---
title: "SF Masterworks progress"
date: 2024-01-15T17:02:00
lastmod: 2024-09-20T13:02:00
tags: ["Books", "Lists"]
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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>64/73</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
* 10 - The Rediscovery of Man - Cordwainer Smith
* 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
* 17 - The Drowned World - J. G. Ballard
* 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
* 28 - More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon
* 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
* 41 - Jem - Frederik Pohl
* 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
* 48 - Grass - Sheri S. Tepper
* 49 - A Fall of Moondust - Arthur C. Clarke
* 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
* 60 - Ringworld - Larry Niven
* 63 - A Maze of Death - Philip K. Dick
* 62 - Mission of Gravity - Hal Clement
* 64 - Tau Zero - Poul Anderson
* 65 - Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
* 67 - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm
* 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>9/73</span></h2>

* 3 - Cities in Flight - James Blish
* 19 - Emphyrio - Jack Vance
* 22 - Behold the Man - Michael Moorcock
* 31 - The Centauri Device - M. John Harrison
* 45 - The Complete Roderick - John Sladek
* 53 - The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock
* 61 - The Child Garden - Geoff Ryman
* 66 - Life During Wartime - Lucius Shepard
* 69 - Dark Benediction - Walter M. Miller Jr.