Recommended Reading List

The best of the best for those of eclectic tastes: lovers of the subtle and the fantastic.

Science Fiction

• Poul Anderson Ensign Flandry, Flandry of Terra, The Man Who Counts, Ivory and Apes and Peacocks, The Sorrow of Odin the Goth.
• Piers Anthony Macroscope.
• Issac Asimov The End of Eternity, Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun.
• Alfred Bester The Push of a Finger.
• Iain Banks Look to Windward, The Player of Games.
• Greg Bear Blood Music (books on tape by George Guidall), Slant, Forge of God, Anvil of Stars.
• Frederic Brown Short Stories.
• David Brin The Uplift War.
• Arthur Clarke Childhood's End, The Lion of Comarre.
• Philip K. Dick A Maze of Death, The Crack in Space, Ubik.
• Gordon R. Dickson The Alien Way, Sleepwalker's World.
• Greg Egan Diaspora, Our Lady of Chernobyl, Oracle, Yeyuka .
• William Gibson Neuromancer, Burning Chrome.
• James P. Hogan Voyage From Yesteryear, The Multiplex Man, Assassin, Silver Shoes for a Princess.
• Robert Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Star Beast, Waldo, Double Star.
• C. M. Kornbluth The Marching Morons, The Little Black Bag
• Raymond F. Jones Correspondence Course.
• Larry Niven Tales of Known Space, The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton, Protector, World of Ptavvs, The Mote in God's Eye.
• Damon Knight Rule Golden, Semper Fi.
• Keith Laumer Knight of Delusions, The Star Treasure, The House in November, The Ultimax Man, Hybrid, End as a Hero, A Trip to the City.
• Ursula K. LeGuin The Left Hand of Darkness, A Wizard of Earthsea.
• Fritz Lieber The Enchanted Forest.
• Paul McAuley The Invisible Country.
• Rudy Rucker Master of Space and Time, White Light.
• James H. Schmitz The Witches of Karres.
• Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.) The Screwfly Solution, The Milk of Paradise, The Man Who Walked Home, And I Found Me Here On the Cold Hill's Side, Your Haploid Heart .
• Clifford Simak Waystation, They Walked Like Men, All Flesh is Grass.
• Brian Stableford Architects of Emortality.
• Neal Stephenson Snow Crash, The Diamond Age.
• Bruce Sterling Crystal Express, The Artificial Kid, Distraction, Maneki Neko, Taklamakan .
• Michael Swanwick Vacuum Flowers, The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Collected Short Stories.
• John Varley The Phantom of Kansas, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance, Blue Champagne, Press Enter.
• Vernor Vinge True Names, A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky.
• Gene Wolfe The Fifth Head of Cerberus.

Fantasy

• Neil Gaiman + various artists Sandman Library: Preludes and Nocturnes, The Doll's House, Dream Country, Season of Mists, A Game of You, Brief Lives, Fables and Reflections, World's End, The Kindly Ones, The Wake.
• C. S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Chronicles of Narnia.
• Hope Mirrlees Lud-in-the-Mist.
• Luigi Seraphini Codex Seraphinianus.
• Bryan Talbot Adventures of Luther Arkwright, Heart of Empire, One Bad Rat.
• Alan Moore and David Lloyd V for Vendetta.
• J. R. R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit.

Mystery

• Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose.
• Philip Kerr Berlin Noir Trilogy, A Philosophical Investigation.
• Steven Saylor The Roma Sub Rosa series.

Films

• Stanley Kubrick 2001 Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon, Lolita, Spartacus.
• Alfred Hitchcock North by Northwest, Vertigo.
• John Huston Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre.
• Terry Gilliam Brazil.
• Hayao Miyazaki Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away).

General Non-fiction

• Eric Drexler Engines of Creation.
• William Lareau Conduct Expected.

Sources for Books

• Books: Public libraries San Mateo/Foster City , Palo Alto. New at Amazon, used at Bookfinder, and Powell's Bookstore, graphic novels at Last Gasp Publishing.
• Science fiction: Reviews at SF Site, author pages at Greg Egan, Paul McAuley, Michael Swanwick, Greg Bear, Bruce Sterling, David Brin, Syne Mitchell, Iain Banks, Ursula LeGuin, Bryan Talbot.

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