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Interesting Supplemental Science Fiction Reading -- by no means exhaustive!
Kay Fowler
I. General Anthologies:
Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels, comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenburg; The Ascent of Wonder, ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (1994) (On Reserve); Decades of Science Fiction, ed. Applewhite Minyard, 1998 (Text); Great Tales of The Golden Age of Science Fiction, ed. Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin Greenberg. NY: Galahad, 1989; Masterpieces of Science Fiction, Ed. Sam Moskowitz, World Publishing Co., 1966; Modern Classics of Science Fiction, ed. Gardner Dozois; The Norton Book of Science Fiction, ed. Ursula K. LeGuin and Brian Atteberry, 1998 (On Reserve); 101 Science Fiction Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, and Jenny-Lynn Waugh, 1986; The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories, ed. Tom Shippey (1992) (On Reserve); The Road to Science Fiction (multivolumes), ed. James Gunn, Clarkston, GA (ongoing publication.) Vol. 1: From Gilgamesh to Wells; Vol. 2: From Wells to Heinlein; Vol. 3: From Heinlein to Here; Vol. 4: From Here to Forever; Vol. 5: The British Way; (On Reserve)Vol. 6: Around the World. (Text; Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology, ed. Eric S. Rabkin, 1983 (On Reserve); The Science Fiction Century, ed. David G. Hartman, 1997 (On Reserve); A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, 2 vols., ed. Anthony Boucher, 1959; Visions of Wonder, ed. David G. Hartwell and Milton T. Wolfe, 1996 (On Reserve);Women of Wonder: The Classic Years. Science Fiction by Women from the 1940's to the 1970's, ed. Pamela Sargent (1995) (On Reserve); Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years. Science Fiction by Women from the 1970's to the 1990's, ed. Pamela Sargent (1995) (On Reserve)
II. Proto Science Fiction (pre-19th century):
Anthologies: Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology, ed. Eric S. Rabkin, 1983 (On Reserve)
Individual Works: Lucian, True History (2nd century BCE); Mandeville's Travels (1387); Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-63); Sir Thomas More, Utopia (1567); Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis (1629); Johannes Kepler, Somnium (1634); Tommaso Campanella, City of the Sun (1637); Francis Godwin, The Man in the Moone (Mim) (1638); Cyrano de Bergerac, A Voyage to the Moon (1659); Mlle. De Scudery, Mathilde (1667); Margaret Cavendish, A Description of A New World Called the Blazing World (1668); Johnathon Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726); Lucius Holberg, "Journey of Neil Klims to the World Underground" (1741); Voltaire, Micromegas: A Comic Romance (1752); Sarah Scott, A Description of Millenium Hall (1762); Louis-Sebastien Mercier, Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred (1771); Restif de la Bretonne, La decourverte australe (1781); Giacomo Casanova di Seingalt, Isocameron (1788); Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden (1791); Charles Brocken Brown, Wieland (1798).
III. Nineteenth Century Science Fiction:
Anthologies: Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineeth Century, ed. Bruce Franklin, 1966; rev. Exp. 1995 (On Reserve); Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology, ed. Eric S. Rabkin, 1983 (On Reserve)
Individual Works:
Anonymous, [Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville] The Last Man
or
Omegarus and Syderia: A Romance in Futurity (Trans. From French,
1800);
William Bilderdyk, A Short Account of a Remarkable Aerial Voyage
and
Discovery of a New Planet (1813); E. T. A. Hoffman, "Sandman"
(1816);
John William Polidori, The Vampyre (1819); Captain Adam
Seaborn,
Symzonia (1820); Jane (Webb) Loudon, The Mummy: A Tale of
the
22nd Century (1827); Joseth Atterley, Voyage to the Moon
(1827);
Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1826); Mary Griffith, Three
Hundred
Years Hence (1836); Richard Adams Locke, The Moon Hoax
(1856);
Annie Denton Cridge, Manís Rights: Or How Would You Like It?
(1870);
Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth (1872); Jules
Verne,
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1873); J. L. Collins, Queen
Krinaleenís
Plagues; or How A Simple People Were Destroyed. A Discourse in the 22nd
Century. By Jonquil. (1874); Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island
(1875);Mary E. Bradley Lane, Mizora: A Prophecy (1880-1881); The
Great Romance, by The Inhabitant (New Zealand, 1881); Albert
Robida,
The War of the Twentieth Century (1882); Edwin Abbot, Flatland:
A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884); Richard Jefferies, After
London,
a Wild England (1885); Marie Corelli, A Romance of Two Worlds
(1886); Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and
Mr.
Hyde (1886); H. Rider Haggard, She (1887); W. H. Hudson, A
Crystal Age (1887); Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 2000-1887
(1888); William Morris, News from Nowhere (1890); Alice I.
Jones
and Ellan Marchant. Unveiling A Parallel: A Romance by "2 Women
of the West" (1893); Geroge Griffith-Jones, Olga Romanoff: or, The
Syren
of the Skies (1893-4); Camille Flammarion, La fin du monde
(1893-94),
Omega (1894); J. H. Rosny Aine, Quest for the Right Stuff
(1895); H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896); H. G.
Wells,
The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance (1897); Kurd Lasswitz, Auf
zwei Planeten (1897) (translated as Two Planets, 1971); H.
G.
Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898)Jack London, The Science
Fiction
of Jack London (collected,1975); Edgar Allan Poe, The Science
Fiction
of Edgar Allan Poe (collected, 1976). (Plus selected stories of
Nathaniel
Hawthorne, and Mark Twain).
IV. Pre-World War II (1900-1938).
Anthologies: The Mammoth Book of Classic Science Fiction Short Novels of the 1930ís comp. Isaac Asimov, 1989; The Road to Science Fiction, vol. 2, ed. James Gunn
Individual Works: M. P. Shiel, The Purple Cloud (1901); H. G. Wells, First Men on the Moon (1901); William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland (1908); Rudyard Kipling, "With the Night Mail" (1912); Jack London, The Iron Heel (1907); "The Scarlet Plague" (1912); Hugo Gernsback, Ralph 124C 41+ (1911); Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (1912); Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (1912) ;The Poison Belt (1913); J. D. Beresford, The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911);Goslings (1913); Edgar Rice Burroughs, Pellucidar (1915); Jack London, The Iron Heel (1907);The Star Rover (1915); Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (1915); Yevgeny Zamiatin, We (1920); Karel Capek, R.U. R. (1921); Edward Shanks, The People of the Ruin (1920); Cicely Hamilton, Theodore Savage (1922); E. V. Odle, The Clockwork Man (1923); S. Fowler Wright, The Amphibians: A Romance of 50,000 Years Hence (1925); The Deluge (1927); Muriel Jaeger, The Question Mark (1926); The Man with Six Senses (1927); Noelle Roger, The New Adam (1926); Shaw Desmond, Ragnarok (1926); E. E. "Doc" Smith, The Skylark of Space (1928 - begun in 1914); Olaf Stapledon, The Last and First Men (1930); Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932); Edwin Balmers and Philip Wylie, When Worlds Collide (1933); H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come (1933); John Russell Fearn, The Intelligence Gigantic (1933);Olaf Stapledon, Odd John (1935); Karel Capek, The War With the Newts (1936); Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker (1937); Katherine Burdekin (as Murray Consstantine), Swastika Night (1937); C. S. Lewis, Out of theSilent Planet (1938); Ayn Rand, Anthem (1938).
V. Science Fiction during World War II
Anthologies: The Good Old Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition, (1940ís) ed. Gardner Dozois, NY: St. Martinís, 1998;The Mammoth Book of Golden Age of Science Fiction, Short Novels of the 1940's comp. Isaac Asimov, 1989 (On Reserve); The Road to Science Fiction, vol. 2, ed. James Gunn.
Individual Works: Stanley Weinbaum, The New Adam (1939); William F. Temple, The Four-Sided Triangle (1939); Robert Heinlein, By His Bootstraps (1941) (in Arbor House); Lester Del Rey, Nerves (1942) (in Golden Age); Theodore Sturgeon, Killdozer! (1943) (in Golden Age); Curt Siodmak, Donovanís Brain (1943); Jack Williamson, With Folded Hands (1947) (in Golden Age); Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Fury (1947); George Orwell, 1984 (1948): George Stewart, Earth Abides (1949).
VI. Science Fiction of the 1950's
Anthologies: The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction, Short Novels of the 1950ís, compiled by Isaac Asimov (1989); The Road to Science Fiction, vol. 3, ed. James Gunn.
Individual Works: Judith Merrill, The Shadow and the Hearth (1950); Fritz Leiber, Gather, Darkness! (1950); Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky (1950); Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (1950); John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (1951); Robert A. Heinlein, The Puppet Masters (1951); Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee (1951); Andre Norton, Star Manís Son: 2250 A. D. (1952); William Temor, Firewater (1952); C. L. Moore, Judgement Night (1952); Bernard Wolfe, Limbo (1952); Frederick Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth, Space Merchants (1952); James Blish, A Case of Conscience (1953) (in Arbor House); Clifford D. Simak, Ring Around the Sun (1953); Clifford D. Simak, City (1953) Theodore Sturgeon, More than Human (1953); Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man (1953); Arthur C. Clarke, Childhoodís End (1953); Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953); Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man (1953); Isaac Asimov, Caves of Steel (1954); Hal Clement, Mission of Gravity (1954); Edgar Pangborn, A Mirror for Observers (1954); Charles L. Harness, The Paradox Men (1954); Poul Anderson, Brain Wave (1954) (in Treasury, vol. 2); Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow (1955); Andre Norton, Sargasso Sea (1955); Isaac Asimov, The End of Eternity (1955); William Golding, The Inheritors (1955); John Christopher, The Death of Grass (aka No Blade of Grass) (1956); Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (1956); Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars (1956); Robert Heinlein, The Door into Summer (1957); John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos (1957); Charles de Vet and Katherine Maclean, Second Game (1958) (in Arbor House and Mammoth Book); Brian Aldiss, Non-Stop (1958); James Blish, A Case of Conscience; Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space-Suit -- Will Travel (1958); Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan (1959); Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (1959, exp. 1966); Philip K. Dick, Time Out of Joint (1959), Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon (1959); Walter Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Stanislaw Lem, Eden (1959).
VII. Science Fiction of the 1960's
Anthologies: The Mammoth Book of New World Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1960s, comp. Isaac Asimov, 1991.
Individual Works: Algis Budrys, Rogue Moon (1960); Theodore Sturgeon, Venus Plus X (1960); Fritz Leiber, The Big Time (1961); Zenna Henderson, Pilgrimage: The Book of the People (1961); Brian W. Aldiss, Hothouse (1962); J. G. B allard, The Drowned World (1962); Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962); Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (1962); Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (1962); Madeline LíEngle, A Wrinkle in Time (1962); Naomi Mitchison, Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962); Robert Sheckley, Journey Beyond Tomorrow (1963); Clifford D. Simak, Way Station (1963); Kurt Vonnegut, Catís Cradle (1963); Brian Aldiss, Greybeard (1964), The Dark, Light Years (1964); William S. Burroughs, Nova Express (1964); Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip (1964); The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964); Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer (1964); Cordwainer Smith, Nostrilia (1964); Philip K. Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney (1965); Frank Herbert, Dune (1965); J. G. Ballard, The Drought (aka The Burning World) (1965); Samuel Delaney, Babel-17 (1966); Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1966); Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966); J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World (1966); Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room! (1966); Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (1966); Roger Zelazney, The Dream Master (1966); Samuel Delaney, The Einstein Intersection (1967); Anne McCaffrey, Dragonrider (1968); Joanna Russ, Picnic on Paradise (1968); John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar (1968); Samuel R. Delaney, Nova (1968); Thomas M. Disch, Camp Concentration (1968); Michael Moorcok, The Final Programme (1968); Keith Roberts, Pavane (1968); Ursula K. Leguin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969); Bob Shaw, The Palace of Eternity (1969); Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron (1969); Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains (1969).
VIII. Science Fiction of the 1970's
Anthologies: The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science Fiction of the 1970's, comp. I. Asimov (1989).
Individual Works: Larry Niven, Ringworld (1970); Poul Anderson, Tau Zero (1970); Robert Silverberg, Downward to the Earth (1970); Wilson Tucker, The Year of the Quiet Sun (1970); Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1971); Robert Silberberg, A Time of Changes (1971); Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus (972); Barry Malzberg, Beyond Apollo (1972); Thomas M. Disch, 334 (1972); Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1972-4); Michael Moorcock, The Dancers at the End of Time (1972-76); J. G. Ballard, Crash (1973); Mack Reynolds, Looking Backward from the Year 2000 (1973); Ian Watson, The Embedding (1973); David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself (1973); James Tiptree, Jr. Ten Thousand Light Years from Home (1973); Ursula LeGuin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974); Barry Malzberg, Guernica Night (1974); James Tiptree, Jr. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (1974); Doris Lessing, The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974); Suzy McKee Charnas, Walk to the End of the World (1974); M. John Harrison, The Centauri Device (1974); Christopher Priest, Inverted World (1974); J. G. Ballard, High-Rise (1975); Barry N. Malzberg, Galaxies (1975); Tanith Lee, The Birthgrave (1975); Bob Shaw, Orbitsville (1975); Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975); Samuel Delaney, Dhalgren (1975); Katherine Maclean, The Missing Man (1975); Frederick Pohl, Man Plus (1976); Kingsley Amis, The Alteration (1976); Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) Frederick Pohl, Gateway (1977); Edward Bryant, Particle Theory (1977); Vondra Mcintryre Superluminal (1977); Algis Budrys, Michaelmas (1977); John Varley, The Ophiuchi Hotlane (1977) ; Ian Watson, Miracle Visitors (1978); James Tiptree, Jr. Up the Walls of the World (1978); Vondra McIntyre, Dreamsnake (1978); Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, False Dawn (1978); Suzy McKee Charnas, Motherlines (1979), John Crowley, Engine Summer (1979); Thomas M. Disch, On Wings of Song (1979); Brian Stableford, The Walking Shadow (1979); Kate Wilhelm, Juniper Time (1979); George Zerowski, Macrolife (1979; Octavia Butler, Kindred (1979).
IX. Science Fiction of the 1980's
Anthologies:The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980ís, comp. Isaac Asimov, (1989); The Road to Science Fiction, vol. 4, From Here to Eternity, ed. James Gunn;
Individual Works:
Octavia Butler, Wild Seed (1980); James Tiptree, Jr. Slow
Music (1980) (in Mammoth); Katherine Maclean, The
Trouble
with You Earth People (1980); Joan Vinge, The Snow Queen
(1980);
Gregory Benford, Timescape (1980); Phil Jose Farmer, The
Unreasoning
Mask (1980); Damien Broderick, The Dreaming Dragons (1980);
Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker (1980); John Sladek, Roderick
and Roderick at Random (1980-83); Gene Wolfe, The Book of
the
New Sun (1980-83); Julian May, Too Many Colored Lands
(1981);
Katherine Maclean, The Diploids and Other Flights of Fancy
(1981);
Edward Bryant, Particle Theory (1981); Larry Niven and Jerry
Pournelle,
Oath of Fealty (1981); Michael Bishop, No Enemy But Time
(1982); David Brin, Startide Rising (1983); Vondra McIntyre, Superluminal
(1983); Joanna Russ,
The Adventures of Alyx (1983); John Calvin Batchelor,
The Birth of the People’s Republic of Antarctica (1983); Suzette
Hardin Elgin, Native Tongue (1984); Vernor Vinge,
The Peace War (1984); Robert Silverberg, Sailing
to
Byzantium (1984) (in Mammoth); William
Gibson,
Neuromancer (1984); Orson Scott
Card, Ender’s Game (1985);
Josephine Saxton, The Power of Time (1985); Connie
Willis, Fire
Watch (1985); Vernor Vinge, Marooned in Real Time (1986);
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1986);
Connie Willis, Chance
(1986); Karen Joy Fowler, Artificial Things (1986);
Joan
Slonczewski, Door Into Ocean (1986); Pat Cadigan,
Pretty Boy
Crossover (1986); Arthur C. Clarke, Songs of
Distant Earth (1986); Octavia Butler,
Dawn (1987); Pat Murphy,
The Falling Woman (1987); Kim Stanley Robinson,
The Blind Geometer
(1987) (in Mammoth); C. J. Cherryh,
Cyteen (1988); Sheri
Tepper, Gate to Women’s Country (1988); Dan
Simmons, Hyperion (1989);
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Healer (1989);
William Gibson, Mona Lisa
Overdrive (1987).
X. Science
Fiction of the 1990’s
Misha, Red Spider, White Web (1990); Pat Murphy,
Points of
Departure (1990); Joan Vinge,
Summer Queen (1991); Gwyneth
Jones, The White Queen (1991); Carol
Emshwiller, The Start of the
End of It All (1991); Judith Moffett,
Novel of the Hefn on Earth
(1991); Eleanor Arnason, A Woman of
the Iron People (1991);
William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine (1991);
Karen
Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary (1991); Kim
Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
(1992); Joan Slonciewski, The
Daughter of Elysium (1993); Octavia
Butler, Parable of the Sower
(1994); Maureen McHugh, Half the Day
is Night (1994); Nancy
Kress, Beggars in Spain (1994); William
Gibson, Virtual Light, (1994);
Elisabeth Vonarburg, Reluctant Voyagers (1994);
Nancy Kress,
Beggars and Choosers (1995); Nicola Griffith,
Slow River (1995);
Melissa Scott, Night Sky Mine (1996); Sarah
Zettel, Reclamation (1996);
Alison Sinclair, Legacies (1996); Bruce
Sterling, Holy Fire (1996); Kim
Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (1996); Kathleen
Ann Goonan, The Bones of
Time (1996); Jack Vance, Night Lamp (1996);
Arthur C. Clarke and Mike
McQuay, Richter 10 (1996), Kathleen Ann
Goonan, Mississippi Blues
(1997); Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace (1997);
John Kessel, Corrupting Mr.
Nice (1997); Walter Jon Williams, City on
(1997); Kim Stanley Robinson,
Antartica (1997) Greg Bear,
Darwin’s Radio (1997); Tony Daniel,
Earthling (1997); Levar Burton, Aftermath
(1997); Vondra McIntyre,
Widowmaker Reborn, (1997); Kate Baker, In
the Garden of Iden (1997);
Alison Sinclair, Blueheart (1998); Ursula K.
Leguin, The Telling
(2001); Audrey Niffenegger , Time
Traveller’s Wife (2004); Philip Roth,
Plot Against America (2004); Kim Stanley
Robinson, Forty Signs of Rain
(2004); Greg Bear, Darwin’s Children
(2005);