once again 1986 list
Lonnie Courtney Clay
exceptions they exclude fantasy. I posted them on another forum a
while back, and thought that you on this forum might be interested too
in some classics. The books are the winnowed down list from 4335
titles by 904 authors which I had as of September 86. I might make up
another list in 2006, but someone as omnivorous as I will probably
have created such a list by then. I would be interested to see if
anyone could make up a list of ten (from the list below) which they
hated and justify each book on the list.....
The books selected are intended to be an introduction to the author.
Where a series was involved the book is generally the first rather
than best of series. At the same time as I made up the list beow, I
made up a list of "no sale" books to keep which included 1462 titles
by 337 authors. If people find the list below helpful, I might type up
the more comprehensive one for your reference if you are a
collector/reader like me, giving ISBN number.
Lonnie Courtney Clay
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Brian Aldiss - Helliconia Spring, Starship
Roger MacBride Allen - The Torch of Honor
Chester Anderson & Michael Kurland - Ten Years To Doomsday
Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson - Earthman's Burden
Poul Anderson - Ensign Flandry, Fire Time, The High Crusade, The Man
Who Counts, New America, Operation Chaos, Shield
Isaac Asimov - The End of Eternity, Foundation
Michael Banks & Dean R. Lambe - The Odysseus Solution
Pierre Barbet - Baphomet's Meteor
Neal Barrett - Aldair In Albion
T.J. Bass - The Godwhale
Barrington J. Bayley - Collision Course, The Garments of Caean
Greg Bear - Hegira
Gregory Benford - Timescape
Stephen Ames Berry - The Biofab War
Alfred Bester - The Computer Connection, The Demolished Man
Lloyd Biggle - The Light That Never Was, The Still, Small Voice of
Trumpets, Watchers of the Dark, The World Menders
Ben Bova - Millenium, Test of Fire
John Boyd - Sex and the High Command
J.F. Bone - Confederation Matador
Leigh Brackett - The Long Tomorrow
Marion Zimmer Bradley - Darkover Landfall, Endless Universe, Hunters
of the Red Moon, Survey Ship
Reginald Bretnor - Schimmelhorn's Gold
David Brin - The Postman, The Practice Effect, Startide Rising,
Sundiver
John Brunner - The Crucible of Time, Into the Slave Nebula, The Stone
that Never Came Down
Algis Budrys - The Amsirs and the Iron Thorn
Lois McMaster Bujold - Shards of Honor
F.M. Busby - All These Earths
Edward A. Byers - The Long Forgetting
Grant Callin - SaturnAlia
John Wood Campbell Jr - Astounding/Analog editor - May 1938 - June 11,
1971
Orson Scott Card - Hot Sleep : The Worthing Chronicle
Jayge Carr - Leviathon's Deep
A. Bertram Chandler - The Road To The Rim/The Hard Way Up
C.J. Cherryh - Cuckoo's Egg, Downbelow Station, The Faded Sun :
Kesrith, Gate of Ivrel, Hunter of Worlds, Pride of Chanur, Serpent's
Reach
Robert Chilson - The Star Crowned Kings
Jo Clayton - Diadem From the Stars, Drinker of Souls
Hal Clement - Close To Critical, Cycle of Fire, Iceworld, Mission of
Gravity, Needle, Ocean On Top
Alan Cole & Chris Bunch - Sten
Michael G. Coney - The Hero of Downways
Edmund Cooper - A Far Sunset, Transit
Richard Cowper - Profundis
Theodore R. Cogswell - The Wall Around the World
Daniel DaCruz - The Ayes of Texas
Brian Daley - Requiem For a Ruler of Worlds
John Dalmas - Homecoming
Arsen Darnay - The Splendid Freedom
L. Sprague DeCamp - The Glory That Was, Lest Darkness Fall, The
Fallible Fiend, Rogue Queen
Michael DeLarrabeiti - The Borribles
Ansen Dibell - Pursuit of the Screamer
Gordon R. Dickson - In Iron Years, Mission To Universe, Naked To The
Stars, None But Man, Outposter, The Pritcher Mass, Pro, Tactics of
Mistake, Wolfling
David Drake - Bridgehead, Hammer's Slammers, Killer
G.C. Edmondson - The Man Who Corrupted Earth
Suzette Hayden Elgin - Native Tongue, The Ozark Trilogy
Cynthia Felice - Godsfire
Robert L. Forward - Dragon's Egg, Flight of the Dragonfly
William R. Forstchen - Ice Prophet
Alan Dean Foster - Icerigger, The Man Who Used the Universe, Midworld
Leo Frankowski - The Cross-Time Engineer
Raymond Z. Gallun - The Eden Cycle
David Gerrold - A Matter For Men/ A Day For Damnation/ (add A Rage For
Revenge), When Harlie Was One
Alexis A. Gilliland - The Revolution From Rosinante
Stephen Goldin - The Eternity Brigade
Phyllis Gottleib - A Judgement of Dragons
Ron Goulart - HellQuad
Joseph L. Green - Conscience Interplanetary, Star Probe
Roland Green - Peace Company
Russell M. Griffin - The Makeshift God
James E. Gunn - This Fortress World
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War, There Is No Darkness, Worlds
Charles L. Harness - The Catalyst, Redworld, Wolfhead
Harry Harrison - Astounding - John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology, The
Deathworld Trilogy* Bill, the Galactic Hero* Make Room! Make Room!, A
Stainless Steel Rat Is Born, To The Stars, West of Eden
Simon Hawke - The Ivanhoe Gambit
Ward Hawkins - Red Flame Burning
Robert A. Heinlein - Citizen of the Galaxy, Expanded Universe - The
New Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein, Friday, Glory Road* Have Space Suit,
Will Travel*, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, Orphans of the Sky,
Starship Troopers, Stranger In A Strange Land, Time Enough For Love,
Tunnel In The Sky
Zenna Henderson - Pilgrimage
Frank Herbert - Dune, Hellstrom's Hive, The Santaroga Barrier
P.C. Hodgell - Godstalk
Lee Hoffman - Always The Black Knight
James P. Hogan - The Genesis Machine, Inherit The Stars, Thrice Upon A
Time, The Two Faces of Tomorrow
Bruce T. Holmes - Anvil Of The Heart
Robert Hoskins - To Control The Stars
Edward P. Hughes - The Long Mynd
Zach Hughes - For Texas And Zed, The Legend of Miaree, Seed Of The
Gods, The Stork Factor
Dean Ing - High Tension, Pulling Through, Soft Targets, Systemic Shock
D.F. Jones - Denver Is Missing
J.A. Jones - Blue Lab
Colin Kapp - The Wizard of Anharite
James P. Kelley - Planet of Whispers
Carol Kendall - The Firelings
Gordon Kendall - White Wing
Lee Killough - Liberty's World, A Voice Out Of Ramah
Damon Knight - A for Anything
C.M. Kornbluth - Not This August
Michael Kurland - Tomorrow Knight, The Whenabouts of Burr
David J. Lake - The Right Hand of Dextra
Arthur H. Landis - Camelot In Orbit
David Langford - The Space Eater
Keith Laumer - Bolo, The Long Twilight, Star Colony, Worlds of the
Imperium
Ursula K. Leguin - The Left Hand of Darkness
Fritz Leiber - A Specter Is Haunting Texas, The Wanderer
Edward Llewellyn - Prelude To Chaos, Salvage and Destroy
Barry B. Longyear - City of Barraboo, Manifest Destiny
Ardath Mayhar - Khi To Freedom
Ann McCaffrey - Decision At Doona, The Ship Who Sang
Michael McCollum - A Greater Infinity, Life Probe
Michael P. Kube McDowell - Enigma
Robert McLaughlin - The Man Who Wanted Stars
John C. McLoughlin - The Helix and the Sword
R.M. Meluch - Sovreign, Wind Dancers
Robert Merle - Malevil
Sam Merwin, Jr. - The House of Many Worlds
Walter M. Miller Jr. - A Canticle for Leibowitz
John Moressey - Frostworld and Dreamfire, The Mansions of Space
Sam Nicholson - The Light Bearer
Larry Niven - The Integral Trees, Protector, Ringworld
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle - Footfall, Lucifer's Hammer, The Mote
In God's Eye, Oath of Fealty
Andre Norton - Dark Piper, Moon Of Three Rings, Star Rangers, The Zero
Stone
Kevin O'Donnell - War of Omission
Andrew J. Offutt - The Galactic Rejects
David R. Palmer - Emergence
Edgar Pangborn - West of the Sun
Alexis Pansin - Rite of Passage, Star Well
Steve Perry - The Man Who Never Missed
John T. Phillifent - Genius Unlimited, King of Argent, Life With
Lancelot
Wendy & Richard Pini - Elfquest
H. Beam Piper - Little Fuzzy, Paratime
Doris Piserchia - Earthchild, Mr. Justice
Fred Pohl - Black Star Rising, The Coming of the Quantum Cats, The
Cool War, Gateway
Fred Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth - The Space Merchants
Fred Pohl & Jack Williamson - Farthest Star
Jerry Pournelle - A Spaceship for the King, Janissaries, West of Honor
E. Hoffman Price - The Devil Wives of Li Fong, Operation Longlife
Richard Purtill - The Golden Gryphon Feather
John Rackham - Beanstalk
Mack Reynolds - Ability Quotient, Brain World, Lagrange Five,
Rolltown, Section G : United Planets, The Space Barbarians, Trample An
Empire Down
posthumously with Dean Ing - Eternity, Home Sweet Home 2000 AD, The
Other Time
Mike Resnick - Santiago
Walt & Leigh Richmond - The Probability Corner
John Maddox Roberts - Cestus Dei, The Cingulum
Stephen Robinett - Stargate
Kim Stanley Robinson - The Wild Shore
Spider Robinson - Telempath
Joel Rosenberg - Emile and the Dutchman
Christopher Rowley - The War for Eternity
Eric Frank Russell - Next of Kin, Wasp
Thomas J. Ryan - The Adolescence of P1
Fred Saberhagen - The Complete Book of Swords
Jake Saunders & Howard Waldrop - The Texas - Israeli War : 1999
Dennis Schmidt - Way-Farer
Stanley Schmidt - The Sins of the Fathers
James H. Schmitz - Agent of Vega, The Demon Breed, The Eternal
Frontiers, Legacy, The Universe Against Her
J. Neil Schulman - Alongside Night
Melissa Scott - Five Twelfths of Heaven
Bob Shaw - The Ceres Solution
Michael Shea - A Quest for Simbilis, Nifft The Lean
Mike Shupp - With Fate Conspire
Robert Silverberg - Collision Course, Those Who Watch
Clifford D. Simak - A Heritage of Stars, The Goblin Reservation, Way
Station
John Slonczewski - Still Forms on Foxfield
Cordwainer Smith - Norstrilia
E.E. "Doc" Smith - Triplanetary
George O. Smith - The Fourth "R"
L. Neil Smith - The Probability Broach, Their Majesties Bucketeers
Zilpha Keatly Snyder - Below The Root
Steven G. Spruill - Keepers of the Gates
Brian Stapleford - The Castaways of Tanager, The Gates of Eden, The
Halcyon Drift, Optiman
Christopher Stasheff - A Wizard in Bedlam
John Steakly - Armor
Andrew M. Stephenson - Nightwatch
George R. Stewart - Earth Abides
John E. Stith - Scapescope
Brad Strickland - To Stand Beneath the Sun
Theodore Sturgeon - More Than Human
G. Harry Stine - The Third Industrial Revolution
Jefferson P. Swycaffer - Not In Our Stars
Keith Taylor - Bard
Walter Tevis - The Man Who Fell To Earth
Patrick Tilley - Cloud Warrior
J.R.R. Tolkein - The Fellowship Of The Ring
Robert E. Toomey Jr. - A World of Trouble
Louis Trimble - The Bodelian Way, The City Machine
Wilson Tucker - The Lincoln Hunters
Jack Vance - The Anome, The Blue World, City Of the Chasch, The Dying
Earth, The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolf, Rhialto the Marvelous, Star
King
A.E. Van Vogt - The Darkness of Diamondia, The Weapon Shops of Isher
John Varley - Millenium, The Ophiuchi Hotline, Titan
Joan D. Vinge - The Outcasts of Heaven Belt
Vernor Vinge - Grimm's World, The Peace War, The Witling
Ian Wallace - Croyd
Walter Wangerin - The Book of the Dun Cow
George Warren - Dominant Species
Lawrence Watt-Evans - The Cyborg and the Sorcerers, Shining Steel
James White - All Judgement Fled, Hospital Station, Tomorrow Is Too
Far, The Watch Below
Wynn Whiteford - Sapphire Road
Cherry Wilder - The Luck of Brin's Five
John Willett - Aubade for Gamelon
Walter John Williams - Ambassador of Progress
Jack Williamson - Lifeboat
F. Paul Wilson - An Enemy of the State
John Wyndham - Re-Birth
Nicholas Yermankov - Last Communion
Robert F. Young - The Last Yggdrasill
Timothy Zahn - The Blackcollar, Spinneret
Roger Zelazny - Doorways In The Sand, This Immortal
Of the books above, how many people score agreement greater than 100 ?
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