Fuzzy World

Here’s a listing of books I have read toward the end of high school, in college and after college. Not in strict chronological order. I’ve added some information in [brackets] to specify if the book is in fact a collection of shorter stories or if I read that particular work on my e-book reader. Not to set a too-ambitious goal, but I hope to write reviews for a majority of the books listed here (and more to come). Probably not multi-page reviews for every single book, but, for example, I could say that McCaffrey’s ‘Pegasus’ and ‘Tower and Hive’ series are good reads for a light-sci-fi fan, but if you don’t want to read a space-set soap-opera, stop about half-way through each series. Which is actually the case. So, hey, six down and a few dozen more to go.

• Steven Gould
  • Jumper
  • Reflex
  • Wildside
  • Helm
  • Blind Waves
  • Jumper: Griffin’s Story
• Larry Niven (common themes)
  • Ringworld
  • The Ringworld Engineers
  • The Ringworld Throne
  • Ringworld’s Children
  • Crashlander [short stories]
  • Flatlander [short stories]
  • N Space [short stories]
  • Destiny’s Road
  • Scatterbrain [short stories]
  • Playgrounds of the Mind [short stories]
  • Rainbow Mars [short stories]
  • Three Books of Known Space [short stories]
  • Protector [short stories]
  • The Draco Tavern [short stories]
  • Fleet of Worlds [e-book]
  • The Jigsaw Man [e-short story]
  • A Kind of Murder [e-short story]
  • The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club [e-short story]
  • Wrong Way Street [e-short story]
• Robert A. Heinlein
  • Double Star
  • Farmer in the Sky
  • Friday
  • Stranger in a Strange Land
  • Starship Troopers
  • The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  • Farnham’s Freehold
  • The Number of the Beast
  • To Saild Beyond the Sunset
  • Citizen of the Galaxy
  • For Us, the Living
  • Job: A Comedy of Justice
  • Tunnel in the Sky
  • Time Enough for Love
  • The Puppet Mastes [e-book]
  • By His Bootstraps [e-book, free]
• Robert J. Sawyer
  • Mindscan
  • Flashforward
  • Calculating God
  • Hominids [e-book]
  • Humans [e-book]
  • Hybrids [e-book]
• Douglas Adams
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  • Life, the Universe and Everything
  • So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish
• Arthur C. Clarke
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • 2010: Odyssey Two
  • 2061: Odyssey Three
  • 3001: The Final Odyssey
  • Rendezvous with Rama
  • Rama II
  • The Garden of Rama
  • Rama Revealed
• Kurt Vonnegut
  • Cat’s Cradle
  • Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Timequake
  • Breakfast of Champions [e-book]
• Isaac Asimov
  • Foundation
  • Foundation and Empire
  • I, Robot [short stories, e-book]
• S. M. Stirling
  • Island in the Sea of Time
  • Conquistador
• Ray Bradbury
  • The Martian Chronicles [short stories]
  • Fahrenheit 451
• Jules Verne
  • Around the World in Eighty Days [e-book]
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea [e-book]
• Christopher Rowley
  • Starhammer
  • The Vang-the Military Form
  • The Vang-the Battlemaster
• Charles Stross
  • Singularity Sky [e-book]
  • Iron Sunrise [e-book]
  • Accelerando [e-book, link 1, link 2]
  • Glasshouse [e-book]
  • Halting State [e-book]
  • Saturn’s Children [e-book]
• Michael Crichton
  • Sphere
  • Timeline [e-book]
• Rudy Rucker
  • The Fourth Dimension [non-fiction]
  • Master of Space and Time
• George Carlin
  • Brain Droppings [comedy]
  • Napalm and Silly Putty [comedy]
  • When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops [comedy]
• Anne McCaffrey
  • To Ride Pegasus [short stories]
  • Pegasus in Flight
  • Pegasus in Space
  • The Rowan
  • Damia
  • Damia’s Children
• Mark Twain
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [ebook]
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [ebook]
• Philip K. Dick
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • UBIK [e-book]
  • The Man in the High Castle [e-book]
• Neal Stephenson
  • Snow Crash [e-book]
  • The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer [e-book]
  • Cryptonomicon [e-book]
  • Quicksilver [e-book]
  • The Confusion [e-book]
  • The System of the World [e-book]
• Alastair Reynolds
  • Galactic North [e-book, short stories]
  • Chasm City
• The Universe Maker – A. E. van Vogt
• Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
• Subterranean – James Rollins
• Dune – Frank Herbert
• Crossfire – Nancy Kress
• Replay – Ken Grimwood
• The Loop – Nicholas Evans
• Gateway – Frederik Pohl
• Flatland – Edwin Abbott Abbott [e-book]
• Year’s Best SF 11 – David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer [short stories]
• Neznaika on the Moon – Nikolai Nosov [e-book]
• Darwinia – Robert Charles Wilson
• American Gods – Neil Gaiman [e-book]
• 1984 – George Orwell [e-book]
• The Wreck of the River of Stars – Michael Flynn [e-book]
• The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins [e-book, non-fiction]
• Neuromancer – William Gibson [e-book]
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 – Ben Bova [e-book]
• EON – Greg Bear [e-book]
• Unwise Child – Randall Garrett [e-book, free]
• Julian – Kate Wilhelm [e-book]
• The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
• Ring – Stephen Baxter
• Year’s Best SF9 – David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer [ebook]

EDIT (08/04/2007): added ‘Darwinia’

EDIT (08/22/2007): added ‘Tunnel in the Sky’ and ‘Time Enough for Love’, which Rachel reminded me she still has

EDIT (09/02/2007): added ‘Accelerando’ and ‘Jumper: Griffin’s Story’; added review link for ‘Accelerando’

EDIT (09/11/2007): added ‘I, Robot’

EDIT (09/19/2007): added works of Rudy Rucker (1 non-fiction) and George Carlin (all 3 non-fiction comedy)

EDIT (09/27/2007): added ‘American Gods’, ‘Glasshouse’

EDIT (09/28/2007): added links to Charles Stross’ works

EDIT (11/4/2007): added ‘1984′ and link to ‘American Gods’

EDIT (11/11/2007): added ‘The Puppet Masters’, my first Heinlein e-book

EDIT (11/29/2007): added ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’

EDIT (12/18/2007): added ‘Fleet of Worlds’

EDIT (01/23/2008): added ‘The Wreck of the River of Stars’

EDIT (4/13/2008): added ‘Breakfast of Champions’, ‘The God Delusion’, ‘Neuromancer’

EDIT (5/11/2008): added ‘Snow Crash’

EDIT (6/27/2008): added ‘The Jigsaw Man’, ‘A Kind of Murder’, ‘The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club’, ‘Wrong Way Street’, ‘UBIK’, ‘The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer’, ‘Nebula Awards Showcase 2008′ and links to books by Robert J. Sawyer

EDIT (7/12/2008): Added ‘EON’, ‘Unwise Child’, ‘Halting State’ and links to ‘Subterranean’, ‘UBIK’, ‘Destiny’s Road’ and a list of common Niven themes

EDIT (4/7/2009): Added ‘Cryptonomicon’, ‘Quicksilver’, ‘The Confusion’, ‘The System of the World’ and links to all the Stephenson reviews

EDIT (08/02/2009): Added ‘By His Bootstraps’, ‘Saturn’s Children’, ‘Galactic North’, ‘Chasm City’, ‘The Man in the High Castle’, ‘Ring’, “The Selfish Gene’, ‘Year’s Best SF9′