The NESFA Core Reading List of Fantasy and Science Fiction

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] 1884 Flatland

Abernathy, Ralph
 nt 1942 Heritage
   Recommended by arl
[a] nt 1954 Pyramid
[a] 1953 The Rotifers

Ackroyd, Peter
[k,Pf] 1985 Hawksmoor

Adams, Douglas
  Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
   A subtle uchronia. Better SF than Hitchhiker -- cjh
[i] 1979 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the
   Hitchhiker trilogy 1
 1982 Life, the Universe, and Everything
   Hitchhiker trilogy 3. Downhill from the first book -- arl
 1980 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
   Hitchhiker trilogy 2. Downhill from the first -- arl

Adams, Richard
 1974 Shardik
   Better in many ways than Watership Down -- arl
[Pf] 1972 Watership Down

Aldiss, Brian W.
[g] nt 1962 A Kind of Artistry
  An Island Called Moreau
   Recommended by jr
 1969 Barefoot in the Head
 nf 1973 Billion Year Spree
HNom  nv 1978 Enemies of the System
 1973 Frankenstein Unbound
[Psf] 1964 Greybeard
NNom  1982 Heliconia Spring
 1993 Heliconia Summer
NNom  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] 1957 Let's Be Frank
HNom NNom  1966 Man in His Time
[Psf] 1958 Non-Stop
[f] 1958 Poor Little Warrior!
 1958 Starship
[i,Psf] 1962 The Long Afternoon of Earth
   Includes 'Hothouse'
[Pf] 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

 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
  The Astounding-Analog Reader

Aldridge, Mary C.
NNom  1989 The Adinkra Cloth

Aldridge, Ray
NNom  nt 1991 Gate of Faces
NNom  nv 1993 The Beauty Addict

Alexander, Lloyd
 1967 Taran Wanderer
   Part of the 'Prydain' series
 1960 The Black Cauldron
   Part of the 'Prydain' series
 1964 The Book of Three
   Part of the 'Prydain' series
 1966 The Castle of Llyr
   Part of the 'Prydain' series
 1968 The High King
   Part of the 'Prydain' series

Allen, Roger Macbride
 1988 Orphans of Creation
   Recommended by eac
 1990 The Ring of Charon
   A superscience story in the tradition of Campbell's Arcot, Wade and Morey -- arl

Allen, Steve
[g] 1955 The Public Hating

Amis, Kingsley
 nf 1960 New Maps of Hell
[k,Psf] 1976 The Alteration
[k,Pf] 1969 The Green Man

Anderson, Chester
HNom  1967 The Butterfly Kid

Anderson, Kevin J. and Doug Beason
NNom  1992 Assemblers of Infinity

Anderson, Poul
 nv 1958 A Bicycle Built for Brew
   Also titled "The Makeshift Rocket". Recommended by mlo. Minor -- arl
 1974 A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
 1961 After Doomsday
   Recommended by jr
 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  1974 Fire Time
Hugo Neb  nt 1972 Goat Song
[f] nt 1961 Hiding Place
   Part of "Trader to the Stars"
 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] 1968 Kyrie
HNom  nt 1965 Marque and Reprisal
   Contained in "The Star Fox"
 1974 Midsummer Tempest, A
   Recommended by mlo & po
 1977 Mirkheim
Hugo [f] nt 1963 No Truce with Kings
 1971 Operation Chaos
 1961 Orbit Unlimited
 1983 Orion Shall Rise
HNom [i,Psf] 1970 Tau Zero
HNom NNom  1989 The Boat of a Million Years
[a,i,k,Pf] 1954 The Broken Sword
   Excellent fantasy -- arl & mlo. Current edition substantially re-written in 70s
NNom  1971 The Byworlder
 1965 The Corridors of Time
   Recommended by mlo
 1972 The Dancer from Atlantis
   A fine time-travel novel -- po
HNom  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  1960 The High Crusade
[f] 1958 The Last of the Deliverers
Hugo  nt 1960 The Longest Voyage
[f,l] nt 1956 The Man Who Came Early
[i] 1958 The Man Who Counts
   Also titled "War of the Wing-Men"
HNom NNom  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
 1966 The Star Fox
   A fix-up novel. Not his best -- arl
 1991 The Time Patrol
NNom  nt 1979 The Ways of Love
HNom  1972 There Will Be Time
[k,Pf] 1962 Three Hearts and Three Lions
   Superb fantasy -- mlo & arl
 1964 Time and Stars
 1966 Trader to the Stars
 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
 1957 Earthman's Burden
   Classic collection of humorous SF. These are the original 'Hoka' stories.

Anthony, Piers
 1977 A Spell for Chameleon
   First in the interminable Xanth seris. Stop after this one -- po
HNom NNom  1967 Chthon
HNom  nt 1968 Getting Through University
   Contained in 'Prostho Plus'
HNom  1969 Macroscope
   Except the last 20 pages -- jds
 1968 Omnivore
   Recommended by kp
 1970 Orn
   Recommended by kp. Starring a *Diatryma! -- po
 1976 Ox
   Recommended by kp
 1973 Prostho Plus
   Recommended by kp

Anvil, Christopher
[f] 1962 Gadget vs. Trend
[f] nt 1960 Mind Partner
[f] 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] 1941 Evolution's End
[f] 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] 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] 1955 Dreaming Is a Private Thing
[f] 1946 Evidence
[f,i] 1942 Foundation
[i] 1952 Foundation and Empire
Hugo NNom [i] 1982 Foundation's Edge
Hugo  nt 1991 Gold
 1957 I'm in Marsport without Hilda
[i] 1950 I, Robot
   A collection of the best of the Robot stories
Hugo  nf 1994 I. Asimov
   Asimov's autobiography. Excellent -- mlo
[f] 1941 Liar!
[f] nt 1947 Little Lost Robot
[f] 1950 Misbegotten Missionary
[b,c,d,f] nt 1941 Nightfall
[i] 1950 Pebble in the Sky
 1988 Prelude to Foundation
   Recommended by po
HNom NNom  1986 Robot Dreams
 1953 Second Foundation
[f] 1940 Strange Playfellow
[f] 1957 Strikebreaker
HNom  nt 1974 That Thou Art Mindful of Him
Hugo Neb  nt 1976 The Bicentennial Man
[a,i] 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] 1955 The End of Eternity
[f] 1958 The Feeling of Power
Hugo Neb  1972 The Gods Themselves
 1962 The Hugo Winners Vol 1
 1971 The Hugo Winners Vol 2
 1971 The Hugo Winners Vol 3
 1985 The Hugo Winners Vol 4
[f,g] 1956 The Last Question
[a,c,f] nv 1952 The Martian Way
HNom [a] nv 1945 The Mule
   Incorporated in "Foundation and Empire"
[i] 1957 The Naked Sun
[f] nt 1949 The Red Queen's Race
HNom  1983 The Robots of Dawn
 1951 The Stars Like Dust
 nv 1958 The Ugly Little Boy
[f] nt 1939 Trends
[g] nt 1970 Waterclap
[f] 1961 What Is This Thing Called Love?

Atheling, William
 ps  Pseudonym of James Blish used for critical work

Attanasio, A. A.
NNom  1981 Radix

Atwood, Margaret
NNom  1986 The Handmaid's Tale

Bailey, Dale
NNom  nt 1995 The Resurrection Man's Legacy

Bailey, Dennis and David Bischoff
NNom  1976 Tin Woodsman

Baker, Anton Lee
HNom  1958 They've Been Working On....

Ballard, J. G.
 1961 Billennium
   Recommended by arl
[g] 1963 Cage of Sand
[g] nt 1960 Chronopolis
[Psf] 1973 Crash
   Recommended by arl
[Psf] 1975 High-Rise
NNom  nt 1982 Myths of the Near Future
[g] 1971 Prima Belladonna
 1964 Terminal Beach
 1964 The Burning World
 1967 The Cloud Sculptors of Coral D
[k,Psf] 1966 The Crystal World
   Ballard is an acquired taste which I've never acquired... -- mlo
[Pf] 1987 The Day of Creation
[Psf] 1962 The Drownded World
[f] 1962 The Insane Ones
[Pf] 1979 The Unlimited Dream Company
[f] nt 1960 The Voices of Time

Balmer, E. and Phillip Wylie
 1934 After Worlds Collide
   For completeists. A letdown from When Worlds Collide -- arl & mlo
[i] 1932 When Worlds Collide

Banks, Iain
 1993 Against a Dark Background
   Recommended by kp
 1988 Consider Phlebas
[Pf] 1986 The Bridge
 1990 The Player of Games
 1992 Use of Weapons
   Recommended by kp

Banks, Raymond E.
[f] 1955 The Short Ones

Barjavel, Rene
[a] 1943 Ashes, Ashes
 1970 The Ice People
   Threshold of the Stars

Barnes, John
NNom  1992 A Million Open Doors
HNom NNom  1994 Mother of Storms
 1996 One for the Morning Glory
   A quirky, funny, and interesting fantasy -- mlo
NNom  1991 Orbital Resonance

Barrett Jr., Neal
HNom NNom  nt 1988 Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus
 1971 The Leaves of Time
   Recommended by arl

Barton, William
HNom  nt 1996 Age of Aquarius

Bass, T. J.
NNom  1971 Half Past Human
NNom  1974 The Godwhale

Batchelor, John Calvin
[Psf] 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] 1900 The Wizard of Oz

Baxter, Stephen
 1992 The Raft
 1994 The Ring
   Recommended by mlo
HNom  1995 The Time Ships

Bayley, Barrington J.
[l] 1965 All the King's Men

Beagle, Peter S.
[Pf] 1960 Fine and Private Place, A
 1986 The Folk of the Air
[Pf] 1968 The Last Unicorn

Bear, Greg
NNom  1985 Blood Music
Hugo Neb  nt 1983 Blood Music
 1985 Eon
HNom Neb  nv 1983 Hardfought
HNom Neb  1993 Moving Mars
NNom  1982 Petra
HNom  1990 Queen of Angels
NNom  nt 1989 Sisters
Hugo Neb [g] 1986 Tangents
HNom NNom  1987 The Forge of God
 1984 The Infinity Concerto
 1986 The Serpent Mage

Beaumont, Charles
   The Howling Man
   Recommended by sj
[f] 1955 The Vanishing American

Beerbohm, Max
 1920 Enoch Soames

Bell, M. Shayne
HNom  1994 Mrs. Lincoln's China

Bellairs, John
 1966 St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies
   Humor
 1969 The Face in the Frost
   One of the best fantasies ever -- mlo, arl

Bellamy, Edward
 1897 Looking Backward

Benet, Stephen Vincent
 1937 By the Waters of Babylon

Benford, Gregory
HNom  nv 1977 A Snark in the Night
NNom  1983 Against Infinity
HNom NNom  nt 1969 Deeper Than the Darkness
HNom NNom  1975 Doing Lennon
[g] 1982 Exposures
NNom  1988 Great Sky River
HNom  nv 1996 Immersion
NNom  1976 In the Ocean of Night
NNom  nt 1992 Matter's End
NNom  nv 1986 Newton Sleep
[g] 1982 Relativistic Effects
NNom  nv 1994 Soon Comes Night
NNom  nv 1981 Swarmer, Skimmer
 1989 Tides of Light
Neb [i,Psf] 1980 Timescape

Benson, D. R.
 1978 ...And Having Writ

Berryman, John
[g] nt 1939 Special Flight

Bester, Alfred
[a,d,f] 1941 Adam and No Eve
[a,c,f] 1954 Fondly Fahrenheit
[a] nv 1942 Hell Is Forever
[a,f] 1952 Hobson's Choice
[f] 1950 Oddy and Id
[a] 1951 Of Time and Third Avenue
NNom  nt 1972 The Animal Fair
HNom  1975 The Computer Connection
   Also known by the following titles... 'Golem 100', "The Indian Giver", "Minotaur in a Mushroom Maze"
Hugo [a,i,Psf] 1952 The Demolished Man
HNom  1974 The Four-Hour Fugue
HNom [g] 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] 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
 1966 Watchers of the Dark

Binder, Eando
 1937 Anton York, Immortal
   Of historical interest only -- mlo
[a,f] 1939 I, Robot

Bishop, Michael
HNom NNom  nt 1985 A Gift from the Graylanders
NNom  nv 1991 Apartheid, Superstrings and Mordecai Thubana
HNom  1994 Brittle Innings
HNom  1974 Cathadonian Odyssey
 1992 Count Geiger's Blues
HNom NNom  nv 1973 Death and Designation Among the Asadi
 1986 Facetti's Tomorrow
NNom  nv 1983 Her Habiline Husband
NNom  1992 Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats
Neb [Psf] 1982 No Enemy But Time
NNom  nv 1974 On the Street of the Serpents
HNom  1975 Rogue Tomato
NNom  nv 1983 The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis
NNom  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
 1988 Unicorn Mountain
NNom  1979 Vernalfast Morning
HNom  NV 1994 Vri de Coeur
[Pf] 1984 Who Made Stevie Crye?

Bisson, Terry
Hugo Neb  1990 Bears Discover Fire
HNom  1994 Dead Man's Curve
HNom NNom  1993 England Underway
NNom  nt 1993 Necronauts
HNom  1991 Press Ann
HNom  nt 1993 The Shadow Knows
NNom  1991 They're Made Out of Meat

Bixby, Jerome
[a,c,f] 1953 It's a *Good* Life
   A classic horror tale
[a] 1954 The Holes Around Mars
   Puns, puns, puns -- arl

Blaylock, James P.
 1987 Land of Dreams
   Recommended by po
NNom  1985 Paper Dragons
[Pf] 1984 The Digging Leviathan

Blish, James
[f] 1956 A Work of Art
[a,g] nt 1954 Beep
NNom [k,Pf] 1968 Black Easter
[a] nt 1952 Bridge
   Incorporated into 'Cities in Flight'
Hugo [i,Psf] 1958 Case of Conscience, A
[a,f] 1953 Common Time
 1964 Doctor Mirabilis
[i] 1955 Earthman Come Home
   Part of "Cities in Flight" series
[c] nv 1953 Earthman Come Home
   Included in the novel of the same name
 1966 How Beautiful with Banners
   Recommended by arl
[a] 1952 Jack of Eagles
[i] 1962 Life for the Stars, A
   Part of "Cities in Flight series"
 nf 1970 More Issues at Hand
   written using pseudonym of William Atheling
 1957 Seedling Stars, The
   Fixup novel
[a,f] 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] 1949 The Box
[k,Pf] 1971 The Day After Judgement
 nf 1964 The Issue at Hand
   Written using pseudonym of William Atheling
[i] 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] 1957 They Shall Have Stars
   Part of "Cities in Flight" series
[a] 1941 Tiger Ride
[a] 1955 Watershed
   Incorporated in "The Seedling Stars"
HNom  nv 1969 We All Die Naked

Bloch, Robert
 1956 A Way of Life
   Minor, but funny in a fannish manner -- arl
[g] 1955 I Do Not Love Thee, Doctor Fell
Hugo  1958 That Hell-Bound Train
 1951 The Man Who Collected Poe
 1950 The Shadow from the Steeple
 1935 The Shambler from the Stars
[f] 1939 The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton

Block, Lawrence
[f] 1959 Make a Prison

Bond, Nelson
[a,f] 1946 Conquerer's Island
 1950 Lancelot Biggs, Spaceman
   A fix-up novel. Suggested by arl
[f] nt 1939 Pilgrimage

Bone, J. F.
[f] 1961 A Prize for Edie
 nv  Insidekick
   Recommended by mlo
HNom [b] 1958 Triggerman

Borges, Jorge Luis
   The Garden of the Forking Paths
 1941 The Library of Babel
[g] 1941 Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
NNom  1975 Utopia of a Tired Man

Boucher, Anthony
[f] 1954 Balaam
[f] nv 1942 Barrier
[a] 1945 Mr. Lupescu
[d,f] 1943 Q. U. R.
 1942 Rocket to the Morgue
   Mystery set in SF writer's group with many recognizeable people
[f] 1941 Snulbug
[a] nv 1942 The Compleat Werewolf
[a,c,f] 1951 The Quest for Saint Aquin
[e] 1952 The Star Dummy
[a] 1943 They Bite

Boulle, Pierre
 1963 Planet of the Apes
   This novel was written before the movies were made

Bova, Ben
 1972 As on a Darkling Plain
NNom  1993 Inspiration
 1973 SF Hall of Fame Vol 2

Bova, Ben and Harlan Ellison
HNom  1970 Brillo

Brackett, Leigh
[a,f] nt 1943 The Halfling
[a] nt 1949 The Lake of Gone Forever
[Psf] 1955 The Long Tomorrow
[k] 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] 1957 Dandelion Wine
   A loose fix-up novel
[a,i,Psf] 1951 Fahrenheit 451
   Originally titled "The Fireman"
[a,f] 1949 Kaleidoscope
[a,c,f] 1948 Mars Is Heaven!
   Incorporated in "The Martian Chronicles"
   Something Wicked This Way Comes
   Recommended by jam
 1949 The Exiles
   Incorporated into "The Martian Chronicles"
[f] 1951 The Fire Balloons
 1972 The Halloween Tree
 1951 The Illustrated Man
[i,Psf] 1958 The Martian Chronicles
   This is not a novel, but a collection of loosely-related stories
[f] 1946 The Million Year Picnic
   Incorporated in "The Martian Chronicles"
[f] 1952 The Pedestrian
[f] 1952 The Sound of Thunder
 s? 1946 The Veldt
[f] 1950 There Will Come Soft Rains
 1950 Usher II
[f,g] 1947 Zero Hour

Bradbury, Ray and Leigh Brackett
[f] nv 1946 Lorelei of the Red Mist

Bradley, Marion Zimmer
 1964 The Bloody Sun
   Original version, *NOT* the 1979 re-write! -- po
HNom  1977 The Forbidden Tower
 1983 The Mists of Avalon
HNom  1961 The Sword of Aldones
[f] nt 1959 The Wind People
 1971 The World Wreckers

Bramah, Ernst
 1928 Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
 1922 Kai Lung's Golden Hours
   Recommended by kp

Brennert, Alan
Neb  1991 Ma Qui

Bretnor, Reginald
NNom  1967 Earthwoman
[f] 1956 The Doorstop
 1950 The Gnurrs Come From the Voodvork Out

Breuer, Miles J.
[g] 1930 The Hungry Guinea Pig

Brewster, Kent
NNom  1995 In the Pound, Near Breaktime

Brin, David
HNom  1995 Brightness Reef
HNom  1990 Earth
HNom  1993 Glory Season
 nt 1990 Piecework
   Recommended by arl
Hugo Neb [i] 1983 Startide Rising
 1980 Sundiver
Hugo  1984 The Crystal Spheres
HNom  1988 The Giving Plague
HNom NNom  1985 The Postman
 nv 1982 The Postman
   Incorporated in the novel of the same name
 1984 The Practice Effect
   Recommended by kp
Hugo NNom [i] 1987 The Uplift War
HNom  nt 1986 Thor Meets Captain America
[g] nv 1991 What Continues, What Fails...

Bringsvaerd, Tor Aage
[g] 1968 Codemus

Broderick, Damien
[Psf] 1980 The Dreaming Dragons

Brown, Fredric
[f] 1954 Answer
[c,e,f] nt 1944 Arena
[f] 1941 Armageddon
[a] nv 1949 Come and Go Mad
[a,f] nt 1943 Daymare
[f] 1953 Hall of Mirrors
[f] 1948 Knock
[b] 1949 Letter to a Phoenix
[a] 1954 Martians Go Home
   Expanded from earlier novella of same name
 1961 Nightmares and Geezenstacks
HNom [f] 1945 Pi in the Sky
[a,f] 1946 Placet Is a Crazy Place
 1953 The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
[d,f] 1942 The Star Mouse
HNom [a,f] nt 1945 The Waveries
[f] 1951 The Weapon
[i] 1949 What Mad Universe
   Expanded from shorter 1948 version

Brown, Mary
 1986 The Unlikely Ones
   A creative fantasy -- po

Brown, Rosel George
 1966 Sibyl Sue Blue
   Recommended by arl

Brown, Rosel George and Keith Laumer
 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
 1975 Shockwave Rider
Hugo NNom [Psf] 1968 Stand on Zanzibar
NNom  1969 The Jagged Orbit
 1965 The Long Result
NNom  1972 The Sheep Look Up
HNom  1965 The Squares of the City
 1973 The Stone that Never Came Down
   Suggested by cjh
[f] nt 1963 The Totally Rich
 1966 The Traveler in Black
HNom [i] 1964 The Whole Man
 1969 Times Without Number

Brust, Steven
 1986 Brokedown Palace
   It shoulda been a contender... -- po
 1983 Jhereg
 1991 The Phoenix Guards
   Recommended by kp
 1987 The Sun, Moon and the Stars
 1984 To Reign in Hell
   Recommended by kp
 1984 Yendi

Bryant, Edward
HNom Neb [g] 1979 giANTS
NNom  1977 Particle Theory
NNom  1973 Shark
HNom Neb  1978 Stone
NNom  nt 1980 Strata
NNom  1976 The Hibakusha Gallery
HNom NNom  nt 1981 The Thermals of August

Budrys, Algis
 1975 A Scraping of the Bones
NNom  1992 Hard Landing
[Psf] 1977 Michaelmas
[a,f] 1955 Nobody Bothers Gus
HNom [c,Psf] 1960 Rogue Moon
[f] 1956 Silent Brother
HNom  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] 1961 Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night
HNom  1958 Who?

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Hugo NNom  1991 Barrayar
HNom Neb  1988 Falling Free
   Dreadful! - cjh
A nice old-time Astounding-style story - jam

HNom  1996 Memory
Hugo  1994 Mirror Dance
 1986 Shards of Honor
Hugo Neb  nv 1989 The Mountains of Mourning
Hugo  1990 The Vor Game
NNom  nv 1990 Weatherman
   Incorporated into ??

Bulgakov, Mikhail
 1966 The Master and Margarita

Bull, Emma
HNom NNom  1991 Bone Dance
 1994 Finder
   Recommended by po & mlo
 nt 1992 Silver or Gold
 1987 War for the Oaks
   Perfect -- po

Bulychev, Kirill
[g] 1977 I Was First to Find You

Bunch, David R.
 1971 Moderan
   A collection of the Moderan stories. Recommended by arl

Burford, Lolah
 1972 The Vision of Stephen
   Recommended by arl

Burger, Donys
 1965 Sphereland
   Recommended by po

Burgess, Anthony
[i,Psf] 1962 A Clockwork Orange
   Novel was written before the movie was made
 1982 The End of the World News
   Recommended by arl
[g] 1964 The Muse

Burroughs, Edgar Rice
 1930 A Fighting Man of Mars
 1922 At the Earth's Core
 1941 Llana of Gathol
   Minor -- arl
  Out of Time's Abyss
   Recommended by po
 1923 Pellucidar
[i,k] 1912 Princess of Mars, A
HNom  nt 1963 Savage Pellucidar
 1935 Swords of Mars
 1933 Tarzan and the Lion Men
   Excellent ending with Tarzan in Hollywood -- arl
 1930 Tarzan at the Earth's Core
[k] 1912 Tarzan of the Apes
   Seminal -- arl
 1922 The Chessmen of Mars
 1912 The Gods of Mars
 1918 The Land That Time Forgot
   Recommended by po
 1928 The Master Mind of Mars
   Brain transplants galore -- arl
  The People that Time Forgot
   Recommended by po
 1913 The Return of Tarzan
 1939 The Synthetic Men of Mars
 1914 The Warlord of Mars
 1916 Thuvia, Maid of Mars

Burroughs, William S.
[Pf] 1981 Cities of the Red Night
[Psf] 1964 Nova Express

Burstein, Michael A.
HNom  1995 TeleAbsence

Butler, Octavia
Hugo Neb  nt 1984 Bloodchild
 1984 Clay's Ark
   Recommended by po
 1979 Kindred
   Recommended by po
 1977 Mind of My Mind
   Recommended by po
NNom  1993 Parable of the Sower
   Recommended by po
 1976 Patternmaster
Hugo  1983 Speech Sounds
NNom  nt 1987 The Evening and the Morning and the Night
[Psf] 1980 The Wild Seed
   Recommended by po

Butler, Samuel
  Erewhon
   Another one of those 'classics' -- po

Cabell, James Branch
 1919 Jurgen
   Quite controversial in its day, but hopelessly dateed today -- it's adolescent giggling at sex -- mlo

Cadigan, Pat
HNom NNom  1987 Angel
HNom  nt 1991 Dispatches from the Revolution
HNom NNom  nv 1990 Fool to Believe
   Incorporated into "Fools"
NNom  1986 Pretty Boy Crossover
NNom  1991 Synners
NNom  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] 1968 A Sign in Space
[g] 1968 The Spiral

Campbell, John W.
 ps  See also pseudonym Don A. Stuart
 1934 Atomic Power
   Written as by 'Don A. Stuart'
[g] 1934 Atomic Power
   Written under the pseudonym of 'Don A. Stuart'
 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"
 1961 Invaders from the Infinite
   Classic super science. Arcot-Wade-Morey #3
 1956 Islands of Space
   Classic super science. Arcot-Wade-Morey #2
 1935 Night
   Recommended by arl
 1962 Prologue to Analog
   Excellent collection of SF from Astounding from the 50's
 1952 The ASF Anthology
 1953 The Black Star Passes
   Classic super science. Arcot-Wade-Morey #1
 1935 The Mightiest Machine
   The ultimate super-science novel of the 30's
 1951 The Moon Is Hell
   Not very good -- mlo
[c] 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] 1986 The Hungry Moon

Capek, Karl
[i] 1920 R. U. R.
   The original robot story and the source of the word 'robot'.
[i] 1936 War with the Newts
   An sf analogy to WW II.

Card, Orson Scott
HNom  nt 1989 Dogwalker
Hugo Neb [i] 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
 1983 Hart's Hope
   Really strange fantasy -- po
HNom NNom  nt 1986 Hatrack River
   Incorporated in "Seventh Son"
HNom NNom  1989 Lost Boys
HNom NNom  nt 1978 Mikal's Songbird
HNom NNom  1989 Prentice Alvin
HNom NNom  1988 Red Prophet
HNom  1987 Seventh Son
HNom  nv 1979 Songhouse
Hugo Neb  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  1979 Unaccompanied Sonata
 1987 Wyrms
   Minor -- kp. Seriously underrated -- po
HNom  1991 Xenocide

Carlson, William K.
NNom  nv 1975 Sunrise West

Carr, John Dickson
[a,k] 1951 The Devil in Velvet
   Time travel, mystery & romance

Carr, Terry
  Best of the Year anthologies
   His whole series of Best of the Year books, both with DAW and lone, is excellent -- mlo
NNom  1976 Cirque
HNom NNom  1968 The Dance of the Changer and the Three

Carrere, Emmanuel
 1990 Gothic Romance
   Excellent and unjustly neglected -- arl

Carrington, Grant
NNom  nt 1976 His Hour Upon the Stage

Carroll, Jonathan
 1987 Bones of the Moon
[Pf] 1980 Land of Laughs
HNom  nv 1992 Uh-Oh City

Carroll, Lewis
[i,k] 1865 Alice in Wonderland
[i,k] 1871 Through the Looking Glass

Carter, Angela
[Psf] 1969 Heroes and Villains
[Pf] 1984 Nights at the Circus
[k,Pf] 1972 The Infernal Desire Machine of Dr. Hoffman
[Pf] 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] 1942 The Link

Chambers, Robert W.
 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] 1957 The Cage
 nt 1969 The Kinsolving's Planet Irregulars

Chant, Joy
[Pf] 1970 Red Moon and Black Mountain
 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  1989 Boobs
NNom  nt 1986 Listening to Brahms
 1978 Motherlines
   Recommended by arl
NNom [Pf] 1981 The Vampire Tapestry
Neb  nv 1980 Unicorn Tapestry
[Psf] 1974 Walk to the End of the World

Cherryh, C. J.
 1976 Brothers of Earth
Hugo NNom  1978 Cassandra
 1986 Chanur's Homecoming
HNom  1985 Cuckoo's Egg
Hugo  1988 Cyteen
Hugo  1981 Downbelow Station
 1991 Heavy Time
   Recommended by cjh
 1982 Merchanter's Luck
   After reading this book, 'Downbelow Station' make sense -- po
 1980 Serpent's Reach
   Recommended by kp
HNom NNom  1978 The Faded Sun: Kesrith
 1978 The Faded Sun: Shon'jir
   The best of that series -- po
 1985 The Kif Strike Back
   Recommended by cjh
The other volumes in series are Chanur's Venture and Chanur's Homecoming.

HNom  1982 The Pride of Chanur
HNom  nv 1985 The Scapegoat
  Tripoint
   Do you know the *whole* story? -- cjh

Chiang, Ted
HNom Neb  nt 1990 Tower of Babylon
HNom  nt 1991 Understand

Chilson, Robert
 1989 Men Like Rats
   Recommended by po

Christopher, John
 1971 Beyond the Burning Lands
   2nd in 'Prince in Waiting' series. Recommended by po
[Psf] 1956 No Blade of Grass
   AKA 'The Death of Grass'
 1970 Prince in Waiting
   First in series. Recommended by po
 1967 The City of Gold and Lead
   Part of the Tripods series. Recommended by kp
 1968 The Pool of Fire
   Part of the Tripods series. Recommended by kp
 1972 The Sword of the Spirits
   3rd in 'Prince in Waiting' series. Recommended by po
 1967 The White Mountains
   Part of the Tripods series. Recommended by kp

Clark, John D.
 1937 Minus Planet
   Not great, but the first SF story to eal with anti-matter -- arl

Clarke, Arthur C.
 1951 "If I Forget Thee, O Earth..."
   Recommended by mlo
 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey
HNom  1982 2010: Odyssey two
HNom  1962 A Fall of Moondust
HNom Neb [g] nv 1971 A Meeting with Medusa
[a,i] 1948 Against the Fall of Night
   Rewritten as 'The City and the Stars'
 1961 Before Eden
[a,i,Psf] 1953 Childhood's End
   Good, but overrated -- mlo
[f] 1961 Death and the Senator
 1955 Earthlight
   Recommended by mlo
 1953 Encounter at Dawn
[e,f] 1949 History Lesson
[f] 1960 I Remember Babylon
   A prediction story which is coming true, but completely reversed!
 nt 1953 Jupiter V
   Recommended by mlo
[e] 1946 Loophole
Hugo Neb  1973 Rendezvous With Rama
[e,f] 1946 Rescue Party
 1951 Sands of Mars
 1951 Second Dawn
   j
[f] nt 1951 Superiority
[f] 1946 Technical Error
[i,Psf] 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] 1954 The Deep Range
   Expanded into novel of same name
[f] 1947 The Fires Within
 1953 The Forgotten Enemy
Hugo Neb  1979 The Fountains of Paradise
[g] 1965 The Longest Science Fiction Story Ever Told
[c,f] 1953 The Nine Billion Names of God
 nv 1950 The Road to the Sea
   Recommended by mlo
 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] 1955 The Star
 nt 1949 The Wall of Darkness
 1952 Time's Arrow
 1949 Transcience
   Recommended by mlo
[g] 1971 Transit of Earth

Clayton, Jo
 1986 Skeen's Leap
 1986 Skeen's Return
 1987 Skeen's Search

Clement, Hal
 1958 Close to Critical
 1957 Cycle of Fire
   Recommended by kp
 nt 1952 Halo
   Recommended by arl
[f] nt 1963 Hot Planet
 1953 Iceworld
[i,Psf] 1953 Mission of Gravity
   The best hard SF novel ever written. -- mlo, arl
[a,i] 1949 Needle
[a,f,g] 1942 Proof
HNom  1970 Star Light
Hugo  1945 Uncommon Sense
   One of the best SF problem stories ever written -- mlo

Clifton, Mark
[f] nv 1956 Clerical Error
[f] 1962 Hang Head, Vandal!
[a] nt 1955 Sense from Thought Divide
[a] nt 1952 Star Bright
[a,f] 1952 What Have I Done?
[f] nt 1959 What Now Little Man?

Clingerman, Mildred
[a] 1955 Birds Can't Count
[f] 1954 Letters from Laura
[a] 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.
 1961 The Philosophical Corps
   A fix-up novel

Compton, D. G.
NNom  1970 The Steel Crocodile
 1974 The Unsleeping Eye
   Recommended by arl

Coney, Michael
 1982 Cat Karina
   Recommended by po
 1984 Gods of the Greataway
   Recommended by po
 1975 Jaws that Bite, the Claws that Catch
   Recommended by po
 1989 King of the Sceptered Isle
   Recommended by po
NNom  nt 1995 Tea and Hamsters
 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
 1958 Deadly Image
   Recommended by arl
 1969 Sea-Horse in the Sky
   Recommended by po
 1972 The Overman Culture
   Recommended by po

Cooper, Susan
 1974 Greenwitch
 1965 Over Sea, Under Stone
 1977 Silver on the Tree
 1973 The Dark is Rising
 1975 The Grey King

Coppel, Alfred
 1960 Dark December
   Recommended by po

Coupling, J. J.
 ps  Pseudonym of John R. Pierce
[a,f] 1948 Period Piece

Cowper, Richard
HNom NNom  nv 1976 Piper at the Gates of Dawn
HNom  nv 1975 The Custodians
NNom  1979 The Road to Corlay
 1974 The Twilight of Briareus
   Recommended by po

Crook, Compton
 ps  See pseudonym Stephen Tall

Crowley, John
[Pf] 1987 Aegypt
[i,Psf] 1979 Engine Summer
HNom  1996 Gone
NNom  nv 1989 Great Work of Time
HNom NNom [i,Pf] 1981 Little, Big
HNom NNom  1985 Snow

Cummings, Ray
 1922 The Girl in the Golden Atom
   The original each-atom-is-a-solar-system story

Curtis, Betsy
HNom  1968 The Steiger Effect

Daley, Brian
 1983 A Tapestry of Magics
   Recommended by po

Daniel, Tony
HNom  1995 Life on the Moon

Dann, Jack
NNom  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  1981 Going Under
NNom  nv 1973 Junction
NNom  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] 1957 Or All the Seas with Oysters
[g] 1955 The Golem
[Pf] 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  1987 Vergil in Averno
NNom  nv 1984 Young Doctor Esterhazy

Davidson, Avram and Ward Moore
 1971 Joyleg

Davis, Chan
[f] 1959 Adrift on the Policy Level
[f] 1947 Letter to Ellen

de Camp, L. Sprague
 1958 An Elephant for Aristotle
   Actually, this is historical fiction
 1958 Aristotle and the Gun
[a] nv 1949 Cosmic Manhunt
 nv 1939 Divide and Rule
 1956 Gun for Dinosaur, A
[e] 1938 Hyperpilosity
   Funny but minor -- arl
[a] 1955 Judgment Day
[a] 1941 Land of Unreason
[a,i] 1939 Lest Darkness Fall
[a] 1939 Nothing in the Rules
[d,f] nt 1939 The Blue Giraffe
[a] nv 1951 The Continent Makers
[b,f] 1940 The Exalted
[a,f] 1939 The Gnarly Man
 1968 The Goblin Tower
[a] 1950 The Hand of Zei
[k] 1951 The Tritonian Ring
[a] 1942 The Undesired Princess
[f] 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] 1941 Castle of Iron
[a,k] 1941 Land of Unreason
[a,i] 1940 The Incomplete Enchanter
   A collection of the first 3 'Enchanter' stories
 1953 The Wall of Serpents

de Lint, Charles
 1987 Jack the Giant Killer
   Recommended by cjh
 1984 Moonheart
 1989 Svaha
   Cyberpunkish fantasy -- po
 1991 The Little Country
 1986 Yarrow

Dean, Pamela
 1991 Tam Lin
   Superior fantasy transposition -- dms

del Rey, Lester
[a] 1951 ...And It Comes Out Here
[a,f] 1940 Dark Mission
[a,f] 1939 Day Is Done
[a] nv 1954 For I Am a Jealous People!
   Humanity vs. God! -- arl
[c] 1938 Helen O'Loy
[f] 1941 Hereafter, Inc.
[a,e] 1952 Instinct
HNom [a,f] nt 1945 Into Thy Hands
[f] 1944 Kindness
[c,d,f,i] 1942 Nerves
[b] 1949 Over the Top
[a,f] 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] 1967 Aye, and Gomorrah
HNom Neb  1966 Babel-17
NNom  1975 Dhalgren
   The most famous unread novel in the field -- mlo
NNom  1967 Driftglass
HNom NNom  nv 1968 Lines of Power
HNom [i,Psf] 1968 Nova
   Old-time space opera by one of SF's major stylists -- arl
HNom  nt 1977 Prismatica
[i]  Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand
 1965 The Ballad of Beta-2
   An underrated piece -- po
HNom Neb  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  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] 1950 A Subway Named Mobius

Di Filippo, Paul
 1993 Campbell's World
   A bit of a gimmick story, but enjoyable -- mlo
NNom  1987 Kid Charlemagne
NNom  1992 Lennon Spex

DiChario, Nicholas A.
HNom  1992 The Winterberry

Dick, Philip K.
[a] nt 1955 Autofac
[a] 1952 Beyond Lies the Wub
[f] 1955 Captive Market
 1975 Confessions of a Crap Artist
   Not SF
NNom [Psf] 1968 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
[Psf] 1965 Dr. Bloodmoney
[i]  Eye in the Sky
HNom  nt 1967 Faith of Our Fathers
HNom NNom  1974 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
[a] 1954 Foster, You're Dead
[f] 1963 If There Were No Benny Cemoli
[a,f] 1953 Imposter
[i,Psf] 1964 Martian Time Slip
[a,g] nt 1953 Second Variety
[l] 1963 Stand-by
[a,f] 1954 The Father-Thing
[a] nt 1954 The Golden Man
[g] 1953 The Indefatigable Frog
Hugo [i,Psf] 1962 The Man in the High Castle
   One of the best alternate histories -- arl
NNom  1982 The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
 1964 The Waterspider
[Psf] 1965 Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
   Not to everyone's taste -- mlo
[Psf] 1959 Time Out of Joint
 1969 Ubik
 nv 1966 We Can Remember It for You Wholesale

Dickens, Charles
[k] nv 1843 A Christmas Carol

Dickson, Gordon R.
[a,f] 1954 Black Charlie
HNom Neb  nt 1966 Call Him Lord
[g] 1964 Dolphin's Way
HNom [i] 1959 Dorsai!
   Also titled "The Genetic General"
HNom  nt 1970 Jean Dupres
Hugo NNom  nv 1980 Lost Dorsai
[f] nt 1962 Roofs of Silver
 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] 1976 The Dragon and the George
 1985 The Final Encyclopedia
[i] 1970 The Tactics of Mistake
 1987 The Way of the Pilgrim
   Recommended by jr
HNom  1977 Time Storm
 1968 Wolfling

Disch, Thomas M.
NNom [Psf] 1974 334
[g] 1974 Angouleme
NNom  nt 1970 Asian Shores
[i,Psf] 1968 Camp Concentration
[l] 1964 Now is Forever
HNom NNom [i,Psf] 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] 1984 The Businessman
HNom  nt 1978 The Man Who Had No Idea
NNom  nt 1982 Understanding Human Behavior
NNom  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
  A Dark and Hungry God Arises
   Gap#3
[Pf] 1977 Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
   A rotten series -- mlo
I liked it -- jam
 nv 1984 Daughter of Regals
   Recommended by po
  Forbidden Knowledge
   Gap#2
  The Real Story: The Gap Into Knowledge
   Gap#1

Doyle, Arthur Conan
[k] 1912 The Lost World
 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  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  1981 Disciples
NNom  1971 Horse of Air
Neb  1984 Morning Child
HNom NNom  nv 1974 Strangers
HNom NNom  1983 The Peacemaker

Dozois, Gardner, Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick
NNom  1985 The Gods of Mars

Duane, Diane
 1983 So You Want to Be a Wizard
   Pleasant YA -- po
 1979 The Door into Fire

Dunsany, Lord
 1972 Beyond the Fields We Know
 1922 Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley
 1959 Gods, Men and Ghosts
   Late collection which includes most of the Pegana stories
 1926 The Charwoman's Shadow
[i,k] 1924 The King of Elfland's Daughter

Duntemann, Jeff
HNom  1980 Cold Hands
HNom  1980 Guardian

Dyer, S. N.
NNom  nt 1992 The July Ward

Eager, Edward
[i] 1954 Half Magic
 1956 Knight's Castle
   Fine YA fantasy -- po

Eddings, David
 1982 Pawn of Prophecy
   First of looong series after which they start to degrade -- po

Eddison, E. R.
[a] 1941 A Fish Dinner in Memison
   Widely held to be unreadable -- mlo & kp
  Mistress of Mistresses
   Recommended by jam
[k] 1926 Worm Ouroboros

Edmondson, G. C.
 1981 To Sail the Century Sea
   Recommended by arl

Edwards, Dolton
[b,f] 1946 Meihem in ce Klasrum

Effinger, George Alec
HNom  1989 A Fire in the Sun
HNom  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  1984 The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean *Everything*
HNom  nt 1973 The City on the Sand
 1979 The Pinch Hitters
   Recommended by arl
NNom  1972 What Entropy Means to Me
HNom NNom  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] 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
 1981 Twelve Fair Kingdoms

Elliott, H. Chandler
 1955 Reprieve from Paradise
   Recommended by arl

Ellison, Harlan
Hugo Neb  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
 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  1978 Count the Clock That Tells the Time
HNom  1975 Croatoan
 1967 Dangerous Visions
HNom  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  1967 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Hugo Neb  1977 Jeffty Is Five
HNom NNom  nv 1993 Mefisto in Onyx
NNom  1972 On the Downhill Side
Hugo NNom  nt 1985 Paladin of the Lost Hour
HNom NNom  nt 1967 Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes
NNom  1975 Shatterday
NNom  1969 Shattered Like a Glass Goblin
Hugo  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  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] 1959 Day at the Beach
[f] 1957 Hunting Machine

Erlich, Max
 1949 The Big Eye
   Recommended by arl

Ernst, Paul
[e] 1935 The 32nd of May
   Recommended by arl

Eskridge, Kelley
NNom  1995 Alien Jane

Farley, Ralph Milne
[e] nt 1936 Liquid Life
   Recommended by arl. Empathy with an intelligent virus.

Farmer, Philip Jose
[i,Pf] 1969 A Feast Unknown
NNom  1974 After King Kong Fell
 1960 Flesh
 1957 Green Odyssey
   Good adventure -- po
 1968 Image of the Beast
 1964 Inside Outside
   Recommended by po
 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"
 1966 Night of Light
   Recommended by arl
Hugo NNom  nv 1967 Riders of the Purple Wage
 1983 River of Eternity
   recommended by David Grubbs
[a,f] 1952 Sail On! Sail On!
HNom [f] nt 1959 The Alley Man
HNom  nt 1965 The Day of the Great Shout
 1971 The Fabulous Riverboat
[i] 1952 The Lovers
   See also novel version in 1962
 1965 The Maker of Universes
[Psf] 1980 The Unreasoning Mask
Hugo  1971 To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Farnsworth, Duncan Wright
[a] 1940 All Roads

Faulkner, William
[a] 1950 A Fable

Feeley, Gregory
 nt 1996 The Weighing of Ayre
   Scientific warefare in an alternate 17th century -- mlo

Fehrenback, R. R.
[f] 1961 Remember the Alamo

Finney, Charles G.
[k] 1953 The Circus of Dr. Lao

Finney, Jack
[a,f] 1951 I'm Scared
[Pf] 1970 Time and Again

Florance-Guthridge, George
HNom NNom  1981 The Quiet

Flynn, Michael F.
HNom  nv 1986 Eifelheim
 1996 Firestar
   Great near-future SF -- mlo
 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.
 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
 1993 Growing Up Weightless
[g] 1984 Heat of Fusion
 1987 How Much for Just the Planet?
   A Star Trek novel and one of the funniest SF books written -- mlo
[i] 1983 The Dragon Waiting
 1988 The Scholars of the Night
   Historical thriller
Recommended by cjh, dms and mlo
 1980 Web of Angels
   Early cyberpunk? -- po

Forster, E. M.
[c] nv 1928 The Machine Stops

Forward, Robert
 1980 Dragon's Egg

Forward, Robert L.
[g] 1979 The Singing Diamond

Foster, Alan Dean
 1973 Bloodhype
 1990 Cyber Way
   Navaho detective fantasy
 1974 Icerigger
   Recommended by kp
 1986 Into the Out Of
 1989 Quozl
   Wonderful aliens -- po
 1972 The Tar-Aiym Krang

Fowler, Karen Joy
NNom  1990 Lieserl
NNom  1992 Sarah Canary
NNom  1991 The Dark
HNom NNom  1987 The Faithful Companion at Forty

Fowles, John
[Pf] 1965 The Magus

Frank, Pat
[i,Psf] 1959 Alas, Babylon
   Recommended by kp

Franson, Robert Wilfred
 1983 The Shadow of the Ship
   Exceptionally interesting 'space' travel -- po & mlo

Frayn, Michael
[Pf] 1973 Sweet Dreams

Friedberg, Gertrude
 1966 The Revolving Boy
   Recommended by po

Friend, Oscar J.
[a,f] 1940 The Impossible Highway

Friesner, Esther
  Elf Defense
   Recommended by cjh

Friesner, Esther M.
HNom Neb  1995 A Birthday
NNom  1992 All Vows
Neb  1994 Death and the Librarian
   A most moving story -- mlo
 1988 Druid's Blood
   An excellently silly alternate history -- mlo
NNom  nt 1994 Jesus at the Bat
 1986 New York by Knight
   Recommended by po
 1993 Yesterday We Saw Mermaids
   Subdued and sad -- po

Fyfe, H. B.
[a] 1950 In Value Deceived
[a] nv 1952 Moonwalk
[a,b] 1951 Protected Species

Gaiman, Neil and Terry Pratchett
 1990 Good Omens

Gallun, Raymond Z.
[e,g] 1935 Davy Jones' Ambassador
   An early sympathetic alien story -- arl
 1934 Old Faithful
   Recommended by arl
[d] nt 1938 Seeds of the Dusk

Galouye, Daniel F.
HNom  1961 Dark Universe

Gardner, John
[Pf] 1971 Grendel

Gardner, Martin
[f] 1948 Thang

Garfinkle, Richard
 1996 Celestial Matters
   Recommended by mlo

Garner, Alan
[k] 1973 Red Shift
   Recommended by po
[Pf] 1967 The Owl Service
   Recommended by po

Garnett, David
HNom  1986 Still Life

Garrett, Randall
 ps  See also pseudonym Mark Phillips
 1978 Backstage Lensman
   Superb pastiche of Doc Smith's Lensman series which was hugely enjoyed by Doc Smith -- mlo
HNom  1977 Lauralyn
NNom  nt 1975 The Final Fighting of Fion MacCumhaill
[f] nv 1961 The Highest Treason
[f] nt 1954 The Hunting Lodge
[g] 1954 Time Fuze
HNom  1966 Too Many Magicians
   Superb fantasy detective novel -- mlo

Garrett, Randall and Lin Carter
 1957 Masters of the Metropolis
   Marvellous parody of 30's stf yarns -- arl

Garrett, Randall and Robert Silverberg
[b] nt 1956 Sound Decision
 1959 The Dawning Light
   Written under the pseudonym of Robert Randall
 1957 The Shrouded Planet