Thursday, February 26, 2009

Suggested Readings for SF/Fantasy

Early SF
Wells - Island of Doctor Moreau; Invisible Man; The Time Machine
Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Journey to the Center of the Earth
Capeck - War of the Newts
Huxley - Brave New World
Stapleton - Odd John; Last and First Men

Fantasy
Beagle - The last Unicorn
Bradley - The Mists of Avalon
Carroll, J - Outside the Dog Museum; The Marriage of Sticks
Dickson - The Dragon and the George
Goldman - The Princess Bride
Holdstock - Mythago Wood
MacDonald - Lilith
Tolkien - Two Towers; Return of the King; Silmarillion
White - The Once and Future King (any of the four books)

Later SF
Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy (any of the books); The Gods Themselves
Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles; Fahrenheit 451
Bujold - Falling Free
Butler - The Parable of the Sower; The Parable of the Talents
Card - Speaker for the Dead; Xenocide; Children of the Mind; Ender's Shadow; Shadow of the Hegemon; Shadow Puppets; Shadow of the Giant
Clarke - 2001; 2010; Childhood's End
Gibson - Neuromancer
Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land
Herbert - Dune Messiah; Children of Dune
LeGuin - The Dispossessed; Tehanu; THe Tombs of Atuan; A Wizard of Earthsea; The Word for World is Forest
Niven - Ringworld
Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time; He, She and It
Russ - The Female Man