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diff --git a/content/posts/sf-masterworks-progress.md b/content/posts/sf-masterworks-progress.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..90eb87e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/sf-masterworks-progress.md @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +--- +title: "SF Masterworks progress" +date: 2024-01-15T17:02:00 +tags: ["Books", "Lists"] +--- + + +This page ties in a little with my [Reading List](/reading-list). I'm in the process (or have been) collecting the [Gollancz SF Masterworks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SF_Masterworks#Numbered_series) and reading through the entire collection. I never really set out with the intention of reading every book but when you get over half way through it seems more of 'why not?' type deal. + +You're not going to find any reviews here, that could and has been done much better by other people. I'm just tracking progress here. + +## Physical Collection +Physically, I have every single book excluding the forever elusive #73 which I've been on the lookout for for quite a number of years now. The re-release pops up nearly daily but the original black spine version, forget about it. + +Now the quality varies massively from - *well loved* ex-library copies to pristine never read volumes. At the end of the day though, as far as I'm concerned so long as the words are legible with a bit of squinting I don't especially care and they're popular enough for free digital copies to be in arms reach anyway. + +So, on to lists. We all love a good list, right? + +<h2>Completed <span>(55/73)</span></h2> + +* 1 - The Forever War - Joe Haldeman +* 2 - I Am Legend - Richard Matheson +* 4 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick +* 8 - The Fifth Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe +* 5 - The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester +* 6 - Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delany +* 7 - Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny +* 9 - Gateway - Frederik Pohl +* 11 - Last and First Men - Olaf Stapledon +* 12 - Earth Abides - George R. Stewart +* 13 - Martian Time-Slip - Philip K. Dick +* 14 - The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester +* 15 - Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner +* 16 - The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin +* 18 - The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut +* 20 - A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick +* 21 - Star Maker - Olaf Stapledon +* 23 - The Book of Skulls - Robert Silverberg +* 24 - The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds +* 25 - Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes +* 26 - Ubik - Philip K. Dick +* 27 - Timescape - Gregory Benford +* 29 - Man Plus - Frederik Pohl +* 30 - A Case of Conscience - James Blish +* 32 - Dr. Bloodmoney - Philip K. Dick +* 33 - Non-Stop - Brian Aldiss +* 34 - The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C. Clarke +* 35 - Pavane - Keith Roberts +* 36 - Now Wait for Last Year - Philip K. Dick +* 37 - Nova - Samuel R. Delany +* 38 - The First Men in the Moon - H. G. Wells +* 39 - The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke +* 40 - Blood Music - Greg Bear +* 42 - Bring the Jubilee - Ward Moore +* 43 - VALIS - Philip K. Dick +* 44 - The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin +* 46 - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick +* 47 - The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells +* 50 - Eon - Greg Bear +* 51 - The Shrinking Man - Richard Matheson +* 52 - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick +* 54 - The Space Merchants - Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth +* 55 - Time Out of Joint - Philip K. Dick +* 56 - Downward to the Earth - Robert Silverberg +* 57 - The Simulacra - Philip K. Dick +* 58 - The Penultimate Truth - Philip K. Dick +* 59 - Dying Inside - Robert Silverberg +* 63 - A Maze of Death - Philip K. Dick +* 64 - Tau Zero - Poul Anderson +* 65 - Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke +* 68 - Roadside Picnic - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky +* 70 - Mockingbird - Walter Tevis +* 71 - Dune - Frank Herbert +* 72 - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein +* 73 - The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick + +<h2>Incomplete <span>(18/73)</span></h2> + +* 3 - Cities in Flight - James Blish +* 10 - The Rediscovery of Man - Cordwainer Smith +* 17 - The Drowned World - J. G. Ballard +* 19 - Emphyrio - Jack Vance +* 22 - Behold the Man - Michael Moorcock +* 28 - More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon +* 31 - The Centauri Device - M. John Harrison +* 41 - Jem - Frederik Pohl +* 45 - The Complete Roderick - John Sladek +* 48 - Grass - Sheri S. Tepper +* 49 - A Fall of Moondust - Arthur C. Clarke +* 53 - The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock +* 60 - Ringworld - Larry Niven +* 61 - The Child Garden - Geoff Ryman +* 62 - Mission of Gravity - Hal Clement +* 66 - Life During Wartime - Lucius Shepard +* 67 - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm +* 69 - Dark Benediction - Walter M. Miller Jr. |