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Of all the genres of writing, by far the one that fascinates me the most is science fiction. As a result of this interest, over the years I've built up a collection of sf novels, short story collections and even a few 1950s pulp magazines, when I've been lucky enough to find them. I realised recently that I had no list of what I have, and so I've put together the whacking great list on this page. Where possible, I've included a link to the author's home page, or the most interesting page about the author. If there doesn't seem to be an obvious candidate for that, why not have a look for the author's summary at The SF Site. There are also some other links pertaining to specific books. Feel free to drop me a line if there's anything that interests you on this page, or if I've made a mistake somewhere. - Earle. Interesting links: via Ansible; The Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List; Susan Stepney's SF Page. Skip in page to: Individual Authors / Short Story Collections / Periodicals Last updated: 2004-03-21. I'm gradually applying star ratings for my opinions of the books - from half a star to four stars (or five for Outstanding), although this being my collection rather than a general review list, you won't find anything here that I consider to be crap. Eventually, they'll all be rated, and reviews will follow, too. Please don't hold your breath, though. A single rating isn't really good enough; I should rate the books on various different criteria. However, that would be a gigantic undertaking, so a single rating will have to suffice.
Individual Authors
		Douglas Adams The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Life, The Universe and Everything Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Fish Mostly Harmless Brian W. Aldiss Barefoot in the Head Cryptozoic Earthworks The Eighty Minute Hour Galaxies like Grains of Sand Hothouse Non-Stop Poul Anderson (also this) Beyond the Beyond (short stories) Strangers from Earth Time and Stars Isaac Asimov The Bicentennial Man Buy Jupiter (short stories) The Caves of Steel The Early Asimov vol. 3 (short stories) Earth is Room Enough (short stories) Fantastic Voyage Foundation The Gods Themselves I, Robot Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury The Martian Way The Naked Sun The Rest of the Robots (short stories) Pebble in the Sky The Robots of Dawn Robot Visions (short stories) Through a Glass, Clearly The Winds of Change J.G. Ballard The Drowned World The Drought Hello America The Terminal Beach (short stories) Iain M. Banks Consider Phlebas Excession Feersum Endjinn Inversions Look to Windward The Player of Games Stephen Baxter Time Greg Bear Eon Eternity James Blish Cities In Flight (talking of which...) Galactic Cluster (short stories) Midsummer Century The Night Shapes (short stories) Ray Bradbury Dandelion Wine Fahrenheit 451 The Golden Apples of the Sun The Illustrated Man I Sing the Body Electric Long After Midnight Machineries of Joy The October Country The Silver Locusts John Brunner The Shockwave Rider Stand on Zanzibar Telepathist The Wrong End of Time Louis Charbonneau The Sentinel Stars Arthur C. Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey 2010: Odyssey Two 2061: Odyssey Three 3001: The Final Odyssey Childhood's End Cradle [with Gentry Lee] The City and the Stars The Deep Range Expedition to Earth The Lost Worlds of 2001 [] The Other Side of the Sky (short stories) Prelude to Space The Sands of Mars Tales from Earth (short stories) The Wind from the Sun (short stories) Samuel R. Delany Driftglass (short stories) Philip K. Dick Beyond Lies the Wub (short stories) Clans of the Alphane Moon Confessions of a Crap Artist The Cosmic Puppets Counter-Clock World The Crack in Space The Days of Perky Pat (short stories) Deus Irae [with Roger Zelazny] The Divine Invasion Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb Dr. Futurity Eye in the Sky The Father-Thing (short stories) Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said Galactic Pot-Healer The Game-Players of Titan The Ganymede Takeover (with Ray Nelson) The Golden Man (short stories) A Handful of Darkness (short stories) The Man in the High Castle The Man Who Japed The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike Mary and the Giant Martian Time-Slip A Maze of Death Now Wait for Last Year Our Friends from Frolix 8 The Penultimate Truth Radio Free Albemuth A Scanner Darkly Second Variety (short stories) The Simulacra Solar Lottery The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Time Out of Joint The Transmigration of Timothy Archer Ubik The Unteleported Man Valis The Variable Man (short stories) Vulcan's Hammer The World Jones Made We Can Build You The Zap Gun Gordon R. Dickson Time Storm Thomas M. Disch On Wings of Song Charles Dye Prisoner in the Skull Greg Egan Axiomatic (short stories) Diaspora Distress Luminous (short stories) Permutation City Quarantine D. E. Ellis A Thousand Ages Harlan Ellison Deathbird Stories Philip Jose Farmer The Green Odyssey To Your Scattered Bodies Go The Fabulous Riverboat The Dark Design The Magic Labyrinth Gods of Riverworld Traitor to the Living The Wind Whales of Ishmael Alan Dean Foster Orphan Star Quozl ...Who Needs Enemies? George Foy The Shift Contraband Daniel F. Galouye Lords of the Psychon William Gibson Neuromancer Count Zero Mona Lisa Overdrive Burning Chrome (short stories) Virtual Light Idoru All Tomorrow's Parties Kathleen Ann Goonan The Bones of Time Queen City Jazz Ray Gordon No Man Friday Joe Haldeman All My Sins Remembered Infinite Dreams (short stories) Peter F. Hamilton Fallen Dragon The Reality Dysfunction The Neutronium Alchemist The Naked God A Second Chance at Eden (short stories) Harry Harrison The Best Of (short stories) Bill, the Galactic Hero, on the Planet of Bottled Brains (with Robert Sheckley) Make Room! Make Room! Skyfall The Stainless Steel Rat The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World A Stainless Steel Rat is Born The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You Robert A Heinlein (see also site:RAH and Carlos Angelo's Heinlein site) The Door into Summer The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Orphans of the Sky Revolt in 2100 Time Enough for Love Time for the Stars Frank Herbert Dune Dune Messiah Children of Dune God Emperor of Dune Heretics of Dune Chapter House Dune The Eyes of Heisenberg The Santaroga Barrier Whipping Star James P. Hogan Inherit the Stars The Gentle Giants of Ganymede Giants' Star Philip Kerr A Philosophical Investigation The Second Angel Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon C. M. Kornbluth The Wonder Effect (short stories) [with Frederik Pohl] Damon Knight Turning On (short stories) Ursula K. Le Guin City of Illusions The Disposessed The Lathe of Heaven The Left Hand of Darkness Stanislaw Lem Mortal Engines Solaris Charles Eric Maine Count-Down Crisis 2000 High Vacuum The Isotope Man Timeliner Michael Marshall Smith As You Like It (short stories) One of Us Only Forward Spares George R. R. Martin Tuf Voyaging Richard Matheson Born Leader The Shores of Space Third From The Sun World Out of Mind Walter M. Miller, Jr. A Canticle for Leibowitz Michael Moorcock The Time Dweller The Eternal Champion Larry Niven The Integral Trees Oath of Fealty [with Jerry Pournelle] The Mote in God's Eye [with Jerry Pournelle] Ringworld Frederik Pohl Slave Ship The Wonder Effect (short stories) [with C. M. Kornbluth] Jerry Pournelle The Mote in God's Eye [with Larry Niven] Oath of Fealty [with Larry Niven] Terry Pratchett Strata Christopher Priest The Space Machine Rudy Rucker Wetware The 57th Franz Kafka Fred Saberhagen The Water of Thought Robert Sheckley Journey Beyond Tomorrow Pilgrimage to Earth (short stories) The Robert Sheckley Omnibus (short stories) Robert Silverberg Thorns Clifford D. Simak Brother & Other Stories City Project Pope The Werewolf Principle Cordwainer Smith Space Lords (short stories) Norman Spinrad Bug Jack Barron Neal Stephenson Cobweb (as Stephen Bury) Cryptonomicon The Diamond Age Interface (as Stephen Bury) Snow Crash Zodiac Bruce Sterling The Artificial Kid Distraction Involution Ocean Holy Fire George R. Stewart Earth Abides Donald Sudbury The Star Raiders A. E. Van Vogt Away and Beyond The Book of Ptath Destination: Universe! Pendulum The Proxy Intelligence (short stories) Voyage of the Space Beagle Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The Sirens of Titan H. G. Wells The First Men in the Moon (1901 first edition!)[] The Island of Doctor Moreau (1897 first edition!)[] The Short Stories of H. G. Wells James White Hospital Station John Wyndham Chocky Consider Her Ways and Others (short stories) The Day of the Triffids The Kraken Wakes The Seeds of Time (short stories) Trouble with Lichen Yevgeny Zamyatin We George Zebrowsky Macro Life Roger Zelazny Deus Irae [with Philip K. Dick] Unicorn Variations (short stories) The Lost Worlds of 2001 isn't actually science fiction, but a book about the making of Kubrick's movie of Clarke's novel. So I thought it merited inclusion. ** Some time around 1996 I spotted two old-looking H.G. Wells books at a church jumble sale being offered at £1 each. Being fond firstly of H. G. Wells' work, secondly of old books, and thirdly of bargains, I decided to buy them. But then I looked inside them, and noticed that one (The Island of Doctor Moreau) was dated 1897, and the other (The First Men in the Moon) was dated 1901. Surely they couldn't be first editions? At that point I had no option - I had to buy them in case it was true. I had no way of checking their status after the purchase, though. They sat on my shelf as part of my collection until the shortly before the end of 2002, when I happened across a book called the Guide to First Edition Prices. I immediately looked up the two volumes, and lo and behold, they were indeed both first editions, worth in the region of £750 each. Needless to say, I was surprised. I guess somebody must have died and his or her books were given away to the church to sell, although I didn't see any others that looked like firsts. So, unlucky them and lucky me. These two volumes are now the two most treasured items in my collection. I don't care about how much they're worth - they're just beautiful things and I love them dearly. And before you ask, no, they're not for sale. [ back to top ]

Short Story Collections
		100 Great Science Fiction Stories eds. Isaac Asimov, Harry Greenburg and Joseph D. Olander 13 French Science-Fiction Stories ed. Damon Knight 17x Infinity ed. Groff Conklin Prologue to Analog ed. John W. Campbell Analog 3 ed. John W. Campbell Andromeda 3 ed. Peter Weston Another Part of the Galaxy ed. Groff Conklin Asleep in Armageddon ed. Michael Simmons Beachheads in Space ed. August Derleth Before the Golden Age 1 Before the Golden Age 3 ed. Isaac Asimov The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction No. 14 ed. Avram Davidson The Best Science Fiction of the Year #4 ed. Terry Carr Cities of Wonder ed. Damon Knight Connoisseur's Science Fiction ed. T. Boardman Constellations ed. Michael Edwards Continuum 3 ed. Roger Elwood Cyber-Killers ed. Ric Alexander Dangerous Visions (1, 2, 3) ed. Harlan Ellison A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction ed. Robert P. Mills Decade: the 1960s ed. Brian W. Aldiss & Harry Harrison Doorway Into Time ed. Sam Moskowitz Elsewhere and Elsewhen ed. Groff Conklin Get Out of My Sky ed. Leo Margulies Galactic Empires ed. Brian Aldiss Introducing SF ed. Brian Aldiss Invasion of the Robots ed. Roger Elwood The Metal Smile ed. Damon Knight Mirrorshades ed. Bruce Sterling The New Mind ed. Roger Elwood Best Stories from New Worlds II Best Stories from New Worlds 3 Best Stories from New Worlds 5 ed. Michael Moorcock New Worlds Quarterly 2 ed. Michael Moorcock New Writings in SF 2 ed. John Carnell No Place Like Earth ed. John Carnell Now and Beyond ed. ? Orbit 2 Orbit 3 Orbit 4 ed. Damon Knight Penguin Science Fiction ed. Brian Aldiss The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction ed. Brian Aldiss & Philip J. Lundnell Yet More Penguin Science Fiction ed. Brian Aldiss Seven Come Infinity ed. Groff Conklin Seven Trips Through Time and Space ed. Groff Conklin Spectrum 3 eds. Kingsley Amis and Martin Conquest The Year's Best Science Fiction #4 eds. Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss The Year's Best SF 1972 eds. Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss [ back to top ]

Periodicals
		Analog Vol XVIII Jul 1962 (#7, UK ed.) Vol XCIV Sep 1974 (#1) Astounding Oct 1941 Galaxy Science Fiction Vol 9 Feb 1955 (#1) Galaxy Magazine Vol 20 Oct 1961 (#1) Aug 1962 (#6, "No. 93") Vol 29 Dec 1969 (#3) Galaxy Magazine (British Edition) Vol XIX Jun 1963 (#1, UK ed.) Vol 35 Dec 1974 (#12, "24th Edition") If Vol 17 (1967) Jul (#7, Issue 116) Aug (#8, Issue 117) Sep (#9, Issue 118) Oct (#10, Issue 119) Nov (#11, Issue 120) Vol 18 (1968) Apr (#4, Issue 125) Vol 19 (1969) Feb (#2, Issue 135) Mar (#3, Issue 136) Apr (#4, Issue 137) Sep (#9, Issue 142) Vol 20 (1970) Apr (#3, Issue 146) May (#4, Issue 147) Jun-Jul (#5, Issue 148, UK ed.) Vol 21 Jan-Feb 1972 (#3, Issue 158) May-Jun 1972 (#5, Issue 160, UK ed.) "UK No. 1" Jul-Aug 1972 (#6, Issue 161, UK ed.) "UK No. 2" Jan-Feb 1973 (#9, Issue 164, UK ed.) "No. 5" Vol 22 Jan-Feb 1974 (#3, Issue 170, UK ed.) "No. 1"* May-Jun 1974 (#5, Issue 172, UK ed.) "No. 3" Jul-Aug 1974 (#6, Issue 173, UK ed.) "No. 4" Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy Vol 7 Feb 1956 (#1) Vol 9 Feb 1958 (#1) Imaginative Tales Vol 4 Jan 1957 (#1) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (British Edition) Vol II Feb 1961 (#3) Apr 1961 (#5) May 1961 (#6) Jun 1961 (#7) Vol III Mar 1962 (#4) Vol IV Feb 1963 (#3) Aug 1963 (#9) Vol V Feb 1964 (#3) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol 20 Mar 1961 (#3, Issue 118) Vol 23 Oct 1962 (#4, Issue 137) Nov 1962 (#5, Issue 138) Vol 25 Aug 1963 (#2, Issue 147) Vol 29 Oct 1965 (#4, Issue 173) Vol 30 Jan 1966 (#1, Issue 176) Vol 31 Oct 1966 (#4, Issue 185) Vol 35 Jul 1968 (#1, Issue 206) Vol 36 Feb 1969 (#3, Issue 213) Vol 54 Jun 1978 (#6, Issue 325) Vol 66 Jan 1984 (#1, Issue 392) Feb 1984 (#2, Issue 393) Mar 1984 (#3, Issue 394) Apr 1984 (#4, Issue 395) May 1984 (#5, Issue 396) Jun 1984 (#6, Issue 397) Vol 67 Jul 1984 (#1, Issue 398) Aug 1984 (#2, Issue 399) Oct 1984 (#4, Issue 401) Dec 1984 (#6, Issue 403) Vol 68 Jan 1985 (#1, Issue 404) Feb 1985 (#2, Issue 405) New Worlds SF Vol 49 Aug 1965 (#151) Oct 1965 (#153) Dec 1965 (#157) Jan 1966 (#158) Jun 1966 (#163) Aug 1966 (#165) Vol 50 Nov 1966 (#168) Dec 1966 (#169) Mar 1967 (#172) The Original Science Fiction Stories Unknown year - I think it's a British reprint of this magazine. #1 Street & Smith's Astounding Science Fiction (British Edition) 1952 Nov 1956 Jan Apr Dec 1958 Nov Dec Venture Science Fiction 1963 Oct (#2, UK ed.) * I'm confused. (If you can shed any light on this, please let me know.) [ back to top ] [ Individual Authors ] [ Short Story Collections ] [ Periodicals ]