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Actually I made a website that’s mostly sci-fi books I’ve read https://mnky9800n.github.io/booklist/ https://mnky9800n.github.io/booklist/ It uses a google sp
by mnky9800n 2y ago
Actually I made a website that’s mostly sci-fi books I’ve read
https://mnky9800n.github.io/booklist/ https://mnky9800n.github.io/booklist/
It uses a google spreadsheet as a database so you just need to update the spreadsheet and it adds a book to the website.
I have a life goal to read every thing written by Phillip k dick as well as every book on David Pringle’s 100 best sci-fi list. Some of the books are hard to find though. Like I’ve been searching for years for the peoples republic of Antarctica.
I would suggest the following novels if you haven’t read them yet
Gene wolfe shadow of the torturer series aka book of the new sun
A scanner darkly by pkd, this, imo, is his best book even though all his books are compelling. But I think also, yes we can build him, its amazing because it really shows off pkd ability to come up with a wild premise but that’s simply the universe the characters live in and they don’t really care about that premise they have other problems.
Herovits world by malzburg, this book is hilarious and about how you must be a terrible narcissist to believe someone should read your fiction especially science fiction
The Brian Daley series about Han Solo, these are super interesting because they were written in 1979 so before empire strikes back came out. So Daley basically only had Star Wars to go on to create a whole trilogy of novels starring Han Solo. I think these are probably my favourite Star Wars novels because they have such little constraints.
- bwb 2y agoNice, I like the photos, classic covers are so beautiful :) Added the Brian Daley series about Solo to my list, I'd never heard of those!
- mnky9800n 2y agoI should reread them. They are so much fun. I’m the only person I know who has ever read them. Although that’s not saying much I suppose haha.
- bwb 2y agoOne of my hopes for the website is I could help books that are lesser known get noticed and "pop." Working on getting more to help in that capacity as there are so many good books that don't get enough notice. Aiming to come out with some features this Winter to help around that.
- tiltowait 2y agoThough I wouldn’t say A Scanner Darkly is my favorite PKD novel, I’d have a harder time arguing it isn’t his best. I can see it; it was just too heavy for me to actually enjoy all that much. Ubik is probably my favorite, or (to be cliche) Androids. PKD says more in single paragraphs than many authors manage to say in entire books.