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Alchemic Hues
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List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:
1. Legion of Super-Heroes
2. 90s animated shows created to cash in on The Simpsons
3. Jaws
1. Legion of Super-Heroes
2. 90s animated shows created to cash in on The Simpsons
3. Jaws
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:
1. Comics (primarily Marvel & DC, with plenty of indies as well)
2. The Godzilla filmography
3. Sci-Fi pop culture
1. Comics (primarily Marvel & DC, with plenty of indies as well)
2. The Godzilla filmography
3. Sci-Fi pop culture
Bought this in a charity shop yesterday. Then bold claim of the title is somewhat tempered inside: it’s the 100 best English language SF novels from 1949 to 1984 (!). Still, here’s the list.
![Contents
FOREWORD BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK
AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION
BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell [1949]
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart [1949]
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury [1950]
The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein [1951]
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham [1951]
Limbo by Bernard Wolfe [1952]
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester [1953]
Fabrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury [1953]
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke [1953]
The Paradox Men by Charles L. Harness [1953]
Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore [1953]
The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth [1953]
Ring Around the Sun by Clifford D. Simak [1953]
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon [1953]
Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement [1954]
A Mirror for Observers by Edgar Pangborn (1954]
The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov [1955)
The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett [1955]
The Inheritors by William Golding [1955]
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester [1956]
The Death of Grass by John Christopher [1956]
The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke [1956]
The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein [1957)
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham [1957]
Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss [1958]
A Case of Conscience by James Blish [1958)
Have Space-Suit-Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein [1958)
Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick [1959)
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank [1959]
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller [1959)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/bafkreifjgbleevwjre56cyjt5znr5ocfebu3tyhuzlgwgmst26hbk5bwyi@jpeg)
![The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut [1959]
Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys [1960]
Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon [1960]
Hothouse by Brian W. Aldiss [1962]
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard [1962]
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess [1962]
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick [1962]
Journey Beyond Tomorrow by Robert Sheckley [1963]
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak 1963]
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1963]
Greybeard by Brian W. Aldiss [1964]
Nova Express by William S. Burroughs [1964]
Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick 1964]
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick [1964]
The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber [1964]
Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith [1964-68]
Dr Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick [1965]
Dune by Frank Herbert [1965]
The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard [1966]
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison 1966]
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes [1966]
The Dream Master by Roger Zelazny [1966]
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner [1968]
Nova by Samuel R. Delany [1968]
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick [1968]
Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch [1968]
The Final Programme by Michael Moorcock [1968]
Pavane by Keith Roberts [1968]
Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter 1969]
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin [1969]
The Palace of Eternity by Bob Shaw (1969]
Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad [1969]
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson (1970]
Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg [1970]
The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker [1970]
334 by Thomas M. Disch [1972]
The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe [1972]
The Dancers at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock [1972-76]
Crash by J.G. Ballard [1973]
Looking Backward, From the Year 2000 by Mack Reynolds (1973]
The Embedding by lan Watson [1973]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/bafkreid43ixcmwn776je2lfngislmraujkkrhvbkvxbeo2wjz7hey6elle@jpeg)
![Walk to the End of the World by Suzy McKee Charnas [1974]
The Centauri Device by M. John Harrison [1974]
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin [1974]
Inverted World by Christopher Priest [1974]
High-Rise by J.G. Ballard 1975)
Galaxies by Barry N. Malzberg [1975]
The Female Man by Joanna Russ [1975]
Orbitsville by Bob Shaw [1975]
The Alteration by Kingsley Amis [1976]
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy [1976]
Man Plus by Frederik Pohl [1976]
Michaelmas by Algis Budrys [1977]
The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley [1977]
Miracle Visitors by lan Watson [1978]
Engine Summer by John Crowley [1979]
On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch [1979]
The Walking Shadow by Brian Stableford [1979]
Juniper Time by Kate Wilhelm [1979]
Timescape by Gregory Benford [1980]
The Dreaming Dragons by Damien Broderick [1980]
Wild Seed by Octavia A. Butler [1980]
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban [1980]
Roderick and Roderick at Random by John Sladek [1980-83]
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe [1980-83]
The Unreasoning Mask by Philip José Farmer [1980]
Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle [1981]
No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop [1982]
The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica by John
Calvin Batchelor [1983]
Neuromancer by William Gibson [1984]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/bafkreiewn6xkrnfthzr3sehlh4yooubcszuymzuseiw3vrpuay2jc54k4a@jpeg)