oranges
NNom nv 1984 Trinity
Kube-McDowell, Michael
HNom n 1990 The Quiet Pools
Kurland, Michael
n 1969 The Unicorn Girl
Kurten, Bjorn
n 1980 Dance of the Tiger
Recommended by po
Kurtz, Katherine
n 1972 Deryni Checkmate
Deryni 2
n 1970 Deryni Rising
Deryni 1
n 1973 High Deryni
Deryni 3. The rest of the series (another dozen
plus books (and still growing)) has become formulaic -- arl
Kushner, Ellen
n 1990 Thomas the Rhymer
Recommended by po
Kuttner, Henry
ps See also pseudonyms Lawrence O'Donnell and
Lewis Padgett
[a,f] s 1941 A Gnome There Was
[a,f] s 1946 Absalom
[f] nt 1949 Cold War
[a] n 1946 Dark World
[a,f] s 1948 Don't Look Now
[a,i] n 1947 Fury
[a] s 1945 Line to Tomorrow
[a,f] s 1943 The Iron Standard
[f] s 1939 The Misguided Halo
[e,f] s 1945 What You Need
Kuttner, Henry and C. L. Moore
ps see also pseudonyms Lawrence O'Donnell and
Lewis Padgett
[a,f] nt 1945 Camouflage
[a] s 1948 Happy Ending
[a] nt 1943 Nothing But Gingerbread Left
[a,f] nt 1949 Private Eye
[f] nt 1956 Rite of Passage
[a] nt 1944 The Children's Hour
[a,f] nt 1945 The Piper's Son
[a] nv 1947 Tomorrow and Tomorrow
[a] s 1955 Two-Handed Engine
Kuykendall, Roger
[b] s 0 We Didn't Do Anything Wrong, Hardly
L'Engle, Madeleine
n 1978 A Swiftly Tilting Planet
n 1973 A Wind in the Door
[i] n 1962 A Wrinkle in Time
n 1986 Many Waters
Lafferty, R. A.
HNom NNom s 1970 Continued on Next Rock
NNom s 1970 Entire and Perfect Chrysolite
Hugo s 1972 Eurema's Dam
NNom [Pf] n 1970 Fourth Mansions
nt 1966 Narrow Valley
s 1966 Nine Hundred Grandmothers
HNom NNom n 1968 Past Master
[f] s 1961 Rainbird
[f] s 1962 Seven-Day Terror
HNom s 1971 Sky
s 1965 Slow Tuesday Night
n 1971 The Devil Is Dead
Landis, Geoffrey A.
HNom s 1991 A Walk in the Sun
HNom Neb s 1988 Ripples in the Dirac Sea
NNom s 1994 The Kingdom of Cats and Birds
HNom nt 1994 The Singular Habits of Wasps
Langford, Dave
n 1984 The Leaky Establishment
An autobiography (sorta) -- mlo
HNom nf 1996 The Silence of the Langford
Superb fan writing, and funny, too -- mlo
Lanier, Sterling
n 1973 Hiero's Journey
se The Brigadier ffellowes Series
Latham, Philip
[a,g] s 1950 The Xi Effect
Laumer, Keith
n 1965 A Plague of Demons
[i] 1976 Bolo
nt Diplomat at Arms
The first and best of the Retief series -- arl
c 1965 Galactic Diplomat
Probably the best collection of Retief stories
-- mlo
nv 1968 Greylorn
HNom NNom nt 1970 In the Queue
NNom nt 1968 Once There Was a Giant
n 1965 Retief's War
NNom nv 1968 The Day Beyond Forever
HNom nv 1977 The Wonderful Secret
n 1963 Trace of Memory
Recommended by po
n 1962 Worlds of the Imperium
Le Guin, Ursula K.
HNom nv 1995 A Man of the People
HNom NNom nv 1995 A Woman's Liberation
Hugo NNom nt 1987 Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
HNom NNom nt 1976 Diary of the Rose
HNom NNom NV 1994 Forgivness Day
HNom nt 1996 Mountain Ways
NNom [g] nt 1969 Nine Lives
[j] s 1964 Semley's Necklace
Recommended by arl
HNom Neb nt 1994 Solitude
HNom s 1982 Sur
Neb n 1990 Tehanu
The late, sad, sorry addition to the otherwise
fine Earthsea trilogy -- mlo
[g] s 1974 The Author of the Acacia Seeds
HNom Neb s 1974 The Day Before the Revolution
Hugo Neb [Psf] n 1974 The Dispossessed
[i] n 1972 The Farthest Shore
Earthsea trilogy #3
HNom NNom [i] n 1971 The Lathe of Heaven
Hugo [i,Psf] n 1969 The Left Hand of Darkness
HNom NNom nt 1994 The Matter of Seggri
HNom nt 1975 The New Atlantis
Hugo s 1973 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
NNom nt 1979 The Pathways of Desire
NNom nt 1990 The Shobies' Story
[i] n 1971 The Tombs of Atuan
Earthsea trilogy #2. The best of the series --
po
Hugo NNom nv 1972 The Word for World Is Forest
HNom s 1971 Vaster than Empires and More Slow
HNom nt 1969 Winter's King
[i,k,Pf] n 1968 Wizard of Earthsea, A
Earthsea trilogy #1
Lee, Tanith
NNom s 1979 Red as Blood
n 1980 Sabella
Recommended by po
n 1983 Sung in Shadow
Recommended by po
[i] n 1982 The Silver Metal Lover
Recommended by arl
Leiber, Fritz
[a,f] s 1953 A Bad Day for Sales
HNom nt 1958 A Deskful of Girls
NNom nt 1976 A Rite of Spring
n 1969 A Spectre is Haunting Texas
NNom s 1967 Answering Service
Hugo Neb s 1975 Catch That Zeppelin!
[a,c,f] s 1950 Coming Attraction
See how much has come true....-- ??
[i,k,Pf] n 1953 Conjure Wife
HNom n 1945 Destiny Times Three
[i] n Fahfrd and the Grey Mouser
[a] n 1950 Gather, Darkness!
Hugo Neb nt 1967 Gonna Roll the Bones
NNom nv 1982 Horrible Imaginings
Hugo Neb nv 1970 Ill Met in Lankhmar
[a] nv 1950 Let Freedom Ring
[f] s 1960 Mariana
HNom nt 1974 Midnight by the Morphy Watch
[a] s 1951 Nice Girl with Five Husbands
[k,Pf] n 1977 Our Lady of Darkness
[a,f] s 1951 Pail of Air, A
[a,g] nt 1951 Poor Superman
HNom s 1958 Rum-Titty-Titty-Tum-Ta-Tee
[f] s 1944 Sanity
HNom nt 1961 Scylla's Daughter
Hugo NNom nv 1969 Ship of Shadows
[a] s 1941 Smoke Ghost
s 1958 Space-Time for Springers
HNom nt 1965 Stardock
[f] s 1940 The Automatic Pistol
[a,f] s 1953 The Big Holiday
Hugo [i] nv 1957 The Big Time
[a] s 1949 The Girl with the Hungry Eyes
[f] s 1962 The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity
[a] s 1947 The Man Who Never Grew Young
[a,f] s 1952 The Moon Is Green
n 1961 The Silver Eggheads
[Pf] n 1953 The Sinful Ones
[Pf] n 1968 The Swords of Lankhmar
HNom nt 1962 The Unholy Grail
Hugo [Psf] n 1964 The Wanderer
s 1958 Try and Change the Past
[f] nt 1945 Wanted -- An Enemy
[a,f] nt 1952 Yesterday House
Leinster, Murray
[a,f] s 1946 A Logic Named Joe
[f] s 1945 De Profundis
[a] 1949 Doomsday Deferred
Hugo [f] nt 1955 Exploration Team
Hugo [a,b,c,e,f] nt 1945 First Contact
An archetype!! and the aponym for a phylum of
stories -- arl & mlo
[b] s 1951 Historical Note
[a] s 1951 Keyhole
[a,e] nt 1944 Plague
One of the more pointed anti-bureaucracy
stories -- arl
s 1935 Proxima Centauri
nv 1934 Sidewise in Time
This story introduced alternate history to SF.
And it still holds up well today -- mlo
[a] s 1947 Symbiosis
HNom [e] s 1945 The Ethical Equations
n 1954 The Forgotten Planet
A fix-up novel
s 1935 The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator
n 1949 The Last Spaceship
Very minor -- mlo
HNom n 1959 The Pirates of Zan
Also titled "The Pirates of Ersatz"
[f] s 1945 The Power
[a,f] s 1948 The Strange Case of John Kingman
Lem, Stanislaw
[g] s 1977 How Erg the Self-Inducting Slew a Paleface
n Solaris
Described as "dull enough to be made into a
Soviet film"
[g] s 1977 Tale of the Computer That Fought a Dragon
The Cyberiad
Those who don't like Lem's serious novels
should give this one a try.
Leman, Bob
NNom s 1980 Window
Lessing, Doris
[Pf] n 1971 Briefing for a Descent into Hell
Lethem, Jonathan
NNom s 1996 Five Fvcks
NNom n 1993 Gun, with Occaisional Music
NNom nt 1991 The Happy Man
Levin, Ira
[k,Pf] n 1967 Rosemary's Baby
Levinson, Paul
NNom nt 1995 The Chronology Protection Case
Lewis, C. S.
n 1938 Out of the Silent Planet
Book 1 of the 'Deep Space' trilogy
[a] n 1944 Perelandra
Part of 'Deep Space' trilogy
[i] n 1951 Prince Caspian
Part of 'Narnia' series
HNom n 1946 That Hideous Strength
Part of 'Deep Space' trilogy
[i] n 1954 The Horse and His Boy
Part of 'Narnia' series
[i] n 1956 The Last Battle
Part of 'Narnia' series
[i,Pf] n 1950 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Part of 'Narnia' series
[i] n 1955 The Magician's Nephew
Part of 'Narnia' series
n 1942 The Screwtape Letters
Not exactly fantasy, but a must-read -- mlo
[i] n 1953 The Silver Chair
Part of 'Narnia' series
[i] n 1952 The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader'
Part of 'Narnia' series
n 1956 Till We have Faces
Superb retelling of the Psyche myth -- mlo
Ley, Willy
[d] nf 0 V-2: Rocket Cargo Ship
Linaweaver, Brad
NNom nv 1982 Moon of Ice
n 1972 Much Better
Recommended by jr
Lindholm, Megan
HNom NNom nv 1989 A Touch of Lavender
n 1991 Cloven Hooves
Moody and erotic fantasy -- po
NNom nt 1989 Silver Lady and The Fortish Man
n 1986 The Wizard of the Pigeons
Lindner, Robert
nf 1954 The Jet-Propelled Couch
Part of the 'Fifty-Minute Hour' psychological
case studies -- arl
Lindsay, David
[k] n 1920 A Voyage to Arcturus
London, Jack
n 1906 Before Adam
Recommended by po
s The Flash and the Shadow
Recommended by jr
Long, Frank Belknap
[a] s 1942 It Will Come to You
c 1946 The Hounds of Tindalos
This is a collection
nt 1928 The Space Eaters
Recommended by arl
Longyear, Barry B.
Hugo Neb nv 1979 Enemy Mine
HNom nt 1979 Homecoming
HNom nt 1980 Savage Planet
Lovecraft, H. P.
[k] nt 1936 At the Mountains of Madness
se Cthulhu Mythos Series
s 1936 Haunter of the Dark
nt 1941 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
[e] s 1927 The Colour Out of Space
Lupoff, Richard A.
HNom nt 1974 After the Dreamtime
HNom NNom s 1975 Sail the Tides of Mourning
NNom n 1976 Sword of the Demon
nt 1985 The Digital Wristwatch of Philip K. Dick
Recommened by arl
nt 1974 Whatever Happened to Nick Neptune?
Recommended by arl
NNom nv 1972 With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New
Alabama
Lynn, Elizabeth
n 1980 The Northern Girl
Recommended by arl
MacAvoy, R. A.
n 1983 Damiano
HNom NNom [Pf] n 1983 Tea with the Black Dragon
MacDonald, Anson
ps Pseudonym of Robert A. Heinlein
MacDonald, George
n 1870 At the Back of the North Wind
n 1895 Lilith
n 1858 Phantastes
n 1882 The Princess and Curdie
n 1882 The Princess and the Goblin
MacDonald, John D.
[f] s 1948 A Child Is Crying
[f] s 1949 Flaw
[f] s 1952 Game for Blondes
n 1951 Planet of the Dreamers
[f] s 1948 Ring Around the Redhead
[f] s 1950 Spectator Sport
[Pf] n 1962 The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything
n 1951 Wine of the Dreamers
Recommended by eac & arl
MacDonald, Philip
[f] s 1949 Private--Keep Out
MacLean, Katherine
[a] nt 1950 Contagion
[a,e,f] s 1949 Defense Mechanism
[a,f] s 1951 Pictures Don't Lie
[a] nv 1953 The Diploids
Neb nv 1971 The Missing Man
[a,f,g] s 1952 The Snowball Effect
[f] nt 1958 Unhuman Sacrifice
MacLean, Katherine and Charles V. DeVet
HNom nt 1958 Second Game
MacLeish, Roderick
n 1982 Prince Ombra
Recommended by po
MacLeod, Ian
NNom nt 1990 1/72nd Scale
Malzberg, Barry N.
NNom nt 1975 A Galaxy Called Rome
This was expanded into a novel named 'Galaxies'
which is not as good -- arl
n 1972 Beyond Apollo
NNom s 1982 Corridors
[Psf] n 1975 Galaxies
nv 1971 Gather in the Hall of Planets
n 1973 Herovit's World
HNom nt 1992 In the Stone House
s 1993 The Passage of the Light
NNom n 1985 The Remaking of Sigmund Freud
HNom NNom s 1994 Understanding Entropy
Manning, Lawrence
nv The Man Who Awoke
Recommended by ??
Marks, Laurie J.
n 1992 The Watcher's Mask
Recommended by po
Marlowe, Webb
[d] s 1943 Flight into Darkness
Martin, George R. R.
HNom nt 1975 ...And Seven Times Never Kill Man
Hugo NNom nv 1974 A Song for Lya
HNom NNom nv 1996 Blood of the Dragon
HNom n 1977 Dying of the Light
n 1982 Fevre Dream
Recommended by po
HNom nt 1981 Guardians
HNom nv 1980 Nightflyers
HNom Neb nt 1985 Portraits of His Children
Hugo Neb nt 1979 Sandkings
Nasty and scary and very good indeed -- po
HNom NNom nt 1983 The Monkey Treatment
NNom nt 1976 The Stone City
Hugo NNom [j] s 1979 The Way of Cross and Dragon
HNom NNom nv 1982 Unsound Variations
HNom NNom s 1973 With Morning Comes Mistfall
Martin, George R. R. and Lisa Tuttle
HNom nv 1980 One-Wing
Part of the novel "Windhaven"
HNom NNom nv 1975 The Storms of Windhaven
Part of the novel "Windhaven"
n 1981 Windhaven
Martin, Valerie
NNom n 1990 Mary Reilly
Martino, Joseph
[b] s 1960 Pushbutton War
Matheson, Richard
[c,f] s 1950 Born of Man and Woman
n 1954 I Am Legend
ss 1955 Pattern for Survival
Recommended by arl
[Pf] n 1956 The Shrinking Man
[f] s 1954 The Test
May, Julian
n 1994 Diamond Mask
Recommended by po
Galactic Millieu #3
[a,f] nt 1951 Dune Roller
n 1987 Intervention
Galactic Millieu #1. (Published in two volumes
in paperback.)
n 1992 Jack the Bodiless
Recommended by po
Galactic Millieu #2
n 1984 The Adversary
Pliocene Exile tetrology #4
n 1982 The Golden Torc
Pliocene Exile tetrology #2
HNom NNom n 1981 The Many-Colored Land
Pliocene Exile tetrology #1
n 1983 The Nonborn King
Pliocene Exile tetrology #3
McAllister, Bruce
HNom NNom nt 1987 Dream Baby
[f] s 1963 The Faces Outside
McAuley, Paul J.
[j] s 1986 Karl and the Ogre
Recommened by arl
McCaffrey, Anne
HNom n 1991 All the Weyrs of Pern
n 1979 Dragondrums
[i] n 1968 Dragonflight
HNom n 1971 Dragonquest
HNom Neb nv 1968 Dragonrider
n 1977 Dragonsinger
n 1976 Dragonsong
HNom NNom nv 1969 Dramatic Mission
HNom n 1983 Moreta, Dragonlady of Pern
Appalling! -- mlo. No, worse than that! -- arl
[f,i] nv 1961 The Ship Who Sang
HNom n 1978 The White Dragon
Hugo NNom [g] nv 1967 Weyr Search
McDevitt, Jack
NNom s 1983 Cryptic
HNom NNom s 1988 The Fort Moxie Branch
HNom NNom nv 1996 Time Travelers Never Die
McDonald, Ian
n 1991 King of Morning, Queen of Day
The best fantasy of its year -- po
NNom nt 1988 Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van
Gogh
McHugh, Maureen F.
HNom NNom n 1992 China Mountain Zhang
NNom nt 1993 Nekropolis
HNom NNom nv 1992 Protection
HNom NNom nv 1996 The Cost to Be Wise
Hugo NNom s 1995 The Lincoln Train
NNom s 1993 Virtual Love
McIntosh, J. T.
n 1954 One in Three Hundred
Recommended by arl
[a] nt 1952 The Bliss of Solitude
n 1953 World Out of Mind
Recommended by arl
McIntyre, Vonda N.
HNom NNom nv 1977 Aztecs
Hugo Neb n 1978 Dreamsnake
HNom nt 1979 Fireflood
HNom Neb nt 1973 Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand
NNom nv 1983 Transit
HNom NNom s 1973 Wings
McKenna, Bridget
HNom NNom s 1993 The Good Pup
McKenna, Richard
[f] nt 1960 Mine Own Ways
HNom Neb s 1966 The Secret Place
McKillip, Patricia
NNom n 1996 Winter Rose
McKillip, Patricia A.
HNom n 1979 Harpist in the Wind
Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy #3
n 1977 Heir of Sea and Fire
Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy #2
[Pf] n 1974 The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
n 1976 The Riddle-Master of Hed
Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy #1
n 1991 The Sorceress and the Cygnet
Recommended by po
McKinley, Robin
n 1978 Beauty
Recommended by po
n 1984 The Hero and the Crown
Recommended by po
McLaughlin, Dean
HNom NNom nv 1968 Hawk Among the Sparrows
McLoughlin, John C.
n 1983 The Helix and the Sword
An excellent piece of SF
very undervalued -- mlo
n 1987 Toolmaker Koan
Flawed - but, remember the eyes! -- po
Mead, Harold
n 1956 The Bright Phoenix
Recommended by arl
Merril, Judith
[a] nt 1954 Dead Center
[a] n 1951 Shadow on the Hearth
[a] s 1951 Survival Ship
[a,c,f] s 1948 That Only a Mother
Merritt, A.
[k] n 1932 Dwellers in the Mirage
1919 The Moon Pool
Recommended by kp
[k] n 1924 The Ship of Ishtar
Merwin, Jr., Sam
n 1951 The House of Many Worlds
Miller Jr., Walter M.
Hugo [i,Psf] n 1960 A Canticle for Leibowitz
A fix-up novel
[a] nt 1955 A Canticle for Leibowitz
Included in the fix-up novel of the same name
[f] s 1952 Command Performance
[a] nv 1952 Conditionally Human
[a,f] s 1953 Crucifixus Etiam
[a] nt 1952 Dumb Waiter
[a] s 1954 I Made You
Hugo [a,f] nt 1954 The Darfsteller
[g] nv 1957 The Lineman
Miller, P. Schuyler
[a,d] s 1944 As Never Was
[a] 1951 Dark Benediction
[a,f] nt 1940 Old Man Mulligan
[a] s 1941 Over the River
[f] s 1943 The Cave
[d] nt 1937 The Sands of Time
Miller, R. DeWitt
[d] s 1937 Within the Pyramid
Mirrlees, Hope
n 1930 Lud-in-the-Mist
Recommended by kp
Mixon, Laura
n 1992 Glass Houses
Recommended by po
Moffett, Judith
NNom nt 1986 Surviving
NNom nt 1988 The Hob
HNom NNom nv 1989 Tiny Tango
Monteleone, Thomas F.
NNom s 1976 Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep
NNom s 1976 Camera Obscura
Moon, Elizabeth
HNom n 1996 Remnant Population
Moorcock, Michael
[Psf] n 1972 An Alien Heat
recommended by dgg / Dancers at the End of Time
trilogy
Neb [i] nv 1967 Behold the Man
[Pf] n 1978 Gloriana
[k,Pf] c 1965 Stormbringer
Chilling last paragraph especially -- po
[Psf] n 1976 The End of All Songs
recommended by dgg / Dancers at the End of Time
trilogy
[Psf] n 1968 The Final Programme
[Psf] n 1974 The Hollow Lands
recommended by dgg / Dancers at the End of Time
trilogy
[Pf] n 1981 The War Hound and the World's Pain
recommended by dgg
Moorcock, Michael and Hilary Bailey
n 1969 The Black Corridor
Moore, Brian
[Pf] n 1983 Cold Heaven
[Pf] n 1975 The Great Victorian Collection
Moore, C. L.
ps See also pseudonyms Lawrence O'Donnell and
Lewis Padgett
[a] nt 1946 Daemon
[f] s 1943 Doorway Into Time
[a] s 1940 Fruit of Knowledge
[a,f] nt 1939 Greater than Gods
[a] nt 1943 Judgment Night
[a,e,f] nt 1944 No Woman Born
nt 1933 Shambleau
Moore, Ward
[a,i,Psf] n 1953 Bring the Jubilee
[a] n 1947 Greener Than You Think
[a,f] nt 1953 Lot
[e] s 1950 Peacebringer
[f] nt 1960 The Fellow Who Married the Maxill Girl
More, St. Sir Thomas
n 1516 Utopia
The original
Morris, William
n 1896 The Well at the World's End
Morrison, William
[a] nt 1953 Country Doctor
[a,f] s 1953 The Model of a Judge
[a,f] nt 1950 The Sack
Morrow, James
Neb s 1988 Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge
Neb nv 1992 City of Truth
NNom n 1990 Only Begotten Daughter
NNom n 1986 This Is the Way the World Ends
HNom NNom N 1994 Towing Jehovah
Moskowitz, Sam
nf The Immortal Storm
A history of SF Fandom in the 30's. Said to be
the only book to which WW II came as an anti-climax.
Mullen, Stanley
HNom s 1958 Space to Swing a Cat
Mundy, Talbot
n 1925 Tros of Samothrace
Murphy, Pat
HNom nv 1993 An American Childhood
HNom NNom nv 1990 Bones
NNom s 1988 Dead Men on TV
NNom s 1990 Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates
HNom Neb nt 1987 Rachel in Love
n 1988 The City, Not Long After
Neb n 1987 The Falling Woman
Myers, John Myers
[Pf] n 1949 Silverlock
Nahin, Paul J.
nf 1993 Time Machines
A physicist looks at time machines -- mlo
Nathan, Robert
nv 1956 Digging the Weans
[a] n 1939 Portrait of Jennie
Nelson, Ray
[f] nt 1963 Turn Off the Sky
Nesvadba, Josef
[g] nt 1973 Captain Nemo's Last Adventure
Neville, Kris
[a] nt 1951 Bettyann
[b] s 1949 Cold War
Newman, Kim
n 1992 Anno Dracula
Nichols, Peter
Hugo nf 1979 The Science Fiction Encyclopedia
Niven, Larry
HNom s 1968 All the Myriad Ways
HNom nv 1975 ARM
nt At the Core
Recommended by jam
s 1972 Cloak of Anarchy
Recommended by arl
NNom nt 1967 Flatlander
Hugo [g] s 1971 Inconstant Moon
Hugo s 1966 Neutron Star
HNom NNom nt 1969 Not Long Before the End
HNom n 1973 Protector
Hugo Neb [i] n 1970 Ringworld
Hugo nt 1975 The Borderland of Sol
nt 1967 The Ethics of Madness
HNom nv 1971 The Fourth Profession
Hugo [g] s 1974 The Hole Man
NNom n 1984 The Integral Trees
HNom s 1967 The Jigsaw Man
HNom s 1989 The Return of William Proxmire
HNom n 1980 The Ringworld Engineers
n World of Ptavvs
Recommended by jam
Niven, Larry and Jerry Pournelle
HNom n 1985 Footfall
HNom NNom n 1975 Inferno
HNom n 1977 Lucifer's Hammer
[Psf] n 1981 Oath of Fealty
HNom NNom [i] n 1974 The Mote in God's Eye
Perhaps the best space opera ever written -- mlo
Niven, Larry and Steven Barnes
HNom nt 1979 The Locusts
Nordley, G. David
HNom NNom nv 1993 Into the Miranda Rift
Norton, Andre
n 1961 Catseye
n 1968 Dark Piper
Recommended by kp
n 1959 Galactic Derelict
Recommended by mlo
n 1963 Judgment on Janus
Recommended by kp
n 1962 Lord of Thunder
n 1966 Moon of Three Rings
Recommended by kp
n 1964 Ordeal in Otherwhere
n 1956 Plague Ship
Part of Solar Queen series
n 1965 Postmarked the Stars
Recommended by kp
n 1965 Quest Crosstime
n 1955 Sargasso of Space
n 1955 Sargasso of Space
Recommended by kp
n 1960 Sioux Spaceman
Very minor -- kp
n 1957 Star Born
n 1958 Star Gate
[i] n 1950 Starman's Son
AKA 'Daybreak 2250 A.D.' A classic juvenile --
po
n 1960 Storm Over Warlock
Recommended by mlo
n 1959 The Beast Master
[i] n 1954 The Stars Are Ours
n 1958 The Time Traders
Recommended by mlo
n 1968 The Zero Stone
Recommended by kp
n 1969 Uncharted Stars
Recommended by kp
n 1966 Victory on Janus
Recommended by kp
n 1959 Voodoo Planet
Recommended by kp
HNom [Pf] n 1963 Witch World
HNom nt 1967 Wizard's World
Nourse, Alan E.
n 1974 Bladerunner
NOT the same as the movie -- po
[f] nt 1956 Brightside Crossing
nt 1953 Nightmare Brother
n 1962 Raiders from the Rings
n 1959 Star Surgeon
[f] nt 1951 Tiger by the Tail
Nowlan, Phillip Francis
nv 1929 Armageddon 2419
Of historical interest -- the original Buck
Rogers novel. The 1962 work Armageddon 2419 A.D.:fixup
nt 1928 The Airlords of Han
O'Brien, Flann
[Pf] n 1967 The Third Policeman
O'Donnell, K. M.
NNom nt 1968 Final War
O'Donnell, Lawrence
ps Pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
[a,b,f] nt 1943 Clash by Night
[a,c,e,f,g] nv 1946 Vintage Season
Olden, Marc
n 1978 Poe Must Die
Oliver, Chad
NNom s 1983 Ghost Town
n 1971 The Shores of Another Sea
Recommended by po
n 1957 The Winds of Time
Recommended by po
[f] s 1954 Transformer
Oltion, Jerry
HNom nv 1996 Abandon in Place
Oltion, Jerry and Lee Goodloe
NNom nv 1992 Contact
Orwell, George
[a,i,Psf] n 1949 1984
Probably the most famous SF book ever written
-- mlo
HNom [a] n 1946 Animal Farm
Padgett, Lewis
ps Pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
[a] n 1946 Chessboard Planet
Also titled the Fairy Chessmen
[b] s 1948 Ex Machina
[f] s 1947 Exit the Professor
[a,c,e,f,g] nt 1943 Mimsy Were the Borogoves
[i] nt Robots have No Tails
HNom [f] nt 1945 The Piper's Son
Part of Mutant. Recommended by arl.
[f] nt 1949 The Prisoner in the Skull
[d,f,g] nt 1943 The Proud Robot
[a,d,f] s 1942 The Twonky
[d] s 1943 Time Locker
[a,b,f] nt 1944 When the Bough Breaks
Palmer, David
[i] n 1984 Emergence
Expansion of novella. Don't believe the bit
about the polar bear -- mlo
HNom nv 1981 Emergence
Incorporated in the novel of the same name
HNom nv 1983 Seeking
Pangborn, Edgar
[a,f,i,Psf] n 1954 A Mirror for Observers
Pangborn's best -- po
[a,f] nt 1951 Angel's Egg
HNom [i] n 1964 Davy
NNom nt 1971 Mount Charity
n 1975 The Company of Glory
Recommended by po
[a] nt 1954 The Music Master of Babylon
n 1953 West of the Sun
Recommended by po
Panshin, Alexi
n 1969 Masque World
Anthony Villiars #3
HNom Neb n 1968 Rite of Passage
In RAH's style and (one of his better novels)
-- po
n 1968 Star Well
Anthony Villiars #1
n 1968 Thurb Revolution
Anthony Villiars #2
Panshin, Alexi and Cory
Hugo nf 1989 The World Beyond the Hill
Panshin, Alexie
nf Heinlein in Dimension
Park, Paul
NNom n 1995 Celestis
Pdgett, Lewis
HNom s 1945 What You Need
Peake, Mervyn
nt 1956 Boy in Darkness
A Titus Groan story. Recommended by arl
[i,k,Pf] n 1950 Gormenghast
This series reads as if Charles Dickens'
stories were written by Franz Kafka -- arl
[i,k,Pf] n 1959 Titus Alone
Ghormenghast #3
[i,k,Pf] n 1956 Titus Groan
Ghormenghast #2
Petrey, Susan C.
HNom s 1980 Spidersong
Phillips, A. M.
[d] nf 1939 Time-Travel Happens!
Phillips, Mark
ps Pseudonym of Randall Garrett and Lawrence
Jannifer
HNom n 1959 Brain Twister
Originally titled "That Sweet Little Old Lady".
n 1960 The Impossibles
n Twisted
Phillips, Peter
[a,f] s 1948 Dreams Are Sacred
[f] nt 1949 Manna
Phillips, Rog
[a,f] s 1952 Lost Memory
HNom nt 1958 Rat in the Skull
[f] s 1958 The Yellow Pill
Phillpotts, Eden
[a] n 1938 Saurus
Pierce, John R.
ps See also pseudonym J. J. Coupling
[a,b,f] s 1944 Invariant
s 1962 John Sze's Future
A loving jab at John W. Campbell's foibles --
mlo
Pierce, Meredith Ann
n 1985 The Woman Who Loved Reindeer
Recommended by po
Piercy, Marge
[Psf] n 1976 Woman on the Edge of Time
Pinkwater, Daniel M.
n 1979 Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy From Mars
Recommended by mlo
n 1976 Lizard Music
Recommended by po & mlo
n The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
Recommended by jam
Piper, H. Beam
[a,f] nt 1948 He Walked Around the Horses
A particularly understated and fine alternate
history story -- mlo
HNom [i] n 1962 Little Fuzzy
[i] n 1965 Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen
[b,f] nt 1957 Omnilingual
[b] nt 1948 Police Operation
n 1963 Space Viking
Quintessential space opera! -- mlo
n 1963 The Cosmic Computer
Also titled "Junkyard Planet"
Good, hard SF -- mlo
[b] nv 1950 The Last Enemy
[i] n 1964 The Other Human Race
[a,e,f] s 1947 Time and Time Again
Plauger, P. J.
HNom NNom s 1975 Child of All Ages
Poe, Edgar Allan
[g] s 1841 A Descent into the Maelstrom
[e] s A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
Recommened by arl
[k] n 1838 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Pohl, Frederik
HNom NNom n 1980 Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
[g] s 1966 Day Million
Hugo s 1985 Fermi and Frost
Hugo Neb [i] n 1977 Gateway
HNom NNom n 1979 JEM
HNom Neb [Psf] n 1976 Man Plus
NNom nv 1979 Mars Masked
HNom s 1983 Servant of the People
NNom s 1972 Shaffery Among the Immortals
HNom nv 1992 Stopping at Slowyear
[f] nv 1960 The Day the Icicle Works Closed
HNom NNom [g] nv 1972 The Gold at Starbow's End
NNom nv 1984 The Greening of Bed-Stuy
[c] nv 1954 The Midas Plague
[a,f,j] nt 1955 The Tunnel Under the World
Pohl, Frederik and C. M. Kornbluth
[i] n 1955 Gladiator at Law
s 1974 Mute, Inglorious Tam
Hugo s 1972 The Meeting
[f] nt 1961 The Quaker Cannon
[i,Psf] n 1952 The Space Merchants
n 1959 Wolfbane
Pollack, Frank
s 1906 Finis
Recommended by arl
Pollack, Rachel
NNom n 1993 Temporary Agency
Popkes, Steven
NNom s 1988 The Color Winter
Pournelle, Jerry
HNom nt 1974 Extreme Prejudice
HNom nt 1973 He Fell into a Dark Hole
HNom nv 1972 The Mercenary
HNom nt 1975 Tinker
Powers, Tim
NNom n 1985 Dinner at Deviant's Palace
NNom n 1995 Expiration Date
n 1992 Last Call
n 1987 On Stranger Tides
Recommended by mlo
[Pf] n 1983 The Anubis Gates
Recommended by mlo
[k] n 1979 The Drawing of the Dark
Recommended by mlo
n 1989 The Stress of Her Regard
Recommened by arl
Pratchett, Terry
n 1992 Lords and Ladies
May be the best Discworld novel -- po
n Strata
A comic sendup of mega-engineering books like
Ringworld. Recommended by cjh
[k] n 1985 The Colour of Magic
Recommended by kp
First of at least a dozen Discworld books
Pratt, Fletcher
n 1952 The Blue Star
[a,k,Pf] n 1948 Well of the Unicorn
Price, Meredith
n The Dark Angel
Priest, Christopher
HNom [Psf] n 1974 Inverted World
HNom nt 1979 Palely Loitering
[Pf] n 1984 The Glamour
HNom nv 1978 The Watched
Priestley, J. B.
[a] n 1938 The Doomsday Men
n 1961 The Thirty-First of June
Recommended by arl
Pronzini, Bill and Barry N. Malzberg
n 1980 Prose Bowl
Novel version - the shorter version is better
-- arl
Ptacek, Kathryn
n 1988 In Silence Sealed
Recommended by arl
Pynchon, Thomas
NNom n 1973 Gravity's Rainbow
[Pf] n 1966 The Crying of Lot 49
Rand, Ayn
n 1946 Anthem
Randall, Marta
NNom nv 1980 Dangerous Games
NNom n 1976 Islands
n 1983 The Sword of Winter
Recommended by arl
Randall, Robert
ps Pseudonym of Robert Silverberg and Randall
Garrett
n 1959 The Dawning Light
n 1957 The Shrouded Planet
Raphael, Rick
[b] s 1959 A Filbert Is a Nut
HNom nt 1963 Code Three
[f] nv 1960 Make Mine...Homogenized
HNom s 1964 Once a Cop
Reamy, Tom
HNom NNom n 1978 Blind Voices
HNom Neb nt 1975 San Diego Lightfoot Sue
NNom nv 1974 Twilla
Reaves, Michael
n 1982 Darkworld Detective
Recommended by po
n 1991 Street Magic
Recommended by po
Rebetez-Cortes, Rene
[g] s 1972 The New Prehistory
Reed, Kit
s 1962 Mister Da V.
Recommended by po
Reed, Robert
HNom s 1996 Decency
HNom s 1990 The Utility Man
Resnick, Mike
HNom nt 1994 A Little Knowledge
HNom s 1994 Barnaby in Exile
HNom NNom nv 1990 Bully!
HNom NNom nt 1989 For I Have Touched the Sky
n 1988 Ivory
Hugo NNom s 1988 Kirinyaga
HNom s 1993 Mwalimu in the Squared Circle
HNom s 1991 One Perfect Morning, With Jackals
n 1989 Paradise
n 1986 Santiago
Hugo Neb NV 1994 Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge
nv 1987 Stalking the Unicorn
Recommended by po
n 1987 The Dark Lady
HNom nt 1996 The Land of Nod
HNom s 1992 The Lotus and the Spear
Hugo nt 1990 The Manamouki
HNom NNom nt 1995 When the Old Gods Die
HNom s 1991 Winter Solstice
Resnick, Mike and Susan Schwartz
HNom NNom nv 1994 Bibi
Reynolds, Mack
[f] s 1956 Compounded Interest
[f] s 1962 Earthlings Go Home!
[e] s 1950 Isolationist
[Psf] n 1973 Looking Backward from the Year 2000
[a] s 1954 Prone
HNom nt 1961 Status Quo
nt 1965 The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial
[f] s 1952 The Business, as Usual
Reynolds, Ted
HNom s 1979 Can These Bones Live?
HNom nv 1979 Ker-Plop
Rice, Ann
[a] 1943 The Refugee
Rice, Jane
[a] s 1942 Idol of the Flies
Riley, Frank and Mark Clifton
Hugo n 1954 They'd Rather Be Right
Easily the weakest novel ever to win a Hugo --
mlo
Roberts, Keith
n 1970 Anita
[Psf] n 1966 Pavane
NNom nv 1971 The God House
n 1970 The Inner Wheel
Recommended by po
HNom nt 1980 The Lordly Ones
NNom nv 1987 The Tiger Sweater
[g] nt 1972 Weihnachtsabend
Robinson, Frank M.
n 1958 The Power
Recommended by arl
Robinson, Kim Stanley
HNom nv 1990 A Short, Sharp Shock
NNom s 1990 Before I Wake
HNom NNom nt 1983 Black Air
Hugo n 1996 Blue Mars
HNom NNom nv 1986 Escape from Kathmandu
Hugo NNom n 1993 Green Mars
This is *not* an expansion of the novella of
the same name, but a separate work which is a direct sequel to 'Red
Mars'.
HNom nv 1985 Green Mars
n Icehenge
Three interlocking but independent stories
HNom nv 1987 Mother Goddess of the World
HNom Neb n 1992 Red Mars
HNom Neb nv 1987 The Blind Geometer
NNom nt 1984 The Lucky Strike
NNom n 1984 The Wild Shore
HNom nv 1982 To Leave a Mark
NNom s 1981 Venice Drowned
NNom s 1992 Vinland the Dream
Recommended by mlo
Robinson, Spider
Hugo nv 1976 By Any Other Name
HNom s 1977 Dog Day Evening
Hugo s 1982 Melancholy Elephants
Robinson, Spider and Jeanne
Hugo Neb nv 1977 Stardance
Rocklynne, Ross
[a,f] nt 1940 Into the Darkness
[e] nt 1942 Jackdaw
Recommended by arl
[d,f] s 1940 Quietus
s 1938 The Men in the Mirror
Recommended by arl
[a,f] nv 1941 Time Wants a Skeleton
Rogers, Bruce Holland
Neb nt 1995 Lifeboat on a Burning Sea
NNom s 1996 These Shoes Strangers Have Died Of
Rohmer, Sax
n 1913 The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
Rosenblum, Mary
HNom nv 1996 Gas Fish
Rothman, Milton A.
[a,f] s 1939 Heavy Planet
Rotsler, William
HNom NNom nt 1972 Patron of the Arts
Rucker, Rudy
[g] s 1983 Message Found in a Copy of Flatland
n 1990 The Hollow Earth
Recommended by arl
[Pf] n 1980 White Light
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn
NNom nt 1990 A Time for Every Furpose
NNom nt 1989 Fast Cars
NNom s 1990 Story Child
HNom NNom nv 1991 The Gallery of His Dreams
Rushdie, Salman
[Pf] n 1975 Grimus
n 1980 Midnight's Children
Recommended by dgg
Russ, Joanna
NNom n 1970 And Chaos Died
NNom nt 1982 Mystery of the Young Gentleman
[g] s 1972 Nobody's Home
NNom n 1968 Picnic on Paradise
NNom nt 1971 Poor Man, Beggar Man
Hugo NNom nv 1982 Souls
NNom s 1979 The Extraordinary Voyages of Amelie Bertrand
NNom [Psf] n 1975 The Female Man
NNom nt 1970 The Second Inquisition
HNom Neb s 1972 When It Changed
Classic Planet Stories yarn turned inside out
-- arl
Russell, Eric Frank
[a,c] nv 1951 ...And Then There Were None
Incorporated in "The Great Explosion"
A classic -- mlo
Hugo [f] s 1955 Allamagoosa
[a,e,f] nt 1950 Dear Devil
[a] n 1948 Dreadful Sanctuary
[f] s 1952 Fast Falls the Eventide
[a,b,f] nt 1947 Hobbyist
[f] s 1941 Jay Score
Incorporated in Men, Martians and Machines
[a,b,f] nv 1948 Late Night Final
[i] c 1955 Men, Martians and Machines
A collection
[a] nv 1946 Metamorphosite
[b] s 0 Minor Ingredient
[a,i] n 1939 Sinister Barrier
[a,d,f] nt 1943 Symbiotica
Incorporated in "Men, Martians and Machines"
n 1962 The Great Explosion
A fix-up novel
nv 1959 The Space Willies
Also titled "Plus X" and "Next of Kin".
Hilarious -- po & mlo
[i] n 1957 Wasp
A lot of fun -- mlo
Russell, Mary Doria
n 1996 The Sparrow
The best book of the year and it didn't even
get nominated. A superb First Contact novel. -- mlo
Ryan, Thomas P.
[i] n Adolescence of P1
Ryman, Geoff
NNom nv 1993 Fan
NNom [Pf] nv 1987 The Unconquered Country
Saberhagen, Fred
n 1992 A Question of Time
Recommended by po
[i] se 0 Berserker Series
n 1982 Dominion
[i] n 1973 Empire of the East
A trilogy (The Broken Lands, xx and xx) begun
in 1968
[f] s 1963 Fortress Ship
HNom s 1966 Mr. Jester
Sallis, James
NNom s 1970 The Creation of Bennie Good
Sarban
[Pf] n 1952 The Sound of His Horn
Sargent, Pamela
HNom Neb nt 1992 Danny Goes to Mars
Saunders, Jake
NNom s 1976 Back to the Stone Age
Sawyer, Robert J.
NNom n 1996 Starplex
HNom Neb n 1995 The Terminal Experiement / Hobson's
Choice
Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann
Neb n 1989 The Healer's War
Schachner, Nat
[e] nv 1938 The Ultimate Metal
Great combination of speculation and purple
prose -- arl
Schenck, Hilbert
n 1982 A Rose for Armageddon
n 1981 At the Eye of the Ocean
n 1988 Chronosequence
Recommended by po & mlo
HNom nv 1983 Hurricane Claude
[g] s 1984 Send Me a Kiss by Wire
[j] s 1984 Silicon Muse
Recommended by arl
HNom NNom nv 1979 The Battle of the Abaco Reef
HNom NNom s 1983 The Geometry of Narrative
[g] nt 1978 The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck
Schmitz, James H.
n 1960 Agent of Vega
Classic space opera. A fix-up novel
s 1965 Balanced Ecology
nt 1965 Goblin Night
An early Telzey story
nv 0 Gone Fishing
[a,f] s 1955 Grandpa
s 1968 Just Curious
Recommended by mlo
HNom nv 1961 Lion Loose
nt 1962 Novice
The first Telzey story. Recommended by mlo
n 1962 Tale of Two Clocks, A
Also titled "Legacy"
Recommended by mlo
nt 1968 The Custodians
Recommended by mlo
n 1968 The Demon Breed
Recommended by mlo
[a] nt 1951 The End of the Line
[j] nt 1960 The Second Night of Summer
Part of "Agent of Vega". Probably the best part
-- arl & mlo
nt 1964 The Universe Against Her
An early Telzey story
[i] n 1966 The Witches of Karres
Superb! -- mlo
[a,b,c,f] nt 1949 The Witches of Karres
Expanded into novel of the same name
Schoenfeld, Howard
[a] 1949 Built Up Logically
Scholz, Carter
HNom NNom nt 1977 The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van
Beethoven and Other Lost Songs
Scott, Melissa
n 1985 Five-Twelfths of Heaven
Shaara, Michael
[g] s 1956 2066: Election Day
[This is not in Hartwell]
[a] nt 1952 Orphans of the Void
Sharkey, Jack
[f] s 1959 Multum in Parvo
Shaver, Richard S.
HNom nv 1945 I Remember Lemuria
Pretty awful, but important in its day -- mlo
Shaw, Bob
NNom [g] s 1966 Light of Other Days
[Psf] n 1975 Orbitsville
nv 1976 The Gianconda Caper
Recommended by kp & kb
[Psf] n 1969 The Palace of Eternity
HNom n 1986 The Ragged Astronauts
Shea, Michael
[Pf] n 1982 Nifft the Lean
Recommended by kp
NNom nt 1979 The Angel of Death
HNom NNom nt 1980 The Autopsy
Sheckley, Robert
[f] s 1952 Cost of Living
n 1969 Dimension of Miracles
Recommended by po
[g] s 1957 Ghost V
[Psf] n 1963 Journey Beyond Tomorrow
n 1966 Mindswap
Recommended by po
[a] nt 1953 Shape
[f] s 1952 The Impacted Man
[f] s 1958 The Prize of Peril
[f] s 1959 The World of Heart's Desire
HNom n 1958 Time Killer
Also titled "Immortality Delivered" and
"Immortality, Inc."
[a,f] s 1953 Warm
nt 1953 Watchbird
Recommended by arl
Sheffield, Charles
HNom nt 1990 A Braver Thing
Hugo Neb nt 1993 Georgia on My Mind
HNom s 1990 Godspeed
Sheffield, Charles and David Bischoff
n 1982 The Selkie
Scary, nasty, erotic contemporary piece -- po
Sheldon, Alice
ps See pseudonyms James Tiptree, Jr. and Raccoona
Sheldon
Sheldon, Raccoona
ps Pseudonym of Alice Sheldon
See stories under James Tiptree, Jr.
Shelley, Mary
[i,k] n 1818 Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
Shepard, Lucius
NNom nv 1984 A Traveler's tale
NNom nt 1986 Aymara
Hugo NNom nv 1992 Barnacle Bill the Spacer
n 1987 Life During Wartime
NNom nt 1984 Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule
HNom Neb nv 1986 R&R
NNom s 1984 Salvador
HNom nv 1989 The Father of Stones
NNom nt 1985 The Jaguar Hunter
HNom NNom nv 1988 The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter
Shepard, Lucius and Robert Frazier
NNom nt 1991 The All-Consuming
Sherred, T. L.
[a,b,c,e,f] nt 1947 E for Effort
Shiner, Lewis
NNom n 1988 Deserted Cities of the Heart
NNom n 1984 Frontera
Shiras, Wilmar H.
[i] nt 1953 Children of the Atom
Fixup novel
[a,c,f] nt 1948 In Hiding
Incorporated in "Children of the Atom"
Shute, Nevile
[a] n 1940 An Old Captivity
n 1957 On the Beach
Shwartz, Susan
NNom nt 1991 Getting Real
NNom nt 1990 Loose Cannon
HNom NNom nt 1992 Suppose They Gave a Peace...
NNom s 1987 Temple to a Minor Goddess
n 1992 The Grail of Hearts
Recommended by po
Silverberg, Robert
nv 1992 A Long Night's Vigil at the Temple
Recommended by mlo
HNom Neb n 1971 A Time of Changes
c Alpha series
An excellent reprint anthology series
HNom Neb nv 1974 Born with the Dead
[Psf] n 1970 Downward to the Earth
HNom NNom n 1972 Dying Inside
Hugo NNom nt 1989 Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another
Hugo NNom nv 1986 Gilgamesh in the Outback
Best of the overdone 'Heroes in Hell' series --
jr
Neb s 1971 Good News from the Vatican
HNom NNom nv 1967 Hawksbill Station
NNom nv 1983 Homefaring
HNom n 1980 Lord Valentine's Castle
Hugo NNom [i] nv 1968 Nightwings
HNom s 1980 Our Lady of the Sauropods
HNom Neb s 1969 Passengers
n 1964 Regan's Planet
HNom Neb nv 1985 Sailing to Byzantium
HNom s 1974 Schwartz Between the Galaxies
a 1970 SF Hall of Fame Vol 1
HNom NNom n 1976 Shadrach in the Furnace
n 1986 Star of Gypsies
Recommended by po
s? 1969 Sundance
Recommended by dgg
HNom NNom [i] n 1972 The Book of Skulls
s? 1972 The Feast of St. Dionysus
recommended by David Grubb
[a] nt 1958 The Iron Chancellor
c 1981 The Majipoor Chronicles
Recommended by po. Nearly a fixup novel.
[i] n 1969 The Man in the Maze
NNom n 1968 The Masks of Time
[f] s 1963 The Pain Peddlers
NNom s 1982 The Pope of the Chimps
HNom NNom nv 1987 The Secret Sharer
HNom n 1975 The Stochastic Man
HNom n 1971 The World Inside
Nominated, but withdrawn from Hugo competition
by Silverberg
HNom nv 1970 The World Outside
HNom NNom n 1967 Thorns
HNom NNom nv 1969 To Jorslem
HNom NNom n 1970 Tower of Glass
HNom NNom n 1969 Up the Line
HNom s 1972 When We Went to See the End of the World
[f] s 1957 World of a Thousand Colors
Simak, Clifford D.
HNom n 1972 A Choice of Gods
[f] nt 1959 A Death in the House
[a] nt 1947 Aesop
nt 1960 All the Traps of Earth
[i] c 1952 City
[a,f] nt 1944 City
Included in collection of same name
HNom s 1973 Construction Shack
[a,e,f,g,j] s 1944 Desertion
Included in "City"
[a,b,f] s 1949 Eternity Lost
HNom n 1968 Goblin Reservation
[a,c,f] s 1944 Huddling Place
Incorporated in "City"
nt 1954 Immigrant
[f] nt 1963 New Folks' Home
A pastoral
Recommended by mlo
[b] nv 1944 Ogre
HNom n 1981 Project Pope
[Psf] n 1953 Ring Around the Sun
HNom s 1971 The Autumn Land
Hugo [c,f] nt 1958 The Big Front Yard
nt 1974 The Birch Clump Cylinder
Hugo Neb s 1980 The Grotto of the Dancing Deer
nt 1974 The Marathon Photograph
HNom NNom nv 1970 The Thing in the Stone
[a] n 1951 Time and Again
HNom n 1961 Time Is the Simplest Thing
Original title "The Fisherman"
Hugo [i,Psf] n 1963 Way Station
Originally titled "Here Gather the Stars"
A personal favorite -- mlo
Simmons, Dan
Hugo n 1989 Hyperion
HNom NNom n 1990 The Fall of Hyperion
Sinclair, Andrew
[Pf] n 1967 Gog
Siodmak, Curt
[a] n 1942 Donovan's Brain
Not the movie novelization, the original novel
-- jr
Sladek, John
[Psf] n 1980 Roderick
recommended by dgg
[Psf] c 1983 Roderick at Random
[g] s 1988 Stop Evolution in Its Tracks!
Sleator, William
n 1974 House of Stairs
Recommended by po
Slesar, Henry
[f] s 1960 Chief
Smeds, Dave
NNom s 1994 Short Timer
Smith, Cordwainer
[f] nt 1961 A Planet Named Shayol
nt 1961 Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
Recommended by mlo
s 1963 Drunkboat
nt 1961 Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons
Recommended by mlo
[f,g] nt 1959 No, No, Not Rogov!
[i,Psf] n 1975 Norstrilia
[a,c,f] nt 1948 Scanners Live in Vain
Earliest cyberpunk stpry -- arl
[c,f,j] nv 1962 The Ballad of Lost C'mell
[f] s 1958 The Burning of the Brain
nv 1964 The Dead Lady of Clown Town
A personal favorite -- mlo. The best title in
sf & a good story, too -- po
[a,f] s 1955 The Game of Rat and Dragon
[f] nt 1960 The Lady Who Sailed the Soul
HNom n 1964 The Planet Buyer
Original title: "The Boy Who Bought Old Earth"
s 1963 Think Blue, Count Two
Recommended by po
Smith, Dean Wesley
NNom s 1996 In the Shade of the Slowboat Man
Smith, Edward E.
Edward E. Smith, Ph.D., was one of the founders of modern SF. His
Skylark of Space series was the first real space opera. Skylark and the
later Lensman series had enormous influence in the field. None of this
influence was due to Doc Smith's writing skill: he was, even by the
standards of the day, a mediocre writer. By today's standards his books
would probably be considered unpublishable. His deserved reputation
rests on the pioneering nature of his writing, his personality -- he
was beloved by everyone in the field -- and on the vitality of his
storytelling. Read these books to enjoy them and to see where it all
began.
[i] se 0 "Lensmen Series"
Quintessential Space Opera! -- mlo
se 0 "Skylark" series
Nearly unreadable, but seminal to the field.
You should try to read it! -- mlo
n 1954 Children of the Lens
Lensman #6
n 1950 First Lensman
Lensman #3
n 1950 Galactic Patrol
Lensman #2
n 1951 Grey Lensman
Seminal but bad (though not as bad as Skylark).
Lensman #4
n 1953 Second Stage Lensman
Lensman #5
HNom n 1965 Skylark DuQuesne
The last "Skylark" story and the only thing
written by the beloved Doc Smith eligible for nomination for a Hugo.
n 1930 Skylark of Three
Skylark #2
n 1935 Skylark of Valeron
Skylark #3
n 1928 The Skylark of Space
The first book of the "Skylark" series and the
very first space opera! Seminal but awful -- read it anyway! -- mlo
n 1948 Triplanetary
Lensman #1
Smith, George O.
[a] nt 1943 Lost Art
[a,f] nt 1942 QRM-Interplanetary
Incorporated in "Venus Equilateral"
[i] c 1947 Venus Equilateral
Collection of all the "Venus Equilateral"
stories except the last one in the Campbell Memorial Anthology
Smith, Thorne
[k] n 1931 Night Life of the Gods
n 1926 Topper
[k] n 1931 Turnabout
More a 30s comedy than fantasy, but contains a
distinct fantastic element - - mlo
Sohl, Jerry
n 1953 Costigan's Needle
Recommended by arl
Somtow, S. P.
ps Pseudonym of Somtow Sucharitkul
Soukup, Martha
Neb s 1994 A Defense of the Social Contract
HNom NNom s 1991 Dog's Life
HNom nt 1990 Over the Long Haul
HNom s 1992 The Arbitrary Placement of Walls
HNom s 1993 The Story So Far
NNom nt 1992 Things Not Seen
Spinrad, Norman
NNom [j] s 1973 A Thing of Beauty
HNom NNom [Psf] n 1969 Bug Jack Barron
s? 1967 Carcinoma Angels
recommended by David Grubb
HNom NNom nv 1988 Journals of the Plague Years
s 1964 Last of the Romany
Recommended by arl
HNom nv 1974 Riding the Torch
Excellent! -- arl & mlo
NNom nt 1969 The Big Flash
n 1972 The Iron Dream
nt The Lost Continent
Recommended by jcook@aaas.org
1967 The Men in the Jungle
NNom n 1983 The Void Captain's Tale
Springer, Nancy
HNom NNom s 1986 The Boy Who Plaited Manes
St. Clair, Margaret
[f] s 1956 Horrer Howce
[a] s 1954 Short in the Chest
Stableford, Brian
nt 1992 Complications
Recommended by arl
HNom NV 1994 Les Fleurs Du Mal
NNom nv 1995 Mortimer Gray's History of Death
[Psf] n 1979 The Walking Shadow
Stallman, Robert
NNom n 1980 The Orphan
Stanton, Mary
n 1988 The Heavenly Horse from the Uttermost West
Recommended by po
Stapledon, Olaf
[i] n 1931 Last & First Men
[i] n 1935 Odd John
[a] n 1944 Sirius
n 1937 Star Maker
Recommended by mlo
Steele, Allen
Hugo NNom nv 1995 The Death of Captain Future
HNom nt 1995 The Good Rat
Stephensen, Neal
Hugo NNom n 1995 The Diamond Age
Sterling, Bruce
HNom nt 1996 Bicycle Repairman
NNom nt 1983 Cicada Queen
HNom nt 1993 Deep Eddy
HNom s 1985 Dinner in Audoghast
HNom NNom s 1989 Dori Bangs
HNom NNom nt 1987 Flowers of Edo
NNom nv 1985 Green Days in Brunei
HNom n 1996 Holy Fire
HNom n 1988 Islands in the Net
HNom s 1988 Our Neural Chernobyl
NNom n 1985 Schismatrix
HNom s 1982 Spider Rose
NNom s 1984 Sunken Gardens
HNom NNom [j] nt 1982 Swarm
n The Artificial Kid
Probably the first cyberpunk novel - jds
Stevenson, Robert Louis
[i,k] nv 1886 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevermer, Caroline
n 1994 A College of Magics
Recommended by mlo
Stewart, George R.
[a,i,Psf] n 1949 Earth Abides
Stewart, Mary
n 1970 The Crystal Cave
Recommended by po
n 1973 The Hollow Hills
Recommended by po
Stewart, W. Gregory
NNom s 1991 The button, and what you know
[Check capitalization]
Stith, John E.
NNom n 1990 Redshift Rendezvous
Stockton, Frank
n 1889 The Great War Syndicate
nv The Lady or the Tiger
Recommended by jr
Stoker, Bram
[i,k] n 1897 Dracula
Strete, Craig
The Squaw
NNom s 1975 Time Deer
Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris
[g] nv 1984 Way to Amalteia
Stuart, Don A.
ps Pseudonym of John W. Campbell, Jr.
Sturgeon, Theodore
[a] nv 1953 ...And My Fear Is Great
[a,f] s 1953 A Saucer of Loneliness
[a] nt 1953 A Way of Thinking
[f] s 1956 And Now the News...
[a,c] nv 1952 Baby Is Three
Incorporated into "More Than Human"
[a] s 1947 Bianca's Hands
[a] nt 1955 Bulkhead
[f] nt 1940 Butyl and the Breather
NNom nt 1973 Case and the Dreamer
[f] s 1939 Ether Breather
[a,l] nv 1954 Golden Helix
[a] nv 1954 Granny Won't Knit
NNom nv 1967 If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One
Marry Your Sister?
[a,f] nt 1940 It
[a,e,f] nv 1944 Killdozer!
[a] nt 1947 Maturity
[f] s 1946 Memorial
[a,e,f] nt 1946 Mewhu's Jet
[a,c,f] nt 1941 Microcosmic God
[a,i,Psf] n 1953 More Than Human
A fix-up novel
[a] s 1953 Mr. Costello, Hero
HNom nt 1960 Need
[g] s 1971 Occam's Scalpel
[a] nt 1951 Rule of Three
[f] nt 1941 Shottle Bop
Hugo Neb nt 1970 Slow Sculpture
[a] nv 1955 The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff
[a] nt 1946 The Chromium Helmet
[a,i] n 1950 The Dreaming Jewels
[f,g] s 1949 The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast
NNom s 1969 The Man Who Learned Loving
HNom [f,g] nt 1959 The Man Who Lost the Sea
[a] nv 1948 The Perfect Host
[a,f] s 1953 The World Well Lost
[a,b,f] s 1947 Thunder and Roses
[f] nt 1947 Tiny and the Monster
[a] nv 1954 To Here and the Easel
[a] s 1955 Twink
HNom [Psf] n 1960 Venus Plus X
HNom [f] nt 1962 When You Care, When You Love
[a] nt 1955 When You're Smiling
[f] nt 1955 Who?
Sucharitkul, Somtow
HNom s 1981 Absent Thee from Felicity a While
HNom nt 1982 Aquila
Sullivan, Timothy Robert
NNom s 1981 Zeke
Swann, Thomas Burnett
HNom [Pf] n 1966 Day of the Minotaur
n 1974 How Are the Mighty Fallen
Recommended by po
n 1968 Moondust
Recommended by po
n 1977 Queens Walk in the Dusk
n 1971 The Forest of Forever
Recommended by po
HNom nt 1966 The Manor of Roses
HNom [l] nt 1962 Where Is the Bird of Fire?
Swanwick, Michael
NNom nv 1993 Cold Iron
NNom nt 1980 Ginnungagap
HNom nv 1991 Griffin's Egg
In the Drift
Recommended by po
NNom nv 1984 Marrow Death
NNom nt 1981 Mummer Kiss
HNom Neb n 1991 Stations of the Tide
HNom s 1996 The Dead
HNom s 1989 The Edge of the World
NNom nt 1980 The Feast of St. Janis
NNom nt 1984 Trojan Horse
n 1987 Vacuum Flowers
Recommended by mlo
HNom s 1995 Walking Out
Swanwick, Michael and William Gibson
HNom NNom nt 1985 Dogfight
Swift, Jonathan
[i,k] n 1726 Gulliver's Travels
Sykes, S. C.
NNom nt 1985 Rockabye Baby
Taine, John
[f] nt 1939 The Ultimate Catalyst
Tall, Stephen
ps Pseudonym of Compton Crook
HNom s 1971 The Bear with a Knot on His Tail
Included in 'The Stardust Voyages'
n 1975 The Stardust Voyages
Fix-up novel
Tanner, Charles R.
nv 1931 Tumithak of the Corridors
Important for its day -- mlo
Tarr, Judith
n 1989 A Wind in Cairo
Minor, but fun -- po
n 1992 Lord of the Two Lands
An excellent historial fantasy -- mlo
n 1995 Pillar of Fire
A brilliant historical novel which is just
barely a fantasy, too -- mlo
Taylor, Robert
NNom s 1968 Idiot's Mate
Temple, William F.
[a,f] nt 1939 The Four-Sided Triangle
Tenn, William
[f] nt 1963 Bernie the Faust
[a] s 1951 Betelgeuse Bridge
[a,f] s 1948 Brooklyn Project
[a,b,e,f] s 1947 Child's Play
[a,f] nt 1954 Down Among the Dead Men
Great story -- arl
[a,h] nv 1952 Firewater
[f] s 1951 Null-P
n 1968 Of Men and Monsters
Recommended by po
[a] nt 1954 Party of the Two Parts
[a,f] s 1953 The Liberation of Earth
[f] nt 1959 The Malted Milk Monster
[a] nt 1949 Venus and the Seven Sexes
nt 1957 Winthrop Was Stubborn
Recommended by po. AKA "Time Waits for Winthrop"
Tennant, Emma
[Pf] n 1976 Hotel de Dream
Tensei, Kono
[g] s 1982 Triceratops
Tepper, Sheri S.
HNom n 1989 Grass
s 1988 Marianne, the Madame and the Momentary Gods
Recommended by po.
n 1989 Marianne, the Matchbox and the Malachite Mouse
n 0 The Awakener
Recommended by po.
n 1988 The Gate to Women's Country
Recommended by po.
n 1985 The Song of Mavin Manyshaped
Recommended by po.
Tevis, Walter
NNom n 1980 Mockingbird
Thomas, Theodore L.
NNom s 1967 The Doctor
[f,g] nt 1962 The Weather Man
Thompson, W. R.
HNom s 1990 VRM-547
Tiptree Jr., James
ps Pseudonym of Alice Sheldon
NNom nv 1975 A Momentary Taste of Being
HNom NNom s 1972 And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the
Cold Hill's Side
nt 1969 Beam Us Home
Yes! -- po
s 1989 Color of .... Eyes
Recommended by jr
s? 1974 Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
Hugo Neb nv 1976 Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
NNom nt 1981 Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo
HNom Neb s 1973 Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death
HNom nt 1972 Painwise
HNom s 1982 The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever
Hugo NNom nv 1973 The Girl Who Was Plugged In
NNom s 1969 The Last Flight of Dr. Ain
HNom NNom nv 1985 The Only Neat Thing to Do
[g] s 1976 The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things
to Rats
HNom Neb [j] nt 1977 The Screwfly Solution
Recommended by arl
HNom s 1977 Time-Sharing Angel
HNom n 1978 Up the Walls of the World
Tolkien, J. R. R.
[a] nv 1949 Farmer Giles of Ham
nt 1947 Leaf by Niggle
nf 1939 On Fairy-Stories
[k,Pf] n 1952 The Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings #1
[i] n 1937 The Hobbit
[k,i] n 1954 The Lord of the Rings
Published in three volumes
the progenitor of most modern fantasy and still the best ever written
-- mlo
[k,Pf] n 1954 The Return of the King
Lord of the Rings #3
n 1977 The Silmarillion
[k,Pf] n 1953 The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings #2
Treece, Henry
n 1966 The Green Man
Recommended by arl
Tubb, E. C.
n 1957 Alien Dust
Recommended by arl
Tuck, Donald
nf Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy
In three volumes the first comprehensive
encyclopedia of the field. It took 15 years to publish.
Hugo nf 1983 Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy,
vol III
Tucker, Wilson
n 1974 Ice and Iron
Recommended by arl
n 1958 The Lincoln Hunters
n 1952 The Long Loud Silence
Recommended by arl
[a] s 1951 The Tourist Trade
n 1954 Wild Talent
Recommended by po.
HNom NNom [Psf] n 1970 Year of the Quiet Sun
Turner, George
NNom n 1988 Drowning Towers
[g] nt 1978 In a Petri Dish Upstairs
Turtledove, Harry
After the Last Elf is Dead
Nasty! -- mlo
nt 1986 And So to Bed
Hugo nv 1993 Down in the Bottomlands
n 1992 Guns of the South
An excellent alternate history novel -- mlo
s 1984 Hindsight
HNom NNom nt 1995 Must and Shall
nt 1985 The Road Not Taken
A fascinating retelling of Anvil's "Pandora's
Planet" -- mlo
Tuttle, Lisa
NNom s 1976 Stone Circle
Neb s 1982 The Bone Flute
Tutuola, Amos
[a] n 1953 Palm Wine Drunkard
Twain, Mark
[i] n 1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
[i] n 0 Letters from Earth
1916 The Mysterious Stranger
Updike, John
[g] s 1983 The Chaste Planet
[Pf] n 1984 The Witches of Eastwick
Utley, Steven and Howard Waldrop
NNom nt 1976 Custer's Last Jump
van Ewyck, Annemarie
[g] s 1984 The Lens
van Loggem, Manuel
[g] s 1974 Pairpuppets
Van Scyoc, Sydney
n 1971 Saltflower
Recommended by arl
Van Vogt, A. E.
[a,d,f] nv 1942 Asylum
[d,f] nt 1939 Black Destroyer
Incorporated in 'Voyage of the Space Beagle'
[f] nt 1942 Cooperate -- Or Else!
Incorporated in "The War Against the Rull"
[a,f] s 1948 Dormant
n 1956 Empire of the Atom
'I, Claudius', revisited -- mlo
[a,f] s 1950 Enchanted Village
[a,f] nt 1944 Far Centaurus
Excellent idea story -- mlo
[f] s 1950 Process
nv 1942 Secret Unattainable
[a,i] n 1940 Slan
[k,Pf] n 1947 The Book of Ptath
HNom nt 1945 The Mixed Men
[f] s 1948 The Monster
[f] nt 1941 The Seesaw
Incorporated into 'The Weapon Shops of Isher'
[f] nt 1943 The Storm
[i] n 1963 The Voyage of the Space Beagle
A fix-up novel
n 1959 The War Against the Rull
A fix-up novel
Recommended by mlo
n 1947 The Weapon Makers
[a,c,d,f] nt 1942 The Weapon Shop
n 1951 The Weapon Shops of Isher
Sequel to 'Empire of the Atom', but not as good
-- mlo
n 1962 The Wizard of Linn
HNom [a,i] n 1945 The World of Null-A
[b,f] s 1940 Vault of the Beast
Vance, Jack
HNom nv 1974 Assault on a City
n 1952 Big Planet
Recommended by mlo
n 1969 Emphyrio
Recommended by mlo
s 1963 Green Magic
Recommended by mlo
NNom n 1983 Lyonesse
n 1996 Night Lamp
Quintessential Vance -- mlo
[a] nv 1952 Telek
n 1981 The Book of Dreams
Demon Princes #5
Hugo nt 1962 The Dragon Masters
[a,i,k,Pf] n 1950 The Dying Earth
[Pf] n 1965 The Eyes of the Overworld
Recommended by kp
n 1979 The Face
Demon Princes #4
[a] nt 1955 The Gift of Gab
n 1964 The Killing Machine
Demon Princes #2
n 1957 The Languages of Pao
Recommended by mlo
Hugo Neb nv 1966 The Last Castle
HNom nt 1958 The Miracle-Workers
[c,f] nv 1961 The Moon Moth
n 1964 The Palace of Love
Demon Princes #3
nt 1950 The Potters of Firsk
Recommended by mlo
n 1964 The Star King
Demon Princes #1
Varley, Jack
s 1986 The Unprocessed Word
Recommended by arl
Varley, John
HNom NNom s 1977 Air Raid
Written as Herb Boehm
HNom NNom nt 1980 Beatnik Bayou
HNom nv 1981 Blue Champagne
HNom nt 1976 Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance
NNom nt 1976 In the Bowl
HNom nv 1977 In the Hall of the Martian Kings
HNom n 1983 Millennium
HNom NNom nt 1979 Options
Hugo Neb nv 1984 Press Enter []
NNom nt 1975 Retrograde Summer
HNom n 1992 Steel Beach
HNom nt 1978 The Barbie Murders
[Psf] n 1977 The Ophiuchi Hotline
Hugo Neb nv 1978 The Persistence of Vision
HNom [g] nt 1976 The Phantom of Kansas
Hugo NNom s 1981 The Pusher
HNom NNom n 1979 Titan
HNom n 1980 Wizard
Vercors,
HNom n 1961 Sylva
Verne, Jules
[i] n 1870 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
n 1873 Around the World in Eighty Days
n 1862 Five Weeks in a Balloon
[i] n 1865 From the Earth to the Moon
[g] s In the Year 2889
[i] n 1863 Journey to the Center of the Earth
n The Mysterious Island
Vian, Boris
[g] s 1955 The Dead Fish
Vidal, Gore
NNom n 1978 Kalki
[a] n 1954 Messiah
Vinge, Joan D.
Hugo nt 1977 Eyes of Amber
HNom NNom nv 1978 Fireship
Hugo NNom [i] n 1980 The Snow Queen
HNom n 1991 The Summer Queen
nt 1974 The Tin Soldier
Recommended by po
HNom s 1978 View from a Height
n 1984 World's End
A very interesting middle-of-series item -- po
Vinge, Vernor
Hugo n 1992 A Fire Upon the Deep
[g] nv 1966 Bookworm Run!
nt 1968 Grimm's Story
Included in 'Grimm's World'
HNom n 1986 Marooned in Real Time
nt 1970 Original Sin
Recommended by mlo
HNom nt 1986 The Barbarian Princess
Included in 'Grimm's World'
n 1984 The Peace War
Recommended by mlo
HNom NNom nv 1981 True Names
Volsky, Paula
n 1992 Illusion
Recommended by po
Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
HNom [Psf] n 1963 Cat's Cradle
n 1965 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
[g] s 1961 Harrison Bergeron
n 1952 Player Piano
[a] s 1950 Report on the Barnhouse Effect
HNom NNom n 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five
[a] s 1954 The Big Trip Up Yonder
HNom [i,Psf] n 1959 The Sirens of Titan
[a] s 1953 Unready to Wear
Waldrop, Howard
NNom nv 1989 A Dozen Tough Jobs
HNom NNom nt 1988 Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance
HNom nt 1991 Fin de Cycle
HNom NNom s 1985 Flying Saucer Rock and Roll
NNom s 1982 God's Hooks
NNom s 1985 Heirs of the Perisphere
HNom s 1982 Ike at the Mike
NNom s 1976 Mary Margaret Road-Grader
HNom s 1987 Night of the Cooters
NNom s 1986 The Lions Are Asleep This Night
HNom Neb nt 1980 The Ugly Chickens
Wallace, F. L.
[a,f] nv 1952 Delay in Transit
[a] nt 1953 Student Body
Wallace, Ian
n 1955 Address Centauri
Recommended by arl
n 1967 Croyd
Recommended by arl
Walling, William
HNom nt 1974 Nix Olympica
Walpole, Horace
[k] n 1765 Castle of Otranto
The great granddaddy of the gothic
Walton, Evangeline
n 1936 The Island of the Mighty
AKA 'The Virgin and the Swine'
Wandrei, Donald
nt 1934 Colossus
Recommended by arl
Warner Jr., Harry
Hugo nf 1992 A Wealth of Fable
Excellent history of SF fandom in the 50's --
mlo
nf 1969 All Our Yesterdays
Classic history of SF fandom in the 40's -- mlo
Watkins, William John
NNom s 1993 The Beggar in the Living Room
Watson, Ian
[Psf] n 1978 Miracle Visitors
HNom NNom nt 1983 Slow Birds
[Psf] n 1973 The Embedding
HNom [g] s 1978 The Very Slow Time Machine
Watt-Evans, Lawrence
nv 1992 The Rebirth of Wonder
Recommended by arl
Hugo NNom s 1987 Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers
Wei, Vahua
nt 1984 Conjugal Happiness in the Arms of Morpheus
Recommended by arl
Weinbaum, Stanley G.
[c,j] nt 1934 A Martian Odyssey
nv 1938 The Black Flame
Recommended by arl
n 1939 The New Adam
Wellman, Manly Wade
HNom s 1958 Nine Yards of Other Cloth
[a] n 1938 The Dark Destroyers
[a] s 1955 Walk Like a Mountain
Wells, H. G.
Men Like Gods
The Door in the Wall
Recommended by pt
n 1901 The First Men in the Moon
n 1903 The Food of the Gods
The Glass Egg
[i] n 1897 The Invisible Man
nv 1896 The Island of Dr. Moreau
[g,j] nv 1903 The Land Ironclads
s 1901 The New Accelerator
The Shape of Things to Come
s 1897 The Star
[c,i] nv 1895 The Time Machine
[i] n 1898 The War of the Worlds
[i] n 1898 When the Sleeper Wakes
Whelan, Michael
Hugo nf 1987 Michael Whelan's Works of Wonder
White, James
HNom s 1996 Un-Birthday Boy
White, James A.
[f] nt 1962 Christmas Treason
HNom s 1976 Custom Fitting
[i] a 1962 Hospital Station
HNom n 1961 Second Ending
[i] n 1963 Star Surgeon
[a] nt 1954 The Conspirators
White, T. H.
[i,k,Pf] n 1958 The Once and Future King
n 1937 The Sword in the Stone
Included in 'The Once and Future King'
Wilde, Oscar
[k] nt 1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilder, Cherry
n 1977 The Luck of Brin's Five
Fine YA fantasy -- po
Wilhelm, Kate
HNom nt 1974 A Brother to Dragons, a Companion to Owls
NNom s 1970 A Cold Dark Night With Snow
NNom nv 1970 April Fool's Day Forever
NNom nt 1967 Baby, You Were Great
NNom nt 1971 Encounter
HNom Neb s 1987 Forever Yours, Anna
HNom NNom s 1994 I Know What You're Thinking
NNom [Psf] n 1979 Juniper Time
NNom n 1971 Margaret and I
NNom n 1992 Naming the Flowers
NNom nt 1972 The Funeral
Neb nt 1986 The Girl Who Fell Into the Sky
NNom nv 1985 The Gorgon Field
NNom nv 1971 The Infinity Box
[f,l] s 1957 The Mile-Long Spaceship
Neb [g] s 1968 The Planners
NNom nv 1971 The Plastic Abyss
NNom nv 1981 The Winter Beach
Hugo NNom n 1976 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
HNom nv 1981 With Thimbles, With Forks and Hope
Willey, Elizabeth
n 1995 A Sorcerer and a Gentleman
Recommend by mlo
n 1994 The Well-Favored Man
Amber done better -- po
Williams, Charles
[k] n 1930 War in Heaven
Williams, Ralph
[b] s 1958 Business as Usual, During Alterations
HNom nt 1959 Cat and Mouse
Williams, Robert Moore
[a,d] s 1938 Robot's Return
Williams, Tad
n 1985 Tailchaser's Song
Recommended by arl
Williams, Walter Jon
n 1992 Aristoi
One of the best novels in an exceptional year
-- po & mlo
n 1997 City on Fire
recommended by mlo
HNom nt 1987 Dinosaurs
n 1986 Hardwired
n 1985 Knight Moves
Very reminiscent of some of Zelazny's stories,
but better -- mlo
NNom n 1995 Metropolitan
NNom nt 1992 Prayers on the Wind
HNom NNom nv 1988 Surfacing
HNom NNom nv 1993 Wall, Stone, Craft
NNom nv 1987 Witness
Williamson, Jack
nv 1948 ...And Searching Mind
Incorporated in "The Humanoids"
nt 1934 Born of the Sun
Recommended by arl
[a,k,Pf] n 1940 Darker Than You Think
[a] s 1954 Guinivere For Everybody
[a,b,f] s 1940 Hindsight
[a] n 1940 Realm of Wizardry
[a,f] nt 1939 Star Bright
[a,i] n 1948 The Humanoids
n 1935 The Legion of Space
Classic very early space opera
[j] s 1928 The Metal Man
Recommended by arl
[a,c,e,f] nv 1947 With Folded Hands...
Incorporated in "The Humanoids"
Willis, Connie
Neb s 1982 A Letter from the Clearys
s 0 All My Darling Daughters
Recommended by jr
HNom Neb nt 1989 At the Rialto
HNom s 1990 Cibola
HNom s 1979 Daisy, in the Sun
Hugo NNom n 1993 Death on the Nile
Hugo Neb n 1992 Doomsday Book
Hugo Neb s 1992 Even the Queen
Hugo Neb nt 1982 Fire Watch
HNom s 1991 In the Late Cretaceous
HNom NNom nv 1991 Jack
HNom nt 1991 Miracle
HNom n 1995 Remake
NNom nt 1987 Schwarzschild Radius
HNom nv 1986 Spice Pogrom
Hugo Neb nv 1988 The Last of the Winnebagos
HNom NNom nt 1983 The Sidon in the Mirror
HNom s 1996 The Soul Selects Her Own Society
HNom nv 1989 Time-Out
Willis, Walt
nf Warhoon 28
A huge, hardbound 'fanzine' which collects some
of the best fan writing (not fan fiction!) ever written -- mlo
Wilson, F. Paul
NNom nv 1986 Dydeetown Girl
Wilson, Richard
[a] s 1952 Love
[Is this actually *Richard* Wilson?]
HNom Neb nt 1968 Mother to the World
NNom nv 1979 The Story Writer
Wilson, Robert Charles
n 1991 A Bridge of Years
Recommended by po
n 1989 Gypsies
Recommended by po
n 1994 Mysterium
Recommended by po
n 1990 The Divide
Recommended by po
n 1993 The Harvest
Recommended by po
NNom nt 1995 The Perseids
Wolfe, Bernard
[a,Psf] n 1953 Limbo
[a] nt 1951 Self-Portrait
Wolfe, Gene
NNom s 1984 A Cabin on the Coast
NNom s 1972 Against the Lafayette Escadrille
[g] s 1987 All the Hues of Hell
NNom n 1994 Calde of the Long Sun
nt 1984 Detective of Dreams
Recommended by mlo
NNom n 1986 Free Live Free
NNom s 1973 How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn
Back the German Invasion
s 1970 How the Whip Came Back
Recommended by arl
NNom s 1970 Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories
NNom n 1993 Nightside the Long Sun
[Pf] n 1975 Peace
[g] s 1984 Procreation
HNom NNom nv 1978 Seven American Nights
n 1989 Soldier of Arete
NNom n 1987 Soldier of the Mist
NNom [Psf] n 1983 The Citadel of the Autarch
HNom Neb [Psf] n 1981 The Claw of the Conciliator
HNom Neb nv 1973 The Death of Dr. Island
NNom nv 1976 The Eyeflash Miracles
HNom NNom [g,i,Psf] nv 1972 The Fifth Head of Cerberus
NNom [Psf] n 1980 The Shadow of the Torturer
HNom NNom [Psf] n 1982 The Sword of the Lictor
HNom NNom n 1987 The Urth of the New Sun
HNom s 1981 The Woman the Unicorn Loved
NNom s 1980 War Beneath the Trees
s 1976 When I Was Ming the Merciless
Recommended by jr
Wollheim, Donald A.
[f] s 1942 Mimic
[f] s 1954 The Lysenko Maze
Wolverton, Dave
NNom nt 1996 After a Lean Winter
Wrede, Patricia C.
n 1989 Snow White and Rose Red
Recommended by arl
Wrede, Patricia D.
n 1991 Mairelon the Magician
Recommended by po
Wrede, Patricia D. and Caroline Stevermer
n 1988 Sorcerery and Cecelia
Quirky and delightful -- po
Wright, Austin Tappan
n 1942 Islandia
Wright, S. Fowler
[d] s 0 Brain
n 1928 Deluge
Wu, William F.
HNom NNom s 1985 Hong's Bluff
HNom NNom s 1983 Wong's Lost and Found Emporium
Wyndham, John
n 1968 Chocky
Recommended by po
s 1956 Consider Her Ways
Recommended by po
[a,i,Psf] n 1951 Day of the Triffids
[a] n 1953 Out of the Deeps
[i] n 1955 Rebirth
Also titled "The Chrysalids". Really good -- po
[a] nt 1953 The Chronoclasm
[Psf] n 1957 The Midwich Cookoos
nt 1952 The Perfect Creature
Recommended by arl
n 1960 Trouble with Lichen
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn
[Pf] n 1980 Ariosto
Recommended by po
se 0 St. Germain series
A classic vampire series. Recommended by arl
Yefremov, Ivan
nv 1959 Heart of the Serpent
Retelling of Leinster's "First Contact" from a
proper Communist perspective
Yolen, Jane
NNom n 1992 Briar Rose
NNom n 1989 Sister Light, Sister Dark
NNom nv 1988 The Devil's Arithmetic
NNom n 1990 White Jenna
Young, Robert F.
HNom s 1964 Little Dog Gone
Yulsman, Jerry
n 1984 Elleander Morning
Zahn, Timothy
n 1985 A Coming of Age
Recommended by mlo
Hugo nv 1983 Cascade Point
HNom nt 1982 Pawn's Gambit
Zamayatin, Victor
n 1972 "We"
Zebrowski, George
NNom s 1971 Heathen God
NNom s 1984 The Eichmann Variations
Zelazny, Roger
NNom n 1993 A Night in the Lonseome October
HNom [c,f] nt 1963 A Rose for Ecclesiastes
HNom s 1966 Comes Now the Power
n 1969 Creatures of Light and Darkness
Recommended by mlo
HNom nv 1967 Damnation Alley
In perspective, trivial even before rotten
movie -- cjh
HNom n 1975 Doorways in the Sand
HNom nt 1966 For a Breath I Tarry
Neb nv 1965 He Who Shapes
Expanded into 'The Dream Master'
Hugo Neb nv 1975 Home Is the Hangman
NNom n 1969 Isle of the Dead
HNom [Pf] n 1971 Jack of Shadows
s 1989 Loki 7281
Recommended by arl
Hugo NNom n 1967 Lord of Light
n 1970 Nine Princes in Amber
A good, ground-breaking fantasy. The nine (at
least!) sequels went downhill pretty fast -- mlo & cjh
Hugo NNom nt 1986 Permafrost
HNom Neb nt 1965 The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His
Mouth
[Psf] n 1966 The Dream Master
Expanded from 'He Who Shapes'
NNom s 1974 The Engine at Heartspring's Center
NNom nt 1967 The Keys to December
NNom nt 1966 The Moment of the Storm
Hugo n 1965 This Immortal
Originally titled "...And Call Me Conrad"
HNom nt 1966 This Moment of the Storm
NNom nt 1967 This Mortal Mountain
Hugo NNom nv 1985 Twenty-Four Views of Mount Fuji, by
Hokusai
Hugo nt 1981 Unicorn Variation
Zelazny, Roger and Fred Saberhagen
n 1990 The Black Throne
Recommended by arl
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