Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Paul McAuley's reading list

Bold = I've Read
Italics = I will read soon

  • Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus MARY SHELLEY 1818
  • Journey to the Centre of the Earth JULES VERNE 1863 (waiting for a real translation)
  • After London RICHARD JEFFRIES 1885
  • The Time Machine HG WELLS 1895
  • The House on the Borderland WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON 1912 (I have read John C. Wright's pastiches - does that count?)
  • We YEVGENY ZAMIATIN 1924
  • Brave New World ALDOUS HUXLEY 1932
  • Star Maker OLAF STAPLEDON 1937
  • 1984 GEORGE ORWELL 1949
  • I, Robot, ISAAC ASIMOV 1950
  • The Martian Chronicles RAY BRADBURY 1950
  • The Dying Earth JACK VANCE 1950
  • Childhood’s End ARTHUR C CLARKE 1953
  • The Space Merchants CM KORNBLUTH & FREDERIK POHL 1953
  • Tiger! Tiger! ALFRED BESTER 1956
  • The Death of Grass JOHN CHRISTOPHER 1956
  • The Seedling Stars JAMES BLISH 1957 (I've read "Surface Tension")
  • The Midwich Cuckoos JOHN WYNDHAM 1957 (seen the movie)
  • Starship Troopers ROBERT A HEINLEIN 1959
  • A Canticle for Liebowitz WALTER M MILLER JR 1959
  • Solaris STANSLAW LEM 1961 (seen the Soviet movie - I know it doesn't count)
  • Hothouse BRIAN ALDISS 1962
  • A Clockwork Orange ANTONY BURGESS 1962
  • Cat’s Cradle KURT VONNEGUT JR 1963
  • Martian Time-Slip PHILIP K DICK 1964
  • Dune FRANK HERBERT 1965
  • The Crystal World JG BALLARD 1966
  • Flowers For Algernon DANIEL KEYES 1966
  • Lord of Light ROGER ZELAZNY 1967
  • Nova SAMUEL R DELANY 1968
  • Pavane KEITH ROBERTS 1968
  • The Left Hand of Darkness URSULA K LE GUIN 1969
  • Roadside Picnic ARKADY AND BORIS STRUGATSKI 1969
  • 334 THOMAS M DISCH 1972
  • Dying Inside ROBERT SILVERBERG 1972
  • The Fifth Head of Cerberus GENE WOLFE 1972
  • Ten Thousand Light Years From Home JAMES TIPTREE JR 1973
  • The Forever War JOE HALDEMAN 1974
  • Inverted World CHRISTOPHER PRIEST 1974
  • The Female Man JOANNA RUSS 1975
  • Arslan MJ ENGH 1976
  • The Ophiuchi Hotline JOHN VARLEY 1977
  • The Final Programme MICHAEL MOORCOCK 1968
  • Kindred OCTAVIA BUTLER 1979
  • Engine Summer JOHN CROWLEY 1979
  • Timescape GREGORY BENFORD 1980
  • Neuromancer WILLIAM GIBSON 1984
  • Divine Endurance GWYNETH JONES 1984