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Michael Alexander

I'm a college student with a voracious appetite for books and a habit for rereading my favorites time after time. I cut my teeth on fantasy and, soon after, SF, and there's nothing I love more than finding a new classic. My tastes run generally towards "soft" SF, but as long as it grabs me, I don't care what genre or sub-genre it is. For novels, I'll put my favorite, which I guarantee to be a flat-out masterpiece, on the top of the list, but I won't rank beyond that, and I won't put anything on this list I don't heartily recommend. For short stories, I'll name a couple of the best stories and then a collection or two.

Novels
Short Stories
Alfred Bester
  • The Stars My Destination
  • The Demolished Man

    Orson Scott Card

  • Ender's Game

    Arthur C. Clarke

  • The City and the Stars
  • Childhood's End

    Samuel R. Delany

  • The Einstein Intersection
  • Nova

    Thomas Disch

  • Camp Concentration
  • 334

    William Gibson

  • Neuromancer

    Robert Heinlein

  • Stranger in a Strange Land
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

    Frank Herbert

  • Dune

    Ursula Le Guin

  • The Dispossessed
  • The Left Hand of Darkness

    Michael Moorcock

  • The Cornelius Chronicles

    Gene Wolfe

  • The Book of the New Sun tetralogy
  • The Fifth Head of Cerberus

    Roger Zelazny

  • Lord of Light
  • Isle of the Dead
  • The first five Amber Chronicles
    		• Isaac Asimov
  • "The Last Question"
  • Robot Dreams
  • I, Robot

    Alfred Bester

  • "Disappearing Act"
  • "Fondly Farenheit"
  • Virtual Unrealities

    Ray Bradbury

  • The Martian Chronicles

    Harlan Ellison

  • "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"
  • "'Repent, Harlequin,' Said the Ticktockman"
  • "The Place With No Name"
  • "Paladin of the Lost Hour"
  • The Essential Ellison
  • Deathbird Stories
  • Angry Candy

    C.M. Kornbluth

  • "Marching Morons"
  • Any collection you can find

    Theodore Sturgeon

  • "The Man Who Lost The Sea"
  • "Slow Sculpture"
  • Selected Stories

    Gene Wolfe

  • The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories
    and Other Stories
  • Castle of Days

    Roger Zelazny

  • "The Keys to December"
  • "A Rose for Ecclesiastes"
  • "24 Views of Mount Fuji, by Hokkusai"
  • The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth
  • The Last Defender of Camelot



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