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Morgawr
(The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Book 3)
by Terry Brooks
Hardcover: 496 pages
Del Rey; ISBN: 0345435729; 1st edition (August 27, 2002)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection
by Gardner Dozois
Listed under Sci-Fi Anthologies
1984
by George Orwell
(Mass Market Paperback -- May 1990)
Lilith
by George MacDonald
"Lilith is equal if not superior to the best of Poe," the great 20th-century
poet W.H. Auden said of this novel, but the comparison only begins to touch
on the richness, density, and wonder of this late 19th-century adult fantasy
novel. First published in 1895 (inhabiting a universe with the early Yeats,
George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde--not to mention Thomas Hardy), this
is the story of the aptly named Mr. Vane, his magical house, and the journeys
into another world into which it leads him.
Meeting up with one mystery after another, including Adam and Eve themselves,
he slowly but surely explores the mystery of the human fall from grace,
and of our redemption. Instructed into the ways of seeing the deeper realities
of this world--seeing, in a sense, by the light of the spirit--the reader
and Mr. Vane both sense that MacDonald writes from his own deep experience
of radiance, from a bliss so profound that death's darkness itself is utterly
eclipsed in its light. --Doug Thorpe - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 264 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.86 x
9.34 x 6.16
Publisher: Wildside Pr; (July 2002)
ISBN: 1587159309
Phantastes
by George MacDonald
C.S. Lewis said that upon reading this astonishing 19th-century fairy
tale he "had crossed a great frontier," and numerous others both before
and since have felt similarly. Amazon.com
Better
Than Life
by Grant Naylor
Paperback (May 1996)
New American Library; ISBN: 0451452313
Red
Dwarf : Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
by Grant Naylor
Paperback Reissue edition (June 1996)
New American Library; ISBN: 0451452011
Dragon's
Egg
by Robert L. Forward
"Forward's book is a knockout. In science fiction there is only a handful
of books that stretch the mind--and this is one of them"--Arthur C. Clarke
Paperback - 352 pages 1st Trade edition (February 29,
2000)
Del Rey; ISBN: 034543529X
Childhood's End
by Arthur C. Clarke
One of the all-time classics of science fiction
by the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey features a race of aliens who offers
mankind a golden age of peace and prosperity, but at the cost of freedom.
Ingram
Listed under Arthur C. Clarke
Dune
by Frank Herbert
Paperback - 535 pages 25th anniv edition (September 1999)
Ace Books; ISBN: 0441172717
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Listed under Ray Bradbury
Flatland
: The Classic Speculation On Life In Four Dimensions/Sphereland : A Continuing
Speculation On An Expanding Universe
2 Books in 1 Volume
by Edwin A. Abbott, et al
(Paperback - January 1994)
The Sagittarius Whorl : An Adventure of the Rampart Worlds
by Julian May
The
Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham
(Library Binding - March 2000)
The
Midwich Cuckoos
by John Wyndham
(Library Binding - August 1999)
The Chrysalids
by John Wyndham
This was the first science-fiction book I read, back in the the 1960's.
The story, and the moral of the story, has stayed with me all these years.
Highly recommended for children - children of any age.
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
by H. G. Wells
Area
51
by Robert Doherty (Fiction)
In the 1940s, the U.S. government had establishes Area 51 to study
nine unidentified craft discovered in the Antarctic, but Dr. Hans Von Seeckt,
the only member of the original secret research committee, begins to fear
that the technology of the mothership poses a threat to our planet.
Paperback - 384 pages (March 1997)
Dell Books; ISBN: 0440220734
Extract
from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
(Oxford Mark Twain) by Mark Twain, et
al
(Hardcover - December 1996)
In
the Balance (Worldwar Series, Volume 1)
by Harry Turtledove
Paperback - 565 pages Reprint edition Vol 1 (February
1995)
Del Rey; ISBN: 0345388526
The
Mysterious Island
by Jules Verne
Paperback (December 1986)
New American Library; ISBN: 0451524918
Legends
3
by Robert Silverberg (Editor), et al
(Paperback - February 2000)
Lord
of Light
by Roger Zelazny
In the 1960s, Roger Zelazny dazzled the SF world with what seemed to
be inexhaustible talent and inventiveness. Lord of Light, his third novel,
is his finest book: a science fantasy in which the intricate, colorful
mechanisms of Hindu religion, capricious gods, and repeated reincarnations
are wittily underpinned by technology. "For six days he had offered many
kilowatts of prayer, but the static kept him from being heard On High."
The gods are a starship crew who subdued a colony world; developed godlike--though
often machine-enhanced--powers during successive lifetimes of mind transfer
to new, cloned bodies; and now lord it over descendants of the ship's mere
passengers. Their tyranny is opposed by retired god Sam, who mocks the
Celestial City, introduces Buddhism to subvert Hindu dogma, allies himself
with the planet's native "demons" against Heaven, fights pyrotechnic battles
with bizarre troops and weapons, plays dirty with politics and poison,
and dies horribly but won't stay dead. It's a huge, lumbering, magical
story, told largely in flashback, full of wonderfully ornate language (and
one unforgivable pun) that builds up the luminous myth of trickster Sam,
Lord of Light. Essential SF reading. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk
Mass Market Paperback from Eos
Book Published: 01 January, 1969 |
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Pastwatch : The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
by Orson Scott Card
The
Secret of Life
by Paul J. McAuley
Hardcover - 413 pages 1 Ed edition (June 2001)
Tor Books; ISBN: 076530080X
Last
Defender of Camelot
by Roger Zelazny, Robert Silverberg
(Introduction)
(Paperback - March 2002)
The Amazing Stories (Star Trek)
by John J. Ordover
Listed under Star Trek
The Dark Knight Strikes Again Vol. 3
by Frank Miller, Lynn Varley
Listed under Batman
Monster
Manual II (Dungeons & Dragons Supplement)
by Jeff Grubb, et al
(Hardcover -- September 2002)
Epic
Level Handbook (Dungeons & Dragons Supplement)
by Andy Collins, et al
(Hardcover -- July 2002)
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Boxed Set
by J. R. R. Tolkien
Listed under J.R.R. Tolkien
Shadow Puppets
by Orson Scott Card
His Dark Materials: The Trilogy: The Golden Compass/the Subtle Knife/the
Amber Spyglass
by Philip Pullman
Listed under Philip Pulman
Dune:
The Butlerian Jihad
by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
(Hardcover -- September 17, 2002)
Coraline
by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illustrator)
Coraline lives with her preoccupied parents in part of a huge old house--a
house so huge that other people live in it, too... round, old former actresses
Miss Spink and Miss Forcible and their aging Highland terriers ("We trod
the boards, luvvy") and the mustachioed old man under the roof ("'The reason
you cannot see the mouse circus,' said the man upstairs, 'is that the mice
are not yet ready and rehearsed.'") Coraline contents herself for weeks
with exploring the vast garden and grounds. But with a little rain she
becomes bored--so bored that she begins to count everything blue (153),
the windows (21), and the doors (14). And it is the 14th door that--sometimes
blocked with a wall of bricks--opens up for Coraline into an entirely alternate
universe. Now, if you're thinking fondly of The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, you're on the wrong track.
Neil Gaiman's Coraline is far darker, far stranger, playing on our deepest
fears. And, like Roald Dahl's work, it is delicious.
What's on the other side of the door? A distorted-mirror world, containing
presumably everything Coraline has ever dreamed of... people who pronounce
her name correctly (not "Caroline"), delicious meals (not like her father's
overblown "recipes"), an unusually pink and green bedroom (not like her
dull one), and plenty of horrible (very un-boring) marvels, like a man
made out of live rats. The creepiest part, however, is her mirrored parents,
her "other mother" and her "other father"--people who look just like her
own parents, but with big, shiny, black button eyes, paper-white skin...
and a keen desire to keep her on their side of the door. To make creepy
creepier, Coraline has been illustrated masterfully in scritchy, terrifying
ink drawings by British mixed-media artist and Sandman cover illustrator
Dave McKean. This delightful, funny, haunting, scary as heck, fairy-tale
novel is about as fine as they come. Highly recommended. (Ages 11 and older)
--Karin Snelson - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 176 pages
HarperCollins; ISBN: 0380977788; 1st edition (July 2,
2002)
Atlas
Shrugged
by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (Introduction)
(Mass Market Paperback -- September 1996)
Destiny's Way (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 14)
by Walter Jon Williams
Listed under Star Wars
Brave
New World
by Aldous Huxley
"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian
World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression,
babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment
is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and
touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard
Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young
women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence
allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for
granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he
predicted aren't yet to come. Amazon.com
Paperback: 288 pages
Harper Perennial; ISBN: 0060929871; Reprint edition (September
1998)
The
Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
(Paperback -- 1982)
28
Days Later
by Alex Garland
Book Description: In this latest film from director Danny Boyle,
a massive epidemic has swept the world, leaving in its wake a host of rabid
humans seething with hatred and bent on destroying anyone untouched by
the disease. Four seemingly unaffected people—a young man, a young woman,
a father, and his daughter—flee London through an apocalyptic landscape
as they try to reach the coast, beset along the way by attacks of “Infected”
at every turn. When they arrive at an isolated house in the country, inhabited
by a small group of soldiers, they think they have found a haven from the
violence outside. But they soon find they've jumped from the frying pan
into the fire.
Paperback from Faber & Faber
Book Published: April, 2003 |
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War
of Honor
by David Weber
(Hardcover - September 2002)
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