The Books

What Books make a person a proper member of the science geek culture? Here is our list. This is a draft, worked on by Tom, Ann, Jack, Snail, Lenore, Stuart, Kyle, and myself. What do you have to add or subtract?

A partial list is available Amazon.

Douglas Adams Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Isaac Asimov Foundation Trilogy
I, Robot
Greg Bear Eon
Gregory Benford Timescape
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
Martian Chronicals
Marion Zimmer Bradley Forbidden Tower
David Brin The Postman
John Brunner Sheep Look Up
Stand on Zanzibar
Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game
C.J. Cherryh Down Below Station
Arthur C Clarke Childhood’s End
Imperial Earth
Rendezvous with Rama
Philip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Harlan Ellison Essential Ellison
William Gibson Neuromancer
Joe Haldeman Forever War
Robert A. Heilien Starship Troopers
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Frank Herbert Dune
White Plague
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
Katherine Kurtz Deryni Rising
Ursula K. Le Guin The Lathe Of Heaven
Stanislaw Lem Solaris
Anne McCaffrey Dragon Riders of Pern
Walter Miller The Canticle for Leibowitz
Michael Moorcock Elric of Meinibone
Niven & Pournelle Mote in God’s Eye
Larry Niven Lucifer’s Hammer
Ringworld
George Orwell 1984
Any Rand Anthem
Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars
Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon
Theodore Sturgeon More than Human
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Hobbit
Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Kurt Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle
Slaughterhouse-Five
Jules Verne Island of Dr. Moreau
The Time Machine
War of the Worlds