Science Fiction Book Meme

Thu, 11/24/2005 - 17:23

Given my status as a long time science fiction fan, I couldn't resist this. It's a meme going around in the Linuxchix Live community. Bold what you've read, strike out what you don't like, italicize what you'd like to read but haven't yet...

1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip K. Dick
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland -- is this science fiction?
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham

There's one big problem with this meme: the above list doesn't have any books by women. So I've added some:

21. Parable of the Sower/Parable of the Talents -- Octavia Butler
22. Lathe of Heaven -- Ursala LeGuin
23. The Visitor -- Sherri Tepper
24. Vorkosigan Series -- Lois McMaster Bujold
25. Cyteen -- C.J. Cherryh

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