Science fiction reference bookcase (in colour order)
Books on shelf (only partially read), 2004

Science fiction reference bookcase (in colour order) is a collection of some of the most important science fiction novels ever written. These are books we should have read before writing our science fiction novel, Divine Vessel. Six months before, we had never read any sci-fi. We are slowly making our way through the bookcase in preparation for writing our next sci-fi novel Invasion of the Cod Heads, the sequel to Divine Vessel, and occasionally add to it.

The books currently on the bookcase are (in colour order):

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, R L Stevenson (1925)
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allen Poe (1838)
The Artificial Kid, Bruce Sterling (1980)
The Furies, Keith Roberts (1966)
The Big Eye, Max Ehrlich (1949)
The Centauri Device, M John Harrison (1975)
The View From the Stars, Walter M Miller (1964)
Tau Zero, Poul Anderson (1970)
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin A. Abbott (1884)
Slan, A E van Vogt (1960)
The Dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin (1974)
Hot Sleep, Orson Scott
Card (1979) Planet of the Damned, Harry Harrison (1962)
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (1954)
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathon Swift (1726)
The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham (1951)
Llana of Gathol, Edgar Rice Burroughs (1967)
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (1962)
The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut (1962)
Stranglers’ Moon, E. E. ‘Doc’ Smith (1977)
Out of the Planet, C. S. Lewis (1952)
Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (1992)
Blade Runner, Philip K. Dick (1969)
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
Raft, Stephen Baxter (1992)
Orbitsville, Bob Shaw (1975)
Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov (1953)
Micromegas, Voltaire (1752)
Recalled to Life, Robert Silverberg (1958)
Alternating Currents, Frederick Pohl (1956)
Telepathist, John Brunner (1965)
Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818)
Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne (1871)
Star Maker, Olaf Stapleton (1937)
Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell (1949)
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (1932)
Queen of Angels, Greg Bear (1990)
Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
The World of Null-A, A E van Vogt (1945)
The Handmaids Tail, Margaret Atwood (1986)
Space for Hire, William F. Nolan (1971)
2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke (1968)
City of a Thousand Suns, Samuel R. Delany (1965)
Friday, Robert A. Heinlein (1983)
Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks (1988)
Ringworld, Larry Niven (1972)
Shrine of Stars, Paul J McAuley (2000)
The Dreaming Jewels, Theodore Sturgeon (1950)
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (1979)
The Five Gold Bands (1950) / The Dragon Masters (1962), Jack Vance
Star Begotten, H. G. Wells (1937)
Dune, Frank Herbert (1965)
A Case of Conscience, James Blish (1959)
The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1912)
The Body Snatchers, Jack Finney (1954)