The following is a list of the authors and/or specific titles
the members of Star Base Andromeda are considering for upcoming Book Discussion meetings. If you are a Star Base Andromeda member, or are interested in
joining us for an upcoming Book Discussion meeting and would like
to make comments on any of the listed entries below -- or would
like to make additional suggestions for future Discussions, please
feel free to contact us via e-mail.
In the case of some of these authors, in our first 100 book discussions we have already read something by some of the listed authors, but these are suggestions for additional titles to read and discuss.
BOOK AND MOVIE PAIRINGS
- Eight O'Clock in the Morning, by Ray Nelson (short story) -- They Live
- Johnny Mnemonic, by William Gibson -- Johnny Mnemonic
- Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, by Brian Aldiss -- A.I. Artificial Intelligence
- Second Variety, by Philip K. Dick -- Screamers
- We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, by Philip K. Dick -- Total Recall
- The Running Man, by Stephen King -- The Running Man
- Killdozer, by Theodore Sturgeon -- Killdozer!
- The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle -- The Last Unicorn (animated)
CLASSIC AUTHORS
- Brian Aldiss -- Frankenstein Unbound
- Peter Beagle -- A Fine and Private Place
- James Blish -- Seedling Stars; Cities in Flight
- Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451; The Martian Chronicles
- John Brunner -- Stand on Zanzibar; The Sheep Look Up
- Anthony Burgess -- A Clockwork Orange
- Edgar Rice Burroughs -- the Pelucidar novels
- Lin Carter -- Callisto
- Jack Chalker
- C.J. Cherryh -- Exile's Gate
- John Christopher -- any of the Tripods novels
- L. Sprague DeCamp -- The Incomplete Enchanter, Wheels of If, or The Unbeheaded King
- Samuel R. Delany -- Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
- Gordon Dickson -- Tactics of Mistake
- Harlan Ellison (ed.) -- Dangerous Visions, A Boy and His Dog, I, Robot screenplay
- Robert L. Forward -- Time Master
- Alan Dean Foster -- The Tar Aim Krang; End of the Matter
- James Gunn -- The Listeners
- Robert A. Heinlein -- The Door Into Summer, Stranger in a Strange Land, Time for the Stars, Tunnel in the Sky; Revolt in 2100; Magic Inc./Waldo
- James P. Hogan -- Inherit the Stars
- Damon Knight -- one of the Orbit anthologies edited by Knight
- Keith Laumer -- any of the Bolo or Retief novels, or The Long Twilight
- Tanith Lee
- Ursula Leguin -- The Earthsea series, The Dispossessed
- C.S. Lewis -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, That Hideous Strength
- Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- Anne McCaffrey -- Dinosaur Planet, Decision at Doona, Restoree
- Richard Matheson
- Larry Niven -- Ringworld
- Andre Norton -- Sargasso of Space, Star Rangers
- Andrew J. Offut -- The Sword of Skelos
- Chad Oliver
- Alexei Panshin -- Rite of Passage
- H. Beam Piper -- Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, Paratime
- Jerry Pournelle -- Janissaries
- Fletcher Pratt & L. Sprague de Camp -- Incomplete Enchanter
- Frederik Pohl -- Man Plus, Gateway
- Lucius Shepard -- The Dragon Griaule
- Robert Silverberg -- Lord Silverberg's Castle, Time of Changes
- Clifford Simak -- Way Station
- Clark Ashton Smith
- George Stewart -- Earth Abides
- Jack Vance -- The Last Castle
- A.E. Van Vogt -- War Against the Rull
- Karl Edward Wagner -- The Road of Kings
- T.H. White -- The Once and Future King
- Virginia Woolf - Orlando
- Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS
- Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Aaron Allston -- The Sidhe-Devil
- Catherine Asaro
- Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
- Paolo Bacigalupi -- The Wind-Up Girl
- Elizabeth Bear -- Carnival
- Greg Bear -- "/"
- Ben Bova -- one of the Best of the Nebula anthologies edited by Bova
- David Brin -- Earth, Existence, Sundiver
- Tobias Buckell -- Crystal
- Lois McMaster Bujold -- Falling Free
- Emma Bull
- Pat Cadigan -- Synners
- Orson Scott Card -- Pastwatch or Ender's Game
- Ernest Cline -- Ready Player One
- Alan Cole
- Julie Czerneda
- David Drake -- Hammer's Slammers
- Greg Egan -- Schild's Ladder
- Nancy Farmer
- Raymond Feist -- Krondar the Assassins, Prince of Blood
- Eric Flint -- 1632
- Neil Gaiman -- Smoke & Mirrors
- David Gerrold -- When Harlie Was One
- Kathleen Ann Goonan -- Mississippi Blues
- Nancy Haydon
- James Hogan
- Dean Ing
- Brian Jacques -- Redwall
- Robert Jordan - Conan the Destroyer
- Katherine Kurtz
- Mercedes Lackey
- Justine Larbalestier
- Kelly Link -- short story collection Magic for Beginners
- John Robert Marlow -- Nano
- Wil McCarthy -- Bloom
- Patricia McKillip
- Elizabeth Moon -- Hunters of the Red Moon
- Richard Morgan
- Janet & Chris Morris
- Pat Murphy
- Linda Nagata
- Jodi Lynn Nye
- Nnedi Okorafor -- The Book of the Phoenix
- Tom Perotta - The Leftovers
- Fredrick Pohl -- Gateway, Man Plus
- Tim Powers -- Last Call
- Terry Pratchett -- The Color of Magic, Going Postal
- John Ringo -- Through the Looking Glass, Hymn before Battle
- Chris Roberson -- The Dragon's Nine Sons
- Kim Stanley Robinson -- Aurora, Red Mars
- Justina Robson
- Carl Sagan -- Contact
- John Scalzi -- The Android's Dream, The Old Man's War
- Karl Schroeder
- Melissa Scott
- Allen Steele
- Sean Stewart
- S.M. Stirling
- Charles Stross -- The Atrocity Archives
- Michael Swanwick -- Tales of Old Earth
- Harry Turtledove -- Agent of Byzantium
- John Varley
- David Weber
- Andrew Weir -- The Martian
- Kate Wilhelm
- Connie Willis -- Bellwether
- Ysabel Wilce
- Gene Wolfe -- The Book of the New Sun, Castleview, The Sorcerer's House, Shadow of the Torturer
- Sara Zettel