Science-Fiction. Sorted.
Key: strikethrough means duplicate to be deleted ; bold means recommended ; I have not listened to everything.
A-C
Abbott, Edwin A - Flatland (1884)
Banks, Iain M - Use of Weapons (1990)
Bear, Greg - Eon (1985)
Bester, Alfred - The Demolished Man (1953)
Bradbury, Ray - The Martian Chronicles
Brin, David - Startide Rising (1983)
Brin, David - The Postman (1985)
Brin, David - The Uplift War (1987)
Dick, Philip K
Dick, Philip K - UBIK (1969)
Dick, Phillip K - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch 1964
Philip K Dick - VALIS - 1981
Dick, Philip K - Broken Bubble (1988)
Dick, Philip K - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep (1966)
Dick, Philip K - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974)
Dick, Philip K - Interviews [ note: unsorted ]
Dick, Philip K - Mr. Spaceship (1953)
Dick, Philip K - Of Withered Apples
Dick, Philip K - Radio Free Albemuth (1976)
Dick, Philip K -The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Dick, Philip K - The Minority Report and Other Stories (2002)
Dick, Philip K - Ubik (1969)
Dick, Phillip K -A Scanner Darkly (1977)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick - BBC Radio
E-G
Effinger, George Alec - A Fire In The Sun (Budayeen 2)
Effinger, George Alec - The Exile Kiss (Budayeen 3)
Effinger, George Alec - When Gravity Fails (Budayeen 1)
Farmer, Philip Jose - To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971)
Gibson, William [note: incomplete - have misfiled some]
Gibson, William - All Tomorrows Parties
Count Zero (1986) (96kb mp3)
Gibson, William - Idoru
Neuromancer (1984) [ note: read by the author ]
Pattern Recognition (2003)
Virtual Light
The Peripheral - William Gibson (2014)
Agency
Alien III An Audible Original Drama
H -
Haldeman, Joe - The Forever War
Hamilton, Peter F - The Reality Dysfunction (1996)
Herbert, Frank - Dune
Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algernon
LeGuin, Ursula - The Dispossessed - 1974
LeGuin, Ursula - The Lathe of Heaven - 1971
LeGuin, Ursula - The Left Hand Of Darkness (1969)
LeGuin, Ursula - The Left Hand of Darkness (Alt Copy)
LeGuin, Ursula - The Word For The World Is Forest (1976)
Lem, Stanislaw - Solaris (1950)
L'Engle, Madelein - A Wrinkle in Time
Lewis, CS - Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
May, Julian - The Many-Colored Land (1981)
McDevitt, Jack - Chindi
McDevitt, Jack - Engines_of_god
McDevitt, Jack - Time Travelers Never Die -2009
McDevitt, Jack - Echo- Jack McDevitt
McDevitt, Jack - Seeker
McDevitt, Jack - The Devil's Eye
McDevitt, Jack - Polaris-Jack McDevitt
McDevitt, Jack - talentforwar.m4b
McDonald, Ian - Hyberabad Days
Morgan, Richard - Altered Carbon (2002)
Niven, Larry - Ringworld - 1970
Niven & Pournelle - The Mote in God's Eye
Pohl, Frederik - Gateway
Powers, Tim - On Stranger Tides
Powers, Tim - Declare
Powers, Tim - The Anubis Gates
Powers, Tim - Three Days to Never
Reynolds, Alasdair Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds - 2000
Robinson, Kim Stanley - Aurora.m4a
Robinson, Kim Stanley - Mars Trilogy [AudioBooks]
Robinson, Kim Stanley - New York 2140
Robinson, Kim Stanley - The Years of Rice and Salt
Robinson, Kim Stanley - Three Californias Triptych 01 - The Wild Shore [Rudnicki]
Robinson, Kim Stanley- Three Californias Triptych 02 - The Gold Coast [Rudnicki]
Robinson, Kim Stanley- Three Californias Triptych 03 - Pacific Edge [Rudnicki]
Rucker, Rudy
Rucker, Rudy - Ware 1 - Software
Rucker, Rudy - Ware 2 - Wetware
Rucker, Rudy - Ware 3 - Freeware
Rucker, Rudy - Ware 4 - Realware
Sagan, Carl - Contact
Scalzi, John - Old Man's War (2005)
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (1818)
Simak, Clifford - Way Station (1963)
Simmons, Dan - Hyperion
Simmons, Dan - Ilium (2003)
Smith, E E 'Doc' - Gray Lensman (1940)
Stephenson, Neal - The Diamond Age (1995)
Sterling, Bruce - Mirrorshades - The Cyberpunk Anthology
Wells, HG - The Invisible Man (1897)
Wells, HG - The War of the Worlds
Wells, Martha - Artifical condition
Willis, Connie - Doomsday Book (1992)
Wyndham, John - The Day of the Triffids (1951)
Wyndham, John - The Chrysalids
Verne, Jules - Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
Vinge, Vernor - A Fire Upon the Deep (1991)
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I discovered that my local library's ebook selection only had "First Lensman" out of the whole series, shrugged and checked it out anyway, and - well - long story short, my cosplayer's heart went all a-flutter over Jill's "violent shade of 'radio-active' green" dress from the Ambassadors' Ball.
I'm leaning kind of "Iris van Herpen but 1950s spacefuture" as I try to design something based on the description given (the nature of the bodice in particular made me think of her designs), but then I realized you'd probably know if there was an illustrated edition out there to use as further reference. So - is there? Or am I flying blind beyond the implicit influence of eveningwear styles in the year the book was published?
(Either way, I finally have an excuse to dip my toes into constructing an evening gown! Thank you for selling me on this series!)
I am delighted to hear I inspired you. My statement there was not entirely serious and I never expected anyone would do it. I'd like to see what you come up with. You should consider looking into the works of my personal favorite fashion designer, Charles James, active from the 40s-60s. One of the most striking things about his outfits are the simplicity. This, for instance, is all one piece of cloth, the emphasis is not on frills or ornamentation but streamlining, calling attention to the silhouette.
There are a couple moments in the Lensman books you should probably take a look at, if you're interested in costume ideas for women that are evening gowns. The first is the Grand Ball for the Grand Fleet in Chapter 2 of Gray Lensman. I always liked that one because it was a rare glimpse of what everyday life in the Lensman Galaxy looked like. We spent too much time with Lensman and in the criminal underworld and with battle fleets.
The city's largest ball-room was a blaze of light and color. A thousand polychromatic lamps flooded their radiance downward through draped bunting upon an even more colorful throng. Two thousand items of feminine loveliness were there, in raiment whose fabrics were the boasts of hundreds of planets, whose hues and shades put the spectrum itself to shame. There were over two thousand men, clad in plain or beribboned or bemedaled full civilian dress, or in the variously panoplied dress uniforms of the many Services.
"You're dancing with Miss Forrester first, Kinnison," the surgeon introduced them informally, and the Lensman found himself gliding away with a stunning blonde, ravishingly and revealingly dressed in a dazzlingly blue wisp of Manarkan glamorette--fashion's dernier cri.
To the uninformed, Kinnison's garb of plain gray leather might have seemed incongruous indeed in that brilliantly and fastidiously dressed assemblage. But to those people, as to us of today, the drab, starkly utilitarian uniform of the Unattached Lensman transcended far any other, however resplendent, worn by man: and literally hundreds of eyes followed the strikingly handsome couple as they slid rhythmically out upon the polished floor. But a measure of the tall beauty's customary poise had deserted her. She was slimly taut in the circle of the Lensman's arm, her eyes were downcast, and suddenly she missed a step.
I don't recommend dressing up as a Lyranian at all, unless you wish to be very very popular. Although there is one notable and terrible female villain, in a series for which that is a rarity: one of the Black Lensmen, the evil counterparts created to counter the Lensmen, is a psionically gifted female Lyranian.
Another outfit that probably suggests itself is in Second Stage Lensmen, when Clarissa becomes the Red Lensman, the first female Lensman in history. Clarissa MacDougal was prone to Midwestern modesty to the point it was hysterical:
It was, and very shortly Sector Chief Nurse Clarrissa MacDougall appeared in her wonted immaculately-white, stiffly-starched uniform. She would not wear the Grays to which she was entitled; nor would she--except when defying Kinnison--claim as her right any one of the perquisites or privileges which were so indubitably hers. She was not, never had been, and never would or could be a real Lensman, she insisted. At best, she was only a synthetic--or an imitation--or a sort of amateur--or maybe a "Red" Lensman--handy to have around, perhaps, for certain kinds of jobs, but absolutely and definitely not a regular Lensman. And it was this attitude which was to make the Red Lensman not merely tolerated, but loved as she was loved by Lensmen, Patrolmen, and civilians alike throughout the length, breadth, and thickness of Civilization's bounds.
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To Be Read
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Alanna Series by Tamora Pierce
Alien Earth by Megan Lindholm
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Amy, My Daughter by Mitch Winehouse
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
Belgaraiad series by David Eddings
Binary Star by Sarah Gerard
Black Company series by Glen Cook
Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood
Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson
Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
Christopher Moore books (?)
Cloven Hooves by Megan Lindholm
Conan by Robert E. Howard
Contact by Carl Sagan
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Dangerous Women ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Death Comes to Pemberly by P.D. James
Death Is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury
Declare by Tim Powers
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney
Discworld by Terry Pratchett
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Dragon Flight by Anne McCaffrey
Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft
Dune by Frank Herbert
Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
Fafhrd and Gray Mouser books by Fritz Leiber
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Icewind Dale Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
In the Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Inferno by Dante
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Kingkiller Chronicle #1 and #2 by Patrick Rothfuss (upon announcement of release date for #3)
Kushiel’s Legacy by Jacqueline Carey
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
Legend by David Gemmel
Lensman Series by E.E. “Doc” Smith
Little, Big by John Crowley
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Longbourn by Jo Baker
Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven
Lud in Mist by Hope Mirrlees
Malazan Books of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (reread)
My Two Moms by Zach Wahls
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Nova by Samuel R. Delaney
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
Origin by Dan Brown
One Thousand and One Nights
Only Forward by Michael Marshal Smith
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
Purgatorio by Dante
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Riftwar Saga by Feist
Ringworld by Larry Niven
River World Series by Phillip Jose Farmer
Rogues ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
Shades of Magic by V.E. Schwab
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (reread)
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
The Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny
The Art of the Lord of the Rings by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
The Belgariad by David Eddings
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
The Chronicler of Master Li and Number Ten Ox by Barry Hughart
The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
The Codex Alera Series by Jim Butcher
The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
The Conan Chronicles by Robert E. Howard
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
The Culture Series by Lane M. Banks
The Dark Tower by Stephen King
The Death Cure by James Dashner
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
The Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet by Kate Rorick and Rachel Kiley
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey
The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Fisher King Trilogy by Tim Powers
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Glass Book of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist
The Gormenghast Series by Mervyn Peake
The Gypsy by Megan Lindholm
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
The Hollows series by Kim Harrison
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Inheritance & Other Stories by Megan Lindholm and Robin Hobb
The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
The Kalevala by Elias Lonnrot
The Ki and Vandien Quartet by Megan Lindholm
The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
The Legend of Drizzt by R.A. Salvatore
The Long Walk by Stephen King
The Malazan Book of the Fallen Series by Stephen Erikson
The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pact by Jodi Picoult (reread)
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Red Magician by Lisa Goldstein
The Riddlemaster of Hed series by Patricia McKillip
The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
The Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks
The Shining by Stephen King (reread)
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)
The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind
The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult (reread)
The Third Hill North of Town by Noah Bly
The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Uplift Trilogy by David Brin
The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb
The Xanth Series by Piers Anthony
The Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler
Tillu and Kerlew by Megan Lindholm
Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (reread)
Tripod Trilogy by Samuel Youd
Warriors ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Watership Down by Richard Adams
We Are Pirates by Daniel Handler
Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
Wizard of the Pigeons by Megan Lindholm
World War Z by Max Brooks
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (reread)
XKCD: What If? by Randall Munroe
Zodiac by Neal Stephenson
Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
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