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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
   Written under the pseudonym of Robert Randall

Gernsback, Hugo

  Ralph 124C41+
   Dreadful writing but influential on a generation of sf writers — arl

Gerrold, David

NNom  nt 1972 In the Deadlands
NNom  1976 Moonstar Odyssey
 1972 Space Skimmer
   Recommended by kp
HNom NNom [i] 1973 The Man Who Folded Himself
Hugo Neb  NT 1994 The Martian Child
HNom NNom  1972 When Harlie Was One

Gerrold, David and Larry Niven

 1971 The Flying Sorcerers
   Good SF which is also funny — mlo

Geston, Mark

  Lords of the Starship
   Recommended by arl

Gibson, William

NNom  1982 Burning Chrome
HNom NNom  1986 Count Zero
NNom [g] 1981 Johnny Mnemonic
HNom NNom  1988 Mona Lisa Overdrive
Hugo Neb [Psf] 1984 Neuromancer
HNom NNom  nt 1986 The Winter Market
HNom  1993 Virtual Light

Gibson, William and Bruce Sterling

NNom  1991 The Difference Engine

Gilman, Carolyn

NNom  nt 1992 The Honeycrafters

Gilman, Greer

 1991 Moonwise
   Somewhat indescribable fantasy — po

Godwin, Parke

HNom NNom  nt 1981 The Fire When It Comes

Godwin, Tom

[c,f,g] 1954 The Cold Equations
   An important story marred by a forced situation and dreadful engineering design — arl
 1958 The Survivors

Goingback, Owl

NNom  1995 Grass Dancer

Gold, H. L.

[a,e] nt 1938 A Matter of Form
[a,f] 1954 Man of Parts
[a] 1953 The Man with English
[a,f] 1939 Trouble with Water

Goldin, Stephen

NNom  1971 The Last Ghost

Golding, William

 nt 1956 Envoy Extrordinary
   Recommended by arl
[Pf] 1956 Pincher Martin
[Psf] 1955 The Inheritors

Goldman, William

 1973 The Princess Bride
   But just the good parts… — po

Goldstein, Lisa

 1987 A Mask for the General
NNom  1992 Alfred
NNom  1987 Cassandra’s Photographs
[Pf] 1985 The Dream Years
NNom  1994 The Narcissus Plague
 1982 The Red Magician

Goonan, Kathleen Ann

NNom  1996 The String

Gotleib, Phyllis

NNom  nv 1972 Son of the Morning

Goulart, Ron

[i]  When the Waker Sleeps

Gould, Steven

 1992 Jumper
   *Great* first novel — po & mlo
HNom NNom  nt 1988 Peaches for Mad Molly
 1996 Wild Side
   Recommended by mlo

Grahame, Kenneth

 1933 The Wind in the Willows

Grant, C. L.

HNom Neb  1976 A Crowd of Shadows
Neb  nt 1978 A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn’s Eye
NNom  1980 Secrets of the Heart
NNom  nv 1974 The Rest is Silence

Grant, Richard

[g] 1981 Drode’s Equations

Graves, Robert

[a] 1945 Hercules My Shipmate
[Pf] 1949 Seven Days in New Crete

Gray, Alasdir

[Pf] 1981 Lanark

Green Jr., Robert M.

HNom NNom  nt 1966 Apology to Inky

Greenberg, Martin Harry

 1992 After the King
   An excellent original anthology — a Festschrift for the Tolkein Centenary — mlo

Greenhalgh, Zohra

 1989 Contrarywise
   Excellent and peculiar fantasy — po & mlo

Gregor, Lee

[d] 1939 Heavy Planet

Grendon, Edward

[f] 1947 The Figure

Griffith, Nicola

Neb  1995 Slow River
NNom  nv 1995 Yagura

Grimm, Jacob Ludwig and Wilhelm

 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  1989 Computer Friendly
HNom  1988 Stable Strategies for Middle Management

Gunn, James

Hugo  nf 1982 Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction
[a,f] 1955 The Cave of Night
[f] nv 1958 The Immortals
[a] nv 1955 The Joy Ride
NNom  nt 1968 The Listeners
[a] 1952 The Misogynist

Guthridge, George

NNom  nt 1995 Mirror or Lop Nor

Haggard, H. Rider

 1887 Allan Quatermain
 1885 King Solomon’s Mines
[k] 1886 She

Haldeman II, Jack C. and Jack Dann

NNom  1982 High Steel

Haldeman, Joe

 nv 1995 For White Hill
   A wonderful love story — mlo
Neb  1992 Graves
HNom  nv 1972 Hero
HNom  1976 Mindbridge
NNom  1985 More Than the Sum of His Parts
Hugo NNom  1994 None So Blind
Hugo Neb  1975 The Forever War
Hugo Neb  nv 1990 The Hemingway Hoax
Hugo NNom  1976 Tricentennial

Hall, Austin and Homer Eon Flint

 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

  Ishmael
   IMHO the best Star Trek novel — po
 1988 Those Who Hunt the Night
   Recommended by cjh. Good — arl

Hamilton, Edmond

[f] nt 1949 Alien Earth
 1961 Battle for the Stars
   Pure space opera! — mlo
 1936 Devolution
   Recommended by arl
[f] 1943 Exile
HNom  1945 Red Sun of Danger
  Star Kings
   Space opera!
[a] 1945 The Inn Outside the World
 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
 1994 Lunar Justice
   Recommended by po
 1990 Lurid Dreams
   Recommended by po
NNom  nv 1968 Probable Cause
HNom NNom  nt 1966 The Alchemist
 1981 The Firebird
[a,f] nt 1950 The New Reality
[Psf] 1953 The Paradox Men
   AKA ‘Flight into Yesterday’
 1968 The Ring of Ritornel
   Perfectly wonderful — po
[a] nv 1953 The Rose
 1982 The Venetian Court
   Recommended by po
[a] nv 1948 Time Trap

Harrison, Harry

[j] 1967 A Criminal Act
 1973 Astounding – The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology
   Stories written for this book complete a half-dozen important series
NNom  1970 By the Falls
HNom  1960 Deathworld
[Psf] 1966 Make Room! Make Room!
HNom  1961 Planet of the Damned
   Original title “Sense of Obligation”
 1961 The Stainless Steel Rat
   This is the first in a long series: ignore all the rest — mlo
[f] 1962 The Streets of Ashkelon
 1967 The Technicolor Time Machine
 1984 West of Eden

Harrison, M. John

[Pf] 1980 A Storm of Wings
[Psf] 1974 The Centauri Device

Hartwell, David

 1989 World Treasury of SF
   A major modern collection

Hartwell, David and Kathryn Cramer

 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] 1940 The Dwindling Sphere

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

[g] nv 1844 Rappaccini’s Daughter

Healy, Raymond J. and J. Francis McComas

 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] 1941 …And He Built a Crooked House
 1959 All You Zombies
[a] 1942 Beyond This Horizon
[b] nt 1940 Blowups Happen
[a,d,f] nt 1941 By His Bootstraps
   Written as by “Anson Macdonald”
[i] 1957 Citizen of the Galaxy
   The best Heinlein novel — mlo
[a] 1940 Coventry
Hugo [i] 1955 Double Star
   The best Heinlein novel — arl
 1950 Farmer in the Sky
HNom NNom  1982 Friday
   Not bad for late Heinlein — mlo
HNom [i,Pf] 1963 Glory Road
[a,e] 1942 Goldfish Bowl
   Written as by ‘Anson MacDonald’
[a] nv 1949 Gulf
HNom [i,Psf] 1958 Have Spacesuit – Will Travel
[a,e,g] 1947 It’s Great to Be Back!
NNom  1984 Job: A Comedy of Justice
[a,f] 1939 Life-Line
 nv 1941 Lost Legacy
[a] 1940 Magic, Inc.
[a,i] 1941 Methuselah’s Children
[f] nt 1939 Misfit
[i] 1963 Podkayne of Mars
   Recommended by po
 1953 Project Nightmare
[a] 1949 Red Planet
[a,d] 1940 Requiem
[a] 1941 Solution Unsatisfactory
   According to Herman Kahn, one of the best pieces of predictive SF ever written — arl
 1948 Space Cadet
 1953 Starman Jones
Hugo [i] 1959 Starship Troopers
Hugo [i] 1961 Stranger in a Strange Land
   Originally published version only! — mlo
[i,Psf] 1956 The Door Into Summer
[a,g] nt 1947 The Green Hills of Earth
[a] nv 1950 The Man Who Sold the Moon
 1957 The Man Who Travelled in Elephants
 nt 1957 The Menace from Earth
Hugo NNom [i] 1966 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
   Also nominated for 1965 due to serialization overlapping two years! Best RAH novel — jds
[a,i,Psf] 1951 The Puppet Masters
   Originally published version only! — mlo
[c,d] nt 1940 The Roads Must Roll
 1952 The Rolling Stones
[a,Pf] nt 1942 The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
[a] nt 1952 The Year of the Jackpot
[a] 1941 They
HNom NNom  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] 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] 1942 Waldo
[a] 1941 We Also Walk Dogs

Helprin, Mark

[Pf] 1983 Winter’s Tale

Henderson, Zenna

[a] 1952 Ararat
   A “People” story
HNom  nt 1958 Captivity
   A “People” story
[a] 1951 Come On, Wagon!
 1996 Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson
[i] 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] 1967 The People: No Different Flesh
   A collection of most of the “People” stories not included in “Pilgrimage”

Henneberg, Nathalie-Charles

[g] 1960 The Blind Pilot

Herbert, Frank

HNom  1976 Children of Dune
Hugo Neb [i,Psf] 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  1963 Dune World
   The first half of “Dune”
 1973 Hellstrom’s Hive
 1956 Under Pressure
   Also titled “Twenty-First Century Sub” and “The Dragon in the Sea”
 1970 Whipping Star
   Recommended by arl

Hersey, John

 1974 My Petition for More Space
   Recommended by po
 1960 The Child Buyer
   Recommended by po
 1965 White Lotus
   Recommended by po

Hilton, James

[k] 1933 Lost Horizon

Hinz, Christopher

 1987 Liege-Killer

Hoban, Russell

[Psf] 1980 Riddley Walker

Hodgell, P. C.

 1982 God Stalk
   Recommended by po

Hodgson, William Hope

 1907 The Boats of the “Glen Carrig”
[k] 1908 The House on the Borderland
[k] 1912 The Nightland

Hoffman, Nina Kiriki

NNom  nv 1993 Haunted Humans
NNom  nt 1995 Home for Christmas
NNom  1995 The Silent Strength of Stones
NNom  nt 1993 The Skeleton Key
 1993 The Thread that Binds the Bones
   Recommended by po

Hogan, James P.

 1977 Inherit the Stars
   A good first novel with a great picture of a momentous scientific discovery in the making — mlo
[g] 1981 Making Light
 1979 The Two Faces of Tomorrow
   Recommended by dgg

Holdstock, Robert

[Pf] 1984 Mythago Wood

Hollis, H. H.

NNom  1968 Sword Game
NNom  nt 1968 The Guerrilla Trees

Holt, Tom

[k] 1987 Expecting Someone Taller
   Minor — arl. But better than the opera — po.

Horwood, W

 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] 1935 Conan the Conquerer

Hoyle, Fred

 1957 The Black Cloud

Hoyle, Fred and John Elliot

 1962 A for Andromeda

Hubbard, L. Ron

HNom  1986 Black Genesis
   It’s amazing what garbage occasionally gets nominated — mlo
[a,k] nv 1940 Fear
[a] 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] 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

 1984 Bridge of Birds

Hughes, Zach

[i] 1972 The Book of Rack the Healer

Hugi, Maurice A

[d,f] nt 1941 Mechanical Mice

Huxley, Aldous

[a] 1939 After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
[i] 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] 1979 Down & Out on Ellfive Prime
HNom NNom  nt 1978 The Devil You Don’t Know

Israel, Peter

 1989 I’ll Cry When I Kill You
   Mystery set at an SF conmvention. Quite nasty in its characterization — arl

Jackson, Shirley

[a,l] 1955 One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts
[k,Pf] 1959 The Haunting of Hill House
 1949 The Lottery
[a] 1950 The Summer People
 1962 We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Jameson, Malcolm

  Bullard of the Space Patrol
   Fixup novel
classic space opera — arl
[e] 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.

 1984 Dr. Adder
[Pf] 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

 1987 A Tale of Time City
   Recommended by po
 1984 Archer’s Goon
 1975 Eight Days of Luke
 1984 Fire and Hemlock
 1990 nad and Dan adn Quaffy
   Recommended by arl & mlo
 1981 The Homeward Bounders
   Spooky — po
 1988 The Lives of Christopher Chant
   Recommended by po
 1979 The Spell Coats
   Recommended by po

Jones, Guy and Constance

[a] 1945 Peabody’s Mermaid

Jones, Raymond F.

[i]  Colossus
   Not that good, but one of the first computer takes over the world stories — jr
HNom [d,f] 1945 Correspondence Course
[e,g] 1947 Person from Porlock
   A personal favorite — mlo
HNom  1966 Rat Race
 1952 This Island Earth

Juster, Norman

[i]  Phantom Tollbooth

Kafka, Franz

   In the Penal Colony
   recommended by arl
 s? 1915 The Metamorphosis

Kagan, Janet

 1988 Hellspark
   Recommended by mlo
Hugo NNom  nt 1992 The Nutcracker Coup

Kahn, James

 1980 World Enough and Time
   Recommended by po. I didn’t like this at all — mlo

Karr, Phyllis Ann

 1986 At Amberleaf Fair
   Recommended by mlo
 1982 The Idylls of the Queen
   Recommended by po & mlo

Kay, Guy Gavriel

 1992 A Song for Arbonne
   Recommended by po
[Pf]  Silver on the Tree
   Part of the Fionvar Tapestry trilogy
[Pf] 1985 The Summer Tree
   Part of the Fionvar Tapestry trilogy
[Pf] 1986 The Wandering Fire
   Part of the Fionvar Tapestry trilogy
 1993 Tigana

Kaye, Marvin and Parke Godwin

 1978 Masters of Solitude

Kelleam, Joseph E.

[f] 1939 Rust

Kelly, James Patrick

NNom  nv 1990 Mr. Boy
HNom NNom  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  1983 Her Furry Face
NNom  1986 The Journal of Nicholas the American

Kerr, Katherine

 1992 Resurrection
   Recommended by arl

Kersh, Gerald

[a] 1953 Secret Masters

Kessel, John

HNom Neb  nv 1982 Another Orphan
HNom NNom  1991 Buffalo
NNom  1989 Good News from Outer Space
 nt 1990 Invaders
   Recommended by arl
NNom  1988 Mrs. Shummel Exits a Winner
HNom NNom  nt 1993 The Fanchise

Key, Alexander

 1968 Escape to Witch Mountain
   Recommended by po
Excellent juvenile — po

Keyes, Daniel

Hugo Neb [Psf] 1966 Flowers for Algernon
   Short story version won Hugo in ’60!
Hugo [c,i] 1959 Flowers for Algernon

King, Stephen

Hugo  nf 1981 Danse Macabre
 1986 It
[Pf] 1975 Salem’s Lot
[Pf] 1977 The Shining
[i] 1978 The Stand
NNom  nt 1980 The Way Station

Kingsbury, Donald M.

HNom  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
  Puck of Pook’s Hill
   Recommended by bz and jb
  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] 1973 The Valley of Echoes

Knight, Damon

[a,f] 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  1976 I See You
 1958 Idiot Stick
   Recommended by mlo
 nf 1956 In Search of Wonder
   Pioneering criticism of SF
HNom NNom  1968 Masks
[a] nv 1954 Natural State
[f] 1950 Not with a Bang
 nv 1954 Rule Golden
[f,g] nt 1956 Stranger Station
[a] 1952 The Analogues
  The Best of Orbit
[c,f] 1956 The Country of the Kind
[a] nv 1955 The Earth Quarter
 nf 1977 The Futurians
   Recommended by mlo
[f] 1960 The Handler
[f] 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
 1997 His Share of Glory — The Complete Short SF of C. M. Kornbluth
 1955 Not This August
HNom  nt 1958 Shark Ship
   Originally titled “Reap the Dark Tide”
[a] nt 1952 That Share of Glory
HNom  1958 The Advent on Channel Twelve
[a,f] 1952 The Altar at Midnight
[f] 1957 The Education of Tigress McCardle
[a,c,f] nt 1950 The Little Black Bag
[a] 1952 The Luckiest Man in Denv
[c,a,f] 1951 The Marching Morons
[f] 1950 The Mindworm
[f] 1949 The Only Thing We Learn
[a] 1953 The Remorseful
[a,f] 1941 The Rocket of 1955
[a,f] 1950 The Silly Season
 1953 The Syndic
[a,f] 1941 The Words of Guru
HNom  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

 1952 Gunner Cade
   Writing as Cyril Judd

Kosinski, Jerry

NNom  nv 1971 Being There

Kotzwinkle, William

[Pf] 1977 Fata Morgana

Kress, Nancy

HNom  nv 1991 And Wild for to Hold
HNom NNom  1994 Beggars and Choosers
HNom NNom  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  1985 Out of All Them Bright Stars
 1993 The Battle of Long Island
   Recommended by mlo
HNom NNom  1992 The Mountains to Mohammed
HNom  nt 1989 The Price of Oranges
NNom  nv 1984 Trinity

Kube-McDowell, Michael

HNom  1990 The Quiet Pools

Kurland, Michael

 1969 The Unicorn Girl

Kurten, Bjorn

 1980 Dance of the Tiger
   Recommended by po

Kurtz, Katherine

 1972 Deryni Checkmate
   Deryni 2
 1970 Deryni Rising
   Deryni 1
 1973 High Deryni
   Deryni 3. The rest of the series (another dozen plus books (and still growing)) has become formulaic — arl

Kushner, Ellen

 1990 Thomas the Rhymer
   Recommended by po

Kuttner, Henry

 ps  See also pseudonyms Lawrence O’Donnell and Lewis Padgett
[a,f] 1941 A Gnome There Was
[a,f] 1946 Absalom
[f] nt 1949 Cold War
[a] 1946 Dark World
[a,f] 1948 Don’t Look Now
[a,i] 1947 Fury
[a] 1945 Line to Tomorrow
[a,f] 1943 The Iron Standard
[f] 1939 The Misguided Halo
[e,f] 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] 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] 1955 Two-Handed Engine

Kuykendall, Roger

[b] We Didn’t Do Anything Wrong, Hardly

L’Engle, Madeleine

 1978 A Swiftly Tilting Planet
 1973 A Wind in the Door
[i] 1962 A Wrinkle in Time
 1986 Many Waters

Lafferty, R. A.

HNom NNom  1970 Continued on Next Rock
NNom  1970 Entire and Perfect Chrysolite
Hugo  1972 Eurema’s Dam
NNom [Pf] 1970 Fourth Mansions
 nt 1966 Narrow Valley
 1966 Nine Hundred Grandmothers
HNom NNom  1968 Past Master
[f] 1961 Rainbird
[f] 1962 Seven-Day Terror
HNom  1971 Sky
 1965 Slow Tuesday Night
 1971 The Devil Is Dead

Landis, Geoffrey A.

HNom  1991 A Walk in the Sun
HNom Neb  1988 Ripples in the Dirac Sea
NNom  1994 The Kingdom of Cats and Birds
HNom  nt 1994 The Singular Habits of Wasps

Langford, Dave

 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

 1973 Hiero’s Journey
 se  The Brigadier ffellowes Series

Latham, Philip

[a,g] 1950 The Xi Effect

Laumer, Keith

 1965 A Plague of Demons
[i]  1976 Bolo
 nt  Diplomat at Arms
   The first and best of the Retief series — arl
 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
 1965 Retief’s War
NNom  nv 1968 The Day Beyond Forever
HNom  nv 1977 The Wonderful Secret
 1963 Trace of Memory
   Recommended by po
 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] 1964 Semley’s Necklace
   Recommended by arl
HNom Neb  nt 1994 Solitude
HNom  1982 Sur
Neb  1990 Tehanu
   The late, sad, sorry addition to the otherwise fine Earthsea trilogy — mlo
[g] 1974 The Author of the Acacia Seeds
HNom Neb  1974 The Day Before the Revolution
Hugo Neb [Psf] 1974 The Dispossessed
[i] 1972 The Farthest Shore
   Earthsea trilogy #3
HNom NNom [i] 1971 The Lathe of Heaven
Hugo [i,Psf] 1969 The Left Hand of Darkness
HNom NNom  nt 1994 The Matter of Seggri
HNom  nt 1975 The New Atlantis
Hugo  1973 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
NNom  nt 1979 The Pathways of Desire
NNom  nt 1990 The Shobies’ Story
[i] 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  1971 Vaster than Empires and More Slow
HNom  nt 1969 Winter’s King
[i,k,Pf] 1968 Wizard of Earthsea, A
   Earthsea trilogy #1

Lee, Tanith

NNom  1979 Red as Blood
 1980 Sabella
   Recommended by po
 1983 Sung in Shadow
   Recommended by po
[i] 1982 The Silver Metal Lover
   Recommended by arl

Leiber, Fritz

[a,f] 1953 A Bad Day for Sales
HNom  nt 1958 A Deskful of Girls
NNom  nt 1976 A Rite of Spring
 1969 A Spectre is Haunting Texas
NNom  1967 Answering Service
Hugo Neb  1975 Catch That Zeppelin!
[a,c,f] 1950 Coming Attraction
   See how much has come true….– ??
[i,k,Pf] 1953 Conjure Wife
HNom  1945 Destiny Times Three
[i]  Fahfrd and the Grey Mouser
[a] 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] 1960 Mariana
HNom  nt 1974 Midnight by the Morphy Watch
[a] 1951 Nice Girl with Five Husbands
[k,Pf] 1977 Our Lady of Darkness
[a,f] 1951 Pail of Air, A
[a,g] nt 1951 Poor Superman
HNom  1958 Rum-Titty-Titty-Tum-Ta-Tee
[f] 1944 Sanity
HNom  nt 1961 Scylla’s Daughter
Hugo NNom  nv 1969 Ship of Shadows
[a] 1941 Smoke Ghost
 1958 Space-Time for Springers
HNom  nt 1965 Stardock
[f] 1940 The Automatic Pistol
[a,f] 1953 The Big Holiday
Hugo [i] nv 1957 The Big Time
[a] 1949 The Girl with the Hungry Eyes
[f] 1962 The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity
[a] 1947 The Man Who Never Grew Young
[a,f] 1952 The Moon Is Green
 1961 The Silver Eggheads
[Pf] 1953 The Sinful Ones
[Pf] 1968 The Swords of Lankhmar
HNom  nt 1962 The Unholy Grail
Hugo [Psf] 1964 The Wanderer
 1958 Try and Change the Past
[f] nt 1945 Wanted — An Enemy
[a,f] nt 1952 Yesterday House

Leinster, Murray

[a,f] 1946 A Logic Named Joe
[f] 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] 1951 Historical Note
[a] 1951 Keyhole
[a,e] nt 1944 Plague
   One of the more pointed anti-bureaucracy stories — arl
 1935 Proxima Centauri
 nv 1934 Sidewise in Time
   This story introduced alternate history to SF. And it still holds up well today — mlo
[a] 1947 Symbiosis
HNom [e] 1945 The Ethical Equations
 1954 The Forgotten Planet
   A fix-up novel
 1935 The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator
 1949 The Last Spaceship
   Very minor — mlo
HNom  1959 The Pirates of Zan
   Also titled “The Pirates of Ersatz”
[f] 1945 The Power
[a,f] 1948 The Strange Case of John Kingman

Lem, Stanislaw

[g] 1977 How Erg the Self-Inducting Slew a Paleface
  Solaris
   Described as “dull enough to be made into a Soviet film”
[g] 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  1980 Window

Lessing, Doris

[Pf] 1971 Briefing for a Descent into Hell

Lethem, Jonathan

NNom  1996 Five Fvcks
NNom  1993 Gun, with Occaisional Music
NNom  nt 1991 The Happy Man

Levin, Ira

[k,Pf] 1967 Rosemary’s Baby

Levinson, Paul

NNom  nt 1995 The Chronology Protection Case

Lewis, C. S.

 1938 Out of the Silent Planet
   Book 1 of the ‘Deep Space’ trilogy
[a] 1944 Perelandra
   Part of ‘Deep Space’ trilogy
[i] 1951 Prince Caspian
   Part of ‘Narnia’ series
HNom  1946 That Hideous Strength
   Part of ‘Deep Space’ trilogy
[i] 1954 The Horse and His Boy
   Part of ‘Narnia’ series
[i] 1956 The Last Battle
   Part of ‘Narnia’ series
[i,Pf] 1950 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
   Part of ‘Narnia’ series
[i] 1955 The Magician’s Nephew
   Part of ‘Narnia’ series
 1942 The Screwtape Letters
   Not exactly fantasy, but a must-read — mlo
[i] 1953 The Silver Chair
   Part of ‘Narnia’ series
[i] 1952 The Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader’
   Part of ‘Narnia’ series
 1956 Till We have Faces
   Superb retelling of the Psyche myth — mlo

Ley, Willy

[d] nf V-2: Rocket Cargo Ship

Linaweaver, Brad

NNom  nv 1982 Moon of Ice
 1972 Much Better
   Recommended by jr

Lindholm, Megan

HNom NNom  nv 1989 A Touch of Lavender
 1991 Cloven Hooves
   Moody and erotic fantasy — po
NNom  nt 1989 Silver Lady and The Fortish Man
 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] 1920 A Voyage to Arcturus

London, Jack

 1906 Before Adam
   Recommended by po
  The Flash and the Shadow
   Recommended by jr

Long, Frank Belknap

[a] 1942 It Will Come to You
 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
 1936 Haunter of the Dark
 nt 1941 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
[e] 1927 The Colour Out of Space

Lupoff, Richard A.

HNom  nt 1974 After the Dreamtime
HNom NNom  1975 Sail the Tides of Mourning
NNom  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

 1980 The Northern Girl
   Recommended by arl

MacAvoy, R. A.

 1983 Damiano
HNom NNom [Pf] 1983 Tea with the Black Dragon

MacDonald, Anson

 ps  Pseudonym of Robert A. Heinlein

MacDonald, George

 1870 At the Back of the North Wind
 1895 Lilith
 1858 Phantastes
 1882 The Princess and Curdie
 1882 The Princess and the Goblin

MacDonald, John D.

[f] 1948 A Child Is Crying
[f] 1949 Flaw
[f] 1952 Game for Blondes
 1951 Planet of the Dreamers
[f] 1948 Ring Around the Redhead
[f] 1950 Spectator Sport
[Pf] 1962 The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything
 1951 Wine of the Dreamers
   Recommended by eac & arl

MacDonald, Philip

[f] 1949 Private–Keep Out

MacLean, Katherine

[a] nt 1950 Contagion
[a,e,f] 1949 Defense Mechanism
[a,f] 1951 Pictures Don’t Lie
[a] nv 1953 The Diploids
Neb  nv 1971 The Missing Man
[a,f,g] 1952 The Snowball Effect
[f] nt 1958 Unhuman Sacrifice

MacLean, Katherine and Charles V. DeVet

HNom  nt 1958 Second Game

MacLeish, Roderick

 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
 1972 Beyond Apollo
NNom  1982 Corridors
[Psf] 1975 Galaxies
 nv 1971 Gather in the Hall of Planets
 1973 Herovit’s World
HNom  nt 1992 In the Stone House
 1993 The Passage of the Light
NNom  1985 The Remaking of Sigmund Freud
HNom NNom  1994 Understanding Entropy

Manning, Lawrence

 nv  The Man Who Awoke
   Recommended by ??

Marks, Laurie J.

 1992 The Watcher’s Mask
   Recommended by po

Marlowe, Webb

[d] 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  1977 Dying of the Light
 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] 1979 The Way of Cross and Dragon
HNom NNom  nv 1982 Unsound Variations
HNom NNom  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”
 1981 Windhaven

Martin, Valerie

NNom  1990 Mary Reilly

Martino, Joseph

[b] 1960 Pushbutton War

Matheson, Richard

[c,f] 1950 Born of Man and Woman
 1954 I Am Legend
 ss 1955 Pattern for Survival
   Recommended by arl
[Pf] 1956 The Shrinking Man
[f] 1954 The Test

May, Julian

 1994 Diamond Mask
   Recommended by po
Galactic Millieu #3
[a,f] nt 1951 Dune Roller
 1987 Intervention
   Galactic Millieu #1. (Published in two volumes in paperback.)
 1992 Jack the Bodiless
   Recommended by po
Galactic Millieu #2
 1984 The Adversary
   Pliocene Exile tetrology #4
 1982 The Golden Torc
   Pliocene Exile tetrology #2
HNom NNom  1981 The Many-Colored Land
   Pliocene Exile tetrology #1
 1983 The Nonborn King
   Pliocene Exile tetrology #3

McAllister, Bruce

HNom NNom  nt 1987 Dream Baby
[f] 1963 The Faces Outside

McAuley, Paul J.

[j] 1986 Karl and the Ogre
   Recommened by arl

McCaffrey, Anne

HNom  1991 All the Weyrs of Pern
 1979 Dragondrums
[i] 1968 Dragonflight
HNom  1971 Dragonquest
HNom Neb  nv 1968 Dragonrider
 1977 Dragonsinger
 1976 Dragonsong
HNom NNom  nv 1969 Dramatic Mission
HNom  1983 Moreta, Dragonlady of Pern
   Appalling! — mlo. No, worse than that! — arl
[f,i] nv 1961 The Ship Who Sang
HNom  1978 The White Dragon
Hugo NNom [g] nv 1967 Weyr Search

McDevitt, Jack

NNom  1983 Cryptic
HNom NNom  1988 The Fort Moxie Branch
HNom NNom  nv 1996 Time Travelers Never Die

McDonald, Ian

 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  1992 China Mountain Zhang
NNom  nt 1993 Nekropolis
HNom NNom  nv 1992 Protection
HNom NNom  nv 1996 The Cost to Be Wise
Hugo NNom  1995 The Lincoln Train
NNom  1993 Virtual Love

McIntosh, J. T.

 1954 One in Three Hundred
   Recommended by arl
[a] nt 1952 The Bliss of Solitude
 1953 World Out of Mind
   Recommended by arl

McIntyre, Vonda N.

HNom NNom  nv 1977 Aztecs
Hugo Neb  1978 Dreamsnake
HNom  nt 1979 Fireflood
HNom Neb  nt 1973 Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand
NNom  nv 1983 Transit
HNom NNom  1973 Wings

McKenna, Bridget

HNom NNom  1993 The Good Pup

McKenna, Richard

[f] nt 1960 Mine Own Ways
HNom Neb  1966 The Secret Place

McKillip, Patricia

NNom  1996 Winter Rose

McKillip, Patricia A.

HNom  1979 Harpist in the Wind
   Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy #3
 1977 Heir of Sea and Fire
   Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy #2
[Pf] 1974 The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
 1976 The Riddle-Master of Hed
   Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy #1
 1991 The Sorceress and the Cygnet
   Recommended by po

McKinley, Robin

 1978 Beauty
   Recommended by po
 1984 The Hero and the Crown
   Recommended by po

McLaughlin, Dean

HNom NNom  nv 1968 Hawk Among the Sparrows

McLoughlin, John C.

 1983 The Helix and the Sword
   An excellent piece of SF
very undervalued — mlo
 1987 Toolmaker Koan
   Flawed – but, remember the eyes! — po

Mead, Harold

 1956 The Bright Phoenix
   Recommended by arl

Merril, Judith

[a] nt 1954 Dead Center
[a] 1951 Shadow on the Hearth
[a] 1951 Survival Ship
[a,c,f] 1948 That Only a Mother

Merritt, A.

[k] 1932 Dwellers in the Mirage
  1919 The Moon Pool
   Recommended by kp
[k] 1924 The Ship of Ishtar

Merwin, Jr., Sam

 1951 The House of Many Worlds

Miller Jr., Walter M.

Hugo [i,Psf] 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] 1952 Command Performance
[a] nv 1952 Conditionally Human
[a,f] 1953 Crucifixus Etiam
[a] nt 1952 Dumb Waiter
[a] 1954 I Made You
Hugo [a,f] nt 1954 The Darfsteller
[g] nv 1957 The Lineman

Miller, P. Schuyler

[a,d] 1944 As Never Was
[a]  1951 Dark Benediction
[a,f] nt 1940 Old Man Mulligan
[a] 1941 Over the River
[f] 1943 The Cave
[d] nt 1937 The Sands of Time

Miller, R. DeWitt

[d] 1937 Within the Pyramid

Mirrlees, Hope

 1930 Lud-in-the-Mist
   Recommended by kp

Mixon, Laura

 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  1976 Breath’s a Ware That Will Not Keep
NNom  1976 Camera Obscura

Moon, Elizabeth

HNom  1996 Remnant Population

Moorcock, Michael

[Psf] 1972 An Alien Heat
   recommended by dgg / Dancers at the End of Time trilogy
Neb [i] nv 1967 Behold the Man
[Pf] 1978 Gloriana
[k,Pf] 1965 Stormbringer
   Chilling last paragraph especially — po
[Psf] 1976 The End of All Songs
   recommended by dgg / Dancers at the End of Time trilogy
[Psf] 1968 The Final Programme
[Psf] 1974 The Hollow Lands
   recommended by dgg / Dancers at the End of Time trilogy
[Pf] 1981 The War Hound and the World’s Pain
   recommended by dgg

Moorcock, Michael and Hilary Bailey

 1969 The Black Corridor

Moore, Brian

[Pf] 1983 Cold Heaven
[Pf] 1975 The Great Victorian Collection

Moore, C. L.

 ps  See also pseudonyms Lawrence O’Donnell and Lewis Padgett
[a] nt 1946 Daemon
[f] 1943 Doorway Into Time
[a] 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] 1953 Bring the Jubilee
[a] 1947 Greener Than You Think
[a,f] nt 1953 Lot
[e] 1950 Peacebringer
[f] nt 1960 The Fellow Who Married the Maxill Girl

More, St. Sir Thomas

 1516 Utopia
   The original

Morris, William

 1896 The Well at the World’s End

Morrison, William

[a] nt 1953 Country Doctor
[a,f] 1953 The Model of a Judge
[a,f] nt 1950 The Sack

Morrow, James

Neb  1988 Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge
Neb  nv 1992 City of Truth
NNom  1990 Only Begotten Daughter
NNom  1986 This Is the Way the World Ends
HNom NNom  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  1958 Space to Swing a Cat

Mundy, Talbot

 1925 Tros of Samothrace

Murphy, Pat

HNom  nv 1993 An American Childhood
HNom NNom  nv 1990 Bones
NNom  1988 Dead Men on TV
NNom  1990 Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates
HNom Neb  nt 1987 Rachel in Love
 1988 The City, Not Long After
Neb  1987 The Falling Woman

Myers, John Myers

[Pf] 1949 Silverlock

Nahin, Paul J.

 nf 1993 Time Machines
   A physicist looks at time machines — mlo

Nathan, Robert

 nv 1956 Digging the Weans
[a] 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] 1949 Cold War

Newman, Kim

 1992 Anno Dracula

Nichols, Peter

Hugo  nf 1979 The Science Fiction Encyclopedia

Niven, Larry

HNom  1968 All the Myriad Ways
HNom  nv 1975 ARM
 nt  At the Core
   Recommended by jam
 1972 Cloak of Anarchy
   Recommended by arl
NNom  nt 1967 Flatlander
Hugo [g] 1971 Inconstant Moon
Hugo  1966 Neutron Star
HNom NNom  nt 1969 Not Long Before the End
HNom  1973 Protector
Hugo Neb [i] 1970 Ringworld
Hugo  nt 1975 The Borderland of Sol
 nt 1967 The Ethics of Madness
HNom  nv 1971 The Fourth Profession
Hugo [g] 1974 The Hole Man
NNom  1984 The Integral Trees
HNom  1967 The Jigsaw Man
HNom  1989 The Return of William Proxmire
HNom  1980 The Ringworld Engineers
  World of Ptavvs
   Recommended by jam

Niven, Larry and Jerry Pournelle

HNom  1985 Footfall
HNom NNom  1975 Inferno
HNom  1977 Lucifer’s Hammer
[Psf] 1981 Oath of Fealty
HNom NNom [i] 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

 1961 Catseye
 1968 Dark Piper
   Recommended by kp
 1959 Galactic Derelict
   Recommended by mlo
 1963 Judgment on Janus
   Recommended by kp
 1962 Lord of Thunder
 1966 Moon of Three Rings
   Recommended by kp
 1964 Ordeal in Otherwhere
 1956 Plague Ship
   Part of Solar Queen series
 1965 Postmarked the Stars
   Recommended by kp
 1965 Quest Crosstime
 1955 Sargasso of Space
 1955 Sargasso of Space
   Recommended by kp
 1960 Sioux Spaceman
   Very minor — kp
 1957 Star Born
 1958 Star Gate
[i] 1950 Starman’s Son
   AKA ‘Daybreak 2250 A.D.’ A classic juvenile — po
 1960 Storm Over Warlock
   Recommended by mlo
 1959 The Beast Master
[i] 1954 The Stars Are Ours
 1958 The Time Traders
   Recommended by mlo
 1968 The Zero Stone
   Recommended by kp
 1969 Uncharted Stars
   Recommended by kp
 1966 Victory on Janus
   Recommended by kp
 1959 Voodoo Planet
   Recommended by kp
HNom [Pf] 1963 Witch World
HNom  nt 1967 Wizard’s World

Nourse, Alan E.

 1974 Bladerunner
   NOT the same as the movie — po
[f] nt 1956 Brightside Crossing
 nt 1953 Nightmare Brother
 1962 Raiders from the Rings
 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] 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

 1978 Poe Must Die

Oliver, Chad

NNom  1983 Ghost Town
 1971 The Shores of Another Sea
   Recommended by po
 1957 The Winds of Time
   Recommended by po
[f] 1954 Transformer

Oltion, Jerry

HNom  nv 1996 Abandon in Place

Oltion, Jerry and Lee Goodloe

NNom  nv 1992 Contact

Orwell, George

[a,i,Psf] 1949 1984
   Probably the most famous SF book ever written — mlo
HNom [a] 1946 Animal Farm

Padgett, Lewis

 ps  Pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
[a] 1946 Chessboard Planet
   Also titled the Fairy Chessmen
[b] 1948 Ex Machina
[f] 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] 1942 The Twonky
[d] 1943 Time Locker
[a,b,f] nt 1944 When the Bough Breaks

Palmer, David

[i] 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] 1954 A Mirror for Observers
   Pangborn’s best — po
[a,f] nt 1951 Angel’s Egg
HNom [i] 1964 Davy
NNom  nt 1971 Mount Charity
 1975 The Company of Glory
   Recommended by po
[a] nt 1954 The Music Master of Babylon
 1953 West of the Sun
   Recommended by po

Panshin, Alexi

 1969 Masque World
   Anthony Villiars #3
HNom Neb  1968 Rite of Passage
   In RAH’s style and (one of his better novels) — po
 1968 Star Well
   Anthony Villiars #1
 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  1995 Celestis

Pdgett, Lewis

HNom  1945 What You Need

Peake, Mervyn

 nt 1956 Boy in Darkness
   A Titus Groan story. Recommended by arl
[i,k,Pf] 1950 Gormenghast
   This series reads as if Charles Dickens’ stories were written by Franz Kafka — arl
[i,k,Pf] 1959 Titus Alone
   Ghormenghast #3
[i,k,Pf] 1956 Titus Groan
   Ghormenghast #2

Petrey, Susan C.

HNom  1980 Spidersong

Phillips, A. M.

[d] nf 1939 Time-Travel Happens!

Phillips, Mark

 ps  Pseudonym of Randall Garrett and Lawrence Jannifer
HNom  1959 Brain Twister
   Originally titled “That Sweet Little Old Lady”.
 1960 The Impossibles
  Twisted

Phillips, Peter

[a,f] 1948 Dreams Are Sacred
[f] nt 1949 Manna

Phillips, Rog

[a,f] 1952 Lost Memory
HNom  nt 1958 Rat in the Skull
[f] 1958 The Yellow Pill

Phillpotts, Eden

[a] 1938 Saurus

Pierce, John R.

 ps  See also pseudonym J. J. Coupling
[a,b,f] 1944 Invariant
 1962 John Sze’s Future
   A loving jab at John W. Campbell’s foibles — mlo

Pierce, Meredith Ann

 1985 The Woman Who Loved Reindeer
   Recommended by po

Piercy, Marge

[Psf] 1976 Woman on the Edge of Time

Pinkwater, Daniel M.

 1979 Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy From Mars
   Recommended by mlo
 1976 Lizard Music
   Recommended by po & mlo
  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] 1962 Little Fuzzy
[i] 1965 Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen
[b,f] nt 1957 Omnilingual
[b] nt 1948 Police Operation
 1963 Space Viking
   Quintessential space opera! — mlo
 1963 The Cosmic Computer
   Also titled “Junkyard Planet”
Good, hard SF — mlo
[b] nv 1950 The Last Enemy
[i] 1964 The Other Human Race
[a,e,f] 1947 Time and Time Again

Plauger, P. J.

HNom NNom  1975 Child of All Ages

Poe, Edgar Allan

[g] 1841 A Descent into the Maelstrom
[e]  A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
   Recommened by arl
[k] 1838 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

Pohl, Frederik

HNom NNom  1980 Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
[g] 1966 Day Million
Hugo  1985 Fermi and Frost
Hugo Neb [i] 1977 Gateway
HNom NNom  1979 JEM
HNom Neb [Psf] 1976 Man Plus
NNom  nv 1979 Mars Masked
HNom  1983 Servant of the People
NNom  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] 1955 Gladiator at Law
 1974 Mute, Inglorious Tam
Hugo  1972 The Meeting
[f] nt 1961 The Quaker Cannon
[i,Psf] 1952 The Space Merchants
 1959 Wolfbane

Pollack, Frank

 1906 Finis
   Recommended by arl

Pollack, Rachel

NNom  1993 Temporary Agency

Popkes, Steven

NNom  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  1985 Dinner at Deviant’s Palace
NNom  1995 Expiration Date
 1992 Last Call
 1987 On Stranger Tides
   Recommended by mlo
[Pf] 1983 The Anubis Gates
   Recommended by mlo
[k] 1979 The Drawing of the Dark
   Recommended by mlo
 1989 The Stress of Her Regard
   Recommened by arl

Pratchett, Terry

 1992 Lords and Ladies
   May be the best Discworld novel — po
  Strata
   A comic sendup of mega-engineering books like Ringworld. Recommended by cjh
[k] 1985 The Colour of Magic
   Recommended by kp
First of at least a dozen Discworld books

Pratt, Fletcher

 1952 The Blue Star
[a,k,Pf] 1948 Well of the Unicorn

Price, Meredith

  The Dark Angel

Priest, Christopher

HNom [Psf] 1974 Inverted World
HNom  nt 1979 Palely Loitering
[Pf] 1984 The Glamour
HNom  nv 1978 The Watched

Priestley, J. B.

[a] 1938 The Doomsday Men
 1961 The Thirty-First of June
   Recommended by arl

Pronzini, Bill and Barry N. Malzberg

 1980 Prose Bowl
   Novel version – the shorter version is better — arl

Ptacek, Kathryn

 1988 In Silence Sealed
   Recommended by arl

Pynchon, Thomas

NNom  1973 Gravity’s Rainbow
[Pf] 1966 The Crying of Lot 49

Rand, Ayn

 1946 Anthem

Randall, Marta

NNom  nv 1980 Dangerous Games
NNom  1976 Islands
 1983 The Sword of Winter
   Recommended by arl

Randall, Robert

 ps  Pseudonym of Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett
 1959 The Dawning Light
 1957 The Shrouded Planet

Raphael, Rick

[b] 1959 A Filbert Is a Nut
HNom  nt 1963 Code Three
[f] nv 1960 Make Mine…Homogenized
HNom  1964 Once a Cop

Reamy, Tom

HNom NNom  1978 Blind Voices
HNom Neb  nt 1975 San Diego Lightfoot Sue
NNom  nv 1974 Twilla

Reaves, Michael

 1982 Darkworld Detective
   Recommended by po
 1991 Street Magic
   Recommended by po

Rebetez-Cortes, Rene

[g] 1972 The New Prehistory

Reed, Kit

 1962 Mister Da V.
   Recommended by po

Reed, Robert

HNom  1996 Decency
HNom  1990 The Utility Man

Resnick, Mike

HNom  nt 1994 A Little Knowledge
HNom  1994 Barnaby in Exile
HNom NNom  nv 1990 Bully!
HNom NNom  nt 1989 For I Have Touched the Sky
 1988 Ivory
Hugo NNom  1988 Kirinyaga
HNom  1993 Mwalimu in the Squared Circle
HNom  1991 One Perfect Morning, With Jackals
 1989 Paradise
 1986 Santiago
Hugo Neb  NV 1994 Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge
 nv 1987 Stalking the Unicorn
   Recommended by po
 1987 The Dark Lady
HNom  nt 1996 The Land of Nod
HNom  1992 The Lotus and the Spear
Hugo  nt 1990 The Manamouki
HNom NNom  nt 1995 When the Old Gods Die
HNom  1991 Winter Solstice

Resnick, Mike and Susan Schwartz

HNom NNom  nv 1994 Bibi

Reynolds, Mack

[f] 1956 Compounded Interest
[f] 1962 Earthlings Go Home!
[e] 1950 Isolationist
[Psf] 1973 Looking Backward from the Year 2000
[a] 1954 Prone
HNom  nt 1961 Status Quo
 nt 1965 The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial
[f] 1952 The Business, as Usual

Reynolds, Ted

HNom  1979 Can These Bones Live?
HNom  nv 1979 Ker-Plop

Rice, Ann

[a]  1943 The Refugee

Rice, Jane

[a] 1942 Idol of the Flies

Riley, Frank and Mark Clifton

Hugo  1954 They’d Rather Be Right
   Easily the weakest novel ever to win a Hugo — mlo

Roberts, Keith

 1970 Anita
[Psf] 1966 Pavane
NNom  nv 1971 The God House
 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.

 1958 The Power
   Recommended by arl

Robinson, Kim Stanley

HNom  nv 1990 A Short, Sharp Shock
NNom  1990 Before I Wake
HNom NNom  nt 1983 Black Air
Hugo  1996 Blue Mars
HNom NNom  nv 1986 Escape from Kathmandu
Hugo NNom  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
  Icehenge
   Three interlocking but independent stories
HNom  nv 1987 Mother Goddess of the World
HNom Neb  1992 Red Mars
HNom Neb  nv 1987 The Blind Geometer
NNom  nt 1984 The Lucky Strike
NNom  1984 The Wild Shore
HNom  nv 1982 To Leave a Mark
NNom  1981 Venice Drowned
NNom  1992 Vinland the Dream
   Recommended by mlo

Robinson, Spider

Hugo  nv 1976 By Any Other Name
HNom  1977 Dog Day Evening
Hugo  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] 1940 Quietus
 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  1996 These Shoes Strangers Have Died Of

Rohmer, Sax

 1913 The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

Rosenblum, Mary

HNom  nv 1996 Gas Fish

Rothman, Milton A.

[a,f] 1939 Heavy Planet

Rotsler, William

HNom NNom  nt 1972 Patron of the Arts

Rucker, Rudy

[g] 1983 Message Found in a Copy of Flatland
 1990 The Hollow Earth
   Recommended by arl
[Pf] 1980 White Light

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn

NNom  nt 1990 A Time for Every Furpose
NNom  nt 1989 Fast Cars
NNom  1990 Story Child
HNom NNom  nv 1991 The Gallery of His Dreams

Rushdie, Salman

[Pf] 1975 Grimus
 1980 Midnight’s Children
   Recommended by dgg

Russ, Joanna

NNom  1970 And Chaos Died
NNom  nt 1982 Mystery of the Young Gentleman
[g] 1972 Nobody’s Home
NNom  1968 Picnic on Paradise
NNom  nt 1971 Poor Man, Beggar Man
Hugo NNom  nv 1982 Souls
NNom  1979 The Extraordinary Voyages of Amelie Bertrand
NNom [Psf] 1975 The Female Man
NNom  nt 1970 The Second Inquisition
HNom Neb  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] 1955 Allamagoosa
[a,e,f] nt 1950 Dear Devil
[a] 1948 Dreadful Sanctuary
[f] 1952 Fast Falls the Eventide
[a,b,f] nt 1947 Hobbyist
[f] 1941 Jay Score
   Incorporated in Men, Martians and Machines
[a,b,f] nv 1948 Late Night Final
[i] 1955 Men, Martians and Machines
   A collection
[a] nv 1946 Metamorphosite
[b] Minor Ingredient
[a,i] 1939 Sinister Barrier
[a,d,f] nt 1943 Symbiotica
   Incorporated in “Men, Martians and Machines”
 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] 1957 Wasp
   A lot of fun — mlo

Russell, Mary Doria

 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]  Adolescence of P1

Ryman, Geoff

NNom  nv 1993 Fan
NNom [Pf] nv 1987 The Unconquered Country

Saberhagen, Fred

 1992 A Question of Time
   Recommended by po
[i] se Berserker Series
 1982 Dominion
[i] 1973 Empire of the East
   A trilogy (The Broken Lands, xx and xx) begun in 1968
[f] 1963 Fortress Ship
HNom  1966 Mr. Jester

Sallis, James

NNom  1970 The Creation of Bennie Good

Sarban

[Pf] 1952 The Sound of His Horn

Sargent, Pamela

HNom Neb  nt 1992 Danny Goes to Mars

Saunders, Jake

NNom  1976 Back to the Stone Age

Sawyer, Robert J.

NNom  1996 Starplex
HNom Neb  1995 The Terminal Experiement / Hobson’s Choice

Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann

Neb  1989 The Healer’s War

Schachner, Nat

[e] nv 1938 The Ultimate Metal
   Great combination of speculation and purple prose — arl

Schenck, Hilbert

 1982 A Rose for Armageddon
 1981 At the Eye of the Ocean
 1988 Chronosequence
   Recommended by po & mlo
HNom  nv 1983 Hurricane Claude
[g] 1984 Send Me a Kiss by Wire
[j] 1984 Silicon Muse
   Recommended by arl
HNom NNom  nv 1979 The Battle of the Abaco Reef
HNom NNom  1983 The Geometry of Narrative
[g] nt 1978 The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck

Schmitz, James H.

 1960 Agent of Vega
   Classic space opera. A fix-up novel
 1965 Balanced Ecology
 nt 1965 Goblin Night
   An early Telzey story
 nv Gone Fishing
[a,f] 1955 Grandpa
 1968 Just Curious
   Recommended by mlo
HNom  nv 1961 Lion Loose
 nt 1962 Novice
   The first Telzey story. Recommended by mlo
 1962 Tale of Two Clocks, A
   Also titled “Legacy”
Recommended by mlo
 nt 1968 The Custodians
   Recommended by mlo
 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] 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

 1985 Five-Twelfths of Heaven

Shaara, Michael

[g] 1956 2066: Election Day
   [This is not in Hartwell]
[a] nt 1952 Orphans of the Void

Sharkey, Jack

[f] 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] 1966 Light of Other Days
[Psf] 1975 Orbitsville
 nv 1976 The Gianconda Caper
   Recommended by kp & kb
[Psf] 1969 The Palace of Eternity
HNom  1986 The Ragged Astronauts

Shea, Michael

[Pf] 1982 Nifft the Lean
   Recommended by kp
NNom  nt 1979 The Angel of Death
HNom NNom  nt 1980 The Autopsy

Sheckley, Robert

[f] 1952 Cost of Living
 1969 Dimension of Miracles
   Recommended by po
[g] 1957 Ghost V
[Psf] 1963 Journey Beyond Tomorrow
 1966 Mindswap
   Recommended by po
[a] nt 1953 Shape
[f] 1952 The Impacted Man
[f] 1958 The Prize of Peril
[f] 1959 The World of Heart’s Desire
HNom  1958 Time Killer
   Also titled “Immortality Delivered” and “Immortality, Inc.”
[a,f] 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  1990 Godspeed

Sheffield, Charles and David Bischoff

 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] 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
 1987 Life During Wartime
NNom  nt 1984 Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule
HNom Neb  nv 1986 R&R
NNom  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  1988 Deserted Cities of the Heart
NNom  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] 1940 An Old Captivity
 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  1987 Temple to a Minor Goddess
 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  1971 A Time of Changes
  Alpha series
   An excellent reprint anthology series
HNom Neb  nv 1974 Born with the Dead
[Psf] 1970 Downward to the Earth
HNom NNom  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  1971 Good News from the Vatican
HNom NNom  nv 1967 Hawksbill Station
NNom  nv 1983 Homefaring
HNom  1980 Lord Valentine’s Castle
Hugo NNom [i] nv 1968 Nightwings
HNom  1980 Our Lady of the Sauropods
HNom Neb  1969 Passengers
 1964 Regan’s Planet
HNom Neb  nv 1985 Sailing to Byzantium
HNom  1974 Schwartz Between the Galaxies
 1970 SF Hall of Fame Vol 1
HNom NNom  1976 Shadrach in the Furnace
 1986 Star of Gypsies
   Recommended by po
 s? 1969 Sundance
   Recommended by dgg
HNom NNom [i] 1972 The Book of Skulls
 s? 1972 The Feast of St. Dionysus
   recommended by David Grubb
[a] nt 1958 The Iron Chancellor
 1981 The Majipoor Chronicles
   Recommended by po. Nearly a fixup novel.
[i] 1969 The Man in the Maze
NNom  1968 The Masks of Time
[f] 1963 The Pain Peddlers
NNom  1982 The Pope of the Chimps
HNom NNom  nv 1987 The Secret Sharer
HNom  1975 The Stochastic Man
HNom  1971 The World Inside
   Nominated, but withdrawn from Hugo competition by Silverberg
HNom  nv 1970 The World Outside
HNom NNom  1967 Thorns
HNom NNom  nv 1969 To Jorslem
HNom NNom  1970 Tower of Glass
HNom NNom  1969 Up the Line
HNom  1972 When We Went to See the End of the World
[f] 1957 World of a Thousand Colors

Simak, Clifford D.

HNom  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] 1952 City
[a,f] nt 1944 City
   Included in collection of same name
HNom  1973 Construction Shack
[a,e,f,g,j] 1944 Desertion
   Included in “City”
[a,b,f] 1949 Eternity Lost
HNom  1968 Goblin Reservation
[a,c,f] 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  1981 Project Pope
[Psf] 1953 Ring Around the Sun
HNom  1971 The Autumn Land
Hugo [c,f] nt 1958 The Big Front Yard
 nt 1974 The Birch Clump Cylinder
Hugo Neb  1980 The Grotto of the Dancing Deer
 nt 1974 The Marathon Photograph
HNom NNom  nv 1970 The Thing in the Stone
[a] 1951 Time and Again
HNom  1961 Time Is the Simplest Thing
   Original title “The Fisherman”
Hugo [i,Psf] 1963 Way Station
   Originally titled “Here Gather the Stars”
A personal favorite — mlo

Simmons, Dan

Hugo  1989 Hyperion
HNom NNom  1990 The Fall of Hyperion

Sinclair, Andrew

[Pf] 1967 Gog

Siodmak, Curt

[a] 1942 Donovan’s Brain
   Not the movie novelization, the original novel — jr

Sladek, John

[Psf] 1980 Roderick
   recommended by dgg
[Psf] 1983 Roderick at Random
[g] 1988 Stop Evolution in Its Tracks!

Sleator, William

 1974 House of Stairs
   Recommended by po

Slesar, Henry

[f] 1960 Chief

Smeds, Dave

NNom  1994 Short Timer

Smith, Cordwainer

[f] nt 1961 A Planet Named Shayol
 nt 1961 Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
   Recommended by mlo
 1963 Drunkboat
 nt 1961 Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons
   Recommended by mlo
[f,g] nt 1959 No, No, Not Rogov!
[i,Psf] 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] 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] 1955 The Game of Rat and Dragon
[f] nt 1960 The Lady Who Sailed the Soul
HNom  1964 The Planet Buyer
   Original title: “The Boy Who Bought Old Earth”
 1963 Think Blue, Count Two
   Recommended by po

Smith, Dean Wesley

NNom  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 “Lensmen Series”
   Quintessential Space Opera! — mlo
 se “Skylark” series
   Nearly unreadable, but seminal to the field. You should try to read it! — mlo
 1954 Children of the Lens
   Lensman #6
 1950 First Lensman
   Lensman #3
 1950 Galactic Patrol
   Lensman #2
 1951 Grey Lensman
   Seminal but bad (though not as bad as Skylark). Lensman #4
 1953 Second Stage Lensman
   Lensman #5
HNom  1965 Skylark DuQuesne
   The last “Skylark” story and the only thing written by the beloved Doc Smith eligible for nomination for a Hugo.
 1930 Skylark of Three
   Skylark #2
 1935 Skylark of Valeron
   Skylark #3
 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
 1948 Triplanetary
   Lensman #1

Smith, George O.

[a] nt 1943 Lost Art
[a,f] nt 1942 QRM-Interplanetary
   Incorporated in “Venus Equilateral”
[i] 1947 Venus Equilateral
   Collection of all the “Venus Equilateral” stories except the last one in the Campbell Memorial Anthology

Smith, Thorne

[k] 1931 Night Life of the Gods
 1926 Topper
[k] 1931 Turnabout
   More a 30s comedy than fantasy, but contains a distinct fantastic element – – mlo

Sohl, Jerry

 1953 Costigan’s Needle
   Recommended by arl

Somtow, S. P.

 ps  Pseudonym of Somtow Sucharitkul

Soukup, Martha

Neb  1994 A Defense of the Social Contract
HNom NNom  1991 Dog’s Life
HNom  nt 1990 Over the Long Haul
HNom  1992 The Arbitrary Placement of Walls
HNom  1993 The Story So Far
NNom  nt 1992 Things Not Seen

Spinrad, Norman

NNom [j] 1973 A Thing of Beauty
HNom NNom [Psf] 1969 Bug Jack Barron
 s? 1967 Carcinoma Angels
   recommended by David Grubb
HNom NNom  nv 1988 Journals of the Plague Years
 1964 Last of the Romany
   Recommended by arl
HNom  nv 1974 Riding the Torch
   Excellent! — arl & mlo
NNom  nt 1969 The Big Flash
 1972 The Iron Dream
 nt  The Lost Continent
   Recommended by jcook@aaas.org
  1967 The Men in the Jungle
NNom  1983 The Void Captain’s Tale

Springer, Nancy

HNom NNom  1986 The Boy Who Plaited Manes

St. Clair, Margaret

[f] 1956 Horrer Howce
[a] 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] 1979 The Walking Shadow

Stallman, Robert

NNom  1980 The Orphan

Stanton, Mary

 1988 The Heavenly Horse from the Uttermost West
   Recommended by po

Stapledon, Olaf

[i] 1931 Last & First Men
[i] 1935 Odd John
[a] 1944 Sirius
 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  1995 The Diamond Age

Sterling, Bruce

HNom  nt 1996 Bicycle Repairman
NNom  nt 1983 Cicada Queen
HNom  nt 1993 Deep Eddy
HNom  1985 Dinner in Audoghast
HNom NNom  1989 Dori Bangs
HNom NNom  nt 1987 Flowers of Edo
NNom  nv 1985 Green Days in Brunei
HNom  1996 Holy Fire
HNom  1988 Islands in the Net
HNom  1988 Our Neural Chernobyl
NNom  1985 Schismatrix
HNom  1982 Spider Rose
NNom  1984 Sunken Gardens
HNom NNom [j] nt 1982 Swarm
  The Artificial Kid
   Probably the first cyberpunk novel – jds

Stevenson, Robert Louis

[i,k] nv 1886 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stevermer, Caroline

 1994 A College of Magics
   Recommended by mlo

Stewart, George R.

[a,i,Psf] 1949 Earth Abides

Stewart, Mary

 1970 The Crystal Cave
   Recommended by po
 1973 The Hollow Hills
   Recommended by po

Stewart, W. Gregory

NNom  1991 The button, and what you know
   [Check capitalization]

Stith, John E.

NNom  1990 Redshift Rendezvous

Stockton, Frank

 1889 The Great War Syndicate
 nv  The Lady or the Tiger
   Recommended by jr

Stoker, Bram

[i,k] 1897 Dracula

Strete, Craig

   The Squaw
NNom  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] 1953 A Saucer of Loneliness
[a] nt 1953 A Way of Thinking
[f] 1956 And Now the News…
[a,c] nv 1952 Baby Is Three
   Incorporated into “More Than Human”
[a] 1947 Bianca’s Hands
[a] nt 1955 Bulkhead
[f] nt 1940 Butyl and the Breather
NNom  nt 1973 Case and the Dreamer
[f] 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] 1946 Memorial
[a,e,f] nt 1946 Mewhu’s Jet
[a,c,f] nt 1941 Microcosmic God
[a,i,Psf] 1953 More Than Human
   A fix-up novel
[a] 1953 Mr. Costello, Hero
HNom  nt 1960 Need
[g] 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] 1950 The Dreaming Jewels
[f,g] 1949 The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast
NNom  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] 1953 The World Well Lost
[a,b,f] 1947 Thunder and Roses
[f] nt 1947 Tiny and the Monster
[a] nv 1954 To Here and the Easel
[a] 1955 Twink
HNom [Psf] 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  1981 Absent Thee from Felicity a While
HNom  nt 1982 Aquila

Sullivan, Timothy Robert

NNom  1981 Zeke

Swann, Thomas Burnett

HNom [Pf] 1966 Day of the Minotaur
 1974 How Are the Mighty Fallen
   Recommended by po
 1968 Moondust
   Recommended by po
 1977 Queens Walk in the Dusk
 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  1991 Stations of the Tide
HNom  1996 The Dead
HNom  1989 The Edge of the World
NNom  nt 1980 The Feast of St. Janis
NNom  nt 1984 Trojan Horse
 1987 Vacuum Flowers
   Recommended by mlo
HNom  1995 Walking Out

Swanwick, Michael and William Gibson

HNom NNom  nt 1985 Dogfight

Swift, Jonathan

[i,k] 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  1971 The Bear with a Knot on His Tail
   Included in ‘The Stardust Voyages’
 1975 The Stardust Voyages
   Fix-up novel

Tanner, Charles R.

 nv 1931 Tumithak of the Corridors
   Important for its day — mlo

Tarr, Judith

 1989 A Wind in Cairo
   Minor, but fun — po
 1992 Lord of the Two Lands
   An excellent historial fantasy — mlo
 1995 Pillar of Fire
   A brilliant historical novel which is just barely a fantasy, too — mlo

Taylor, Robert

NNom  1968 Idiot’s Mate

Temple, William F.

[a,f] nt 1939 The Four-Sided Triangle

Tenn, William

[f] nt 1963 Bernie the Faust
[a] 1951 Betelgeuse Bridge
[a,f] 1948 Brooklyn Project
[a,b,e,f] 1947 Child’s Play
[a,f] nt 1954 Down Among the Dead Men
   Great story — arl
[a,h] nv 1952 Firewater
[f] 1951 Null-P
 1968 Of Men and Monsters
   Recommended by po
[a] nt 1954 Party of the Two Parts
[a,f] 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] 1976 Hotel de Dream

Tensei, Kono

[g] 1982 Triceratops

Tepper, Sheri S.

HNom  1989 Grass
 1988 Marianne, the Madame and the Momentary Gods
   Recommended by po.
 1989 Marianne, the Matchbox and the Malachite Mouse
 The Awakener
   Recommended by po.
 1988 The Gate to Women’s Country
   Recommended by po.
 1985 The Song of Mavin Manyshaped
   Recommended by po.

Tevis, Walter

NNom  1980 Mockingbird

Thomas, Theodore L.

NNom  1967 The Doctor
[f,g] nt 1962 The Weather Man

Thompson, W. R.

HNom  1990 VRM-547

Tiptree Jr., James

 ps  Pseudonym of Alice Sheldon
NNom  nv 1975 A Momentary Taste of Being
HNom NNom  1972 And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side
 nt 1969 Beam Us Home
   Yes! — po
 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  1973 Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death
HNom  nt 1972 Painwise
HNom  1982 The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever
Hugo NNom  nv 1973 The Girl Who Was Plugged In
NNom  1969 The Last Flight of Dr. Ain
HNom NNom  nv 1985 The Only Neat Thing to Do
[g] 1976 The Psychologist Who Wouldn’t Do Awful Things to Rats
HNom Neb [j] nt 1977 The Screwfly Solution
   Recommended by arl
HNom  1977 Time-Sharing Angel
HNom  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] 1952 The Fellowship of the Ring
   Lord of the Rings #1
[i] 1937 The Hobbit
[k,i] 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] 1954 The Return of the King
   Lord of the Rings #3
 1977 The Silmarillion
[k,Pf] 1953 The Two Towers
   Lord of the Rings #2

Treece, Henry

 1966 The Green Man
   Recommended by arl

Tubb, E. C.

 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

 1974 Ice and Iron
   Recommended by arl
 1958 The Lincoln Hunters
 1952 The Long Loud Silence
   Recommended by arl
[a] 1951 The Tourist Trade
 1954 Wild Talent
   Recommended by po.
HNom NNom [Psf] 1970 Year of the Quiet Sun

Turner, George

NNom  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
 1992 Guns of the South
   An excellent alternate history novel — mlo
 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  1976 Stone Circle
Neb  1982 The Bone Flute

Tutuola, Amos

[a] 1953 Palm Wine Drunkard

Twain, Mark

[i] 1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
[i] Letters from Earth
  1916 The Mysterious Stranger

Updike, John

[g] 1983 The Chaste Planet
[Pf] 1984 The Witches of Eastwick

Utley, Steven and Howard Waldrop

NNom  nt 1976 Custer’s Last Jump

van Ewyck, Annemarie

[g] 1984 The Lens

van Loggem, Manuel

[g] 1974 Pairpuppets

Van Scyoc, Sydney

 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] 1948 Dormant
 1956 Empire of the Atom
   ‘I, Claudius’, revisited — mlo
[a,f] 1950 Enchanted Village
[a,f] nt 1944 Far Centaurus
   Excellent idea story — mlo
[f] 1950 Process
 nv 1942 Secret Unattainable
[a,i] 1940 Slan
[k,Pf] 1947 The Book of Ptath
HNom  nt 1945 The Mixed Men
[f] 1948 The Monster
[f] nt 1941 The Seesaw
   Incorporated into ‘The Weapon Shops of Isher’
[f] nt 1943 The Storm
[i] 1963 The Voyage of the Space Beagle
   A fix-up novel
 1959 The War Against the Rull
   A fix-up novel
Recommended by mlo
 1947 The Weapon Makers
[a,c,d,f] nt 1942 The Weapon Shop
 1951 The Weapon Shops of Isher
   Sequel to ‘Empire of the Atom’, but not as good — mlo
 1962 The Wizard of Linn
HNom [a,i] 1945 The World of Null-A
[b,f] 1940 Vault of the Beast

Vance, Jack

HNom  nv 1974 Assault on a City
 1952 Big Planet
   Recommended by mlo
 1969 Emphyrio
   Recommended by mlo
 1963 Green Magic
   Recommended by mlo
NNom  1983 Lyonesse
 1996 Night Lamp
   Quintessential Vance — mlo
[a] nv 1952 Telek
 1981 The Book of Dreams
   Demon Princes #5
Hugo  nt 1962 The Dragon Masters
[a,i,k,Pf] 1950 The Dying Earth
[Pf] 1965 The Eyes of the Overworld
   Recommended by kp
 1979 The Face
   Demon Princes #4
[a] nt 1955 The Gift of Gab
 1964 The Killing Machine
   Demon Princes #2
 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
 1964 The Palace of Love
   Demon Princes #3
 nt 1950 The Potters of Firsk
   Recommended by mlo
 1964 The Star King
   Demon Princes #1

Varley, Jack

 1986 The Unprocessed Word
   Recommended by arl

Varley, John

HNom NNom  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  1983 Millennium
HNom NNom  nt 1979 Options
Hugo Neb  nv 1984 Press Enter []
NNom  nt 1975 Retrograde Summer
HNom  1992 Steel Beach
HNom  nt 1978 The Barbie Murders
[Psf] 1977 The Ophiuchi Hotline
Hugo Neb  nv 1978 The Persistence of Vision
HNom [g] nt 1976 The Phantom of Kansas
Hugo NNom  1981 The Pusher
HNom NNom  1979 Titan
HNom  1980 Wizard

Vercors,

HNom  1961 Sylva

Verne, Jules

[i] 1870 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
 1873 Around the World in Eighty Days
 1862 Five Weeks in a Balloon
[i] 1865 From the Earth to the Moon
[g]  In the Year 2889
[i] 1863 Journey to the Center of the Earth
  The Mysterious Island

Vian, Boris

[g] 1955 The Dead Fish

Vidal, Gore

NNom  1978 Kalki
[a] 1954 Messiah

Vinge, Joan D.

Hugo  nt 1977 Eyes of Amber
HNom NNom  nv 1978 Fireship
Hugo NNom [i] 1980 The Snow Queen
HNom  1991 The Summer Queen
 nt 1974 The Tin Soldier
   Recommended by po
HNom  1978 View from a Height
 1984 World’s End
   A very interesting middle-of-series item — po

Vinge, Vernor

Hugo  1992 A Fire Upon the Deep
[g] nv 1966 Bookworm Run!
 nt 1968 Grimm’s Story
   Included in ‘Grimm’s World’
HNom  1986 Marooned in Real Time
 nt 1970 Original Sin
   Recommended by mlo
HNom  nt 1986 The Barbarian Princess
   Included in ‘Grimm’s World’
 1984 The Peace War
   Recommended by mlo
HNom NNom  nv 1981 True Names

Volsky, Paula

 1992 Illusion
   Recommended by po

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

HNom [Psf] 1963 Cat’s Cradle
 1965 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
[g] 1961 Harrison Bergeron
 1952 Player Piano
[a] 1950 Report on the Barnhouse Effect
HNom NNom  1969 Slaughterhouse-Five
[a] 1954 The Big Trip Up Yonder
HNom [i,Psf] 1959 The Sirens of Titan
[a] 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  1985 Flying Saucer Rock and Roll
NNom  1982 God’s Hooks
NNom  1985 Heirs of the Perisphere
HNom  1982 Ike at the Mike
NNom  1976 Mary Margaret Road-Grader
HNom  1987 Night of the Cooters
NNom  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

 1955 Address Centauri
   Recommended by arl
 1967 Croyd
   Recommended by arl

Walling, William

HNom  nt 1974 Nix Olympica

Walpole, Horace

[k] 1765 Castle of Otranto
   The great granddaddy of the gothic

Walton, Evangeline

 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  1993 The Beggar in the Living Room

Watson, Ian

[Psf] 1978 Miracle Visitors
HNom NNom  nt 1983 Slow Birds
[Psf] 1973 The Embedding
HNom [g] 1978 The Very Slow Time Machine

Watt-Evans, Lawrence

 nv 1992 The Rebirth of Wonder
   Recommended by arl
Hugo NNom  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
 1939 The New Adam

Wellman, Manly Wade

HNom  1958 Nine Yards of Other Cloth
[a] 1938 The Dark Destroyers
[a] 1955 Walk Like a Mountain

Wells, H. G.

   Men Like Gods
   The Door in the Wall
   Recommended by pt
 1901 The First Men in the Moon
 1903 The Food of the Gods
   The Glass Egg
[i] 1897 The Invisible Man
 nv 1896 The Island of Dr. Moreau
[g,j] nv 1903 The Land Ironclads
 1901 The New Accelerator
   The Shape of Things to Come
 1897 The Star
[c,i] nv 1895 The Time Machine
[i] 1898 The War of the Worlds
[i] 1898 When the Sleeper Wakes

Whelan, Michael

Hugo  nf 1987 Michael Whelan’s Works of Wonder

White, James

HNom  1996 Un-Birthday Boy

White, James A.

[f] nt 1962 Christmas Treason
HNom  1976 Custom Fitting
[i] 1962 Hospital Station
HNom  1961 Second Ending
[i] 1963 Star Surgeon
[a] nt 1954 The Conspirators

White, T. H.

[i,k,Pf] 1958 The Once and Future King
 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

 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  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  1987 Forever Yours, Anna
HNom NNom  1994 I Know What You’re Thinking
NNom [Psf] 1979 Juniper Time
NNom  1971 Margaret and I
NNom  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] 1957 The Mile-Long Spaceship
Neb [g] 1968 The Planners
NNom  nv 1971 The Plastic Abyss
NNom  nv 1981 The Winter Beach
Hugo NNom  1976 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
HNom  nv 1981 With Thimbles, With Forks and Hope

Willey, Elizabeth

 1995 A Sorcerer and a Gentleman
   Recommend by mlo
 1994 The Well-Favored Man
   Amber done better — po

Williams, Charles

[k] 1930 War in Heaven

Williams, Ralph

[b] 1958 Business as Usual, During Alterations
HNom  nt 1959 Cat and Mouse

Williams, Robert Moore

[a,d] 1938 Robot’s Return

Williams, Tad

 1985 Tailchaser’s Song
   Recommended by arl

Williams, Walter Jon

 1992 Aristoi
   One of the best novels in an exceptional year — po & mlo
 1997 City on Fire
   recommended by mlo
HNom  nt 1987 Dinosaurs
 1986 Hardwired
 1985 Knight Moves
   Very reminiscent of some of Zelazny’s stories, but better — mlo
NNom  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] 1940 Darker Than You Think
[a] 1954 Guinivere For Everybody
[a,b,f] 1940 Hindsight
[a] 1940 Realm of Wizardry
[a,f] nt 1939 Star Bright
[a,i] 1948 The Humanoids
 1935 The Legion of Space
   Classic very early space opera
[j] 1928 The Metal Man
   Recommended by arl
[a,c,e,f] nv 1947 With Folded Hands…
   Incorporated in “The Humanoids”

Willis, Connie

Neb  1982 A Letter from the Clearys
 All My Darling Daughters
   Recommended by jr
HNom Neb  nt 1989 At the Rialto
HNom  1990 Cibola
HNom  1979 Daisy, in the Sun
Hugo NNom  1993 Death on the Nile
Hugo Neb  1992 Doomsday Book
Hugo Neb  1992 Even the Queen
Hugo Neb  nt 1982 Fire Watch
HNom  1991 In the Late Cretaceous
HNom NNom  nv 1991 Jack
HNom  nt 1991 Miracle
HNom  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  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] 1952 Love
   [Is this actually *Richard* Wilson?]
HNom Neb  nt 1968 Mother to the World
NNom  nv 1979 The Story Writer

Wilson, Robert Charles

 1991 A Bridge of Years
   Recommended by po
 1989 Gypsies
   Recommended by po
 1994 Mysterium
   Recommended by po
 1990 The Divide
   Recommended by po
 1993 The Harvest
   Recommended by po
NNom  nt 1995 The Perseids

Wolfe, Bernard

[a,Psf] 1953 Limbo
[a] nt 1951 Self-Portrait

Wolfe, Gene

NNom  1984 A Cabin on the Coast
NNom  1972 Against the Lafayette Escadrille
[g] 1987 All the Hues of Hell
NNom  1994 Calde of the Long Sun
 nt 1984 Detective of Dreams
   Recommended by mlo
NNom  1986 Free Live Free
NNom  1973 How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion
 1970 How the Whip Came Back
   Recommended by arl
NNom  1970 Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories
NNom  1993 Nightside the Long Sun
[Pf] 1975 Peace
[g] 1984 Procreation
HNom NNom  nv 1978 Seven American Nights
 1989 Soldier of Arete
NNom  1987 Soldier of the Mist
NNom [Psf] 1983 The Citadel of the Autarch
HNom Neb [Psf] 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] 1980 The Shadow of the Torturer
HNom NNom [Psf] 1982 The Sword of the Lictor
HNom NNom  1987 The Urth of the New Sun
HNom  1981 The Woman the Unicorn Loved
NNom  1980 War Beneath the Trees
 1976 When I Was Ming the Merciless
   Recommended by jr

Wollheim, Donald A.

[f] 1942 Mimic
[f] 1954 The Lysenko Maze

Wolverton, Dave

NNom  nt 1996 After a Lean Winter

Wrede, Patricia C.

 1989 Snow White and Rose Red
   Recommended by arl

Wrede, Patricia D.

 1991 Mairelon the Magician
   Recommended by po

Wrede, Patricia D. and Caroline Stevermer

 1988 Sorcerery and Cecelia
   Quirky and delightful — po

Wright, Austin Tappan

 1942 Islandia

Wright, S. Fowler

[d] Brain
 1928 Deluge

Wu, William F.

HNom NNom  1985 Hong’s Bluff
HNom NNom  1983 Wong’s Lost and Found Emporium

Wyndham, John

 1968 Chocky
   Recommended by po
 1956 Consider Her Ways
   Recommended by po
[a,i,Psf] 1951 Day of the Triffids
[a] 1953 Out of the Deeps
[i] 1955 Rebirth
   Also titled “The Chrysalids”. Really good — po
[a] nt 1953 The Chronoclasm
[Psf] 1957 The Midwich Cookoos
 nt 1952 The Perfect Creature
   Recommended by arl
 1960 Trouble with Lichen

Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn

[Pf] 1980 Ariosto
   Recommended by po
 se 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  1992 Briar Rose
NNom  1989 Sister Light, Sister Dark
NNom  nv 1988 The Devil’s Arithmetic
NNom  1990 White Jenna

Young, Robert F.

HNom  1964 Little Dog Gone

Yulsman, Jerry

 1984 Elleander Morning

Zahn, Timothy

 1985 A Coming of Age
   Recommended by mlo
Hugo  nv 1983 Cascade Point
HNom  nt 1982 Pawn’s Gambit

Zamayatin, Victor

 1972 “We”

Zebrowski, George

NNom  1971 Heathen God
NNom  1984 The Eichmann Variations

Zelazny, Roger

NNom  1993 A Night in the Lonseome October
HNom [c,f] nt 1963 A Rose for Ecclesiastes
HNom  1966 Comes Now the Power
 1969 Creatures of Light and Darkness
   Recommended by mlo
HNom  nv 1967 Damnation Alley
   In perspective, trivial even before rotten movie — cjh
HNom  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  1969 Isle of the Dead
HNom [Pf] 1971 Jack of Shadows
 1989 Loki 7281
   Recommended by arl
Hugo NNom  1967 Lord of Light
 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] 1966 The Dream Master
   Expanded from ‘He Who Shapes’
NNom  1974 The Engine at Heartspring’s Center
NNom  nt 1967 The Keys to December
NNom  nt 1966 The Moment of the Storm
Hugo  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

 1990 The Black Throne
   Recommended by arl