User:Panic2k4/Books Read

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Contents 1 Books read, SF & Fantasy Books, their authors and my rates 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien (9) 1.2 Alan Dean Foster (9) 1.3 Robert Lynn Asprin (8) 1.4 Orson Scott Card (8) 1.5 Frederik Pohl (8) 1.6 Larry Niven (8) 1.7 R. A. Salvatore (8) 1.8 Richard Kadrey (8) 1.9 Isaac Asimov (7) 1.10 Raymond E Feist (7) 1.11 Andre Norton (7) 1.12 Joe Haldeman (7) 1.13 David Freer (7) 1.14 David Gemmell(7) 1.15 Frank Herbert (7) 1.16 David Weber (7) 1.17 Robert Anson Heinlein (7) 1.18 William R. Forstchen (7) 1.19 Neal Stephenson (7) 1.20 David Brin (7) 1.21 Jack Vance (7) 1.22 Jerry Pournelle (6) 1.23 Spider Robinson (6) 1.24 Julian May (6) 1.25 Robert Louis Stevenson (6) 1.26 Terry Brooks (6) 1.27 C. S. Lewis (6) 1.28 Harry Harrison (6) 1.29 Greg Bear (6) 1.30 H. G. Wells (6) 1.31 Anne McCaffrey (6) 1.32 James P. Hogan (6) 1.33 Piers Anthony (6) 1.34 William C. Dietz (6) 1.35 Ben Bova (6) 1.36 L. E. Modesitt Jr (5) 1.37 C.J. Cherryh (5) 1.38 Steve Alten (5) 1.39 L Ron Hubbard (5) 1.40 Philip Jose Farmer (5) 1.41 Hal Clement (5) 1.42 Murray Leinster (5) 1.43 Stephen Baxter (5) 1.44 Tom Godwin (5) 1.45 Cyril M. Kornbluth (5) 1.46 Eric Nylund (5) 1.47 Peter F. Hamilton (5) 1.48 Dean Koontz (5) 1.49 A. E. van Vogt (4) 1.50 Robert Silverberg (4) 1.51 Kurt Vonnegut Jr (4) 1.52 Philip K. Dick (4) 1.53 Theodore R Cogswel (4) 1.54 Harry Harrison (4) 1.55 Stephen King (4) 1.56 Arthur C. Clarke (4) 1.57 Henry Kuttner (4) 1.58 James Blish (4) 1.59 E. E. 'Doc' Smith (4) 1.60 Karel Capek (3) 1.61 Other authors/titles

[edit] Books read, SF & Fantasy Books, their authors and my rates

(Rate from 1-10) (?) = can't remember (Q) = quit in the middle

My rating is based on many factors, most important to me is the level of imagination or new concepts a work introduces, secondly how intelligent the author is in advancing the plot without boring the reader to death. I don't like mundane story lines or overcomplicated concepts or very convoluted mental or moral dilemmas, if pieces don't fit well together I will not like it, I'm willing to turn off the reality/science verifier if the history is entertaining...

I have read many more books I will try to tag the ones I remember or came across with a "?" until I revisit the text and rate it. Also if I quit ("q") a book it was because the history was boring or very confusing or just didn't catch my interest I will rate the work as for what I did read so classification may be off by one point above what I would rank it if I spent the time to really find out. I rarely skip to the end of the book in that event, if I quit its because I just don't care what happens next.

[edit] J.R.R. Tolkien (9)

The Hobbit (8)
The Lord of the Rings Book 1 (8)
The Lord of the Rings Book 2 (9)
The Lord of the Rings Book 3 (7)

[edit] Alan Dean Foster (9)

The I Inside (9)
Space Opera (8)
Aliens Vs Predator - War (7)
The Man Who Used The Universe (7)
The Chronicles of Riddick (7)
The Dig (6)
Interlopers (6)
Life Form (5)
Humanx Commonwealth : Midworld (5)
Humanx Commonwealth : The Howling Stones (7)
Codgerspace (5)
Cyber Way (4)
Into the Out Of (4)
Slipt (3Q)
To the Vanishing Point (5)
The Black Hole (6)
The Last Starfighter (6)
Quozl (5Q)
The Tessellated Tetrahexahedral Yellow Rose of Texas (5)

The Damned 01 - A Call to Arms (4)
The Damned 02 - The False Mirror (5)

Spellsinger 01 - Spellsinger (6)
Spellsinger 02 - The Hour of the Gate (6)
Spellsinger 03 - The Day of the Dissonance (5)
Spellsinger 04 - The Moment of The Magician (4)
Spellsinger 05 - The Paths Of The Perambulator (4)
Spellsinger 06 - The Time Of The Transferance (5)
Spellsinger 07 - Chorus Skating (5)
Spellsinger 08 - Son Of Spellsinger(5)

Flinx 11 - Running from The Deity (6)

Taken trilogy 1 - Lost and Found (6)
Taken trilogy 2 - The Light-Years Beneath My Feet (6)
Taken trilogy 3 - The Candle of Distant Earth (5)

Icenggger Trilogy 1 - Icenggger (7)
Icenggger Trilogy 2 - Mission to Moulokin (6)
Icenggger Trilogy 3 - The Deluge Drivers (7)

[edit] Robert Lynn Asprin (8)

Tambu (7)

Myth 01 - Another Fine Myth (8)
Myth 02 - Myth Conceptions (8)
Myth 03 - Myth Directions (8)
Myth 04 - Hit or Myth (?)
Myth 05 - MythIng Persons (?)
Myth 06 - Little Myth Marker (?)
Myth 07 - MYTH Inc Link (?)
Myth 08 - Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections (?)
Myth 09 - MYTH Inc in Action (?)
Myth 10 - Sweet Myth-tery of Life (?)
Myth 11 - Myth-ion Improbable (?)

[edit] Orson Scott Card (8)

The Ender saga 01 - Ender's Game (8)
The Ender saga 02 - Speaker for the Dead (6)
The Ender saga 03 - Xenocide (4Q)
The Ender saga 04 - Children of the mind (Q)

A Planet Called Treason (7)

[edit] Frederik Pohl (8)

Plague of Pythons (7)
Black Star Rising (5)
The Coming of the Quantum Cats (4Q)

Heechee 01 - Gateway (6)
Heechee 02 - Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (8)
Heechee 03 - Heechee Rendevous (6)

Eschaton 01 - The Other End of Time (7)
Eschaton 02 - The Siege Of Eternity (5)
Eschaton 03 - The Far Shore Of Time (6)

[edit] Larry Niven (8)

and Jerry Pournelle - The Mote in God's Eye (8)
and Jerry Pournelle - The Gripping Hand (7)
Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn - Fallen Angels (5Q)
Footfall (6)

Ringworld (8)
The Ringworld Engineers (7)
The Ringworld Throne (6)
Ringworld's Children (5)

and Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes - The Legacy of Heorot (6)
and Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes - The Dragons of Heorot aka Beowulf's Children (6)

[edit] R. A. Salvatore (8)

Dark Elf Trilogy - 1 Homeland (8)
Dark Elf Trilogy - 2 Exile (8)
Dark Elf Trilogy - 3 Sojourn (7)

Icewind Dale trilogy - 1 The Crystal Shard (7)
Icewind Dale trilogy - 2 Streams of Silver (7)
Icewind Dale trilogy - 3 The Halfling's Gem (8)

[edit] Richard Kadrey (8)

Butcher Bird (8) (free ebook)

[edit] Isaac Asimov (7)

The Caves of Steel (7)

Foundation 1 - Prelude to Foundation (5)

Robots in Time 1 - Predator (5)
Robots in Time 2 - Marauder (6)
Robots in Time 3 - Warrior (5)
Robots in Time 4 - Dictator(6)
Robots in Time 5 - Emperor (4)
Robots in Time 6 - Invader (5)

The Gods Themselves (4)

[edit] Raymond E Feist (7)

The Riftwar Saga 1+ - Magician (Expanded Ed.) (7)
The Riftwar Saga 2 - Silverthorn (7)
The Riftwar Saga 3 - A Darkness at Sethanon (6)

Legends of the Riftwar 3 - Murder in LaMut (5Q)

[edit] Andre Norton (7)

Beast Master 01 - The Beast Master (6)
Beast Master 02 - Lord of Thunder (6)

Galactic Derilict (7)
Star Soldier (6)
Flight in Yiktor (4)

Time Traders 1 - The Time Traders (6) - (free ebook)
Time Traders 3 - The Defiant Agents (5) - (free ebook)
Time Traders 4 - Key Out of Time (5) - (free ebook)

Time Traders 1 (omnibus), The Time Traders & Galactic Derelict (6)
Time Traders 2 (omnibus), The Defiant Agents & Key Out of Time (5)

[edit] Joe Haldeman (7)

Tool of the Trade (7)
Guardian (4Q)

[edit] David Freer (7)

The Forlorn (7)

[edit] David Gemmell(7)

Morningstar (7)

[edit] Frank Herbert (7)

Destination Void 1 - Destination Void (5Q)

Whipping Star 2 - The Dosadi Experiment (6)

Hellstrom's Hive (6)
The Green Brain (6)
Escape Felicity (7)

[edit] David Weber (7)

Honor Harrington 01 (7)
Honor Harrington 02 (7)
Honor Harrington 03 (6)
Honor Harrington 04 (?)
Honor Harrington 05 (?)
Honor Harrington 06 (?)
Honor Harrington 07 (?)
Honor Harrington 08 (?)
Honor Harrington 09 - Ashes of Victory (5)

[edit] Robert Anson Heinlein (7)

I Will Fear No Evil (4Q)
The Puppet Masters (5)
And He Built A Crooked House (6)
The Star Beast (7)

[edit] William R. Forstchen (7)

Into the Sea of Stars (7)
The Lost Regiment 01 - Rally Cry! (7)

[edit] Neal Stephenson (7)

The Diamond Age (Or) a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (7)

[edit] David Brin (7)

and Gregory Benford - Heart of the Comet (7)
The Uplift War (7)
The Practice Effect (6)

[edit] Jack Vance (7)

The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph aka The Brains of Earth (5)
Tschai aka Planet of Adventure (7)

[edit] Jerry Pournelle (6)

Janissaries 1 - Janissaries (6)
with Roland Green - Janissaries 2 - Clan and Crown (6)
with Roland Green - Janissaries 3 - Storms of Victory (5)

[edit] Spider Robinson (6)

Callahan's Secret (6)
Telempath (4)

[edit] Julian May (6)

The Saga of the Pliocene Exiles 1 - The Many-Coloured Land (6)
The Saga of the Pliocene Exiles 2 - The Golden Torc (5)

[edit] Robert Louis Stevenson (6)

Treasure Island (6)

[edit] Terry Brooks (6)

Original Shannara Trilogy 01- The Sword Of Shannara (5)
Original Shannara Trilogy 02 - The Elfstones of Shannara (6)

[edit] C. S. Lewis (6)

Ransom Trilogy 01 - Out of the Silent Planet (6)

[edit] Harry Harrison (6)

Deathworld 1 (6)
Deathworld 2 (6)
Deathworld 3 (5)

Planets 1 - Planet of the Damned (5)
Planets 2 - Planet of No Return (6)

War with the Robots (3Q)

[edit] Greg Bear (6)

Blood Music (6)
The Forge of God (4)
Darwin's Children (4Q)

[edit] H. G. Wells (6)

Food of the Gods (4)

[edit] Anne McCaffrey (6)

Dinosaur Planet (5)
Dinosaur Planet: The Survivors (6)

[edit] James P. Hogan (6)

Giants 1 - Inherit The Stars (6)
Giants 2 - The Gentle Giants Of Ganymede (5)
Giants 3 - Giants' Star (5)

[edit] Piers Anthony (6)

Of Man and Manta 01 - Omnivore (6)
Of Man and Manta 02 - Orn (4)
Of Man and Manta 03 - 0x (5)

Apprentice Adept 01 - Split Infinity (5)
Apprentice Adept 02 - Blue Adep (4)
Apprentice Adept 03 - Juxtaposition (3)
Apprentice Adept 04 - Out of Phaze (4)
Apprentice Adept 05 - Robot Adept (4)
Apprentice Adept 06 - Unicorn Point (5)
Apprentice Adept 07 - Phaze Doubt (4)

Xanth 01 - A Spell for Chameleon (6)
Xanth 02 - The Source of Magic (5)
Xanth 03 - Castle Roogna (5)
Xanth 04 - Centaur Aisle (5)
Xanth 05 - Ogre, Ogre (6)
Xanth 06 - Night Mare (5)
Xanth 07 - Dragon on a Pedestal (5)
Xanth 08 - Crewel Lye (4)
Xanth 09 - Golem in the Gears (4)
Xanth 10 - Vale of the Vole (4)
Xanth 11 - Heaven Cent (4)
Xanth 12 - Man from Mundania (4)
Xanth 13 - Isle of View (4)
Xanth 14 - Question Quest (4)

Incarnations of Immortality 01 - On A Pale Horse (6)

with Mercedes Lackey - If I Pay Thee Not In Gold (6)

[edit] William C. Dietz (6)

Legion 04 - By Force of Arms (5)

Prison Planet (6)

[edit] Ben Bova (6)

Voyagers 2 - The Alien Within (4)

Asteroid Wars 01 - Precipice (5)
Asteroid Wars 02 - Rock Rats (6)
Asteroid Wars 03 - The Silent War (6)

[edit] L. E. Modesitt Jr (5)

The Forever Hero 01 - Dawn For a Distant Earth (5)
The Forever Hero 02 - The Silent Warrior (5)
The Forever Hero 03 - The Endless Twilight (4)

[edit] C.J. Cherryh (5)

The Pride of Chanur (5)

[edit] Steve Alten (5)

Domain (5)

[edit] L Ron Hubbard (5)

Battlefield Earth (5)

[edit] Philip Jose Farmer (5)

Riverworld 01 - To Your Scattered Bodies Go (5)
Riverworld 02 - The Fabulous Riverboat (4)

[edit] Hal Clement (5)

Mission of Gravity (5)

[edit] Murray Leinster (5)

Med Ship (5)

[edit] Stephen Baxter (5)

The Time Ships (5)

Manifold 2 - Space (4)
Manifold 3 - Origin (1Q)

[edit] Tom Godwin (5)

The Survivors aka Space Prison (5) - (free ebook)

[edit] Cyril M. Kornbluth (5)

The Little Black Bag (5)

[edit] Eric Nylund (5)

Halo II (5)

[edit] Peter F. Hamilton (5)

The Neutronium Alchemist (5Q)

[edit] Dean Koontz (5)

[edit] A. E. van Vogt (4)

The World of Null-A (revised edition) (4Q)
The Voyage of the Space Beagle (4)

[edit] Robert Silverberg (4)

Across A Billion Years (4Q)

[edit] Kurt Vonnegut Jr (4)

The Sirens of Titan (4)

[edit] Philip K. Dick (4)

Second Variety (4)
A Maze of Death (4Q)
VALIS (2Q)
The Man In The High Castle (3Q)

[edit] Theodore R Cogswel (4)

The Wall Around the World (4)

[edit] Harry Harrison (4)

[edit] Stephen King (4)

[edit] Arthur C. Clarke (4)

[edit] Henry Kuttner (4)

[edit] James Blish (4)

[edit] E. E. 'Doc' Smith (4)

The Galaxy Primes (4Q)

[edit] Karel Capek (3)

War with Salamanders (3)

[edit] Other authors/titles

Tom Clancy, Eric Flint & David Drake - The Belisarius Series (5), Neal Stephenson, J. K. Rowling (5), ST SCE (4), Edgar Rice Burroughs (5), ST TNG, ST DS9, William Gibson, ST TOS (5), John Milton, Douglas Adams, Dante Alighieri, Plato, ST Voy, Star Trek - TNG - The Beginning, Harry Turtledove, Brian Bradd, John Wyndham, ST Misc, Terry Pratchett, Michael Crichton (5), Stanislaw Lem (5), Perry Rhodan (5), Jules Verne (6), John Steakley,