I have an ongoing love affair with books - mostly science fiction!
my favorite of favorites:
Caroline B. Cooney BOTH SIDES OF TIME
Orson Scott Card PASTWATCH:THE REDEMPTION OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Charles Sheffield BROTHER TO DRAGONS
Orson Scott Card LOST BOYS
Greg Bear BLOOD MUSIC
Mike Resnick A MIRACLE OF RARE DESIGN
David Gerrold THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF:THE LAST WORD IN TIME
MACHINE NOVELS
Neal Stephenson SNOW CRASH
"Masters of Science Fiction"
Robert Heinlein, Robert Silverberg,Isaac Asimov,Frank Herbert,
Ray Bradbury, Ben Bova
Piers Anthony has written the novels TOTAL RECALL, FIREFLY, and many
other books in varied series (Get any book of his and look for his
list! If you write him, he also replies to mail.)
Orson Scott Card and Kathryn H.Kidd LOVELOCK
Orson Scott Card read anything and everything by him! including:
{Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the
Mind.} PASTWATCH:THE REDEMPTION OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Greg Bear TANGENTS
Marion Zimmer Bradley THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR
Roger Zelazny DOORWAYS IN THE SAND - interesting writing technique.
Douglas Adams THE LONG DARK TEA TIME OF THE SOUL
(anything by Douglas Adams Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy &
more!)
Barbara Hambly THE SILENT TOWER and THE SILICON MAGE
Larry Niven N-SPACE (collection of stories)
Anne McCaffrey THE ROWAN (and more...)
Rebecca Ore BEING ALIEN and BECOMING ALIEN and HUMAN TO HUMAN
Edited by Don Sakers CARMEN MIRANDA'S GHOST IS HAUNTING SPACE STATION 3
Melissa Scott MIGHTY GOOD ROOD, TROUBLE AND HER FRIENDS
Harry Harrison - Mostly his stories about the Stainless Steel Rat
Stephen R. Donaldson The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story
(about 5 more in a series)
Be sure to read the author's note at end of The Real Story.
C.J. Cherryh HEAVY TIME, YVGENIE, CHERNEVOG, THE GOBLIN MIRROR,and
Merchanter's Luck: Rendezvous at Downbelow station.
Diane Duane SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL WIZARD
Diana Gabaldon OUTLANDER
Terry Pratchett GUARDS! GUARDS! (Very off-the-wall humor)
Barbara Cohen UNICORNS IN THE RAIN
Steven C. Gould JUMPER
Theodore Sturgeon MORE THAN HUMAN (hard to find but worth the search)
Spider & Jeanne Robinson STARSEED
Spider Robinson many and varied; I like his style & stories.
Anne McCaffrey/Mercedes Lackey THE SHIP WHO SEARCHED
Lois McMaster Bujold VORKOSIGAN'S GAME {and more!}
edited by David Alexander Smith FUTURE BOSTON
Octavia E. Butler MIND OF MY MIND, WILD SEED, DAWN
David Brin OTHERNESS
Robert A. Heinlein THE STAR BEAST
Julian F. Thompson HERB SEASONING
John DeChancie MAGICNET
Catherine Asaro PRIMARY INVERSION
David Pogue HARD DRIVE
Bruce Coville I LEFT MY SNEAKERS IN DIMENSION X. (A ROD ALLBRIGHT
ALIEN ADVENTURE)
Esther Friesner GNOME MAN'S LAND, THE SHERWOOD GAME:A NEW
KIND OF ROBIN HOOD
Michael Crichton DISCLOSURE, JURASSIC PARK
David Gerrold VOYAGE OF THE STAR WOLF (and more....)
Ben Bova ORION AMONG THE STARS (and more...)
Valerie J. Freireich BECOMING HUMAN
Philip K. Dick THE GOLDEN MAN (Edited by Mark Hurst, a collection)
Edited by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold BORDERLAND
(with charles delint, ellen kushner, steven r. Boyett, bellamy
bach) Look for these companion titles: BORDERTOWN, LIFE ON THE BORDER, THE
ESSENTIAL BORDERTOWN, (all edited by Terri Windling) NOVELS: FINDER by
Emma Bull, ELSEWHERE, and NEVER-NEVER by Will Shetterly.
William Sleator: THE DUPLICATE, THE BOY WHO REVERSED HIMSELF,
INTERSTELLAR PIG, SINGULARITY
Audiocassette: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - a good way to see new authors.
not really science fiction, but interesting reads anyways:
Stephen King GERALD'S GAME
Stephanie D. Fletcher E-MAIL: A LOVE STORY
(The first time I read this, I'd never seen a chatline *grin*)
Stephen W. Hawking A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME: FROM THE BIG BANG TO BLACK
HOLES
Robin Cook MUTATION
R.L. Stine different books, not really science fiction but worth a
look. He writes kids/young adult fiction.
Caroline B. Cooney's books.... geared to Teens .....all excellent!
Searching the Web for Science Fiction Books and Authors:
Corwin's Author Web This site is
basically a search engine to find authors.I've just started exploring it!
Comprehensive Authors List (YAHOO results, scroll down a bit)
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