The SF Miscegenation Game

[Steve_Wright]

So, Fenris posted version 3 of his SF reading list in this thread (and a very comprehensive list it is too), and it included a couple of typos, which drew this reply from me:-

Get the nitpicking out of the way… John Herbert and Frank Brunner???

Hmmmm. This sort of hybridization has possibilities. What would the resulting stories look like from, say, Lois McMaster Baxter and Stephen Bujold? Cliff Smith and E. E. “Doc” Simak? Ursula K. Hubbard and L. Ron LeGuin? Just a thought

At which point, having idle thoughts of talking dogs armed with planet-destroying weaponry, I went away… and the unfazeable Fenris came back with:-

Originally posted by Fenris
I wouldn’t mind reading L. Ron Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Fear or Ursula K. Hubbard’s 10 book “Mission Dispossessed” series.

Personally though, I wanna read Harlan Heinlein’s The Beast That Had Time Enough For Love at the Heart of the World or I Have No Mouth Yet I Have Spacesuit, Will Travel

Soooooo… does this strike any chords with anyone else? Mt first thoughts were of possible Philip K. Vance titles like Servants of the Wub, The Unteleported Killing Machine, or the deeply dubious Clans of the Palace of Love. But I’m sure there are some of you out there who can do a lot better than that.

[Steve_Wright]

…particularly with the coding. I’m not having a good week with coding…

[Fenris]

Margaret Norman: The Handmaiden of Gor

Isaac Anthony: A Spell for Foundation

Ayn Le Guin: Atlas Dispossessed

Spider Chalker: Midnight At Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon

Fenris

[Fenris]

H.G. Bradbury: The Time Machineries of joy

Iain M. Baum:
Consider Ozma
Feersum Tik-Tok

Ray Disch
Faherenheit 334

Anne Bradbury
The Ship That Sang The Body Electric

S.M. Tolkien
Marching Through the Two Towers (the Draka in Middle Earth…brrrr)

S.M. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in the Sea of Time S&M lesbians in Narnia? That’s it. I’m goin’ to Hell.

Fenris

[CalMeacham]

Piers Brunner

The Sheep Look Up Cryptozoic
OK, I can’t claim credit for the book – I found it among the winners of a F&SF contest in the book Oi! Robot!, but I still giggle over it, and it gives me a chance to write the name “Piers Brunner”

[Steve_Wright]

Connie Anderson, Let the Spacemen Beware of the Dog

H.G. Harrison, The Time Machine in Shaft Ten

Philip K. Wells, The Invisible Man in the High Castle

Ray Hoyle, The October the First Is Too Late Country

H.P. McCaffrey, Dagonflight

Brian Asimov, The Currents of Space, Time and Nathaniel

Tanith Eddison, Delirium’s Mistress of Mistresses

[Balance]

Elizabeth Anne McCaffrey–Bronwyn’s Ride (A pathological liar treats the flu.)
Terry Brooks-Pratchett–The Colour of Shannara (Rincewind vs. the Warlock Lord, no holds barred)
Robert Niven–Thieves’ World of Ptaavs (a Slaver in Sanctuary)
P.C. Hughart–Seeker’s Mask of the Stone (Jame kills Nu Kua for putting her to so much trouble, and reduces ancient China to rubble by accident)

[Trion]

Fritz Harrison - The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Stainless Steel Rat.

[Fenris]

C.S. Lovecraft: The Dunwitch Horror, The Witch and the Wardrobe**

Connie L’Engle: To Say Nothing of the Wrinkle in the Dog

[lucie]

Robert E. Dick’s “Conan the Electric Sheep”

Harlan Verne’s “Jeffty is Five Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”

[Smeghead]

I’m so ashamed that I get these jokes. Oh what a geek I am…

[Miller]

I liked the epic trilogy by J.R.R. Niven, The Lord of the Ringworld. The individual volumes, as everyone knows, were The Fellowship of the Ringworld, The Two Tanjs, and Return of the Kzin.

Or Raymond le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness at Sethanon.

Philip K. Wolfe’s Do Androids Dream of the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test?

Alfred Lahr’s The Demolished Manchurian Candidate.

[Fenris]

*Originally posted by Miller *
**I liked the epic trilogy by J.R.R. Niven, The Lord of the Ringworld. The individual volumes, as everyone knows, were The Fellowship of the Ringworld, The Two Tanjs, and Return of the Kzin.
**

I thought it was The Two Teelas?!

There’s also Ursula Morris’s The Wood Beyond the World Is Forest

Fenris

[ENugent]

Connie Chalker’s Doomsday at the Well of Souls.
Sherri Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Grass.
Neil Wyndham’s Day of the Snow Crash.

I think I’m working too late…

[Miller]

George Asimov: Foundation and Empire Strikes Back

Orson Scott Martin: Ender’s Game of Thrones

And few people remember Ursula le Guin’s shortlived foray into funk with her album A Wizard of Earthsea, Wind and Fire.

[Fenris]

*Originally posted by ENugent *
**
Neil Wyndham’s Day of the Snow Crash.

I think I’m working too late… **

Or his friend John Gerrold’s Star Trek Episode:

“The Trouble with Triffids”

Heh.

I’ve been up for something like 50-something hours with nnly about 8 hours sleep. I tried to nap earlier and failed. I wonder if this thread will be as hysterical tomorrow, after I regain conciousness?

Fenris

[GingerOfTheNorth]

Uh. Sorry, I think I came into the wrong thread by mistake. I’ll just back out slowly…not making any sudden moves…

[Ben]

Could someone jog my memory here? Did George R. R. Tolkein write Return of the Sandkings or Return of the… Jedi?

-Ben

[Kallessa]

Isaac Adams’ Foundation of the End of the Universe (a textbook on future history?)

Orson Scott Zelazny’s Speaker for the Lord of Light

And my favorite:

Robert Card’s classic The Number of the Children of the Mind The love scene between Lazarus, Ender, Jane, Zebadiah, Deety, Jake, Hilda, Peter, Valentine, Human and Rooter, was very touching.

Especially because Novinha was lost in Oz at that same time.

With the twins, Laz and Lor.

And an even earlier incanation of Lazarus Long. Of course.

[Akatsukami]

*Originally posted by Fenris *
S.M. Tolkien
Marching Through the Two Towers (the Draka in Middle Earth…brrrr)

Actually, this would be very interesting. The two authors would probably kill each other before the collaboration was over, given their very different views about the nature of ultimate reality, but I think Stirling could certainly give us a Mordors’-eye view of things that came pretty close to it.

Of course, in this universe chance and coincidence would probably favor the good guys instead of the bad guys, and we’d see a lot more of the Draka internal feuds that let the Ringbearer get through…

**S.M. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in the Sea of Time S&M lesbians in Narnia? That’s it. I’m goin’ to Hell.
**

Well, actually, given the crew of the ship there I don’t think it’s lesbianism that one would have to worry about, though I’m sure the fighting scenes and Eustace’s adventure (?) in the slave market would be described in a great deal more detail.