"The biological male is the oppressor not by virtue of his male biology but by virtue of his rationalizing supremacy on the basis of that biological difference." -- Anne Koedt

50 Parsec Shelf

This is the 50-Parsec Shelf reading list from A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction.  Those that I have read are marked with a * at the end of the listing.  Those Moira has read are marked with a * at the end of the listing.

  • Brian Aldiss, The Long Afternoon of Earth * *
  • Poul Anderson, Tau Zero
  • Issac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy *
  • J. G. Ballard, Vermillion Sands
  • Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
  • James Blish, A Case of Conscience
  • Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles *
  • John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar *
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars * *
  • Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End * *
  • Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars *
  • Hal Clement, Needle
  • Samuel Delany, Dhalgren
  • Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
  • Gordon Dickson, Dorsai!
  • Thomas M. Disch, 334
  • Harlan Ellison, Dangerous Visions *
  • M. John Harrison, The Centauri Device
  • Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy
  • Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  • Frank Herbert, Dune * *
  • William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land
  • Henry Kuttner, The Dark World
  • Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Earth's Last Citadel
  • Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness *
  • Fritz Leiber, The Big Time
  • C. S. Lewis, The Perelandra Trilogy *
  • H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness *
  • A. Merritt, The Moon Pool *
  • Walter M. Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz *
  • Michael Moorcock, The Cornelius Chronicles *
  • Larry Niven, Ringworld
  • H. Beam Piper, Little Fuzzy
  • Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants
  • Joanna Russ, And Chaos Died
  • Mary Shelley, Frankenstein *
  • Cordwainer Smith, Norstrilia
  • E. E. Smith, First Lensman
  • Olaf Stapleton, Last and First Men
  • Olaf Stapleton, Odd John
  • Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human
  • A. E. van Vogt, The World of Null-A
  • Jack Vance, The Dying Earth *
  • Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon *
  • Stanley Weinbaum, A Martian Odyssey and Others
  • H. G. Wells, The Time Machine *
  • Jack Williamson, The Humanoids
  • S. Fowler Wright, The World Below
  • John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
  • Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light *