SF Masterworks series: How many have you read?

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Re: SF Masterworks series: How many have you read?

Post by tattuchu » Sun Aug 26, 2012 8:38 pm

There's lots of Dick on that list. I like Dick :tea:
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Re: SF Masterworks series: How many have you read?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Aug 26, 2012 8:39 pm

Mallardz wrote:
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Mallardz wrote:I have Tau Zero and it's SF masterworks.
That's not even on that there list.
Yes it is.
So it is.
My ctrl+F let me down.
So make that one.
I remember it because I thought the premise hugely funny at the time. "Universe collapsing? Sit it out and pick up where you left on at the next one." :funny:
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Re: SF Masterworks series: How many have you read?

Post by Pappa » Sun Aug 26, 2012 8:49 pm

tattuchu wrote:There's lots of Dick on that list. I like Dick :tea:
Are you hungry for Dick right now?

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Re: SF Masterworks series: How many have you read?

Post by The Curious Squid » Sun Aug 26, 2012 8:51 pm

Looking through the synopsizes of some of them,

Stand on Zanzibar sounds good but at the same time, over-population is something that really annoys me about the world and I don't know if I would just get angry reading about it.

The author got the projected figure for the number of humans alive in 2010 correct when he wrote the book back in 1968, I'd be impressed if it wasn't worrying that people knew there were too many of us back then and we still haven't done anything about the worrying continuation. We need some form of control, the human right to have as many kids as we want is something that the general public aren't responsible enough to regulate.

Though I hear there are ways of shutting that down if it's unwanted...
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Re: SF Masterworks series: How many have you read?

Post by Mallardz » Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:03 pm

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:
Mallardz wrote:
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:
Mallardz wrote:I have Tau Zero and it's SF masterworks.
That's not even on that there list.
Yes it is.
So it is.
My ctrl+F let me down.
So make that one.
I remember it because I thought the premise hugely funny at the time. "Universe collapsing? Sit it out and pick up where you left on at the next one." :funny:
EA's and my physics teacher used to praise it highly so I picked up a copy.
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Re: SF Masterworks series: How many have you read?

Post by tattuchu » Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:15 pm

Pappa wrote:
tattuchu wrote:There's lots of Dick on that list. I like Dick :tea:
Are you hungry for Dick right now?
Ravenous :{D

I can't say I've read more than a small handful of Dick, or any of the others on the list. I love to read, but I like to read more than I actually end up reading. Which is a shame. Because I love to read. But I love to sleep even more than I love to read, unfortunately.
This is a great list, though, and I didn't even know it existed. Takes all the guesswork out of trying to figure out what to look for. I should try to tug away at it bit by bit. Did I say tug away? Sorry, I was thinking of Dick again. And Moorcock. I meant plug away.
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Re: SF Masterworks series: How many have you read?

Post by Pappa » Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:30 pm

tattuchu wrote:
Pappa wrote:
tattuchu wrote:There's lots of Dick on that list. I like Dick :tea:
Are you hungry for Dick right now?
Ravenous :{D

I can't say I've read more than a small handful of Dick, or any of the others on the list. I love to read, but I like to read more than I actually end up reading. Which is a shame. Because I love to read. But I love to sleep even more than I love to read, unfortunately.
This is a great list, though, and I didn't even know it existed. Takes all the guesswork out of trying to figure out what to look for. I should try to tug away at it bit by bit. Did I say tug away? Sorry, I was thinking of Dick again. And Moorcock. I meant plug away.
You definitely need Moorcock.

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Re: SF Masterworks series: How many have you read?

Post by Brian Peacock » Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:31 pm

tattuchu wrote:There's lots of Dick on that list. I like Dick :tea:
I've done all the Dick on that list. :whistle:



2 I Am Legend Richard Matheson 1954 ISBN 1-85798-809-4 1999
3 Cities in Flight James Blish 1950–1962 ISBN 1-85798-811-6 1999
4 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 1968 ISBN 1-85798-813-2 1999
6 Babel-17 Samuel R. Delany 1966 ISBN 1-85798-805-1 1999
7 Lord of Light Roger Zelazny 1967 ISBN 1-85798-820-5 1999
11 Last and First Men Olaf Stapledon 1930 ISBN 1-85798-806-X 1999
13 Martian Time-Slip Philip K. Dick 1964 ISBN 1-85798-837-X 1999
15 Stand on Zanzibar John Brunner 1968 ISBN 1-85798-836-1 1999
16 The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin 1974 ISBN 1-85798-882-5 1999
17 The Drowned World J. G. Ballard 1962 ISBN 1-85798-883-3 1999
18 The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut 1959 ISBN 1-85798-884-1 1999
20 A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick 1977 ISBN 1-85798-847-7 1999
21 Star Maker Olaf Stapledon 1937 ISBN 1-85798-807-8 1999
22 Behold the Man Michael Moorcock 1969 ISBN 1-85798-848-5 1999
23 The Book of Skulls Robert Silverberg 1972 ISBN 1-85798-914-7 1999
24 The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1895 & 1898 ISBN 1-85798-887-6 1999
26 Ubik Philip K. Dick 1969 ISBN 1-85798-853-1 2000
27 Timescape Gregory Benford 1980 ISBN 1-85798-935-X 2000
28 More Than Human Theodore Sturgeon 1953 ISBN 1-85798-852-3 2000
32 Dr. Bloodmoney Philip K. Dick 1965 ISBN 1-85798-952-X 2000
33 Non-Stop Brian Aldiss 1958 ISBN 1-85798-998-8 2000
34 The Fountains of Paradise Arthur C. Clarke 1979 ISBN 1-85798-721-7 2000
36 Now Wait for Last Year Philip K. Dick 1966 ISBN 1-85798-701-2 2000
38 The First Men in the Moon H. G. Wells 1901 ISBN 1-85798-746-2 2001
39 The City and the Stars Arthur C. Clarke 1956 ISBN 1-85798-763-2 2001
40 Blood Music Greg Bear 1985 ISBN 1-85798-762-4 2001
43 VALIS Philip K. Dick 1981 ISBN 1-85798-339-4 2001
46 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said Philip K. Dick 1974 ISBN 1-85798-341-6 2001
47 The Invisible Man H. G. Wells 1897 ISBN 1-85798-949-X 2001
49 A Fall of Moondust Arthur C. Clarke 1961 ISBN 0-575-07317-9 2002
50 Eon Greg Bear 1985 ISBN 0-575-07316-0 2002
51 The Shrinking Man Richard Matheson 1956 ISBN 0-575-07463-9 2003
52 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Philip K. Dick 1965 ISBN 0-575-07480-9 2003
53 The Dancers at the End of Time Michael Moorcock 1974–1976 ISBN 0-575-07476-0 2003
55 Time Out of Joint Philip K. Dick 1959 ISBN 0-575-07458-2 2003
56 Downward to the Earth Robert Silverberg 1970 ISBN 0-575-07523-6 2004
57 The Simulacra Philip K. Dick 1964 ISBN 0-575-07460-4 2004
58 The Penultimate Truth Philip K. Dick 1964 ISBN 0-575-07481-7 2005
59 Dying Inside Robert Silverberg 1972 ISBN 0-575-07525-2 2005
60 Ringworld Larry Niven 1970 ISBN 0-575-07702-6 2005
62 Mission of Gravity Hal Clement 1954 ISBN 0-575-07708-5 2005
63 A Maze of Death Philip K. Dick 1970 ISBN 0-575-07461-2 2005
64 Tau Zero Poul Anderson 1970 ISBN 0-575-07732-8 2006
65 Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke 1972 ISBN 0-575-07733-6 2006
68 Roadside Picnic Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 1972 ISBN 0-575-07978-9 2007
69 Dark Benediction Walter M. Miller, Jr. 1951 ISBN 0-575-07977-0 2007
71 Dune Frank Herbert 1965 ISBN 0-575-08150-3 2007
72 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress** Robert A. Heinlein 1966 ISBN 0-575-08241-0 2008
73 The Man in the High Castle** Philip K. Dick 1962 ISBN 0-575-08205-4 2009

And on the hardback list...

I Dune Frank Herbert 1965 ISBN 0-575-07334-9
III The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick 1962 ISBN 0-575-07335-7
VI Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke 1953 ISBN 0-575-07263-6
VII The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein 1966 ISBN 0-575-07336-5
VIII Ringworld Larry Niven 1970 ISBN 0-575-07339-X
X The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham 1951 ISBN 0-575-07338-1

You used to be able to go to this places called a 'Library' and, get this, you could take a book away and read it at home, and then, when you'd finished it, take it back and swap it for another one, for free! Can you imagine that? Of course, this was 'back in the day' as the youngsters say, when all this was fields and everything else was in black and white.

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Re: SF Masterworks series: How many have you read?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:32 pm

The Curious Squid wrote:Looking through the synopsizes of some of them,

Stand on Zanzibar sounds good but at the same time, over-population is something that really annoys me about the world and I don't know if I would just get angry reading about it.
One of the characters in that book reminds me of me.

The book is supposed to make you angry, Squid. It's a rather grim read of our future.
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:39 pm

Pappa wrote:
tattuchu wrote:
Pappa wrote:
tattuchu wrote:There's lots of Dick on that list. I like Dick :tea:
Are you hungry for Dick right now?
Ravenous :{D

I can't say I've read more than a small handful of Dick, or any of the others on the list. I love to read, but I like to read more than I actually end up reading. Which is a shame. Because I love to read. But I love to sleep even more than I love to read, unfortunately.
This is a great list, though, and I didn't even know it existed. Takes all the guesswork out of trying to figure out what to look for. I should try to tug away at it bit by bit. Did I say tug away? Sorry, I was thinking of Dick again. And Moorcock. I meant plug away.
You definitely need Moorcock.
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Re: SF Masterworks series: How many have you read?

Post by Audley Strange » Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:11 am

Commonly I've read mostly P.K. Dick's works (and frankly most of them are terrible) and recently Dune to see what the fuss was all about. which was surprisingly well thought out and shows a depth of knowledge about Sci-Fi, Islam Oil wars and surprisingly Nuns without being flashy. I won't be reading any of the other novels.
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Re: SF Masterworks series: How many have you read?

Post by Svartalf » Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:26 am

Houston, we got a problem... they include Emphyrio in that list, which is definitely one of Vance's lesser works, which in turn casts the whole choice of works in bad light. Same thing about the two Moorcock ones... too much pseudo philosophical fiddle faddle, likely thought up and written while totally UI, nobody will ever know exactly of what.

and I've read about 15-20 of them. Quite a few I think I ought to read, but never got the opportunity/funds.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:50 am

Svartalf wrote:... Same thing about the two Moorcock ones... too much pseudo philosophical fiddle faddle, likely thought up and written while totally UI....
Urinary Infection? Really?

I enjoyed the bawdy Jerry Cornelious books as a teenager, I thought they were deep. I was wrong, but I only found that out latter when I started reading Brian Aldiss.
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Post by Svartalf » Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:53 am

Under the Influence, you joker :Erasb:

Then again, I'm awfully strick when it comes to Morecock, One should only read a very few of his better books... no need to clutter oneself with the pure trash that is the rest.
Heck, even his bawdy stuff (and I read the House on Rosenstrasse) does not make the grade.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:57 am

Svartalf wrote:... Heck, even his bawdy stuff (and I read the House on Rosenstrasse) does not make the grade.
Yeah, I know what you mean. Too many pages, makes it difficult to read with one hand.....


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