Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Other Sci Fi Worth Considering

High Fantasy
Terry Brooks: Fantasy Writer
Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life (2003)

Shannara
1. The Sword of Shannara (1977)
2. The Elfstones of Shannara (1982)
3. The Wishsong of Shannara (1985)

Magic Kingdom of Landover
1. Magic Kingdom for Sale - Sold (1986)
2. The Black Unicorn (1987)
3. Wizard at Large (1988)
4. The Tangle Box (1994)
5. Witches' Brew (1995)
6. A Princess of Landover (2009)

Imaginary Friends (1991)

Stephen R. Donaldson: (1947 - )

Thomas Covenant
1. Lord Foul's Bane (1977)
2. The Illearth War (1977)
3. The Power That Preserves (1977)
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (omnibus) (1977)
Gilden-Fire (1981)

Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
1. The Wounded Land (1980)
2. The One Tree (1982)
3. White Gold Wielder (1983)
The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (omnibus) (1994)

Berserker (with Poul Anderson, Edward Bryant, Larry Niven, Fred Saberhagen, Connie Willis and Roger Zelazny)
6. Berserker Base: A Collaberative Novel (1984)

Mordant's Need
1. The Mirror of Her Dreams (1986)
2. A Man Rides Through (1987)
Mordant's Need (omnibus) (2007)

Gap
1. The Real Story: The Gap into Conflict (1990)
2. The Forbidden Knowledge: The Gap into Vision (1991)
3. The Dark and Hungry God Arises: The Gap into Power (1992)
4. The Chaos and Order: The Gap into Madness (1994)
5. The This Day All Gods Die: The Gap into Ruin (1996)
The Real Story / Forbidden Knowledge (omnibus) (2011)

Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
1. The Runes of the Earth (2004)
2. Fatal Revenant (2007)
3. Against All Things Ending (2010)
4. The Last Dark (2013)

Collections
Daughter of Regals: And Other Stories (1984)
Reave the Just: And Other Tales (1998)
The Best of Stephen R. Donaldson (2011)

Anthologies edited
Strange Dreams (1993)

Terry Goodkind (1948 - ) Sword of Truth
•Sword of Truth Universe
◦Debt of Bones (1998) [SF]
◦Debt of Bones (Revised) (2001) [SF]

Sword of Truth
1 Wizard's First Rule (1994)
2 Stone of Tears (1995)
3 Blood of the Fold (1996)
4 Temple of the Winds (1997)
5 Soul of the Fire (1999)
6 Faith of the Fallen (2000)
7 The Pillars of Creation (2001)
8 Naked Empire (2003)
9 Chainfire (2005)
10 Phantom (2006)
11 Confessor (2007)

Novels
The Law of Nines (2009)
The Omen Machine (2011)

Chapterbooks
•Debt of Bones (2001)

Robert Jordan (1948 - 2007) Wheel of Time

Fallon (writing as Reagan O'Neal)
1. The Fallon Blood (1995)
2. The Fallon Pride (1981)
3. The Fallon Legacy (1982)

Wheel of Time
1. The Eye of the World (1990)
2. The Great Hunt (1990)
3. The Dragon Reborn (1991)
4. The Shadow Rising (1992)
5. The Fires of Heaven (1993)
6. Lord of Chaos (1994)
7. A Crown of Swords (1996)
8. The Path of Daggers (1998)
9. Winter's Heart (2000)
10. Crossroads of Twilight (2002)
11. Knife of Dreams (2005)
12. The Gathering Storm (2009) (with Brandon Sanderson)
13. Towers of Midnight (2010) (with Brandon Sanderson)
14. A Memory of Light (2013) (with Brandon Sanderson)

The World of Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time (1997) (with Teresa Patterson)

Eye of the World
1. From the Two Rivers (2002) a repackaging of the first half of The Eye Of The World for a younger market, includes an additional prologue titled Ravens.
2. To the Blight (2002) a repackaging of the second half of The Eye of the World for a younger market.

Great Hunt
1. The Hunt Begins (2004) a repackaging of the first half of The Great Hunt for a younger market.
2. New Threads In The Pattern (2004) a repackaging of the second half of The Great Hunt for a younger market.

New Spring (January 2004, novel, an expanded work superseding the earlier novella)





Popular and Mainstream Authors
“I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.”
― Piers Anthony- (1934 - ) http://hipiers.com/

I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humourous, and continued from there. I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.
-As quoted in 100 Most Popular Genre Fiction Authors (2005) by Bernard Alger Drew, p. 11

“At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous plants, giant serpents, hostile centaurs, that sort of thing, purely routine --and I was beginning to get bored when at last the dusky towers of Castle Roogna hove into view.”
― Piers Anthony, Crewel Lye
Macroscope (1969)
Race against Time (1973)
A Spell for Chameleon (1977)
Split Infinity (1980)
Virtual Mode (1991)

Aton
1. Chthon (1967)
2. Phthor (1975)

The Ring (1968) (with Robert E Margroff)
The E.S.P. Worm (1970) (with Robert E Margroff)
Prostho Plus (1971)
Race against Time (1973)
Of Man and Manta (omnibus) (1986)
Through the Ice (1989) (with Robert Kornwise)
Mer-Cycle (1991)
Tortoise Reform (2007)

Non fiction
Biography of an Owingre: The Autobiography of Piers Anthony to Age Fifty (1988)
Letters to Jenny (1993)
How Precious Was That While: An Autobiography (2001)

Lois McMaster Bujold (1949
The Spirit Ring (1992)
Dreamweaver's Dilemma: Short Stories and Essays (1995)
Proto Zoa (2012)


Michael Chabon (1963 - )
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2006)
Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure (2007)
The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man (2011

"...SF accustoms us to looking; it does not, in the end, tell us what we are going to have to see. SF is the window, not the view." John Clute (born 1940)
Strokes: Essays and Reviews 1966-1986 (1988) SCI FI Book CLUB





Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008)

Jurassic Park
1. Jurassic Park (1990)
2. The Lost World (1994)

A Case of Need (1968) (writing as Jeffery Hudson)
The Andromeda Strain (1969)
Dealing: Or the Berkeley to Boston Forty-brick Lost-bag Blues (1971) (writing as Michael Douglas)
The Terminal Man (1972)
The Great Train Robbery (1973)
Westworld (1974)
Eaters of the Dead (1976)aka The 13th Warrior
Congo (1980)
Sphere (1987)
Rising Sun (1991)
Disclosure (1993)
Airframe (1996) Twister (1996) (with Anne-Marie Martin)
Timeline (1998)
Prey (2002)
State of Fear (2004)
Next (2006)
Pirate Latitudes (2009)
Micro (2011) (with Richard Preston)


Cory Doctorow Canada (1971 - )
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003)
Eastern Standard Tribe (2004)
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (2005)
Little Brother (2008)
Makers (2009)
For the Win (2010)

Collections
A Place So Foreign: And Eight More (2003)
Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (2007)

Graphic Novels
Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales Of The Here And Now (2008)

Jasper Fforde (1961 - )

Thursday Next
1. The Eyre Affair (2001)
2. Lost in a Good Book (2002)
3. The Well of Lost Plots (2003)
4. Something Rotten (2004)
5. First Among Sequels (2007)
6. One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (2011)
7. The Woman Who Died A Lot (2012)




Brian Herbert (1) June 29, 1947

Timeweb series
• Timeweb (2006)
• The Web and the Stars (2007)
• Webdancers (2008)

Non-fiction
• Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert (

Hellhole Series
with Kevin J. Anderson
• Hellhole (2011)
• Hellhole Awakening (March 19, 2013)
• Hellhole Impact (2015?)

K. W. Jeter
Morlock Night 1979

Doctor Adder
1. Doctor Adder (1984)
2. The Glass Hammer (1985)
3. Death Arms (1987)

Infernal Devices
1. Infernal Devices (1986)
2. Fiendish Schemes (2013)

2002 Steven King (1947 - ) freesfonline.de

Selected Books
The Green Mile (1996)
Bag of Bones (1998)
Storm of the Century (1999)
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
Cell (2006)
Lisey's Story (2006)
Under the Dome (2009
11/23/62 )2011)
Collections
Night Shift (1978)
Different Seasons (1982)
Skeleton Crew (1985)
Four Past Midnight (1990)
Nightmares and Dreamscapes (1993)
Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction On The Craft Of Writing (2000)
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (2002)
The Secretary of Dreams (2006)
Just After Sunset (2008)
Full Dark, No Stars (2010)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft ( 2000)

Gregory Maguire (1954 -) Wrote OZ revision Books

Cormac McCarthy (1933 - )
The Road (2006)

Félix J. Palma (1968)

Map of Time
1. The Map of Time (2011)
2. The Map of the Sky (2012)


Neal Stephenson (1959 - )
Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller (1988)
Snow Crash (1992)
Interface (1994) with J. Frederick George
The Diamond Age (1995)
Cryptonomicon (1999)
Anathem (2008)
Reamde (2011

Gary K. Wolf (born 1941)
Roger Rabbit ◦
1 Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (1981) [only as by Gary Wolf ]
◦ 2 Who P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? (1991)

Amityville House of Pancakes Vol 3 (December 1, 2006)

Space Vulture (2008) with John J. Myers

Critically Acclaimed and other Misc. Authors
“As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.” ― Iain M Banks
Listed as one of the best British authors since 1945

The State of the Art (1989)
Consider Phlebas (1987)
The Algebraist (2004)

Jonathan Carroll freesfonline.de
The Land of Laughs (1980)
A Child Across the Sky 1990
Outside the Dog Museum (1991)
The Wooden Sea 2002
Glass Soup (2005)
The Ghost in Love (2008)

Collections
The Panic Hand (1995)

Paulo Coelho (1947)
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream (1993)

Robert Crais (born June 20, 1953) Mostly Detective Fiction
Demolition Angel (2000)
Hostage (2001)
The Two Minute Rule (2006)
Suspect (2013)

Deborah Harkness (1965 - )
1. A Discovery of Witches (2011)
2. Shadow of Night (2012)

Charlaine Harris (1951 - )
Aurora Teagarden
1. Real Murders (1990)

Lily Bard
1. Shakespeare's Landlord (1996)

Sookie Stackhouse
1. Dead Until Dark (2001)

Cemetery Girl Trilogy (with Christopher Golden)
1. Cemetery Girl (2014)

Paul Levinson (1947 - )
Bestseller: Wired, Analog, and Digital Writings (1999)
Borrowed Tides (2001)
The Plot to Save Socrates (2006)

Christopher Moore (1946 - )
Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (2003)
A Dirty Job (2006)

Patrick O’ Leary 1952) SCI FI Book CLUB
Other Voices, Other Doors (1997)
The Black Heart (2009)

R.A Salvatore, FROM FSC
The Collected Stories: The Legend of Drizzt Anthology, (date unknown
Dragons: Worlds Afire (2006) (with Keith Baker, Tracy Hickman, Scott McGough and Margaret Weis)

Demon Wars Prequels / Saga of the First King ◾
1 The Highwayman (2004)
◾ 2 The Ancient (2008)
◾ 3 The Dame (2009)
◾ 4 The Bear (2010)

William Sanders
Is It Now Yet? (2005)

Alfred Slote and Joel Schick
Robot Buddy
My Robot Buddy (1975)
My Trip to Alpha 1 (1978)
C. O. L. A. R: A tale of outer Space (1981)
Omega Station (1983)
The Trouble On Janus (1985)

Duane Swierczynski
Expiration Date (2010)

William F Wu (1951 - )
Masterplay (1987)
Hong on the Range (1989)
Temple of Forgotten Spirits (2001)

Collections
Wong's Lost and Found Emporium: And Other Oddities (1992)


Messing With Classics
Seth Grahame-Smith (1976 - )
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009)
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (2010)
Unholy Night (2012)

Steve Hockensmith (1968 - )
Holmes On the Range Mystery
1. Holmes on the Range (2006)
2. On the Wrong Track (2007)
3. The Black Dove (2008)
4. A Crack in the Lens (2009)
5. World's Greatest Sleuth! (2011)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
1. Dawn of the Dreadfuls (2010)
2. Dreadfully Ever After (2011)

Ben H Winters
The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman (2009)
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (2009)
Android Karenina (2010)
Bedbugs (2011)
The Mystery of the Missing Everything (2011)
The Last Policeman (2012)

Plays
Tooth (2008)
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (2010) (with Stephen Sislen)
Uncle Pirate (2011)

Non fiction series
Worst Case Scenario
Cars: Worst-case Scenario Pocket Guide (2009) (with David Borgenicht)
Cats: Worst-case Scenario Pocket Guide (2009) (with David Borgenicht)
Meetings: Worst-case Scenario Pocket Guide (2009) (with David Borgenicht)
Middle School: Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (2009) (with David Borgenicht, Robin Epstein)
New York City: Worst-case Scenairo Pocket Guide (2009) (with David Borgenicht)
San Francisco: Worst-case Scenario Pocket Guide (2009) (with David Borgenicht)
Man Skills: Complete Worst-case Scenario Survival Handbook (2010) (with David Borgenicht, Joshua Piven)
Paranormal: Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (2011) (with David Borgenicht)

Non fiction
The Jewish Comedy Thesaurus (2007)

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