Monday, June 30, 2014

REVISED SCI FI READING LIST

The best stories pull the readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more-to find the answer to the question: “ And then what happen?” The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination. When it comes to great fiction all genres are equal.
Stories Ed: Neil Gaiman
 
Fantasy/Sci Fi
The Golem and the Jinni (2013) Helene Wecker
The River of No Return (2013) Bee Ridgway
The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic (2013) Emily Croy Barker
A Natural History of Dragons (2013) Marie Brennan
NOS4A2 (2013) Joe Hill
Ancillary Justice (2013)Ann Leckie
Cyber Storm (2013) Matthew Mather
 
 
Reginald Bretnor
Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: The First Forty-Five Feghoot Adventures with Five More Never Previously Heard from (1962) (as by Grendel Briarton)
 
 
1st Choice Reading
Jesse F. Bone (9) (1916-2006)
Tobias S. Buckell (24)
Greg Egan (21)
Eric Flint (59)
William Hope Hodgson (8)
Tom Holt (1)
David H. Keller (3)
Ian McDonald (6)
Alan E. Nourse (21) Alan E. Nourse
Cat Rambo (33)
Carrie Ryan (1)
Michael Shaara (4)
Michael Shara (2)
Evelyn E. Smith (7)  (1922-2000)
S. M. Stirling (24)
Philip Wylie (1) (May 12, 1902 – October 25, 1971)
Rudy Rucker (47)
F. L. Wallace (1915 - 2004) Guttenburg\
Ray Cummings  [Author of The Girl in the Golden Atom]
 
Christopher L. Bennett
Only Superhuman (2012)
 
Otto Binder / Eando Binder (1911 - 1974) Gutten
burg
"I, Robot" (short story)   ( 1939)
 
James Paul Blaylock freesfonline.de
http://blastr.com/2013/01/10-novels-that-inspired-s.php
 
Elfin
1. The Elfin Ship (1982)
2. The Disappearing Dwarf (1983)
3. The Stone Giant (1989)
The Last Coin (1988)
The Man in the Moon (2002)
 
The Paper Grail (1991)
All the Bells on Earth (1995)
 
13 Phantasms: And Other Stories (2000)
The Shadow on the Doorstep  ( 2009)
 
Rachel Cantor
A Highly Unlikely Scenario: Or, a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World (2014)
 
 
Stephen Coonts  (1946 - )
Saucer
1. Saucer (2002)
2. The Conquest (2004)
3. Savage Planet (2014)
 
Justin Cronin (1962 - )
Passage
1. The Passage (2009)
2. The Twelve (2012)
3. The City of Mirrors (2014)
 
Kaja Fogilo, Phil Foglio
Agatha H and the Airship
 
Anthony Gilmore
Space Hawk (1952)

 

 

Paul Malmont

The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril (2006)
The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown (2011)
 
Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick  
The Cassandra Project (2012)
 
A. Lee Martinez
Monster (2009)
 
Alan E. Nourse (1928 - 1992) Guttenburg
Star Surgeon (1959)
The Bladerunner (1974)
 
Mark A. Rayner
How I killed Pluto and why it had it coming [electronic resource] / Mike Brown
 
Adam Roberts freesfonline.de
Swiftly Stories: That Never Were and Might Not Be (2004)
Swiftly (2008)
Yellow Blue Tibia (2009)
Adam Robots (2013)
 
Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Long Earth (with Terry Pratchett)
1. The Long Earth (2012)
2. The Long War (2013)
3. The Long Mars (2014)
 
John Ridley, 
Those Who Walk in Darkness
1. Those Who Walk in Darkness (2003)
2. What Fire Cannot Burn (2004)
 
John Scalzi freesfonline.de
Fuzzy Nation (2011)
Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas (2012)
Lock in (2014)
 
David J. Schwartz
Superpowers (2008)
Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic: The Thirteenth Rib (2013)
 
Joan Slonczewski
The Wall Around Eden (1989)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Christian Authors of Speculative Fiction

Charles Williams   (1886 - 1945)
 
J. R. R. Tolkien – (1892 - 1973)
 
C.S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
Space Trilogy
•Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
•Perelandra (aka Voyage to Venus) (1943)
•That Hideous Strength (1945)

•The Dark Tower (1977)
•Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis (ed. Walter Hooper, 1985)


Murray Leinster June 16, 1896 - June 8, 1975 ( Dean of Science Fiction) Guttenburg
First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster (1995)
 
The Forgotten Planet (1954)
The Pirates of Zan (1959)
 
Clifford D. Simak (August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988   freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
•Time and Again (1951)
•City (1952)
•Way Station (1963)
•The Goblin Reservation (1968)
Over the River and Through the Woods (1995)
 
Anthony Bucher
See Golden Age Authors
 
 
By all accounts a devout and conservative Catholic
First Story The Wagons (1959) found in The Early Lafferty, (Mar 1988)
Space Chantey (1968)
Past Master (1968)
Nine Hundred Grandmothers (1970)
Strange Doings (1972)
Fourth Mansions (1969)
Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?:
Stories About Secret Places and Mean Men (1974)
Lafferty In Orbit (1991)
Not to Mention Camels (1972)
 
Russell Kirk (October 19, 1918 – April 29, 1994)
Old House of Fear (1961)
Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales (2004)
 
Daniel Francis Galouye (11 February 1920 – 7 September 1976) Guttenburg
First Story Rebirth (1952) Imagination, March 1952, (Mar 1952)
 
Dark Universe (1961)
Counterfeit World (1964) aka Simulacron-3
 
Walter M Miller, Jr. – (1922 - 1996) Convert, then ex-Catholic, noted for A Canticle for Leibowitz and their Catholic themed works.Guttenburg
First Published Story Secret of the Death Dome (1951) Amazing Stories, January 1951
 
Saint Leibowitz
1. A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)
The Best of Walter M. Miller Jr (1980)
The science fiction stories of Walter M. Miller, Jr. / With a new introd. by David Samuelson.
 
William Peter Blatty (born January 7, 1928) HORROR  LIFE TIME AWARD
The Exorcist (1971)
Elsewhere (2009)
Crazy (2010)

James White See Award Winning Authors

Fred Saberhagen (1930 - 2007) freesfonline.de
First Story Volume PAA-PYX (1961)
found in Of Berserkers, Swords and Vampires: A Saberhagen Retrospective, (Jun 2009)
 
After the Fact (1988)
Seance for a Vampire: Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1994)
Dancing Bears (1995)
Merlin's Bones (1995)
The Book of Saberhagen (1975)
The Saberhagen: My Best (1987)
Of Berserkers, Swords and Vampires: A Saberhagen Retrospective (2009)
 
Julian Clare May (born July 10, 1931,
First Story Dune Roller (1951) found in Great Tales of Science Fiction, (1985)
 
Pliocene Exiles
1. The Many-Coloured Land (1981)
2. The Golden Torc (1981)
3. The Nonborn King (1983)
4. The Adversary (1984)
 
Gene Wolfe (1931 - ) freesfonline.de
Convert, a recent story of his in Asimov's concerned a Catholic holy card
First published story The Case of the Vanishing Ghost (1951) found in Young Wolfe, (Dec 1992)
 
The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)

The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972)
Peace (1975)
The Shadow of the Torturer (1980)

The Wizard Knight (2005)
Pirate Freedom (2007)
The Sorcerer's House (2010)
Home Fires (2011)
 
Jerry Pournelle (born August 7, 1933)freesfonline.de
 
Sandra Miesel November 25, 1941
Dreamrider (1982)
Shaman (1989)
Against Time's Arrow: The High Crusade of Poul Anderson (1978)
 
John Joseph Myers (born July 26, 1941
Space Vulture (2008) with Gary K Wolf
 
Dean Koontz-Separate File
Innocence
The City
Strangers
 
Michael Flynn (1947 - ) freesfonline.de
First Story The Quality Throop (1984) found in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, February 1984,
(Not Sure if He is a Christian but Catholic Writer Mark Shea Really Likes Him)
 
January Dancer
1. The January Dancer (2008)
2. Up Jim River (2010)
3. In the Lion's Mouth (2012)
 
Novels
In the Country of the Blind (1990)
Fallen Angels (1991) (with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle)
Eifelheim (2006)
The Wreck of the River of Stars
 
Collections
The Forest of Time: And Other Stories (1990)
Melodies of the Heart - Hugo Nominated Novella (2011)
The Iron Shirts (2011)
 
Tim Powers – (1952 - ) Self avowed in interviews.
Novels
The Anubis Gates (1983)
On Stranger Tides (1987)
Three Days to Never (2006)
 
Collections
Strange Itineraries (2004)
The Bible Repairman (2006)
 
Louise Marley 15 August 1952 freesfonline.de
Receive the Gift; Sing the Light; Sing the Warmth
The Child Goddess
 
Patricia C Wrede born March 27, 1953)
The Seven Towers (1984) Kingdom Magical Intrigue
Book of Enchantments (1996) A collection of stories

Alternate Historical Fantasy

Regency Magic
Cecelia and Kate (with Caroline Stevermer)
1. Sorcery and Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (1988)
2. The Grand Tour (2004)
3. The Mislaid Magician: or Ten Years After (2006)
Magicians of Quality (omnibus) (2005)

Regency Magic
Mairelon
1. Mairelon the Magician (1991)
2. Magician's Ward (1997)

Frontier Magic
1. Thirteenth Child (2009)
2. Across the Great Barrier (2011)
3. The Far West (2012)
 
 
 
 
John C. Wright (1961 - ) freesfonline.de
First Published Not Born a Man (1994)
Found in No Longer Dreams: An Anthology of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction, (2005)
 
Golden Age
1. The Golden Age: A Romance of the Far Future (2001)
2. The Phoenix Exultant: or, Dispossessed in Utopia (2003)
3. The Golden Transcendence (2003)
 
Everness
1. The Last Guardian of Everness (2004)
2. Mists of Everness (2005)
 
Count to a Trillion
1. Count to a Trillion (2011)
2. The Hermetic Millennia (2012)
 
 
Non-Catholic Christians
 
Cordwainer Smith (1913 - 1966)- Cordwainer Smith Award Christian Sci-Fi Writer
freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
The Best of Cordwainer Smith (1975)
The rediscovery of man : the complete short science fiction of Cordwainer Smith / edited by James A. Mann (1993)
 
Manly Wade Wellman-See World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement
Zenna Henderson-See Woman of Wonder
 
Non-Christian but Sympathatic SF/F Authors
Anderson Dickson- See Award Winning Authors
James Blish- See Award Winning Authors
 
Edward Mackin
Novels • The Noonday Devil (1986) [only as by Ralph M. McInerny ]
Shortfiction
 • The Trouble With H.A.R.R.I. (1957) Science Fiction Oddities
• A Problem in Psionics (1957)
• A Kind of Immortality (1957)
• Criffle-Shaped (1957)
• An Affair of Gravity (1958)
• Chaotics (1958)
• The Diagnoser (1959)
• Time Trap (1959)
• Trading Post (1960)
• Behind the Cloud (1961)
• Still Centre (1961)
• Under the Lemonade Hat (1962)
• Mobius Trip (1963)
• The Jung at Heart (1963)
• Key to Chaos (1964)
• The Unremembered (1964) Audio on Mindwebs
• What Next? (1965)
• Pasquali's Peerless Puppets (1966)
• Sealed Capsule (1966)
• Underpass (1982)
Essays • Anything Is Possible (1962)
 
PURE CATHOLIC SCI-FI/FANTASY

The Truth Is Out There by Amadeus
 
The Christus Experiment  by Rod Bennett
 
Regina Doman
Fairy Tale Retold
Snow White and Rose Red (1997)
The Shadow of the Bear (2002)
Black As Night (2004)
Waking Rose (2007)
The Midnight Dancers (2008)
 
Novels
Alex O'Donnell and the 40 CyberThieves (2010)
Catholic Philosopher Chick Makes Her Debut (2012) (with Rebecca Bratten Weiss)
 
T.M. Doran
Toward the Gleam (2011)
 
Dr. David C. Downing
Looking For The King An Inklings Story(2010)
 
Karina and Robert Fabian edited
Inifinite Space, Infinite God (Aug 15, 2007) KINDLE
Infinite Space, Infinite God II (Nov 15, 2010) KINDLE
Leaps of Faith by Karina Fabian, Robert Fabian and Simon Morden (Nov 1, 2008)
 
Paul Leone and Paula Graves KINDLE
Mysterious Albion (Vatican Vampire Hunters) (Volume 1) (Mar 14, 2013)
The Book of Thoth (Vatican Vampire Hunters 2) (Oct 24, 2013)
The Mystery of the Dying Woman (Jun 27, 2014)
 
Peter Kreeft
An Ocean Full of Angels: The Autobiograph of 'Isa Ben Adam (2011)
 
 Matthew Lickona's graphic novel, "Alphonse
 
Angel Fire by Mary Marshall
 
The Rising (2013) by Robert Ovies
 
Michael D. O'Brien – (1948 - )
The Father's Tale (2011)
Voyage to Alpha Centauri (2013)
 
Drumwall by Lynden Rodriguez KINDLE
 
My Visit to Hell by Paul Thigpen


TOP EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN SCI-FI/FANTASY WRITERS
Ted Dekker   
Martyr's Song
Heaven's Wager (2000)
When Heaven Weeps (2001)
Thunder of Heaven (2002)
 
Steven Lawhead
Dream Thief (1983)
 
Bill Myers
Soul Tracker
Soul Tracker (2004)
The Presence (2005)
Seeing (2007)
 
Frank Peretti  
This Present Darkness
This Present Darkness (1986)
Piercing the Darkness (1989)
 
Tilly (1988)
 
Prophet (1992)
The Oath (1995)
The Visitation (1999)
Monster (2005)
House (2006) (with Ted Dekker)
Illusion (2012)
 
Kathy Tyers
Firebird
1. Firebird (1987)
2. Fusion Fire (1988)
3. Crown of Fire (2000)
 
Novels
Crystal Witness (1989)
Shivering World (1991)
One Mind's Eye (1996)
 
 
 
 
INDEPENDENT CHRISTIAN SCI-FI FANTASY WRITERS
Brandon Barr  and Mike Lynch KINDLE
When the Sky Fell (Sky Chronicles Book 1) (Apr 4, 2009)
American Midnight (Apr 4, 2010)
After the Cross (Jun 15, 2011)
Treasures of The Heart (Dec 22, 2013)
 
Dale Estey at Open Library       
A Lost Tale by Dale Estey (Aug 1980)
The Elephant Talks to God by (Oct 5, 2006) KINDLE
 
Fr. Serafim Gascoigne
The Landing Place KINDLE
 
Timeshift: Timeshift Trilogy Book I Feb 23, 2001)
Between Two Worlds: Timeshift Trilogy Book II (Jan 17, 2011) –
What Price Paradise?: Timeshift Trilogy Book III with  John William Galt (Oct 15, 2002)
 
Promisetown (Mar 10, 2012)
 
T. J. Smith KINDLE
A World Away: The Quest of Dan Clay: Book One
The Harrowing Escape: The Quest of Dan Clay: Book Two
 
 
Chris Walley KINDLE
Lamb Among the Stars
1. The Shadow At Evening (2002)
2. The Power of the Night (2003)
3. The Dark Foundations (2006)
4. The Infinite Day (2008)
The Shadow and Night (omnibus) (2006)
 
Novels
Heart of Stone (1989) (writing as John Haworth)
Rock of Refuge (1990) (writing as John Haworth)
 
Robina Williams  KINDLE
Quantum Cat series.
Jerome and the Seraph
Angelos,
Gaea



Sci-Fi/Fantasy writers with Christian Background or sensibilities
Jo Clayton (February 15, 1939 – February 13, 1998)
First Story A Bait of Dreams (1979) found in A Bait of Dreams, (Feb 1985)
 
Water Patterns (1996) The shimmering door  / edited by Katharine Kerr  (1996)
The Man Who Loved the River (1995) Xanadu 3  | 1995
The Hour of the Sisters (1998) In the shadow of the gargoyle   (1998)
 
Roger Elwood
Darien: Guardian Angel of Jesus (1994) KINDLE
Darien's Angelwalk for Children (1995)
 
Dan Gallagher
The Pleistocene Redemption by (Oct 15, 1998)  KINDLE
 
Mark E. Rogers (born 1952)
First Story The Bridge of Catzad-Dûm (1980) found in
Adventures of Samurai Cat (1986)
The Dead  (2000) KINDLE
 
Mary Doria Russell At Open Library      
Sparrow
1. The Sparrow (1996)
2. Children of God (1998)
A Thread of Grace (2005)
Dreamers of the Day (2008)
Doc (2011)
 
Christopher Stasheff at Open Library 
The Warlock in Spite of Himself (1969)
Her Majesty's Wizard (1986)
Mind Out of Time: Stories (2003) KINDLE
Saint Vidicon to the Rescue (2005)
 
James Stevens-Arce KINDLE
Scenes from a Future Marriage (1995) New Legends (1996)
 
W R Thompson
Sideshow (1987)
 
Other Unique Voices of Catholic Christian Writing
Brian Doyle KINDLE
 
Nancy Carpentier Brown,
The Father Brown Reader: Stories from Chesterton by Nancy Carpentier Brown, Rose Decaen and Ted Schluenderfritz (Oct 26, 2007)
The Mystery of Harry Potter: A Catholic Family Guide by Nancy Carpentier Brown, Dale Ahlquist and Regina Doman (Oct 21, 2013)
The Father Brown Reader II: More Stories from Chesterton by Nancy Carpentier Brown and Ted Schluenderfritz (Jun 25, 2014)
Anthologies
Karina Fabian , Robert Fabian
Leaps of Faith
Infinite Space, Infinite God (2007)

A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales about the Christ /Editors Michael Bishop
People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy
Visions of Wonder: An Anthology of Christian Fantasy

Comic Laughter: Science Fiction for the Fun of It
Joe Haldeman

Mike Resnick
This is is My Funniest
◦1 This is My Funniest (2006)
◦2 This Is My Funniest 2 (2007)

Before the Golden Age; a science fiction anthology of the 1930s [compiled by Isaac Asimov.
IMPRINT: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1974.

The Fantastic Pulps, (Oct 1976, ed. Peter Haining
Great Irish Tales of the Unimaginable, (Sep 1994, ed. Peter Haining,
Stories: All-New Tales, (Jun 2010,

The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time (2003)
The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century (2004) with Harry Turtledove

Tales in time / [edited by Peter Crowther]
The young Oxford book of timewarp stories
The Fantasy Hall of Fame Robert Silverberg
The Mystery Hall of Fame : an anthology of classic mystery and suspense stories / selected by the Mystery Writers of America ; edited by Bill Pronzini, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh

The big book of adventure stories : the most complete volume of adventure stories ever published / edited and with a introduction by Otto Penzler ; foreword by Doug Preston.

Great tales of action and adventure. Bennett, George.

Gordon, Mel and Andrae, Thomas (June 2010). Siegel and Shuster’s Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero From the Creators of Superman

Science Fiction Hall of Fame

Steampunk! [sound recording] : an anthology of fantastically rich and strange stories / edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant
The space opera renaissance / edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramerpu
The good new stuff : adventure SF in the grand tradition
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sci Fi Reading List
THE BIG CHEESES OF SPECULATIVE FICTION
http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/

 
AWARD WINNING WRITERS
GoodReads List

Brian W. Aldiss (2000)  freesfonline.de

AUDIO ONLINE
Night That All Time Broke Out, The - Mindwebs
Taste for Dostoevsky, A - Mindwebs

1st Choice
Non-Stop 1958) or Starship
Best SF Stories of Brian W Aldiss (1988) Including
Who Can Replace a Man? • (1958) Masterpieces : the best science fiction of the twentieth century
The Saliva Tree • (1965) Dimension X; five science fiction novellas
Man in His Time (1965) Tales in time /
The Girl and the Robot with Flowers • (1965)
Working in the Spaceship Yards • (1969
Super-Toys Last All Summer Long • (1969)
 
2nd Choice
Hothouse (1962)   
Cryptozoic! (1967)
 
Poul Anderson Grandmaster (1998) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
1st Choice
The High Crusade (1960) -- Hugo Award nominee, 1961
The Corridors of Time (1965)
There Will Be Time (1972) -- Hugo Award nominee, 1973
Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! (1983)
Time Patrol (2006) [O] by Poul Anderson
 
Short Stories Include
Call Me Joe • (1957) • novelette
The Longest Voyage • (1960) • novelette 
Kyrie • (1968) • shortstory 
 
2nd Choice
Vault of the Ages (1952)
Brain Wave (1954)
A Midsummer Tempest 1975 by Poul Anderson
The Best of Poul Anderson (1976)
 
Hoka (with Gordon R Dickson)
1. Earthman's Burden (1957)
2. Star Prince Charlie (1975)
2. Hoka! (1983)
4. Hokas Pokas (2000)

Time Patrol
The Shield of Time (1990) [C] by Poul Anderson

Isaac Asimov1920-1992 Grand master (1987) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
1st Choice
•I, Robot (1950)
•The End of Eternity  (1955) *
•The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973) includes first published story Marooned Off Vesta (1939)

The Ugly Little Boy (1958)
The Complete Robot (1982)
 
R. Daneel Olivaw
••The Caves of Steel (1954)
••The Naked Sun (1957)
Lucky Starr (as by Paul French)
1. David Starr, Space Ranger (1952)
2. Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids (1954)
3. Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus (1954)
4. Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury (1956)
5. Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter (1957)
6. Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn (1958)
The Complete Adventures of Lucky Starr (omnibus) (2001)
 
Mickey Zucker Reichert  (1962 - )
Isaac Asimov's I, Robot
1. To Protect (2011)
2. To Obey (2013)
 
2nd Choice

•The Ugly Little Boy (1992) with Robert Silverberg (aka: Child of Time)
3. The Robots of Dawn (1983)
4. Robots and Empire (1985)
 
Robot Dreams (1986)
Robot Visions (1990)
 
•The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986)
•The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov! (1989)

Alfred Bester Grand Master (1988)  
•The Demolished Man (1953)
•The Stars My Destination (also published as Tiger, Tiger) (1956)
•Virtual Unrealities (1997)
 
AUDIO ONLINE
Adam and No Eve - Mindwebs
Boy Wonder, The - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (original title = ??)
Future Eye - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (original title = ??)
Man from Ultra, The - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (original title = ??)
Now You See Them, Now You Don't - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (original title = ??)
One Girl in a Million - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (original title = ??)
Stars My Destination, The - The Shape of Things to Come (BBC, 1991) (as "Tiger! Tiger!")
Two Plus Two Equals Death - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (original title = ??)
Walking Dead, The - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (original title = ??)
from The Shadow - The Destroyer; The House That Death Built; The Little Man Who Wasn't There; The Man Who Was Death
 
Peter Beagle  freesfonline.de  
1st Choice
The Last Unicorn, 1968 
Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle, 2010  edited by Jonathan Strahan)
 
2ne Choice
A Fine and Private Place, 1960 
The Unicorn Sonata, 1996
 Tamsin, 1999 (novel)
 
AUDIO ONLINE
Come, Lady Death - Nightfall (as "Guest-of-Honor")
 
 
 
James B. Blish (1921 - 1975) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg

1st Choice
•A Case of Conscience (1958)
 
2nd Choice
•The Best of James Blish (1979)
 
Audio Online
Surface Tension - X Minus One


Ray Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Match to Flame: The Fictional Path to Fahrenheit 451 (2006)
The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980)
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003)
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The Martian Chronicles (1950)
The Illustrated Man (1951)
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
Dandelion Wine (1957)
R Is for Rocket (1960)
S Is for Space (1966
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)
I Sing the Body Electric! (1969)
Green Shadows, White Whale (1992)
Driving Blind (1997)
One More For the Road (2002)
From the Dust Returned (2001)
We'll Always Have Paris (2009)

 John W. Campbell  freesfonline.de  Guttenburg 
1st Choice
The Best of John W Campbell (1973) [C]
 
Arcot, Wade and Morey
1. The Black Star Passes (1953) [C]
2. Islands of Space (1957)
3. Invaders from the Infinite (1961)
 
The Ultimate Weapon (1936)
 
2nd Choice
Aarn Munro Mightiest Machine
The Mightiest Machine (1935) KINDLE
The Incredible Planet (1949) [C]
 
Novels
The Moon Is Hell (1951) KINDLE
The Planeteers (1966) [C] KINDLE
The Space Beyond (1976) [C]  KINDLE
A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories (2003) [C]
 
Contains
Who Goes There? (1938) [C]
Cloak of Aesir (1952) [C]
 
Hal Clement (Harry Stubbs) (1999)  
1st Choice
Iceworld (1953)
Mission of Gravity (1954)
Music of Many Spheres (2000) [C]
Needle
1. Needle (1950) aka From Outer Space
2. Through the Eye of a Needle (1978)
 
2nd Choice
•The Best of Hal Clement (1979)

Small Changes (1969)
•The Essential Hal Clement
◦1 Trio for Slide Rule and Typewriter (1998) [O]
◦2
◦3 Variations on a Theme by Sir Isaac Newton (2000) [C]
 
Arthur C. Clarke 1917- 2008 Grand Master (1986) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
1st Choice
•
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)
Including
The Wind from the Sun (1964)
 
•A Fall of Moondust (1961) (Hugo nominee, 1963
•Rendezvous with Rama (1972)
Dolphin Island (1963)
Times Eye (2004) with Stephen Baxter
 
2nd Choice
The Sands of Mars (1951
Childhood's End (1953)
•Reach for Tomorrow (1956)
•The Light of Other Days (2000) (with Stephen Baxter

Space Trilogy
1. Islands in the Sky (1952)
2. Earthlight (1955)
3. The Sands of Mars (1951)
 
Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography (1989)

Avram Davidson (1923 - 1993) freesfonline.de 
1st Choice
Joyleg (1962) (with Ward Moore)
The Best of Avram Davidson (1979)
 
2nd Choice
Collected Fantasies (1981)
•The Avram Davidson Treasury (1990)
The Other Nineteenth Century (2001)
 
AUDIO ONLINE
Grantha Sighting, The - Sci-Fi Radio
Or All the Seas with Oysters - Mindwebs
 
L. Sprague de Camp (1979)  freesfonline.de
1st Choice
Tales from Gavagan's Bar (1953 collection, expanded 1978)
The Best of L Sprague de Camp (1969)
The Mathematics of Magic: The Enchanter Stories of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt (2007
Years in the Making: The Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp (2005)

 
2nd Choice
Lest Darkness Fall (1941r
Land of Unreason (1942) (with Fletcher Pratt)
The Carnelian Cube (1948
Genus Homo (1950)
The Glory That Was (1960)
The Purple Pterodactyls (1979) [C]
Rivers of Time (1993) [C]

AUDIO ONLINE
Gun for Dinosaur, A - X Minus One
 

Lester del Rey (1991) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
1st Choice
Rocket Jockey (1952)
Police Your Planet (1956)
Tunnel Through Time (1960)
The Runaway Robot (1965)
 
The Best of Lester Del Rey (1978)
Including
Helen O'Loy • (1938)  
Hereafter, Inc. • (1941)
 
Robots and Magic (2010)
 
2nd Choice
Marooned on Mars (1951)
Attack from Atlantis (1953)
Battle on Mercury (1953) (writing as Eric van Lhin)
The Infinite Worlds of Maybe (1966)


Philip K. Dick1928-1982  freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
1st Choice
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
The Unteleported Man (1964) also appeared as:: Lies, Inc. (1983)
Counter-Clock World (1967)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) also appeared as:
 
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick (2002)
Including
Paycheck • (1953)
Second Variety • (1953)
Impostor • (1953)
The King of the Elves • (1953)
Adjustment Team • (1954)
The Minority Report • (1956)
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
The Electric Ant • (1969)
A Little Something for Us Tempunauts • (1974)
 
OTHER SHORT STORIES
The Golden Man (1954)
The Pre-Persons (1974
 
2nd Choice
Martian Time-Slip (1964)
The Simulacra (1964)
Dr. Bloodmoney or How We Got Along After the Bomb (1965) 
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
Now Wait for Last Year (1966)
Ubik (1969)
We Can Build You (1972) also appeared as:
 
Collections
The Collected Storis of Philip K. Dick
Paycheck and Other Classic Stories By Philip K. Dick (2003)
2 We Can Remember It for You Wholesale and Other Classic Stories (2012)
3 Second Variety (1991)
4 Minority Report (2000)
5 We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1991)
Including The Pre-Persons • (1974) • novelette

The Philip K. Dick Reader (1997)
 
 
 
Gordon R. Dickson (1923 - 2001) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
Secret Under the Caribbean (1964)
The Right To Arm Bears (2000)
 
Selected Short Stories
The Monkey Wrench (1951)
Steel Brother (1952)
St. Dragon and the George (1957) Wings of fire
Dolphin's Way (1964)
Soldier, Ask Not (1964) [SF]
Computers Don't Argue (1965)
In the Bone • (1966)
 
2nd Choice
Gremlins, Go Home! (1974)
•In the Bone: The Best Science Fiction of Gordon R. Dickson (1978)
•Time Storm (1977)


Under the Sea
1. Secret Under the Sea (1960)
2. Secret Under Antarctica (1963)
3.
 
AUDIO ONLINE
Alien, The - Exploring Tomorrow
Computers Don't Argue - Mindwebs
Lulungomeena - X Minus One
Man from Earth, The - Mindwebs
Telepaths - Exploring Tomorrow
 
 
Gardner Dozois - (1947 - )  freesfonline.de 
When the Great Days Come (2011)
 
AUDIO ONLINE
Dream at Noonday, A - Mindwebs
 
Harlan Ellison freesfonline.de 
The New Twilight Zone, (Jul 1997)
Troublemakers (2001)

AUDIO ONLINE
Boy and His Dog, A - BBC
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - Chillers
Paingod - Mindwebs
'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman - 2000 X; Mindwebs
Wanted in Surgery - Seeing Ear Theatre; SF 68
 
Philip Jose Farmer (2001) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
1st Choice
Riverworld And Other Stories (1979)
The Best of Philip Jose Farmer (2005)
Including
Sail On! Sail On! • (1952)
The Alley Man • (1959)
The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World • [Dayworld] • (1971)
Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind • (1973)
After King Kong Fell • [Wold Newton] • (1973)
 
2nd Choice
1. To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971)
Dayworld (1985)
 Dayworld Rebel (1987)
 Dayworld Breakup (1990)
The Wind Whales of Ishmael (1971)
The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (1973)
Time's Last Gift (1972)
 
 
 
Jack Finney-(1911 - 1995) Writes Time Travel Stories
 
1st Choice
About Time (1986)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1954)
 
2nd Choice
Time and Again (1970)
From Time to Time (1995)

Audio Online
After the Movies - Suspense (x2)
Babylon Revisited - NBC University Theater
I'm Scared - Sci-Fi Radio
 
 
Harry Harrison 1925 freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
1st Choice
The Stainless Steel Rat (1961)
Bill the Galactic Hero (1965)
The Technicolor Time Machine (1968
Tunnel Through the Deeps (1972)  aka A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!
50 In 50 (2001)
 
2nd Choice
)Spaceship Medic (1970)
Tunnel Through the Deeps (1972)
 Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (1974)
The Men from P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T. (1974
The Best of Harry Harrison (1977)

Robert Heinlein 1907-1988 Grand Master (1975) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
1st Choice
•Double Star, 1956 -- Hugo Award, 1956
The Door into Summer, 1957
 
Heinlein juveniles
Rocket Ship Galileo, 1947
Space Cadet, 1948
Red Planet, 1949
Between Planets, 1951
The Rolling Stones aka Space Family Stone, 1952
Farmer in the Sky, 1953
Starman Jones, 1953
The Star Beast, 1954
Tunnel in the Sky, 1955
Time for the Stars, 1956
Citizen of the Galaxy, 1957
Have Space Suit—Will Travel, 1958
•Starship Troopers (1959) •

By His Bootstraps • (1941) found in The Arbor House treasury of great science fiction short novels
 
The Past Through Tomorrow (1967) [C]
The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (1999)
 
2nd Choice
Orphans of the Sky (1963)
•Orphans of the Sky (1965)
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
Friday (1982)
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)

 
The Green Hills of Earth (1951) •
•The Best of Robert Heinlein (1973)
Expanded Universe (1980)
Off the Main Sequence: The Other Science Fiction Stories of Robert A. Heinlein (2005)
 
James Edwin Gunn (born 1923) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
1st Choice
Star Bridge (with Jack Williamson, 1955)
The Immortals (1962)
 
2nd Choice
This Fortress World (1955
)Station in Space (1958)
The Magicians (1976)

Shirley Jackson
1st Choice
Lottery • (1948) in Fantasy Hall of Fame
• The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
 
2nd Choice
• The Magic of Shirley Jackson (Farrar, Straus, 1966)
 
AUDIO ONLINE
Lottery, The - NBC Presents: Short Story
 
Henry Kuttner/ Moore freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
1st Choice
Robots Have No Tails (1952)
Reader, I Hate You! (1943)
Mimzy and Other Stories (2007)
 
2nd Choice
The Best of Henry Kuttner (1975)
The Dark World (1946)
 Fury (1947)
The Time Axis (1948)
 The Well of the Worlds (1953)
Mutant (1953)
Two-Handed Engine (2005) with Henry Kuttner
Thunder Jim Wade: The Complete Series (2008)
 
 
Damon Francis Knight (1922 - 2002)freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
The Futurians : the story of the science fiction "family" of the 30's that produced today's top SF writers and editors  / (1977)_
 
To Serve Man (1950) The big book of adventure stories
Anachron (1954) Found in The Best Time Travel Stories of All TIme
Extempore (1956) in Modern Classics of Fantasy
The Country of the Kind (1956) in Science Fiction Hall of Fame
Stranger Station (1956) in The World treasury of science fiction
Man in the Jar • (1957)  in Turning On (1966)
The Handler (1960) The Norton book of science fiction : North American science fiction, 1960-1990
I See You (1976) in The very best of Fantasy & science fiction : 60th anniversary anthology
 
2nd Choice
The Best of Damon Knight (1976)
Natural State: And Other Stories (1975)
 
AUDIO ONLINE
 Country of the Kind, The - Mindwebs
I See You - Mindwebs (lost?)
 
 
C. M. Kornbluth (1923 - 1958)freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
 
1st Choice
The Space Merchants (1953)
The Best of C. M. Kornbluth (1976)
 
2nd Choice
Best Science Fiction Stories of C. M. Kornbluth (1968)
Our Best: The Best of Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth (1987) (with Frederik Pohl)
His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C. M. Kornbluth (1997)
 
AUDIO ONLINE
Marching Morons, The - 2000 X
Meeting, The - Mindwebs
Space Merchants, The - BBC (1957); CBS Radio Workshop

Fritz Leiber (1981) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
1st Choice
The Big Time (1958)
The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber (1990)
Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories (2010)
 
2nd Choice
Our Lady of Darkness 1978 by Fritz Leiber (winner)
The Change War (1978)

 
 
Richard Matheson
1st Choice
The Shrinking Man (1956)
I Am Legend (1954)
Steel: And Other Stories, Sep 2011,
 
2nd Choice
Somewhere in Time (1975)

 
AUDIO ONLINE
Third from the Sun - Audion Theatre; Future Tense
Born of Man and Woman - Audion Theatre; Future Tense; Mindwebs
 
Anne McCaffrey (1926 - ) freesfonline.de
The Ship Who Sang (1961) [SF] Woman of Wonder
Dragonflight (1968)
The Mystery of Ireta (omnibus) (2003)
Acorna: The Unicorn Girl (1997) (with Margaret Ball)
A Gift of Dragons (2002)

2nd Choice
2. Dragonquest (1971)
3. The White Dragon (1978)
4. DragonsEye (1996)

The Ship Who Sang (1969)
Get Off the Unicorn (1973)
The Girl Who Heard Dragons (1985)


Andre Norton  freesfonline.de  Guttenburg

1st Choice
The Crossroads of Time (1956)
The Time Traders (1958)
 
2nd Choice
The Many Worlds of Andre Norton (1974)

Frederik PohlGrandmaster (1993)  freesfonline.de  Guttenburg

1st Choice
The Space Merchants (1953)
•The Best of Frederik Pohl (1975)

2nd Choice
•Our Best: The Best of Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth (1987) (with C M Kornbluth)
Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories (2005)
 
Heechee
1. Gateway (1976)
1. The Other End of Time (1996)

The Coming of the Quantum Cats (1986)
 
Terry Pratchett freesfonline.de 

See Children’s Contemporary Classics
 
2nd Choice
Good Omens (1990) (with Neil Gaiman)
 
Eric Frank Russell 1905-1978 freesfonline.de   
Wasp (1957)
•Major Ingredients: The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell, (Sep 2000,
Including
Allamagoosa • (1955)
And Then There Were None • (1951)

Robert Silverberg (2004) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
1st Choice
Revolt on Alpha C (1955) OPEN LIBRARY
The Time Hoppers (1967) OPEN LIBRARY
Hawksbill Station (1968) The best time travel stories of all time
Phases of The Moon (2004)
 
2nd Choice
The 13th Immortal (1956)
The Masks of Time (1968) aka Vornan-19
The Best of Robert Silverberg (1976)
The Masks of Time (Vornan-19) (1968)
 
Robert Silverberg's Time Tours
1. The Robin Hood Ambush (1990) by William F Wu
2. Glory's End (1990) by Nick Baron
3. Timecrime Inc (1991) by Debra Doyle and James D Macdonald
4. The Dinosaur Trackers (1991) by Thomas Shadwell (John Gregory Betancourt and Arthur Byron Cover)
5. The Pirate Paradox (1991) by Nick Baron and Greg Cox
6. Caesar's Time Legions (1991) by Jeremy Kingston (John Gregory Betancourt)

Clifford D Simak  (1977) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
1st Choice
•City (1952)
•Way Station (1963)
•The Goblin Reservation (1968)
Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D.Simak (1978)
 
2nd Choice
Time and Again (1951)

 
E. E. Doc Smith  (1890 - 1965) -Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction GOLDEN AGE
E. E. Smith E. E. "Doc" Smith
(May 2, 1890 – August 31, 1965
The Skylark of Space (1928)
Triplanetary (1934)
 
Theodore Sturgeon freesfonline.de  Guttenburg

1st Choice
More Than Human (1952)
Microcosmic God (1995)
Including
Shottle Bop • (1941) Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman present Treasures of fantasy
Yesterday Was Monday • (1941) The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century
Microcosmic God • (1941) The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One
 
Mr. Costello, Hero • (1953) found in A Saucer of Loneliness (2000)

2nd Choice
The Ultimate Egoist (1994)
Selected Stories (2000)
 
AUDIO ONLINE
Affair with a Green Monkey - Mindwebs
Hurricane Trio - 2000 X
Mr Costello, Hero - X Minus One
Saucer of Loneliness, A - Mindwebs; Future Tense (as "Saucer of Loneliness"); X Minus One (as "Saucer of Loneliness")
Sky Was Full of Ships, The - Beyond Tomorrow (as "Incident at Switchpath"); Mindwebs
Stars are the Styx, The - Tales of Tomorrow (lost); X Minus One
That Low - Hour 25
 
Wilson Tucker
The Lincoln Hunters (1958)
The Year of the Quiet Sun (1970)
The Best of Wilson Tucker (1982)

 
Jack Vance (1916 - 2013)) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
The Jack Vance Treasury (2007) Modern classics of science fiction
including …….
Mazirian the Magician • [Dying Earth] • (1950
 
Big Planet
1. Big Planet (1952)
2. Showboat World (1975
 
The Dragon Masters • (1962)
The Moon Moth • (1961)
The Last Castle • (1966) • novella by Jack Vance
 
2nd Choice
Space Opera by Jack Vance 1965

AUDIO ONLINE
Moon Moth, The - Seeing Ear Theatre
Potters of Firsk

A. E. Van Vogt (1996) freesfonline.
1st Choice
Slan (1946)
The Voyage of the Space Beagle (Complete Novel) (1963)
Transfinite: The Essential A. E. van Vogt (2003)
 
2nd Choice
• Planets for Sale (1954) (with E Mayne Hull)
The Empire of Isher (2000)

AUDIO ONLINE
Moon Moth, The - Seeing Ear Theatre
Potters of Firsk

James White (1928 - 1999) The James White Award freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
Sector General
Sector General Omnibus
1. Beginning Operations: Hospital Station / Star Surgeon / Major Operation (2001) KINDLE
2. Alien Emergencies: Ambulance Ship / Sector General / Star Healer (2002)
3. General Practice: Code Blue - Emergency / The Genocidal Healer (2003) KINDLE
The Silent Stars Go By (1991) OPEN LIBRARY
 
The Escape Orbit (1983)
 
Jack Williamson (1908 - 2006) (1976) freesfonline.de 
Top Books
The Humanoids (1949)
Star Bridge (1955) withJames E. Gunn
Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction (1984)
The Stonehenge Gate (2005)
The Williamson Effect (1996) Ed. Roger Zelazny 
 
2nd Choices
The Legion of Time (1938)
Darker Than You Think (1948)
The Best of Jack Williamson (1978)
Seventy-Five: The Diamond Anniversary of a Science Fiction Pioneer Jack Williamson (2004)
 
AUDIO ONLINE
Metal Man, The - Mindwebs
With Folded Hands - Dimension X; Future Tense
 
Connie Willis (1945 - ) freesfonline.de 

Top Books
Remake (1994)
Miracle: And Other Christmas Stories (1979)
The Best of Connie Willis (2013)


2nd Choice
Fire Watch (1985)
Lincoln's Dreams (1987
)Bellwether (1996)
Doomsday Book (1992)
To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997)
 
Oxford Time Travel
1. Blackout (2010)
2. All Clear (2010)
 
AUDIO ONLINE
Even the Queen - 2000 X
Fire Watch - Seeing Ear Theatre

Donald Wollheim (1914 - 1990) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
The Secret of Saturn's Rings (1954)
The Secret of the Ninth Planet (1959)
Mike Mars and the Mystery Satellite (1963)
 
AUDIO ONLINE
Embassy, The - Dimension X; X Minus One
 
Roger Zelazny (1937 - 1995) freesfonline.de 
 
Top Novels
Doorways in the Sand (1975)
Roadmarks (1979)
 
Selected Short Stories
Rose for Ecclesiastes (1963) Science Fiction Hall of Fame
The Last Defender of Camelot (1980) A magic lover's treasury of the fantastic
Unicorn Variations (1984) The fantasy hall of fame

AUDIO ONLINE
Collector's Fevor - 2000 X (lost)
Corrida - Mindwebs
Devil Car - Mindwebs
Great Slow Kings, The - Mindwebs
Home is the Hangman - Sci-Fi Radio
 
TOP NOTCH Editors
David Hartwell (1941 - )
Martin H. Greenberg 1941 - 2011

GOLDEN AGE WRITRS
J.G Ballard (1930 - ) freesfonline.de   
The Best Short Stories of J G Ballard (1978)
Including Most Below and
• The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D • [Vermilion Sands] • (1967) • shortstory by J. G. Ballard
 
Chronopolis, and other stories, by J. G. Ballard.
 
Harry Bates (1900 - 1981) Guttenburg
Space Hawk (1952)  INDLE
The Day the Earth Stood Still & Other SF Classics (2008)
Also in Various Different Anthologies
 
AUDIO ONLINE
Cloud-Sulptors of Coral D, The - The Vanishing Point
Escapement - The Vanishing Point
Garden of Time, The - Mindwebs
Having a Wonderful Time - The Vanishing Point
Low-Flying Aircraft - The Vanishing Point
News from the Sun - The Vanishing Point
Prisoner of the Coral Deep, The - Five Fantastic Tales (BBC, 2003)
Question of Re-entry, A - The Vanishing Point
 
Anthony Boucher
•The Compleat Boucher: The Complete Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Anthony Boucher (1999)
 
AUDIO OLINE
They Bite – Nightfall
 
Ben Bova -(1932 - ) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
Watchmen
1. The Star Conquerors (1959)
2. Star Watchman (1964)
3. The Dueling Machine (1969)
 
Exiles
1. Exiled from Earth (1971)
2. Flight of Exiles (1972)
3. End of Exile (1975)
The Exiles Trilogy (omnibus) (1980)

Privateers (1985)

Ben Bova's Grand Tour of the Universe
1. Mars (1992)
 
Moonrise
1. Moonrise (1996)
2. Moonwar (1997)
 
 
Twice Seven (1998)
 
Asteroid Wars
1. The Precipice (2001
 
Fredric Brown -(1906 - 1972) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
Martians and madness : the complete SF novels of Fredric Brown / edited by Ben Yalow
What Mad Universe (1951)
 
From These Ashes: The Short Science Fiction of Fredric Brown (1985)
Featuring Arena (1944)
 
Also in Various Different Anthologies
 
Algis Budrys (1931 - 2008) Guttenburg
Who? (1958)
Rogue Moon (1960) Science Fiction Hall of Fame

 

AUDIO ONLINE
Protective Mimicry - X Minus One
 
Theodore Cogswell
The Spectre General (1952) INDLE
The Wall Around the World [short story] (1953) The mammoth book of fantasy
 
AUDIO ONLINE
Paradise Regained - Mindwebs
 
Randall Garrett (1927 - 1987) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
Brain Twister (1962
The Best of Randall Garrett (1982) (edited by Robert Silverberg)
Lord Darcy (1983)
 
AUDIO ONLINE
Best Policy, The - Exploring Tomorrow (lost)
Look Out! Duck! - Exploring Tomorrow (lost)
Hunting Lodge, The - Exploring Tomorrow
Sound Decision - Exploring Tomorrow
Space Baby, The - Exploring Tomorrow
With All the Trappings - Exploring Tomorrow (lost)
 
 
 
H. L. Gold (1914 - 1996) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
Also in Various Different Anthologies
The Old Die Rich and Other Science Fiction Stories (1955)
 
AUDIO ONLINE
At the Post - X Minus One
Old Die Rich, The - Audion Theatre; Future Tense; Tales of Tomorrow; X Minus One

Keith Laumer (1925 - 1993) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
1. Time Trap (1970)
2. Back to the Time Trap (1992)
The Great Time Machine Hoax (1964)
Galactic Odyssey (1967)

Dinosaur Beach (1971)
The Best of Keith Laumer (collection) (1976)

 

John Myers Myers
Silverlock
1. Silverlock (1949)
2. The Moon's Fire-Eating Daughter (1981)


Larry Niven (1938 - ) freesfonline.de  
Ringworld (1970)
All the Myriad Way (1971) OPEN LIBRARY
The Best of Larry Niven (2010)

 

AUDIO ONLINE
 
Ward Moore's (1903 - 1978)- Guttenburg
Greener Than You Think (1947)
Bring the Jubilee (1953) The best alternate history stories of the 20th
 
 
AUDIO ONLINE
Rebel - Mindwebs
Gilbert Nash
The Time Masters (1953) OPEN LIBRARY
Time Bomb (1955) aka Tomorrow Plus X
 
Philip Francis Nowlan Guttenburg
Wings Over Tomorrow: The Collected Science Fiction Of Philip Francis Nowlan
 

H. Beam Piper March 23, 1904 – c. November 6, 1964) –

freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
Murder in the Gunroom (1953)
series
1.Little Fuzzy (1962)
2.Fuzzy Sapiens (1964, originally The Other Human Race)
3.Fuzzies and Other People (1984)

The Complete Paratime (2001)

Flight from Tomorrow: Science Fiction Stories (2006)
Graveyard of Dreams: Science Fiction Stories (2006)
Naudsonce: And Other Sf (2006)
Time and Time Again: And Other SF (2007)
Ministry of Disturbance and Other SF (2007)

 

 

Ross Rocklynne (1930 - 1988) Guttenburg
Time Wants A Skeleton (1941)
The Mammoth book of golden age science fiction : short novels of the 1940s
•The Men and the Mirror (1973) Before the Golden Age; a science fiction anthology of the 1930s
•The Sun Destroyers (1973)

 

AUDIO ONLINE
Jaywalker - X Minus One
 
Cordwainer Smith (1913 - 1966) Cordwainer Smith Award Christian Sci-Fi Writer
freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
The Planet Buyer (1964)
The Best of Cordwainer Smith (1975)
The rediscovery of man : the complete short science fiction of Cordwainer Smith / edited by James A. Mann (1993)
 
Also in Various Different Anthologies
 
AUDIO ONLINE
Ballad of Lost C'Mell, The - Sci-Fi Radio
 
James H. Schmitz  (October 15, 1911–April 18, 1981)freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
The Best of James Schmitz (1988)
 The Winds of Time: And Other Stories (2008) Also in
Great classic science fiction stories [sound recording]

 
AUDIO ONLINE
Caretaker - X Minus One
 
Bob Shaw (1931 - 1996)  freesfonline.de
Light of Other Days (1966) The Ascent of wonder : the evolution of hard SF 
 
1, The Ragged Astronauts (1986)
2. The Wooden Spaceships (1987)
3. The Fugitive Worlds (1989)

AUDIO ONLINE
Light of Other Days - Mindwebs; Sci-Fi Radio

Robert Sheckley (1928 - ) freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
The Masque of Mañana (2005)
 
Dimensions of Sheckley (2002) Featuring
Immortality, Inc. • (1959)
The Journey of Joenes • (1962)
Mindswap • (1966)
Dimension of Miracles • (1968)
The Minotaur Maze • (1990)
 
Also in Various Different Anthologies
 
William Tenn (1920 - 2010) Guttenburg
•The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn
◦1 Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume 1 (2001) [C]
◦2 Here Comes Civilization: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume II (2001) [C]

Also in Various Different Anthologies
 
AUDIO ONLINE
Betelgeuse Bridge - Tales of Tomorrow
Child's Play - Dimension X; Seeing Ear Theatre; X Minus One
Discovery of Morniel Mathaway, The - Audion Theatre; Future Tense; X Minus One
Venus Is a Man's World - Audion Theatre; Future Tense; X Minus One
 
Newer Modern Sci-FI Authors
 
Douglas Adams
Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
1. The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
2. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)
3. Life, the Universe and Everything (1982)
4. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984)
5. Mostly Harmless (1992)
6. And Another Thing... (2009) (with Eoin Colfer)
Hitchhikers Companion Original Galaxy Radio Scripts (1985)
The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts (1987)

Dirk Gently
1. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
2. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)
3. The Salmon of Doubt: And Other Writings (1995)

Starship Titanic (1997) (with Terry Jones)

Guy Adams (1976)
World House
1. The World House (2010)
2. Restoration (2010)
 
Kevin Anderson- (1962 - ) freesfonline.de 
Resurrection, Inc. (1988)

Collections
Dogged Persistence (Golden Gryphon Press, 2001)
Landscapes (2006)
 
Hell Hole Trilogy (with Brian Herbert)
1. Hellhole (2011)
2. Hellhole Awakening (2013)
3. Hellhole Inferno (2014)
 
2nd Choice
Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius (2001)
Hopscotch (2002)

Christopher Anvil freesfonline.de 
The Power of Illusion (2010)

Robert Asprin: Myth Adventures series  freesfonline.de 
1. Another Fine Myth (1978)
 
2nd Choice
1. Thieves' World (1979)
1. Time Scout (1995)
Myth-interpretations: The Worlds of Robert Asprin (2010)

Stephen Baxter freesfonline.de 
Anti-Ice (1993)
The Time Ships (1995)
 
Long Earth (with Terry Pratchett)
1. The Long Earth (2012)
2. The Long War (2013)
3. The Long Mars (2014)
 
The H-bomb Girl (2007)

Greg Bear freesfonline.de 
Hull Zero Three (2010)

2nd Choice
Dinosaur Summer (1998)
City at the End of Time (2008)
The Collected Stories of Greg Bear (2002)

K. A. Bedford 1963
Spider Webb
1. Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008)
2. Paradox Resolution (2012)

Gregory Benford freesfonline.de 
Timescape (1980)
Anomalies (2012)

Terry Bisson freesfonline.de 
Bears Discover Fire (1993)
TVA Baby (2011)

Richard Bowes freesfonline.de 
From the Files of the Time Rangers (2005)

Steven Brust
Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille (1990) 1955) SCI FI Book CLUB freesfonline.de 

Jim Butcher
Dresden Files

Orson Scott Card 1951 - ) freesfonline.de 
Ender Wiggin
1. Ender's Game (1985)
2. Speaker for the Dead (1985)
3. Xenocide (1991)
4. Children of the Mind (1996)
5. A War of Gifts (2007)
6. Ender in Exile (2008)
First Meetings: Four Stories from the Enderverse
 
More Card
Magic Street (2005)
Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card (1990)
Keeper of Dreams (2008)


David Drake freesfonline.de   PLENTY
Time Safari (1982)
The Undesired Princess and the Enchanted Bunny (1990) (with L Sprague de Camp)
Tyrannosaur (1994)
Balefires (2007)
Dinosaurs and Dirigibles (2014)

Jeffrey Ford freesfonline.de 
Collections
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant: And Other Stories (2002)
The Empire of Ice Cream (2005)
The Drowned Life (2008)
Crackpot Palace (2012)
 
Cley
1. The Physiognomy (1997)
2. Memoranda (1999)
3. The Beyond (2001)
 
Alan Dean Foster (1946 - ), Many Movie Novelizations freesfonline.de 
Pip and Flinx
1. The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972) KINDLE
1. Spellsinger (1983)
Dinotopia
Dinotopia Lost (1996)
The Hand of Dinotopia (1997)

Exceptions to Reality (2008)


Neil Gaiman (1960 - ) freesfonline.de 
Good Omens (1990) (with Terry Pratchett)
Adventures in the Dream Trade (2002)
Fragile Things: Short Fictions And Wonders (2006)
M Is for Magic (2007)


Gordon, Mel and Andrae, Thomas
Siegel and Shuster’s Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero From the Creators of Superman (June 2010).

James Patrick Kelly MEET IN PERSON  freesfonline.de 
Think Like a Dinosaur: And Other Stories (1990)
Including
7Think Like a Dinosaur • (1995) found in The Hard SF Renaissance Nov 2002

John Kessel (1950 - ) freesfonline.de 
Collections
The Pure Product (1997)
The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: And Other Stories (2008)

Kelly Link Few Stories I want to Read freesfonline.de 
Pretty Monsters (2008)

2nd Choice
Stranger Things Happen (2001)
Magic for Beginners (2005)


Richard A. Lupoff (1935) freesfonline.de 
12:01 P.M. (1973)  Before...12:01...and After (1984)
12:02 P.M. (2011)  The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January-February 2011
The Book Of Time: The Time Machine, Nebogipfel at the End of Time, The Grey Man, The Chronic Argonauts, 12:01 P.M., 12:02 P.M. (2011) (with H G Wells)
12:03 P.M. (2012) The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September-October 2012

Robert R. McCammon
Boy's Life (1991)

Jack McDivitt freesfonline.de 
Time Travelers Never Die (2009)
Cryptic: The Best Short Fiction of Jack McDevitt 2009

Paul Melko freesfonline.de 
Singularity's Ring (2008)
Ten Sigmas and Other Unlikelihoods (2008)

Walls of the Universe
1. The Walls of the Universe (2009)
2. Broken Universe (2012)

China Miéville (1972) freesfonline.de 
Railsea (May 2012)[19]

James Morrow- (1947 - )  freesfonline.de 
Short Stories
"Spelling God with the Wrong Blocks" (1987) Bible Stories for Adults
Abe Lincoln in McDonald's" (1989) Bible Stories for Adults
The Confessions of Ebenezer Scrooge • (1989)
City of Truth" (1991)

Novel
Shambling Towards Hiroshima (2009)

Steven Polansky
The Bradbury Report (2010)

Cherie Priest freesfonline.de 
Clockwork Century
1. Boneshaker (2009)  ZOMBIES
2. Dreadnought (2010)
3. Ganymede (2011)
4. The Inexplicables (2012)
5. Fiddlehead (2013)
Clementine (2010)
 
More Cherie
Tanglefoot (2011)

Tim Pratt freesfonline.de 
Hart and Boot and Other Stories (2006)

Spider Robinson, (1948 - ) Read a book of his. It was all right freesfonline.de 
The Free Lunch (2001
The Callahan Chronicles (1997)

Benjamin Rosenbaum freesfonline.de 
The Ant King: And Other Stories (2008)

Robert J Sawyer freesfonline.de 
End of An Era (1994)
Flashforward (1999)
Calculating God (2000)

1.5 Choices
Quintaglio Ascension
1. Far-Seer (1992)
2. Fossil Hunter (1993)
3. Foreigner (1994)
 
2nd Choice
The Terminal Experiment (1995)
Rollback (2007)

Mike Resnick (1942 - ) freesfonline.de 
Fable of Tonight
•Stalking the Unicorn (1987)
•Stalking the Vampire (2008)
•Stalking the Dragon (2009)
Stalking the Zombie (2012)
 
•In Space No One Can Hear You Laugh (2000)
•• New Dreams for Old (2006
World Behind the Door: An Encounter with Salvador Dali (2007)


Bruce Sterling (1954 - )Usually assoc. with William Gibson and Cyber Punk freesfonline.de 
Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling (2007) including
Bicycle Repairman • [Chattanooga] • (1996) found in found in The Hard SF Renaissance Nov 2002

Allan Steele- 1966) MEET IN PERSON SCI FI Book CLUB freesfonline.de 
The Last Science Fiction Writer (2008)

Michael Swanwick freesfonline.de 
The Iron Dragon's Daughter 1994
Bones of the Earth (2002),
The Best of Michael Swanwick (2008)

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952 - ) freesfonline.de 
Icehenge (1984)
The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson (2010)

2nd Choice
Mars trilogy
◦The Martians (1999) [C]
◦1 Red Mars (1992)
◦2 Green Mars (1994)
◦3 Blue Mars (1996)

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•Galileo's Dream (2009)
2312 (2011)


Harry Turtledove freesfonline.de 
Agent of Byzantium (1987)
The Guns of the South (1992
Counting Up, Counting Down (2002)

2nd Choice
Darkness
Darkness
1. Into the Darkness (1999)
2. Darkness Descending (2000)
3. Through the Darkness (2001)
4. Rulers of the Darkness (2002)
5. Jaws of Darkness (2003)
6. Out of the Darkness (2004)

Worldwar
1. In the Balance (1994)
2. Tilting the Balance (1995)
3. Upsetting the Balance (1996)
4. Striking the Balance (1996)
5. Homeward Bound (2004)

How Few Remain (1997)
Earthgrip (1991)

Ian Watson (1943 - )freesfonline.de 
The Jonah Kit (1975)
The Very Slow Time Machine • (1978)

2nd Choice
Oracle (1997)
The Best of Ian Watson (2014)

Daniel H Wilson (1978)
Novels
A Boy and His Bot (2011)
Code Lightfall and the Robot King (2011)
 
Robo
Robopocalypse (2011)
Robogenesis (2014)

Amped (2012)

Non fiction
How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion (2005)
Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived (2007)
How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies (2007)
The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame (2008) (with Anna C Long)
Bro-jitsu: The Martial Art of Sibling Smackdown (2010)

Tad Williams:  freesfonline.de 
Tad Williams' Mirror World: An Illustrated Novel (1998)
 
Ordinary Farm Adventures (with Deborah Beale)
1. The Dragons of Ordinary Farm (2009)
2. The Secrets of Ordinary Farm (2011)
 
Diary of a Dragon (2012)
The Very Best of Tad Williams (2014)
 
Charles Yu (1976)
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel (2010)
Third Class Superhero (2006)
Sorry Please Thank You (2012)
 
 Timothy Zahn (1951 - ) Wrote SW books freesfonline.de 

Dragonback
1. Dragon and Thief (2003)
2. Dragon and Soldier (2004)
3. Dragon and Slave (2005)
4. Dragon and Herdsman (2006)
5. Dragon and Judge (2007)
6. Dragon and Liberator (2008)

Quadrail
1. Night Train to Rigel (2005)
2. The Third Lynx (2007)
3. Odd Girl Out (2008)
4. The Domino Pattern (2009)
5. Judgment at Proteus (2012)
 
 
 
 
 
SCI-FI READING LIST 1.5 Choices
Wonderbook : the illustrated guide to creating imaginative fiction / Jeff  Vander Meer
 
Wondrous Beginnings 
Jerry Oltion  freesfonline.de  The Getaway Special (2001)
Catherine Asaro   freesfonline.de     Aurora in Four Voices (2011)
Michael A. Burstein  freesfonline.de  I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of MAB (2008)
Julie E Czerneda  freesfonline.de 
 
Night's Edge
1. A Turn of Light (2013)
2. A Play of Shadow (2014)
 
Steven King (1947 - ) freesfonline.de 
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000)
 
Samuel R. Delany (1942)  freesfonline.de  Guttenburg
Driftglass: ten tales of speculative fiction (1993)
 
William Gibson-(1948 - ) freesfonline.de   
The Difference Engine (1990) (with Bruce Sterling)
 
Joe Haldeman freesfonline.de 
The Accidental Time Machine (2007)
The Best of Joe Haldeman (2013)
 
Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Guttenburg
The Dragon in the Sea (1956)
Direct Descent (1980)
The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert (2014)
 
 
Ursula K. Le Guin freesfonline.de 
The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
Changing Planes (2014)
 
Catwings
1. Catwings (1988)
2. Catwings Return (1989)
3. Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (1994)
4. Jane On Her Own (1992)
5. Cat Dreams (2009)
 
Tales of the Catwings (1997)
More Tales of the Catwings (2000)
The Catwings Collection (omnibus) (2003)
 
Ursula K. Le Guin freesfonline.de 
Annals of the Western Shore
Gifts (2004) (PEN Center USA 2005 Children's Literature Award] 
Voices, (2006)
Powers, (2007) (Nebula Award winner, 2008
 
 
George R.R Martin freesfonline.de 
The Way of Cross and Dragon  (1979)
The Ice Dragon (1980)
 
Michael Moorcock freesfonline.de
The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius: Stories of the Comic Apocalypse (1976)
Mother London (1988)
The Metatemporal Detective (2007)
 
 
William F. Nolan (1928 - alive) Guttenburg freesfonline.de
Wild Galaxy: Selected Science Fiction Stories (2005)
 
 
Kate Wilhelm  freesfonline.de 
Fear Is A Cold Black: The Early Science Fiction of Kate Wilhelm by Kate Wilhelm (Jul 7, 2010)
Nebula Best Short story winner (1968) – "The Planners The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (1994)
Hugo Best Novel winner (1977) – Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
 
 
Patricia A. McKillip
The Changeling Sea (1988)
Harrowing the Dragon (2005)
 
Charles de Lint freesfonline.de 
Waifs and Strays (2002)
Seven Wild Sisters (2002)
A Circle of Cats (2003) (with Charles Vess)
The Very Best of Charles de Lint (2010)
The Cats of Tanglewood Forest (2013)
 
The Time Ship: A Chrononautical Journey )  (1887) Translated into English (2012)
by  Enrique Gaspar, Yolanda Molina-Gavilan (Translator), Andrea L. Bell (Translator)

 
Abraham Merritt (1884-1945) SCI FI HALL OF FAME
Dr Goodwin
The Moon Pool (1919)
The Metal Monster (1920) 
 
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963)  Brave New World (1932)  
 
AUDIO ONLINE
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan - NBC University Theater; NBC New Theater
Brave New World - CBS Radio Workshop; The Shape of Things to Come (BBC, 1991)
Comfort - Columbia Workshop
Jacob's Hands - CBS Radio Workshop
Gioconda Smile, The - Afternoon Play (BBC, 1989)
 
George Orwell  (Eric Arthur Blair) (1903 – 1950)
Animal Farm (1945)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
 
L. Ron Hubbard, (1911-1986 ) Typewriter in the Sky (1951)
AUDIO ONLINE
Professor Was a Thief, The - Dimension X
 
Pierre Boulle  (1912 - 1994) Monkey Planet (1963) aka Planet of the Apes
 
Stanislaw Lem (1921 - )
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age (1974)
 
Terry Brooks:
Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life (2003)

Piers Anthony- (1934 - )
A Spell for Chameleon (1977)

Seth Grahame-Smith (1976 - ) Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (2010)

C. L. Moore freesfonline.de Guttenburg   SCI FI HALL OF FAME
Doorway Into Time • (1943) SS
Vintage Season (1946) SS
The Best of C. L. Moore (1975)
 
Judith Merril freesfonline.de Guttenburg  (1948)
The Tomorrow People (1960)

AUDIO ONLINE
That Only a Mother - Mindwebs

Katherine MacLean (1925 - ?) freesfonline.de Guttenburg
Cosmic Checkmate (1962) (with Charles V Devet)
 
Leigh Bracketfreesfonline.de Guttenburg  
The Long Tomorrow (1955)
 
Zenna Henderson 
Ingathering: The Complete People Stories (1995)
 
Kit Reed 196 • The Food Farm • (1967) freesfonline.de 
The Baby Merchant (2006)
 
C.J Cherryh,  freesfonline.de 
The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh (2004)

Tanith Lee  freesfonline.de 
Indigara: Or, Jet and Otis Conquer the World (2007)
 
Pat Murphy  freesfonline.de 
There and Back Again: By Max Merriwell (1999)
Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell (2001)
 
Clive Barker freesfonline.de 
The Thief of Always (1992)
 
Diana Peterfreund 
Killer Unicorns
1. Rampant (2009)
2. Ascendant (2010)
Errant (2010) [SF]
 
◦The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn (2010) [SF]
Zombies vs. unicorns
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