Books in italics are out of print, but can probably be
found through used book stores or the library.
Books on Writing & on Science Fiction
Trillion Year Spree: The History Of Science Fiction by Brian
Aldiss
Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America by
Kenneth C. Davis
Age of Wonders: Exploring the World of Science Fiction by David
G. Hartwell
The Art of Fiction : Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John
Gardner
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
The Language of the Night : Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for
the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew by Ursula K. Le Guin
On Writer's Block by Victoria Nelson
Words in Our Pockets: The Feminist Writers Guild Handbook Celeste
West (Editor)
Writing & Selling Science Fiction by the Science Fiction
Writers of America. Out of print, but a new edition should be available
some time in 2002. Check with the SFWA website.
Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy, ed Gardner Dozois et al.
Science Fiction & Fantasy:
an idiosyncratic list
Suptertoys Last All Summer Long and other stories by Brian Aldiss
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Crystal World by J. G. Ballard
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Timescape by Gregory Benford
Time and Again by Jack Finney (but avoid the sequel, From
Time to Time, which is dreadful).
Grendel by John Gardner
Neuromancer by Willliam Gibson
The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective by Harlan Ellison
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Norton Book of Science Fiction, ed Ursula K. LeGuin et al.
The Best of Fritz Lieber
Lankhmar: Tales of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser by Fritz Lieber
Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
Far Tortuga by Peter Matthiessen
Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
Islands by Marta Randall
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Picnic on Paradise by Joanna Russ
The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard
Up the Line by Robert Silverberg
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology edited by Bruce
Sterling
The Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart.
Bright Segment, the complete short stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Just about anything by Howard Waldrop is worthwhile. Most of it is available
in electronic editions, the most recent being Dream Factories and Radio
Pictures
Kingdoms of Elfin by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
The Doors of his Face, The Lamps of His Mouth by Roger Zelazny,
especially the short story A Rose for Ecclesiastes
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