Recommended Reading List
David Gerrold and I came up with a quick and dirty recommended reading list. Here it is.
NOTE: Some of these are short stories or other works that will be found in anthologies.
Novel (or Work) | Author |
Have Spacesuit Will Travel | Robert A. Heinlein |
Stranger in a Strange Land | |
Starship Troopers | |
The Door Into Summer | |
Time for the Stars | |
Shockwave Rider | John Brunner |
The Sheep Looked Up | |
Stand On Zanzibar | |
Cities in Flight | Jame A. Blish |
The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick |
Bug Jack Barron | Norman Spinrad |
The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. LeGuin |
The Man Who Folded Himself | David Gerrold |
Childhood’s End | Arthur C. Clarke |
Rendezvous with Rama | |
Ringworld | Larry Niven |
The Foundation Trilogy | Isaac Asimov |
“I, Robot” | |
The Naked Sun | |
The Caves of Steel | |
Lord of Light | Roger Zelazny |
Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
October Country | |
The Martian Chronicles | |
Dune | Frank Herbert |
Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card |
Dragonflight | Anne McCaffrey |
The Ship Who Sang | |
The Catch Trap | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
When Gravity Fails | George Alec Effinger |
More Than Human | Theodore Sturgeon |
Godbody | |
Venus Plus X | |
The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham |
The Midwich Cuckoos | |
The Long Afternoon of Earth | Brian W. Aldiss |
Dearthworld | Harry Harrison |
The Stainless Steel Rat | |
Hospital Station | James White |
Repent Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman | Harlan Ellison |
Gateway | Frederick Pohl |
Not this August | Cyril Kornbluth |
Alas Babylon | Pat Frank |
Fear! | L. Ron Hubbard |
The Warrior’s Apprentice | Lois McMaster Bujold |
Martians Go Home! | Henry Kutner |
Who Goes There? | John W. Campbell |
The Stars My Destination | Alfred W. Bester |
The Demolished Man | |
The Martian Odyssey | Stanley G. Weinbaum |
The Wanderer | Fritz Leiber |
The Big Tide | |
Conjure Wife | |
Earth | David Brin |
Startide Rising | |
A Fire Upon the Deep | Vernor Vinge |
Seven Views of Oldavai Gorge | Michael Resnick |
Nightwings | Robert Silverberg |
Macroscope | Piers Anthony |
Orn | |
The Door Into Fire | Diane Duane |
So You Want to be A Wizard | |
Time Storm | Gordon R. Dickson |
Dorsai! | |
Starquake | Robert L. Forward |
A Mission of Gravity | Hal Clement |
Needle | |
Fire Time | Poul Anderson |
Tau Zero | |
Titan | John Varley |