Phobos Entertainment's "100 Science Fiction Books You Just Have to Read"

Here is an update of an old post to see how my reading list is going.

#	TITLE	AUTHOR	I've Read
1	Childhood's End	Arthur C. Clarke
2	Foundation	Isaac Asimov
3	Dune	Frank Herbert
4	The Man in the High Castle	Philip K. Dick	x
5	Starship Troopers	Robert A. Heinlein
6	Valis	Philip K. Dick
7	Frankenstein	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
8	Gateway	Frederik Pohl
9	Space Merchants	Frederik Pohl
10	Earth Abides	George R. Stewart
11	Cuckoo's Egg	C.J. Cherryh
12	Star Surgeon	James White
13	The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch	Philip K. Dick
14	Radix	A. A. Attanasio
15	2001: A Space Odyssey	Arthur C. Clarke	x
16	Ringworld	Larry Niven
17	A Case of Conscience	James Blish
18	Last and First Man	Olaf Stapledon
19	The Day of the Triffids	John Wyndham	x
20	Way Station	Clifford D. Simak
21	More Than Human	Theodore Sturgeon
22	Gray Lensman	E.E. "Doc" Smith
23	The Gods Themselves	Isaac Asimov
24	The Left Hand of Darkness	Ursula K. Le Guin	x
25	Behold the Man	Michael Moorcock
26	Star Maker	Olaf Stapledon
27	The War of the Worlds	H. G. Wells
28	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Jules Verne
29	Heritage of Hastur	Marion Zimmer Bradley
30	The Time Machine	H. G. Wells
31	The Stars My Destination	Alfred Bester
32	Slan	A. E. Van Vogt
33	Neuromancer	William Gibson
34	Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card	x
35	In Conquest Born	C. S. Friedman
36	Lord of Light	Roger Zelazny
37	Eon	Greg Bear
38	Dragonflight	Anne McCaffrey	x
39	Journey to the Center of the Earth	Jules Verne
40	Stranger in a Strange Land	Robert A. Heinlein	x
41	Cosm	Gregory Benford
42	The Voyage of the Space Beagle	A. E. Van Vogt
43	Blood Music	Greg Bear
44	Beggars in Spain	Nancy Kress
45	Omnivore	Piers Anthony
46	I, Robot	Isaac Asimov
47	Mission of Gravity	Hal Clement
48	To Your Scattered Bodies Go	Philip Jose Farmer
49	Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
50	The Man Who Folded Himself	David Gerrold
51	1984	George Orwell	x
52	The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyl And Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson
53	Snow Crash	Neal Stephenson	x
54	Flesh	Philip Jose Farmer
55	Cities in Flight	James Blish
56	Shadow of the Torturer	Gene Wolfe
57	Startide Rising	David Brin
58	Triton	Samuel R. Delany
59	Stand on Zanzibar	John Brunner
60	A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess
61	Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	x
62	A Canticle for Leibowitz	Walter M. Miller Jr.
63	Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes
64	No Blade of Grass	John Christopher
65	The Postman	David Brin
66	Dhalgren	Samuel R. Delany
67	Berserker	Fred Saberhagen
68	Flatland	Edwin Abbott Abbott
69	Planiverse	A. K. Dewdney
70	Dragon's Egg	Robert L. Forward
71	Downbelow Station	C. J. Cherryh
72	Dawn	Octavia E. Butler
73	The Puppet Masters	Robert A. Heinlein
74	The Doomsday Book	Connie Willis
75	Forever War	Joe Haldeman
76	Deathbird Stories	Harlan Ellison
77	Roadside Picnic	Arkady Strugatsky
78	The Snow Queen	Joan D. Vinge
79	The Martian Chronicles	Ray Bradbury
80	Drowned World	J.G. Ballard
81	Cat's Cradle	Kurt Vonnegut
82	Red Mars Kim	Stanley Robinson
83	Upanishads	Various
84	Alice in Wonderland Lewis	Carroll	x
85	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	x
86	The Lathe of Heaven	Ursula K. Le Guin
87	The Midwich Cuckoos	John Wyndham
88	Mutant	Henry Kuttner
89	Solaris	Stanislaw Lem
90	Ralph 124C41+	Hugo Gernsback
91	I Am Legend	Richard Matheson
92	Timescape	Gregory Benford
93	The Demolished Man	Alfred Bester
94	War with the Newts	Karl Kapek
95	Mars	Ben Bova
96	Brain Wave	Pozul Anderson
97	Hyperion	Dan Simmons
98	The Andromeda Strain	Michael Crichton	x
99	Camp Concentration	Thomas M. Disch
100	A Princess of Mars	Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Long time no blog

Keeping this short, I haven't posted in what feels like a millennium, and I definitely haven't blogged about anything important in at least two, so here are a run down of up coming bloggable topics:

* My new house (yes that one I rambled on and on about for ages in constructions its done.)
* My wedding
* My new wife (re: above)
* My honeymoon (re: above)
* Coordination, and my lack there of
* Stuff
* Other less organized thoughts, such that even stuff seems to organized a category for them (this category by definition falls into its own category.)

So stay tuned, and keep watching the stars

A quick note

For those of you who were bemused by the Scooby-Doo post I can not claim credit for the concept, only the presentation. The original idea for Scooby-Doo nowhere (other then of course Scooby-Doo) is from my friend Trevor, who labeled this discrete set of creepy location parameters as "Scooby-Doo Nowhere." Any licensing issues/violations can be directed to him ;)

A new location classification scheme

...
Stuck at the side of the road, the radiator smoking in the cool night air, a chill fog hung on their shoulders like a shroud of death. A thin layer of water clung to there clothes, weighing them down and chilling there bones. The GPS couldn't get a signal through the dark clouds which forewarned of a frightful storm, the cell was dead as well. Only the shill twang of country banjos could be heard through the taunting of the radio static. As night settled on the lonesome duo, shadows grew from the trees. Shadows were the only fruit that would come to ripen on these trees, if you could call them that, wizened things, all a thorn and spindly. Their twisted forms loomed like wretched curmudgeons, old and filled with malice for vitality.
"Jase, where are we" asked the driver, his voice trembled with uncertainty.
Jase folded the old map, its corners dog eared with age, is creases ripping. "Nowhere Fred, we are in the middle of fucking nowhere!" His voice cracked with panic.
In a voice filled with wisdom beyond its years, and a confidence finding slim purchase on the edge of the unknown, Fred chided his navigator. "Nowhere? Nowhere is a one horse town, with a corner store and retirees, nowhere is bland, and boring, nowhere is not here. We're in Scooby-Doo nowhere now!"

Site Update, by reader request

As requested I have added three new comics to the comics section on the right hand nav, and I tried to reorganize the comics section to reflect their publishing schedule. The new comics are

Knights of the Dinner Table
CTRL-ALT-DEL
and
Pet Professional

Basically gaming nerds, 'hip' gaming nerds, and animal assassins. The last one might upset some readers.

All good comics, the first I used to read when it was published in Dragon Magazine (now you know which catagory I fall under.)

Enjoy, or not, your choice.

Time Traveler Convention

The Time Traveler Convention
May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT
42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W
(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)

Site says it all...

Serenity

Trailer is out for Serenity, which for those of you who don't know is the Firefly movie. Great TV show by the way, never should have been cancelled, but it didn't fit with Fox's dumigraphics so out it went.

The trailer looks visual tantalizing, and the cast has already shown their mettle in the series, so I am looking forward to a great show. My favorite sound bite from the trailer had to be this conversation between Mal, and Wash.

Wash: "This is going to get pretty interesting."
Mal: "Define Interesting."
Wash: "Oh god, Oh god we are all going to die."

Anyways, I'm pretty hyped, and hopefully this makes the $$$ and Universal picks up its options for a second and third movie.

"NO! Participles, why must you dangle so! I am undone by the lax writing environment I hoped to create!"

To better understand the nature of my character, you must understand that I find this comic to be uproarious. While I only wish the utterances I pontificate were as evocative as this literary pearl; I cannot constrain my uninhibited critic of the selection of the word "create" from the vast lexicon English provides. Irrefutably "engenders" is a lexeme of superior distinction then the authors selection.

Ha!

Site update

Did a quick tweak to the links in the template on the way in this morning, added the Hawthorne Villager (as I am spending a bit more time there posting and reading.) I've mentioned it before, but since I go there often enough, I wanted a link to click, and in many ways this site is used as my personal bookmark collection. So there it is feel free to have a look, and get to know all the people who live in Mattamy's Hawthorn Village.

Very shortly I shall be one of them, two weeks and a day by my reakoning.

BEHOLD! The finished house! (Ironically the outside is not in fact finished, paint needs to be applied to many surfaces, but it isn't structural paint.