More Than Human
From the back cover of Del Rey paperback November 1978: The coming of the superman without a superego! Take six people -- extraordinary people. And stir in the melting pot of creation. Take away their human frailties. Burnish their strengths. And create a superman -- Homo gestalt, the last step in man's evolution. Now step back... and learn the meaning of fear!
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- Blown / Image of The Beast by Philip Jose Farmer More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer Norstrillia by Cordwainer Smith
- Many of Philip K. Dick books and short stories, but Ubik and A Maze of Death are my favorites.
William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive)
Douglas N. Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Frank Herbert's Dune books
Theodore Sturgeon's More Than Human
Robert A. Heinlein - Citizen of the Galaxy
Robert Charles Wilson's Spin trilogy
Frederik Pohl's Heechee books
- Here is a real list, shorter and MUCH higher quality: 1. The Cyberiad 2. Babel-17 3. The Stars My Destination 4. The Sheep Look Up 5. More Than Human 6. Lord of Light 7. To Your Scattered Bodies Go 8. Earth Abides 9. Dying Inside 10. City 11. Last and First Men 12. Slan 13. The World of Null-A
- depends on the subgenre :)
Superhuman: Slan by A.E. Van Vogt More Than Human by Theodore STurgeon Odd John by Olaf Stapledon
Post Apocalyptic: The Day of The Triffids by John Whyndham Earth Abides by George R. Stewart A Canticle for Lebowitz by...don't remember
Space Opera/Adventure: any of The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks The Reality Dysfunction series by ...don't remember Hyperion series by Dan Simmons To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer
Dystopian: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin <---highly overlooked, predates 1984 and Brave New World
But the Absolute Best would be anything by: Stanislaw Lem (Cyberiad, Futurological Congress, Solaris) Alfred Bester (The STars my Destination, The Demolished Man) or Samuel R. Delany (Babel-17, Dhalgren, Trtion, Nova) oh and Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light and This Immortal are both great.
Some of Philip K. Dick's stuff is great, but everyone recommends him. :)
almost forgot John Brunner, check out Steel Beach, The Sheep Look Up, and Stand on Zanzibar.
- My girlfriend loved Harry Potter when we first met but I've since turned her on to much higher quality stuff (fantasy and otherwise) and she seems to be responding well. At least she doesn't have any literary pretensions like some girl who prides herself on having read pushkin probably does.
If you pride yourself on having rad certain authors you're reading them for the wrong reasons. You don't read great literature because it's "Great Literature". You read it because it is good.
I suppose it's to be expected. Even in the intellectual world Sturgeon's Law applies. 90% of everything is crap.
(Btw, if you havn't you should read Theodore Sturgeon's More Than Human)
- I got back into using e-readers so I read a lot more this year than usual.
- More than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
- Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
- Hogg by Samuel R. Delany
- The first dozen Discworld books (in publication order) by Terry Pratchet
- The Wall by Mary Roberts Reinhart
- Columbine by Dave Cullen
- Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
- Stray Bullets: Killers by David Lapham
- Stray Bullets: Sunshine and Roses by David Lapham
I might be missing a few.
