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Sonya Taaffe



When asked to list my favorite science-fiction authors, I invariably mention four or five older authors and maybe one contemporary writer. So here are some of the recommendations I give my friends, who give me blank looks and thus send me into fits of praise for all these people. Read anything by:
Novels Short Stories
Alfred Bester
  • The Demolished Man
  • The Stars My Destination

    Ray Bradbury

  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes

    Phyllis Gotlieb

  • A Judgement of Dragons
  • Emperor, Swords, Pentacles
  • The Kingdom of the Cats

    Tanith Lee

  • The Silver Metal Lover

    Ursula K. LeGuin

  • The Left Hand of Darkness

    Cordwainer Smith

  • Norstrilia
    Anything by him

    Theodore Sturgeon

  • Venus Plus X
  • Some of Your Blood
    		• Alfred Bester
  • "The Pi Man"
  • "Disappearing Act"

    Ray Bradbury

  • "Fever Dream"
  • "The Halloween Tree"
  • The Martian Chronicles

    Harlan Ellison

  • "The Crackpots" (in Paingod)
  • "I'm Looking for Kadak" (in Approaching Oblivion)
  • Angry Candy (collection)

    Ursula K. LeGuin

  • "Nine Lives"
  • "Vaster than Empires and More Slow"
  • "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight?"

    Cordwainer Smith

  • "The Ballad of Lost C'mell"
  • "Drunkboat"
  • "The Dead Lady of Clown Town"
  • "Golden the Ship Was -- Oh! Oh! Oh!"

    Theodore Sturgeon

  • "A Touch of Strange"
  • "Bianca's Hands"

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