Genre Fiction
Into Bath yesterday to pick up some books, and (if I’m honest) to check on the state of play of Damage Time. Waterstones had four copies, although there was no sign of Winter Song, which is a tad disappointing, but hey ho. Then off to Toppings, where there were none. Hmm, have to speak to Rachel about that.
The man in Toppings offered tea or coffee to anyone who was interested, which I accepted. I of course then felt obliged to buy a couple of books, which was probably his intention all along. But by checking my Genre Fiction Reading List, I found a couple of gaps.
It’s actually a helluva reading list, comprising among others:
Alternate History:
Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
Christopher Priest, The Separation
Keith Roberts, Pavane
Children’s Fantasy / Crossover
Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising
Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
Philip Pullman, Northern Lights
Fantasy
Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel’s Dart
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber
Robin Hobb, Assassin’s Apprentice
Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood
Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree
Tanith Lee, Forests of the Night
China Mieville, Perdido Street Station
J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
Terri Windling, The Wood Wife
Horror
Karen Armstrong, Bitten
Clive Barker, Weaveworld
H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark
Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Bram Stoker, Dracula
SF
Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Iain M Banks, The Player of Games
Frank Herbert, Dune
Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber
Maureen McHugh, China Mountain Zhang
Kim Stanley Robinson, Forty Signs of Rain
Bruce Sterling, (ed.) Mirrorshades
Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
Robert Charles Wilson, Bios
David Zindell, Neverness
Slipstream
Isabel Allende, Eva Luna
J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
Jorge Luis Borges, Fictions
Helluva list, isn’t it? Of course everyone has their own choices — I’d substitute Pacific Edge for Forty Kinds of Rain, and where are Bester, Silverberg and Delany? But on the whole, it’s a pretty good list; of the 34 titles, I’ve barely read half of them, and that’s just the spec-fic part.
The set texts include Carrie, and then next up is Jetse de Vries’ anthology Shine. I’m looking forward to this module.
This is your reading list? That’s wicked! I have a few of them if you need to borrow any, let me know the ones you don’t have 🙂