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The Templin Institute – Explores various franchises’ world-building
Quinn’s Ideas – Dune
Signum University – Lord of the Rings
Media Zealot – Tropes
sfdebris – Rise of fall of franchises


Fantasy Novels
Misc
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll – 1865
Dragonriders of Pern – Anne Mccaffrey – 1967
Elric of Melnibone – Michael Moorcock – 1961
Mistborn Trilogy – Brandon Sanderson – 2006
Once and Future King – T H White – 1958
The Amber Chronicles – Roger Zelazny – 1970
The Belgariad – David Eddings – 1958
The Dark Elf Trilogy – R.A. Salvatore – 1991
The Kingkiller Chronicles – Patrick Rothfuss – 2007 – on
The Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle – 1968
The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley – 1983
The Princess Bride – William Goldman – 1973
The Sword of Shannara Trilogy – Terry Brookes
The Sword of Truth series – Terry Goodkind – 1994 – 2007
Thieves World – Robert Lynn Asprin – 1978
Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame – 1908
Witcher Series – Andrzej Sapkowski – 1993-2013
C.S. Lewis
Chronicles of Narnia – 1950
Screwtape Letters – 1942
Fritz Leiber
Swords and Deviltry – 1970
Swords Against Death – 1970
Swords in the Mist – 1968
Swords Against Wizardry – 1968
Swords of Lankhmar – 1968
Swords and Ice Magic – 1977
The Knight and Knave of Swords – 1988
George R.R. Martin
A Song of Ice and Fire – 1996
A Game of Thrones The Illustrated Edition – 1996
Wild Cards – 2012
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the…
Sorcerer’s Stone – 1997
Chamber of Secrets – 1998
Prisoner of Azkaban – 1999
Goblet of Fire -– 2000
Order of the Phoenix -– 2003
Half-Blood Prince -– 2005
Deathly Hallows -– 2007
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit – 1937
The Lord of the Rings – 1954
The Silmarillion – 1977
Neil Gaiman
American Gods – 2001
How to Talk to Girls At Parties – 2006
Norse Mythology 2017
Stardust – 1999
Neverwhere – 1996
The Graveyard Book – 2008
Philip Pullman
Dark Materials Trilogy:
The Golden Compass – 1994
The Subtle Knife – 1997
The Amber Spyglass – 2000
Robert Jordan
Warriors of the Altaii – 2019
Wheel of Time series – 1990 – on
Stephen King
The Dark Tower I – The Gunslinger – 1982
The Dark Tower II – The Drawing of the Three – 1987
The Dark Tower III – The Waste Lands – 1991
The Dark Tower IV – Wizard and Glass – 1997
The Dark Tower V – Wolves of the Calla – 2003
The Dark Tower VI – Song of Susannah – 2004
The Dark Tower VII – The Wind Through the Keyhole -– 2012
Stephen R. Donaldson
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever – 1977
Lord Foul’s Bane – 1977
The Illearth War – 1978
Gilden Fire – 1981
The Power That Preserves – 1979
The Wounded Land – 1980
The One Tree – 1982
White Gold Wielder – 1983
The Runes of the Earth -– 2004
Fatal Revenant -– 2007
Against All Things Ending -– 2010
The Last Dark -– 2013
Terry Pratchett
Discworld Series – 1983 – esp. Small Gods and Going Postal
Good Omens – 1990

Sci-Fi Novels
Misc
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea – Jules Verne – 1870
A Canticle For Leibowitz – Walter M. Miller – 1960
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess – 1962
A Fire Upon the Deep – Victor Vinge – 1993
Altered Carbon – Richard K. Morgan – 2002
Blindsight – Peter Watts – 2006
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley – 1932
Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky – 2015
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell – 2004
Contact – Carl Sagan – 1985
Watchers – Dean Koontz – 1987
Doomsday Book – Connie Willis – 1992
Flowers For Algernon – Daniel Keyes – 1959
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley – 1823
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams – 1978
Hyperion Cantos – Dan Simmons – 1989
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream – Harlan Ellison – 1967
Ready Player One – Ernest Cline – 2011
Star Wars – The Truce At Bakura – Kathy Tyers – 1993
The Big Book of Science Fiction – 2016
The Demon in the Machine – Paul Davies – 2019
The Handmaids Tale – Margaret Atwood – 1985
The Sacred Book Of The Werewolf – A Novel – Victor Pelevin – 2005
The Truce at Bakura – Kathy Tyers – 1994
Vurt – Jeff Noon – 1993
Alfred Bester
The Demolished Man – 1953
The Stars My Destination – Alfred Bester – 1957
Amatka – Karin Tidbeck – 2012
Ammonite – Nicola Griffith – 1992
Arthur C. Clarke
Childhood’s End – 1953
Rendezvous with Rama – 1973
Time Odyssey – 2003-2007
Short Story Collections – 1953 – 2001
2001 A Space Odyssey – 1968
2010 Odyssey Two – 2010
2061 Odyssey Three – 1987
3001 the Final Odyssey – 1997
Cixin Liu
Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy – 2007-2010
Frank Herbert
Dune – 1965
Dune Messiah – 1969
Children of Dune – 1976
God Emperor of Dune – 1981
Heretics of Dune – 1984
Chapterhouse: Dune – 1985
H.G. Wells
The Time Machine – 1895
The War of the Worlds – 1898
Harry Harrison
Stainless Steel Rat – 1961
West of Eden – 1984
Winter in Eden – 1986
Return to Eden – 1988
Isaac Asimov
Presented in reading order:
I, Robot – 1950
The Caves of Steel – 1954
The Naked Sun – 1957
The Robots of Dawn – 1983
Robots and Empire – 1985
The Currents of Space – 1952
The Stars, Like Dust – 1951
Pebble in the Sky – 1950
Prelude to Foundation – 1988
Foundation – 1951
Foundation and Empire – 1952
Second Foundation – 1953
Foundation’s Edge – 1982
Foundation and Earth – 1986
Forward the Foundation – 1993
You can stop there or keep reading.. but quality suffers. And they aren’t by Asimov.
Foundation and Chaos – 1988
Foundation’s Fear – 1997
Foundation’s Triumph – 1999
The End of Eternity – 1955
Iain M. Banks
Consider Phlebas (1987)
The Player of Games (1988)
Use of Weapons (1990)
The State of the Art (1991)
Excession (1996)
Inversions (1998)
Look to Windward (2000)
Matter (2008)
Surface Detail (2010)
The Hydrogen Sonata (2012)
John Brunner
Stand on Zanzibar – 1968
The Shockwave Rider – 1975
Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions – 1973
Cat’s Cradle – 1963
Harrison Bergeron – 1961
Slaughterhouse-Five – 1969
Larry Niven
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex – 1968 – Famous essay on why Superman and Lois Lane can’t have sex
Neutron Star – Larry Niven – 1966
Ringworld – 1970
The Ringworld Engineers – 1980
The Ringworld Throne – 1996
The Integral Trees – 1985
The Mote in God’s Eye – Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle – 1974
Michael Crichton
The Andromeda Strain
Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton – 1990
Neil Stephenson
Anathem 2008
Cryptonomicon – 1999
Snow Crash – 1992
The Diamond Age – 1995
Orson Scott Card
Enders Game – 1985
Fat Farm – (Short story in Omni Jan – 1980 – Link is to a PDF)
Philip K. Dick
A Maze of Death – 1970
A Scanner Darkly – 1977
Beyond Lies the Wub the Collected Short Stories – 1952
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – 1968
Electric Dreams 10 Short Stories 2017
Minority Report – 1956
Penultimate Truth – 1964
Radio Free Albemuth – 1976
Second Variety – 1953
The Crack in Space – 1966
The Hanging Stranger – 1953
The Man in the High Castle – 1962
The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch – 1967
Time Out of Joint – 1959
Ubik – 1969
We Can Build You – 1972
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 – 1953
The Martian Chronicles – 1950
The Illustrated Man – 1951
Robert Anton Wilson
Illuminatus Trilogy – 1975
Cosmic Trigger – 1977
Coincidance – 1988
Robert Heinlein
Starship Troopers – 1959
Stranger in a Strange Land – 1961
The Hyperion Cantos – Dan Simmons – 1989
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress – 1966
Ursula Leguin
A Wizard of Earthsea – 1968
The Dispossessed – 1974
The Lathe of Heaven – 1971
The Left Hand of Darkness – 1969
William Gibson
Burning Chrome – 1982
Sprawl Trilogy:
Neuromancer – 1984
Count Zero – 1986
Mona Lisa Overdrive – 1988
The Bridge Trilogy:
Virtual Light – 1993
Idoru – 1996
All Tomorrow’s Parties – 1999
The Difference Engine with Bruce Sterling – 1990
World War Z – Max Brooks – 2006
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