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Time Enough for Love
by Robert Heinlein
Reviewed by Ted Gioia
Working in a genre that prized plot and artifice above
everything else, Robert Heinlein had a peculiar knack for
creating character-driven narratives. His novels are
populated with big personalities, charismatic
individuals who still show their
humble pulp fiction origins, yet
possess a life force that is rare in
the cardboard world where most
sci-fi resides. These aren’t neces-
sarily realistic characters—but
they are all the more charming for
being so different from the folks
you meet in day-to-day life.
Much of the success of Heinlein’s
Stranger in a Strange Land is
driven by that paradoxical
protagonist—a mixture of cult
leader and naïve child—Valentine
Michael Smith. The same book
brings us the even more peculiar figure Jubal Harshaw, who
seems to be a lawyer at some points in the book, a writer at
other moments, then again a doctor, or keeper of a harem, or
just a celebrity without portfolio. This projection of Heinlein’s
fantasy vision of himself is both totally implausible, yet also
fascinating to observe. In a similar manner, two powerful but
sharply contrasting characters impart vitality to The Moon is a
Harsh Mistress—a book which deserves to be far more widely
read: the one-armed techie Manuel Garcia "Mannie" O'Kelly-
Davis, whose quaint, colloquial speech pattern make him a
lunar counterpart to Huckleberry Finn, and the computer Mike,
who would be out HAL 9000 and Robbie the Robot combined
in any fair tabulation of electronic gravitas.
Related Link:
Robert Heinlein at One Hundred
But the Heinlein character with the greatest seniority is
Lazarus Long. Of course, it is hard to get any more senior
than Long, who was born before the outbreak of World War I
and was still going strong some 2000 years later. But this
character also had a long-standing relationship with his
author. Readers first encountered Long when he appeared
imposingly on the cover of the July 1941 issue of Astounding
Science Fiction, which featured the first installment of Heinlein’
s Methuselah’s Children. The author returned to Long
periodically, and after Heinlein became a world famous writer
of bestsellers, he focused on this now well-seasoned
character for his 1973 book Time Enough for Love.
To some degree, this character is a hodge-podge of the traits
we repeatedly find in Heinlein’s leading men. This protagonist
is iconoclastic, independent, resourceful, libidinous,
philosophical, crafty and restless. He is no more believable
than Indiana Jones or Odysseus (two figures with which he
has much in common), but out of deference to age, we won’t
point that out to Mr. Long. But he is definitely not one of
those stick figures that we find in Asimov, Bester, Clarke and
other paragons of the sci-fi genre. Heinlein projects so much
of his own emotional currents and psychic energy into this
character, that we find ourselves swept away despite
ourselves. You can’t judge a Disney ride or a Jungian
archetype (and Long is a cross between the two) on
standards drawn from reading Tolstoy or Balzac.
Time Enough for Love is—strange to say—both one of
Heinlein's most disorganized books, and also one of his
finest. Make no mistake about it, this book is stitched
together. It could easily have appeared as a collection of
short stories with a common protagonist—think of Lazarus
Long as sort of a sci-fi Nick Adams. For 600 pages of small
print, Heinlein jumps hither and thither, moving from space
ships to the Woodrow Wilson administration to discourses on
genetics and economics to wild west scenarios on distant
planets, and dozens of other subplots, tangents, and hobby
horses. Along the way, Long even finds time to date his own
mother.
Have you heard of that Parisian café where, if you sit there
long enough, anybody who is anybody is sure to stroll by?
Well Time Enough for Love is the novelistic equivalent of the
same. Give Heinlein enough pages, and everything is bound
to show up sooner or later. Yet the storytelling here is so well
done, that it’s hard to complain. There may be plenty of
loose ends in this novel, but there is no padding.
Around the same time Heinlein was writing this book, the
Beatles put out Abbey Road, and on side two of that classic
LP the fab foursome sewed together various bits and pieces
and unfinished songs into a finished product that somehow
seemed much, much larger than its constituent parts. Heinlein
does the same here. I can only surmise that he had a private
stash of great story ideas he had been saving for years, and
now was tossing them into a single book.
Did you ever have a favorite uncle or teacher or mentor who
could keep the whole room entranced with anecdote after
anecdote? This book is much like that. Some of the best
parts of Time Enough for Love are totally irrelevant to the
convoluted plot—one of my favorites: there is a section on
banking and finance that ought to be taught to MBAs—and
are all the more delightful for coming out of left field. Sure,
this book could have been trimmed by 200 pages—heck, it
probably could have been chopped down by 400 pages—but
this is one meal where the fat is as tasty as the meat.
No, you couldn’t teach someone to write like this. You
wouldn't even want to try. But Heinlein was a law unto
himself, and if you decide to read him, you will have to do it on
his terms. It tells you something about the man when you
consider that this, his most self-indulgent book, was also
among his very best.
by Robert Heinlein
Reviewed by Ted Gioia
Working in a genre that prized plot and artifice above
everything else, Robert Heinlein had a peculiar knack for
creating character-driven narratives. His novels are
populated with big personalities, charismatic
individuals who still show their
humble pulp fiction origins, yet
possess a life force that is rare in
the cardboard world where most
sci-fi resides. These aren’t neces-
sarily realistic characters—but
they are all the more charming for
being so different from the folks
you meet in day-to-day life.
Much of the success of Heinlein’s
Stranger in a Strange Land is
driven by that paradoxical
protagonist—a mixture of cult
leader and naïve child—Valentine
Michael Smith. The same book
brings us the even more peculiar figure Jubal Harshaw, who
seems to be a lawyer at some points in the book, a writer at
other moments, then again a doctor, or keeper of a harem, or
just a celebrity without portfolio. This projection of Heinlein’s
fantasy vision of himself is both totally implausible, yet also
fascinating to observe. In a similar manner, two powerful but
sharply contrasting characters impart vitality to The Moon is a
Harsh Mistress—a book which deserves to be far more widely
read: the one-armed techie Manuel Garcia "Mannie" O'Kelly-
Davis, whose quaint, colloquial speech pattern make him a
lunar counterpart to Huckleberry Finn, and the computer Mike,
who would be out HAL 9000 and Robbie the Robot combined
in any fair tabulation of electronic gravitas.
Related Link:
Robert Heinlein at One Hundred
But the Heinlein character with the greatest seniority is
Lazarus Long. Of course, it is hard to get any more senior
than Long, who was born before the outbreak of World War I
and was still going strong some 2000 years later. But this
character also had a long-standing relationship with his
author. Readers first encountered Long when he appeared
imposingly on the cover of the July 1941 issue of Astounding
Science Fiction, which featured the first installment of Heinlein’
s Methuselah’s Children. The author returned to Long
periodically, and after Heinlein became a world famous writer
of bestsellers, he focused on this now well-seasoned
character for his 1973 book Time Enough for Love.
To some degree, this character is a hodge-podge of the traits
we repeatedly find in Heinlein’s leading men. This protagonist
is iconoclastic, independent, resourceful, libidinous,
philosophical, crafty and restless. He is no more believable
than Indiana Jones or Odysseus (two figures with which he
has much in common), but out of deference to age, we won’t
point that out to Mr. Long. But he is definitely not one of
those stick figures that we find in Asimov, Bester, Clarke and
other paragons of the sci-fi genre. Heinlein projects so much
of his own emotional currents and psychic energy into this
character, that we find ourselves swept away despite
ourselves. You can’t judge a Disney ride or a Jungian
archetype (and Long is a cross between the two) on
standards drawn from reading Tolstoy or Balzac.
Time Enough for Love is—strange to say—both one of
Heinlein's most disorganized books, and also one of his
finest. Make no mistake about it, this book is stitched
together. It could easily have appeared as a collection of
short stories with a common protagonist—think of Lazarus
Long as sort of a sci-fi Nick Adams. For 600 pages of small
print, Heinlein jumps hither and thither, moving from space
ships to the Woodrow Wilson administration to discourses on
genetics and economics to wild west scenarios on distant
planets, and dozens of other subplots, tangents, and hobby
horses. Along the way, Long even finds time to date his own
mother.
Have you heard of that Parisian café where, if you sit there
long enough, anybody who is anybody is sure to stroll by?
Well Time Enough for Love is the novelistic equivalent of the
same. Give Heinlein enough pages, and everything is bound
to show up sooner or later. Yet the storytelling here is so well
done, that it’s hard to complain. There may be plenty of
loose ends in this novel, but there is no padding.
Around the same time Heinlein was writing this book, the
Beatles put out Abbey Road, and on side two of that classic
LP the fab foursome sewed together various bits and pieces
and unfinished songs into a finished product that somehow
seemed much, much larger than its constituent parts. Heinlein
does the same here. I can only surmise that he had a private
stash of great story ideas he had been saving for years, and
now was tossing them into a single book.
Did you ever have a favorite uncle or teacher or mentor who
could keep the whole room entranced with anecdote after
anecdote? This book is much like that. Some of the best
parts of Time Enough for Love are totally irrelevant to the
convoluted plot—one of my favorites: there is a section on
banking and finance that ought to be taught to MBAs—and
are all the more delightful for coming out of left field. Sure,
this book could have been trimmed by 200 pages—heck, it
probably could have been chopped down by 400 pages—but
this is one meal where the fat is as tasty as the meat.
No, you couldn’t teach someone to write like this. You
wouldn't even want to try. But Heinlein was a law unto
himself, and if you decide to read him, you will have to do it on
his terms. It tells you something about the man when you
consider that this, his most self-indulgent book, was also
among his very best.
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Abbott, Edwin A.
Flatland
Adams, Douglas
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Aldiss, Brian
Barefoot in the Head
Aldiss, Brian
Hothouse
Aldiss, Brian
Report on Probability A
Allende, Isabel
The House of the Spirits
Amado, Jorge
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Amis, Martin
Time's Arrow
Apuleius
The Golden Ass
Asimov, Isaac
The Foundation Trilogy
Asimov, Isaac
I, Robot
Atwood, Margaret
The Handmaid's Tale
Banks, Iain M.
The State of the Art
Ballard, J.G.
The Atrocity Exhibition
Ballard, J.G.
Crash
Ballard, J.G.
The Crystal World
Ballard, J.G.
The Drowned World
Barth, John
Giles Goat-Boy
Bester, Alfred
The Demolished Man
Blish, James
A Case of Conscience
Borges, Jorge Luis
Ficciones
Bradbury, Ray
Dandelion Wine
Bradbury, Ray
Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray
The Illustrated Man
Bradbury, Ray
The Martian Chronicles
Bradbury, Ray
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Brockmeier, Kevin
The View from the Seventh Layer
Bulgakov, Mikhail
The Master and Margarita
Bunch, David R.
Moderan
Burgess, Anthony
A Clockwork Orange
Card, Orson Scott
Ender's Game
Carpentier, Alejo
The Kingdom of This World
Carroll, Lewis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Chabon, Michael
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Chiang, Ted
Stories of Your Life and Others
Clarke, Arthur C.
Childhood's End
Clarke, Arthur C.
A Fall of Moondust
Clarke, Arthur C.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Clarke, Susanna
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Crowley, John
Little, Big
Danielewski, Mark Z.
The Fifty Year Sword
Danielewski, Mark Z.
House of Leaves
Davies, Robertson
Fifth Business
Delany, Samuel R.
Babel-17
Delany, Samuel R.
Dhalgren
Delany, Samuel R.
The Einstein Intersection
Delany, Samuel R.
Nova
Dick, Philip K.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dick, Philip K.
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Dick, Philip K.
The Man in the High Castle
Dick, Philip K.
Ubik
Dick, Philip K.
VALIS
Disch, Thomas M.
Camp Concentration
Disch, Thomas M.
The Genocides
Doctorow, Cory
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Donoso, José
The Obscene Bird of Night
Ellison, Harlan (editor)
Dangerous Visions
Ellison, Harlan
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
Esquivel, Laura
Like Water for Chocolate
Farmer, Philip José
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Fuentes, Carlos
Aura
Gaiman, Neil
American Gods
Gaiman, Neil
Neverwhere
Gibson, William
Burning Chrome
Gibson, William
Neuromancer
Grass, Günter
The Tin Drum
Greene, Graham
The End of the Affair
Grossman, Lev
The Magicians
Haldeman, Joe
The Forever War
Hall, Steven
The Raw Shark Texts
Harrison, M. John
The Centauri Device
Harrison, M. John
Light
Heinlein, Robert
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Heinlein, Robert:
Stranger in a Strange Land
Heinlein, Robert
Time Enough for Love
Helprin, Mark
Winter's Tale
Herbert, Frank
Dune
Hoffman, Alice
Practical Magic
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Keret, Etgar
Suddenly, A Knock at the Door
Keyes, Daniel
Flowers for Algernon
Kundera, Milan
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kunzru, Hari
Gods Without Men
Lafferty, R.A.
Nine Hundred Grandmothers
Le Guin, Ursula K.
The Dispossessed
Le Guin, Ursula K.
The Lathe of Heaven
Le Guin, Ursula K.
The Left Hand of Darkness
Leiber, Fritz
The Big Time
Leiber, Fritz
Conjure Wife
Leiber, Fritz
Swords & Deviltry
Leiber, Fritz
The Wanderer
Lem, Stanislaw
His Master's Voice
Lem, Stanislaw
Solaris
Lethem, Jonathan
The Fortress of Solitude
Lewis, C. S.
The Chronicles of Narnia
Link, Kelly
Magic for Beginners
Malzberg, Barry N.
Herovit's World
Mann, Thomas
Doctor Faustus
Márquez, Gabriel García
100 Years of Solitude
Markson, David
Wittgenstein's Mistress
Matheson, Richard
Hell House
Matheson, Richard
What Dreams May Come
McCarthy, Cormac
The Road
Miéville, China
Perdido Street Station
Miller, Jr., Walter M.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Millhauser, Steven
Dangerous Laughter
Mitchell, David
Cloud Atlas
Moorcock, Michael
Behold the Man
Moorcock, Michael
The Final Programme
Morrison, Toni
Beloved
Murakami, Haruki
1Q84
Murakami, Haruki
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the
End of the World
Nabokov, Vladimir
Ada, or Ardor
Niffenegger, Audrey
The Time Traveler's Wife
Niven, Larry
Ringworld
Noon, Jeff
Vurt
Obreht, Téa
The Tiger's Wife
O'Brien, Flann
At Swim-Two-Birds
Okri, Ben
The Famished Road
Percy, Walker
Love in the Ruins
Pohl, Frederik
Gateway
Pratchett, Terry
The Color of Magic
Pynchon, Thomas
Gravity's Rainbow
Rabelais, François
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Robinson, Kim Stanley
Red Mars
Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone
Rushdie, Salman
Midnight's Children
Russ, Joanna
The Female Man
Saramago, José
Blindness
Sheckley, Robert
Dimension of Miracles
Sheckley, Robert
Mindswap
Sheckley, Robert
Store of the Worlds
Shelley, Mary
Frankenstein
Silverberg, Robert
Dying Inside
Silverberg, Robert
Nightwings
Silverberg, Robert
The World Inside
Simak, Clifford
City
Simak, Clifford
The Trouble with Tycho
Smith, Cordwainer
Norstrilia
Smith, Cordwainer
The Rediscovery of Man
Stephenson, Neal
Snow Crash
Spinrad, Norman
Bug Jack Barron
Stross, Charles
Glasshouse
Sturgeon, Theodore
More Than Human
Sturgeon, Theodore
Some of Your Blood
Swift, Jonathan
Gulliver's Travels
Thomas, D.M.
The White Hotel
Tiptree, Jr., James
Warm Worlds and Otherwise
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Hobbit
Updike, John
The Witches of Eastwick
Van Vogt, A.E.
The Mixed Men
Van Vogt, A.E.
Slan
Van Vogt, A.E.
The Voyage of the Space Beagle
Van Vogt, A.E.
The World of Null A
Vance, Jack
Emphyrio
Verne, Jules
Around the Moon
Verne, Jules
From the Earth to the Moon
Verne, Jules:
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Vonnegut, Kurt
Cat's Cradle
Vonnegut, Kurt
The Sirens of Titan
Vonnegut, Kurt
Slaughterhouse-Five
Wallace, David Foster
Infinite Jest
Walpole, Horace
Hieroglyphic Tales
Wells, H.G.
The First Men in the Moon
Wells, H.G.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Wells, H.G.
The Time Machine
Wilson, Robert Anton & Robert Shea
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Winton, Tim
Cloudstreet
Woolf, Virginia
Orlando
Zabor, Rafi
The Bear Comes Home
Zelazny, Roger
Lord of Light
Zelazny, Roger
This Immortal
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Conceptual Fiction:
A Reading List
(with links to essays on each work)
Home Page
Abbott, Edwin A.
Flatland
Adams, Douglas
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Aldiss, Brian
Barefoot in the Head
Aldiss, Brian
Hothouse
Aldiss, Brian
Report on Probability A
Allende, Isabel
The House of the Spirits
Amado, Jorge
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Amis, Martin
Time's Arrow
Apuleius
The Golden Ass
Asimov, Isaac
The Foundation Trilogy
Asimov, Isaac
I, Robot
Atwood, Margaret
The Handmaid's Tale
Banks, Iain M.
The State of the Art
Ballard, J.G.
The Atrocity Exhibition
Ballard, J.G.
Crash
Ballard, J.G.
The Crystal World
Ballard, J.G.
The Drowned World
Barth, John
Giles Goat-Boy
Bester, Alfred
The Demolished Man
Blish, James
A Case of Conscience
Borges, Jorge Luis
Ficciones
Bradbury, Ray
Dandelion Wine
Bradbury, Ray
Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray
The Illustrated Man
Bradbury, Ray
The Martian Chronicles
Bradbury, Ray
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Brockmeier, Kevin
The View from the Seventh Layer
Bulgakov, Mikhail
The Master and Margarita
Bunch, David R.
Moderan
Burgess, Anthony
A Clockwork Orange
Card, Orson Scott
Ender's Game
Carpentier, Alejo
The Kingdom of This World
Carroll, Lewis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Chabon, Michael
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Chiang, Ted
Stories of Your Life and Others
Clarke, Arthur C.
Childhood's End
Clarke, Arthur C.
A Fall of Moondust
Clarke, Arthur C.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Clarke, Susanna
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Crowley, John
Little, Big
Danielewski, Mark Z.
The Fifty Year Sword
Danielewski, Mark Z.
House of Leaves
Davies, Robertson
Fifth Business
Delany, Samuel R.
Babel-17
Delany, Samuel R.
Dhalgren
Delany, Samuel R.
The Einstein Intersection
Delany, Samuel R.
Nova
Dick, Philip K.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dick, Philip K.
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Dick, Philip K.
The Man in the High Castle
Dick, Philip K.
Ubik
Dick, Philip K.
VALIS
Disch, Thomas M.
Camp Concentration
Disch, Thomas M.
The Genocides
Doctorow, Cory
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Donoso, José
The Obscene Bird of Night
Ellison, Harlan (editor)
Dangerous Visions
Ellison, Harlan
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
Esquivel, Laura
Like Water for Chocolate
Farmer, Philip José
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Fuentes, Carlos
Aura
Gaiman, Neil
American Gods
Gaiman, Neil
Neverwhere
Gibson, William
Burning Chrome
Gibson, William
Neuromancer
Grass, Günter
The Tin Drum
Greene, Graham
The End of the Affair
Grossman, Lev
The Magicians
Haldeman, Joe
The Forever War
Hall, Steven
The Raw Shark Texts
Harrison, M. John
The Centauri Device
Harrison, M. John
Light
Heinlein, Robert
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Heinlein, Robert:
Stranger in a Strange Land
Heinlein, Robert
Time Enough for Love
Helprin, Mark
Winter's Tale
Herbert, Frank
Dune
Hoffman, Alice
Practical Magic
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Keret, Etgar
Suddenly, A Knock at the Door
Keyes, Daniel
Flowers for Algernon
Kundera, Milan
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kunzru, Hari
Gods Without Men
Lafferty, R.A.
Nine Hundred Grandmothers
Le Guin, Ursula K.
The Dispossessed
Le Guin, Ursula K.
The Lathe of Heaven
Le Guin, Ursula K.
The Left Hand of Darkness
Leiber, Fritz
The Big Time
Leiber, Fritz
Conjure Wife
Leiber, Fritz
Swords & Deviltry
Leiber, Fritz
The Wanderer
Lem, Stanislaw
His Master's Voice
Lem, Stanislaw
Solaris
Lethem, Jonathan
The Fortress of Solitude
Lewis, C. S.
The Chronicles of Narnia
Link, Kelly
Magic for Beginners
Malzberg, Barry N.
Herovit's World
Mann, Thomas
Doctor Faustus
Márquez, Gabriel García
100 Years of Solitude
Markson, David
Wittgenstein's Mistress
Matheson, Richard
Hell House
Matheson, Richard
What Dreams May Come
McCarthy, Cormac
The Road
Miéville, China
Perdido Street Station
Miller, Jr., Walter M.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Millhauser, Steven
Dangerous Laughter
Mitchell, David
Cloud Atlas
Moorcock, Michael
Behold the Man
Moorcock, Michael
The Final Programme
Morrison, Toni
Beloved
Murakami, Haruki
1Q84
Murakami, Haruki
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the
End of the World
Nabokov, Vladimir
Ada, or Ardor
Niffenegger, Audrey
The Time Traveler's Wife
Niven, Larry
Ringworld
Noon, Jeff
Vurt
Obreht, Téa
The Tiger's Wife
O'Brien, Flann
At Swim-Two-Birds
Okri, Ben
The Famished Road
Percy, Walker
Love in the Ruins
Pohl, Frederik
Gateway
Pratchett, Terry
The Color of Magic
Pynchon, Thomas
Gravity's Rainbow
Rabelais, François
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Robinson, Kim Stanley
Red Mars
Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone
Rushdie, Salman
Midnight's Children
Russ, Joanna
The Female Man
Saramago, José
Blindness
Sheckley, Robert
Dimension of Miracles
Sheckley, Robert
Mindswap
Sheckley, Robert
Store of the Worlds
Shelley, Mary
Frankenstein
Silverberg, Robert
Dying Inside
Silverberg, Robert
Nightwings
Silverberg, Robert
The World Inside
Simak, Clifford
City
Simak, Clifford
The Trouble with Tycho
Smith, Cordwainer
Norstrilia
Smith, Cordwainer
The Rediscovery of Man
Stephenson, Neal
Snow Crash
Spinrad, Norman
Bug Jack Barron
Stross, Charles
Glasshouse
Sturgeon, Theodore
More Than Human
Sturgeon, Theodore
Some of Your Blood
Swift, Jonathan
Gulliver's Travels
Thomas, D.M.
The White Hotel
Tiptree, Jr., James
Warm Worlds and Otherwise
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Hobbit
Updike, John
The Witches of Eastwick
Van Vogt, A.E.
The Mixed Men
Van Vogt, A.E.
Slan
Van Vogt, A.E.
The Voyage of the Space Beagle
Van Vogt, A.E.
The World of Null A
Vance, Jack
Emphyrio
Verne, Jules
Around the Moon
Verne, Jules
From the Earth to the Moon
Verne, Jules:
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Vonnegut, Kurt
Cat's Cradle
Vonnegut, Kurt
The Sirens of Titan
Vonnegut, Kurt
Slaughterhouse-Five
Wallace, David Foster
Infinite Jest
Walpole, Horace
Hieroglyphic Tales
Wells, H.G.
The First Men in the Moon
Wells, H.G.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Wells, H.G.
The Time Machine
Wilson, Robert Anton & Robert Shea
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Winton, Tim
Cloudstreet
Woolf, Virginia
Orlando
Zabor, Rafi
The Bear Comes Home
Zelazny, Roger
Lord of Light
Zelazny, Roger
This Immortal
Special Features
Notes on Conceptual Fiction
When Science Fiction Grew Up
Ray Bradbury: A Tribute
The Year of Magical Reading
Remembering Fritz Leiber
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