Spotted a story on the Register today – they’d (foolishly?) asked for suggestions on what was the best film never made.
And then they got an Inbox Explosion 🙂 Here’s a link to the story with the full list.
Here’s the list – the ones in italic with ****’s are the ones I’ve read. Need to get reading more !
- Ace Trucking Co – John Wagner and Alan Grant
- Against a Dark Background – Iain M Banks (it’s waiting in the Pile)
- Agent To The Stars – John Scalzi
- The Amtrak Wars – Patrick Tilley
- Anvil of Stars – Greg Bear
- The Ballad of Halo Jones – Alan Moore
- The Black Cloud – Sir Fred Hoyle
- The Caves of Steel – Isaac Asimov
- The Chanur Saga – CJ Cherryh
- Chasm City – Alastair Reynolds ****
- The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant – Stephen R Donaldson
- The Chrysalids – John Wyndham
- Citizen of the Galaxy – Robert A Heinlein
- Creatures of Light and Darkness – Roger Zelazny
- Daemon – Daniel Suarez
- The Dark Wheel – Robert Holdstock
- Desolation Road – Ian McDonald
- The Difference Engine – William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
- The Dispossessed – Ursula K Le Guin
- The Dosadi Experiment – Frank Herbert
- Earth – David Brin
- The Expendables – Edmund Cooper
- A Fall Of Moondust – Arthur C Clarke
- Feersum Endjinn – Iain M Banks ****
- The Fountains of Paradise – Arthur C Clarke
- Glory Road – Robert A Heinlein ****
- Hammer’s Slammers – David Drake
- Have Spacesuit – Will travel – Robert A Heinlein ****
- Hinterlands – William Gibson
- Icerigger – Alan Dean Foster
- Inferno – Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
- The Integral Trees – Larry Niven
- The Invincible – Stanislaw Lem
- Kiln People – David Brin
- The Kraken Wakes – John Wyndham
- The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K Le Guin
- Liege Killer – Christopher Heinz
- Macroscope – Piers Anthony
- Mars – Ben Bova ****
- The Mars Trilogy – Kim Stanley Robinson ****
- Mindstar Rising – Peter F Hamilton
- Mockingbird – Walter Tevis
- Moving Mars – Greg Bear
- Mutineers’ Moon – David Weber ****
- Nimbus – Alexander Jablokov
- The Number of the Beast – Robert A Heinlein ****
- Orbitsville – Bob Shaw
- Only Forward – Michael Marshall Smith
- Otherland – Tad Williams
- Out of the Silent Planet – CS Lewis
- Pandora’s Star – Peter F Hamilton
- Planet of Adventure – Jack Vance
- Pushing Ice – Alastair Reynolds
- Revelation Space Saga – Alastair Reynolds
- Rocheworld – Robert L Forward
- Rogue Trooper – Gerry Finley-Day
- The Saga of the Well World – Jack L Chalker
- Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future – Mike Resnick
- The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
- The Skinner – Neal Asher
- Spinneret – Timothy Zahn ****
- Startide Rising – David Brin
- The Survivors – Tom Godwin
- Tales of Pirx the Pilot – Stanislaw Lem
- Time Enough for Love – Robert A Heinlein ****
- Timescape – Gregory Benford
- Transition – Iain M Banks
- A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! – Harry Harrison
- Ubik – Philip K Dick
- The Uplift War – David Brin
- The Void Trilogy – Peter F Hamilton
- The Voyage of the Space Beagle – AE van Vogt
- Vurt – Jeff Noon
- Who Goes There? – Bob Shaw
- The Wreck of The River of Stars – Michael Flynn
How many have you read ?