Cowie & Chester, Essential SF: A Concise Guide
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The bulk of this book consists of alphabetical entries covering authors, terms, titles, and films, with paragraph descriptions of each. An appendix, Collector's Core Checklist, includes several hundred titles, with some 126 bolded titles indicating "core requirements for any collection", and a few titles preceded by ! to indicate non-recommendations.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 449
Publication: Porcupine Press, 2005
Compile Notes
Posted so far are 126 bolded titles from the appendix. Additional titles are listed here -->.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 449
Publication: Porcupine Press, 2005
Compile Notes
Posted so far are 126 bolded titles from the appendix. Additional titles are listed here -->.
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Pan, 1979)
- Brian W. Aldiss, Hothouse (Faber and Faber, 1962)
- Brian W. Aldiss, with David Wingrove, Trillion Year Spree (Gollancz, 1986)
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Gnome, 1951)
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire (Gnome, 1952)
- Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy (series, 1951-1953)
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge (Doubleday, 1982)
- Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation (Gnome, 1953)
- J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World (Jonathan Cape, 1966)
- J. G. Ballard, Hello America (Jonathan Cape, 1981)
- Stephen Baxter, Timelike Infinity (HarperCollins, 1992)
- Greg Bear, Blood Music (Arbor House, 1985)
- Gregory Benford, Timescape (Simon and Schuster, 1980)
- Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man (Shasta, 1953)
- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (NAL/Signet, 1957)
- James Blish, A Case of Conscience (Ballantine, 1958)
- James Blish, The Seedling Stars (Gnome Press, 1957)
- James Blish, Star Trek (Bantam, 1967)
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine, 1953)
- Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Doubleday, 1950)
- David Brin, The Postman (Bantam Spectra, 1985)
- David Brin, Startide Rising (Bantam, 1983)
- David Brin, The Uplift War (Phantasia Press, 1987)
- John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider (Harper & Row, 1975)
- John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar (Doubleday, 1968)
- John Brunner, Telepathist (Faber and Faber, 1965)
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar (Baen, 1991)
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance (Baen, 1994)
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls (Eos, 2003)
- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game (Baen, 1990)
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (Heinemann , 1962)
- Pat Cadigan, Patterns (Ursus, 1989)
- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (Tor, 1985)
- Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Tor, 1986)
- Orson Scott Card, Xenocide (Tor, 1991)
- C. J. Cherryh, Cyteen (Warner, 1988)
- C. J. Cherryh, Downbelow Station (DAW, 1981)
- Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars (Harcourt Brace, 1956)
- Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise (Gollancz, 1979)
- Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Gollancz, 1973)
- Hal Clement, Mission of Gravity (Doubleday, 1954)
- Mark Clifton & Frank Riley, They'd Rather Be Right (Gnome Press, 1957)
- Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (Knopf , 1969)
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Doubleday, 1968)
- Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (Putnam, 1962)
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Hodder and Stoughton, 1912)
- Greg Egan, Diaspora (Millennium, 1997)
- Greg Egan, Quarantine (Legend, 1992)
- Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Putnam, 1971)
- Robert L. Forward, Dragon's Egg (Ballantine Del Rey, 1980)
- William Gibson, Neuromancer (Ace Special, 1984)
- Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace (Ace, 1997)
- Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (St. Martin's, 1974)
- Joe Haldeman, The Hemingway Hoax (Morrow, 1990)
- Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room! (Doubleday, 1966)
- Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat (Pyramid, 1961)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star (Doubleday, 1956)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Job: A Comedy of Justice (Ballantine Del Rey, 1984)
- Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Putnam, 1966)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (Putnam, 1961)
- Frank Herbert, Dune (Chilton, 1965)
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Chatto & Windus, 1932)
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966)
- Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain (Morrow AvoNova, 1993)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (Harper & Row, 1974)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven (Scribner's, 1971)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Special, 1969)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Telling (Harcourt, 2000)
- Fritz Leiber, The Big Time (Ace Double, 1961)
- Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer (Ballantine, 1964)
- Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (Walker, 1970; Poland 1961)
- Julian May, The Many-Colored Land (Houghton Mifflin, 1981)
- Paul J. McAuley, Fairyland (Gollancz, 1995)
- Jack McDevitt, The Hercules Text (Ace Special, 1986)
- Ian McDonald, Desolation Road (Bantam Spectra, 1988)
- Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake (Houghton Mifflin, 1978)
- Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959)
- Larry Niven, Convergent Series (Ballantine Del Rey, 1979)
- Larry Niven, Neutron Star (Ballantine, 1968)
- Larry Niven, Ringworld (Ballantine, 1970)
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
- Frederik Pohl, Gateway (St. Martin's, 1977)
- Frederik Pohl, The Gateway Trip (Ballantine Del Rey, 1990)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (HarperCollins/Voyager UK, 1996)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (HarperCollins UK, 1993)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, The Wild Shore (Ace Special, 1984)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt (Bantam, 2002)
- Carl Sagan, Contact (Simon & Schuster, 1985)
- Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God (Tor, 2000)
- Robert J. Sawyer, Hominids (Tor, 2002)
- Bob Shaw, Orbitsville (Gollancz, 1975)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
- Clifford D. Simak, Way Station (Doubleday, 1963)
- Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion (Doubleday Foundation, 1990)
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Doubleday Foundation, 1989)
- Dan Simmons, Ilium (Eos, 2003)
- Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion (Bantam Spectra, 1997)
- Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron (Walker, 1969)
- Allen Steele, Orbital Decay (Ace, 1989)
- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon (Avon, 1999)
- Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age (Bantam Spectra, 1995)
- Bruce Sterling, Schismatrix (Arbor House, 1985)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (George Munro, 1886)
- Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human (Farrar, Straus & Young/Ballantine, 1953)
- A. E. van Vogt, The Weapon Shops of Isher (Greenberg , 1951)
- A. E. van Vogt, The World of Null-A (Simon & Schuster, 1948)
- Jack Vance, The Last Castle (Ace Double, 1967)
- John Varley, Titan (Berkley-Putnam, 1979)
- Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth (J. Hetzel, 1864)
- Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen (Dial, 1980)
- Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Tor, 1999)
- Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon The Deep (Tor, 1992)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five (Delacorte, 1969)
- H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (C. Arthur Pearson, 1897)
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (Henry Holt, 1895)
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (Heinemann, 1898)
- Kate Wilhelm, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (Harper & Row, 1976)
- Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Bantam Spectra, 1992)
- Connie Willis, Passage (Bantam, 2001)
- Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog (Bantam Spectra, 1998)
- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun (1980-1983)
- N. Lee Wood, Faraday's Orphans (Gollancz, 1996)
- John Wyndham, The Chrysalids (Michael Joseph, 1955)
- John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (Doubleday, 1951)
- Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light (Doubleday, 1967)
- Roger Zelazny, This Immortal (Ace, 1966)
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