MEME | Gollancz SF Masterworks
/As noted earlier, I’m part of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Masterworks Review blog, and they’ve come up with an interesting meme, how many of these have been read? What I've bolded are books read and italics means I own it, but I’ve been meaning to read it. This list also includes new Masterwork releases coming out later this year and the first section of roman numerals of the list are a special run of hardcovers in the series, which are also in the numbered series.
I - Dune - Frank Herbert II - The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin III - The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick IV - The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester V - A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr. VI - Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke VII - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein VIII - Ringworld - Larry Niven IX - The Forever War - Joe Haldeman X - The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
1 - The Forever War - Joe Haldeman 2 - I Am Legend - Richard Matheson 3 - Cities in Flight - James Blish 4 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick 5 - The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester 6 - Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delany 7 - Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny 8 - The Fifth Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe 9 - Gateway - Frederik Pohl 10 - The Rediscovery of Man - Cordwainer Smith
11 - Last and First Men - Olaf Stapledon (Will be reviewing) 12 - Earth Abides - George R. Stewart 13 - Martian Time-Slip - Philip K. Dick 14 - The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester 15 - Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner 16 - The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin 17 - The Drowned World - J. G. Ballard 18 - The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut 19 - Emphyrio - Jack Vance 20 - A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick 21 - Star Maker - Olaf Stapledon 22 - Behold the Man - Michael Moorcock 23 - The Book of Skulls - Robert Silverberg 24 - The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells 25 - Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes (Will Be reviewing) 26 - Ubik - Philip K. Dick 27 - Timescape - Gregory Benford 28 - More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon 29 - Man Plus - Frederik Pohl 30 - A Case of Conscience - James Blish
31 - The Centauri Device - M. John Harrison 32 - Dr. Bloodmoney - Philip K. Dick 33 - Non-Stop - Brian Aldiss 34 - The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C. Clarke 35 - Pavane - Keith Roberts 36 - Now Wait for Last Year - Philip K. Dick 37 - Nova - Samuel R. Delany 38 - The First Men in the Moon - H. G. Wells 39 - The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke 40 - Blood Music - Greg Bear
41 - Jem - Frederik Pohl 42 - Bring the Jubilee - Ward Moore 43 - VALIS - Philip K. Dick 44 - The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin 45 - The Complete Roderick - John Sladek 46 - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick 47 - The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells 48 - Grass - Sheri S. Tepper 49 - A Fall of Moondust - Arthur C. Clarke 50 - Eon - Greg Bear
51 - The Shrinking Man - Richard Matheson 52 - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick 53 - The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock 54 - The Space Merchants - Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth 55 - Time Out of Joint - Philip K. Dick 56 - Downward to the Earth - Robert Silverberg 57 - The Simulacra - Philip K. Dick 58 - The Penultimate Truth - Philip K. Dick 59 - Dying Inside - Robert Silverberg 60 - Ringworld - Larry Niven 61 - The Child Garden - Geoff Ryman 62 - Mission of Gravity - Hal Clement 63 - A Maze of Death - Philip K. Dick 64 - Tau Zero - Poul Anderson 65 - Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke 66 - Life During Wartime - Lucius Shepard 67 - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm 68 - Roadside Picnic - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 69 - Dark Benediction - Walter M. Miller, Jr. 70 - Mockingbird - Walter Tevis
71 - Dune - Frank Herbert 72 - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein 73 - The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick 74 - Inverted World - Christopher Priest 75 - Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle 76 - H.G. Wells - The Island of Dr. Moreau 77 - Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End 78 - H.G. Wells - The Time Machine 79 - Samuel R. Delany - Dhalgren (July 2010) 80 - Brian Aldiss - Helliconia (August 2010)
81 - H.G. Wells - Food of the Gods (Sept. 2010) 82 - Jack Finney - The Body Snatchers (Oct. 2010) 83 - Joanna Russ - The Female Man (Nov. 2010) 84 - M.J. Engh - Arslan (Dec. 2010
So what's my count? 15 read, with a couple that I own. Hopefully, I’ll be getting to the two books of my own, Flowers for Algernon and Last and First Men, soon, after I finish up a couple of other things, but when they’re done, they’ll be up on the SF and Fantasy Materworks Reading Blog.
Bit of an edit here, 6 or more months on. I never actually ended up getting around to finishing or reviewing either book that had been my assignment - something I've been unhappy about, but more pressing matters have come up. Hopefully though, I'll be able to get to some of them at some point in the future!