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]  s