sf-masterworks-progress.md (4386B)
1 --- 2 title: "SF Masterworks progress" 3 date: 2024-01-15T17:02:00 4 lastmod: 2024-09-20T13:02:00 5 tags: ["Books", "Lists"] 6 --- 7 8 9 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. 10 11 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. 12 13 ## Physical Collection 14 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. 15 16 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. 17 18 So, on to lists. We all love a good list, right? 19 20 <h2>Completed <span>64/73</span></h2> 21 22 * 1 - The Forever War - Joe Haldeman 23 * 2 - I Am Legend - Richard Matheson 24 * 4 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick 25 * 8 - The Fifth Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe 26 * 5 - The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester 27 * 6 - Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delany 28 * 7 - Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny 29 * 9 - Gateway - Frederik Pohl 30 * 10 - The Rediscovery of Man - Cordwainer Smith 31 * 11 - Last and First Men - Olaf Stapledon 32 * 12 - Earth Abides - George R. Stewart 33 * 13 - Martian Time-Slip - Philip K. Dick 34 * 14 - The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester 35 * 15 - Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner 36 * 16 - The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin 37 * 17 - The Drowned World - J. G. Ballard 38 * 18 - The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut 39 * 20 - A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick 40 * 21 - Star Maker - Olaf Stapledon 41 * 23 - The Book of Skulls - Robert Silverberg 42 * 24 - The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds 43 * 25 - Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes 44 * 26 - Ubik - Philip K. Dick 45 * 27 - Timescape - Gregory Benford 46 * 28 - More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon 47 * 29 - Man Plus - Frederik Pohl 48 * 30 - A Case of Conscience - James Blish 49 * 32 - Dr. Bloodmoney - Philip K. Dick 50 * 33 - Non-Stop - Brian Aldiss 51 * 34 - The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C. Clarke 52 * 35 - Pavane - Keith Roberts 53 * 36 - Now Wait for Last Year - Philip K. Dick 54 * 37 - Nova - Samuel R. Delany 55 * 38 - The First Men in the Moon - H. G. Wells 56 * 39 - The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke 57 * 40 - Blood Music - Greg Bear 58 * 41 - Jem - Frederik Pohl 59 * 42 - Bring the Jubilee - Ward Moore 60 * 43 - VALIS - Philip K. Dick 61 * 44 - The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin 62 * 46 - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick 63 * 47 - The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells 64 * 48 - Grass - Sheri S. Tepper 65 * 49 - A Fall of Moondust - Arthur C. Clarke 66 * 50 - Eon - Greg Bear 67 * 51 - The Shrinking Man - Richard Matheson 68 * 52 - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick 69 * 54 - The Space Merchants - Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth 70 * 55 - Time Out of Joint - Philip K. Dick 71 * 56 - Downward to the Earth - Robert Silverberg 72 * 57 - The Simulacra - Philip K. Dick 73 * 58 - The Penultimate Truth - Philip K. Dick 74 * 59 - Dying Inside - Robert Silverberg 75 * 60 - Ringworld - Larry Niven 76 * 63 - A Maze of Death - Philip K. Dick 77 * 62 - Mission of Gravity - Hal Clement 78 * 64 - Tau Zero - Poul Anderson 79 * 65 - Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke 80 * 67 - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm 81 * 68 - Roadside Picnic - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 82 * 70 - Mockingbird - Walter Tevis 83 * 71 - Dune - Frank Herbert 84 * 72 - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein 85 * 73 - The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick 86 87 <h2>Incomplete <span>9/73</span></h2> 88 89 * 3 - Cities in Flight - James Blish 90 * 19 - Emphyrio - Jack Vance 91 * 22 - Behold the Man - Michael Moorcock 92 * 31 - The Centauri Device - M. John Harrison 93 * 45 - The Complete Roderick - John Sladek 94 * 53 - The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock 95 * 61 - The Child Garden - Geoff Ryman 96 * 66 - Life During Wartime - Lucius Shepard 97 * 69 - Dark Benediction - Walter M. Miller Jr.