An odd list, in addition to utter schlock like Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and (to me) definitely non-trippy but solid SF by the likes of Gibson and Simmons, it does have a number of very interesting books. I was especially pleased to see Lucius Shepard's Life During Wartime on that list. It starts out as a book about drug-mediated US soldiers in a near future Central American war and soon becomes something far weirder. If you haven't read this book, read it soon.
I am filled with the urge to buy all of them. Probably in the hope that the act of owning such books will make me more intelligent, despite the fact I'll only ever read half of them at best. Advertisement at its finest.
I agree with heron61—Ender's Game? Maybe I forgot my first reaction to it—but having only read the short story there is no way I'm reading Blood Music. Too far out. Nngh.
Between the two poles, I expected to see The Sparrow on there.
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Between the two poles, I expected to see The Sparrow on there.
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