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Honorable Mention Reading List

Some good books you might enjoy

Non-fiction

• Christopher Alexander et al, The Production of Houses
• Samuel Delany, The Motion of Light in Water
• Martin Gardner, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
• Douglas R. Hofstadter
  • The Mind's I (with Daniel C. Dennett)
  • Metamagical Themas
  • Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language
• Richard Plant, The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals
• Rudolph V. B. Rucker, Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension

Fiction

• J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World
• Gregory Benford
  1. In the Ocean of Night
  2. Across the Sea of Suns
• Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
• Christopher Buckley, Thank You For Smoking
• Robertson Davies' Cornish trilogy
  1. The Rebel Angels
  2. What's Bred in the Bone
  3. The Lyre of Orpheus
• Samuel R. Delany
  • Nova
  • Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
• Philip K. Dick
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • A Scanner Darkly
  • Ubik
  • VALIS
• George Alec Effinger's tales of Marîd Audran
  1. When Gravity Fails
  2. A Fire in the Sun
  3. The Exile Kiss
• Greg Egan
  1. Permutation City
  2. Distress
  3. Axiomatic
  4. Diaspora
  5. Teranesia
• Stephen Fry, The Liar
• William Gibson
  • Neuromancer
  • Burning Chrome
• Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
• K. W. Jeter
  • Dr. Adder
  • The Glass Hammer
  • Infernal Devices
• Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Left Hand of Darkness
  • The Dispossessed
  • Four Ways to Forgiveness
• Stanislaw Lem
  • Fiasco
  • His Master's Voice
  • Imaginary Magnitude
  • The Investigation
  • A Perfect Vacuum
• Ken MacLeod
  • The Star Fraction
  • The Stone Canal
  • The Cassini Division
  • The Sky Road
• Mike McQuay
  1. The Nexus
  2. Memories
• Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Icehenge
  • The Mars Trilogy
    1. Red Mars
    2. Green Mars
    3. Blue Mars
• Cordwainer Smith, The Rediscovery of Man
• John Varley
  • The Persistence of Vision
  • Blue Champagne
  • The Barbie Murders (a.k.a Picnic on Nearside)
  • Steel Beach
• Connie Willis
  • Doomsday Book
  • To Say Nothing of the Dog

See the required reading and recommended reading lists.

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