Gary Westfahl, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders
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This massive three-volume encyclopedia edited by Westfahl includes two volumes of essays about themes of science fiction and fantasy, and a third volume of essays on "classic works", including books, films, and TV shows, most written by numerous contributors (with many by Westfahl himself). A number of the book entries represent entire series, e.g. Pratchett's The Colour of Magic for the entire Discworld series.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 127
Publication: Greenwood Press, 2005
Compile Notes
Compiled and posted are 127 book titles from volume 3.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 127
Publication: Greenwood Press, 2005
Compile Notes
Compiled and posted are 127 book titles from volume 3.
- Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland (Seeley, 1884)
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Pan, 1979)
- Brian W. Aldiss, Helliconia Spring (Atheneum, 1982)
- Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon (Del Rey, 1977)
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Gnome, 1951)
- Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Gnome, 1950)
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (McClelland and Stewart, 1985)
- Jean M. Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear (Crown , 1980)
- J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World (Berkley Medallion, 1962)
- Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Macmillan, 1987)
- J. M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy (Hodder & Stoughton, 1911)
- L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (George Hill , 1900)
- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (Viking, 1968)
- Greg Bear, Blood Music (Arbor House, 1985)
- Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward 2000-1887 (Ticknor and Company, 1888)
- Gregory Benford, Timescape (Simon and Schuster, 1980)
- Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man (Shasta, 1953)
- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (NAL/Signet, 1957)
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine, 1953)
- Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Doubleday, 1950)
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Knopf, 1983)
- David Brin, Startide Rising (Bantam, 1983)
- Terry Brooks, The Sword of Shannara (Ballantine, 1977)
- John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar (Doubleday, 1968)
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (Heinemann , 1962)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (McClurg, 1917)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (McClurg, 1914)
- Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Warner, 1987)
- Octavia E. Butler, Kindred (Doubleday, 1979)
- James Branch Cabell, Jurgen (Robert M McBride, 1919)
- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (Tor, 1985)
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Macmillan, 1865)
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (NAL, 1968)
- Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End (Ballantine, 1953)
- Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Gollancz, 1973)
- Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Knopf, 1990)
- John Crowley, Little, Big (Bantam, 1981)
- Samuel R. Delany, Triton (Bantam, 1976)
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Doubleday, 1968)
- Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (Putnam, 1962)
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (Chapman and Hall, 1843)
- Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977)
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (Hodder and Stoughton, 1912)
- Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter (Putnam, 1924)
- David Eddings, Pawn of Prophecy (Del Rey , 1982)
- E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros (Jonathan Cape, 1922)
- Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories (Harper & Row, 1975)
- Alan Garner, The Owl Service (Collins, 1967)
- William Gibson & Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine (Gollancz, 1990)
- William Gibson, Neuromancer (Ace Special, 1984)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (The Forerunner, 1915)
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies (Faber and Faber, 1954)
- H. Rider Haggard, She (Harper and Bros, 1886)
- Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (St. Martin's, 1974)
- Robert A. Heinlein, The Past Through Tomorrow (Putnam, 1967)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (Putnam, 1959)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (Putnam, 1961)
- Frank Herbert, Dune (Chilton, 1965)
- James Hilton, Lost Horizon (Macmillan, 1933)
- Robert E. Howard & L. Sprague de Camp, Conan the Conqueror (Gnome , 1950)
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Chatto & Windus, 1932)
- Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World (Tor, 1990)
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966)
- Stephen King, The Shining (Doubleday , 1977)
- Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies (Macmillan, 1863)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (Harper & Row, 1974)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Special, 1969)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Parnassus Press, 1968)
- Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (Walker, 1970; Poland 1961)
- C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Geoffrey Bles, 1950)
- C. S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Bodley Head, 1938)
- David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus (Methuen , 1920)
- Hugh Lofting, The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Frederick A. Stokes, 1920)
- George MacDonald, Lilith (Chatto and Windus, 1895)
- Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight (Ballantine, 1968)
- China Miéville, Perdido Street Station (Macmillan, 2000)
- Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959)
- Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee ( Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953)
- Thomas More, Utopia (Abraham Vele, 1551; Netherlands 1516)
- George Orwell, Animal Farm (Secker & Warburg , 1945)
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
- Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan (Eyre & Spottiswoode , 1946)
- Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (Knopf , 1976)
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Harper & Bros., 1838)
- Frederik Pohl, Gateway (St. Martin's, 1977)
- Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants (Ballantine, 1953)
- Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic (Colin Smythe, 1983)
- Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (Knopf , 1976)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (HarperCollins, 1992)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt (Bantam, 2002)
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Bloomsbury, 1997)
- Joanna Russ, The Female Man (Bantam, 1975)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
- Mary Shelley, The Last Man (Henry Colburn, 1826)
- M. P. Shiel, The Purple Cloud (Chatto & Windus , 1901)
- Clifford D. Simak, City (Gnome Press, 1952)
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Doubleday Foundation, 1989)
- Cordwainer Smith, Norstrilia (Ballantine, 1975)
- Edward E. Smith, Triplanetary (Fantasy Press , 1948)
- Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (Methuen, 1930)
- Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker (Methuen, 1937)
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra, 1992)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (George Munro, 1886)
- George R. Stewart, Earth Abides (Random House, 1949)
- Bram Stoker, Dracula (Constable , 1897)
- Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human (Farrar, Straus & Young/Ballantine, 1953)
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (Benjamin Motte, 1726)
- Sheri S. Tepper, The Gate to Women's Country (Doubleday Foundation, 1988)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Allen & Unwin , 1937)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (series, 1954-1955)
- P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins (HarperCollins, 1934)
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Webster , 1889)
- Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon (J. Hetzel, 1865)
- Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (George Smith, 1873; France 1871)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Galápagos (Delacorte, 1985)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five (Delacorte, 1969)
- H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau (Heinemann , 1896)
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (Henry Holt, 1895)
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (Heinemann, 1898)
- James White, Hospital Station (Ballantine, 1962)
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Ward, Lock, 1891)
- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun (1980-1983)
- Austin Tappan Wright, Islandia (Farrar and Rinehart, 1942)
- John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (Doubleday, 1951)
- Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (Dutton, 1924)
- Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light (Doubleday, 1967)
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