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this list comes from the March 1998 issue of InQuest magazine, in an article <br>titled, "Judgment Day: 100 Books Thou Shalt Read Before You Die" <br>The Lord of the Rings. J.R.R. Tolkien. The granddaddy of all fantasy literature, of <br>course, notches our top spot. Besides reinventing the entire fantasy genre and <br>influencing generations of writers, Tolkien's tale tells one helluva story. <br>The Chronicles of Amber. Roger Zelazny. Amber is the one, true world. All others, <br>including Earth, are merely shadows. Prince Corwin, rightful successor to the throne <br>of Amber, must master these alternate realities, fight demonic forces, and survive <br>the ruthless schemes of his own family to gain the crown. <br>Ender's Game. Orson Scott Card. By age 8, Ender Wiggins becomes Earth's greatest <br>military genius. Confronted with the realities of war, Ender chooses to abandon the <br>military and become a "speaker for the dead," a councilor, truthseeker, and <br>arbitrator between families in need of guidance. Unfortunately, the universe has <br>other plans for him. <br>Neuromancer. William Gibson. A down-on-his-luck hacker and a sleep razor-nailed <br>mercenary discover the secrets of a newborn AI. Cyberpunk's first defining work and <br>the first of Gibson's Sprawl books. <br>The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. Stephen R. Donaldson. A real-world <br>leper, Thomas Covenant gets transported to a fantasy world besieged by a corrupt and <br>malevolent force. Only Covenant can save the world with the "wild magic" he's <br>brought with him, but he doesn't believe this fantasy world exists. <br>Foundation. Issac Asimov. Monumental tale of a galactic empire spiraling into <br>decline and the secret society of scientists manuvering to control the damage. <br>Dune. Frank Herbert. The first book in the Dune series tracks one of the most <br>powerful psychics in the universe, Paul Atreides, as he learns to deal with the <br>political machinations and environmental savagery of the desert planet Arrakis while <br>balancing his growing powers. <br>Elric. Michael Moorcock. An albino warrior/sorcerer from a dying race seeks out a <br>soul-sucking sword and gets caught up in the ultimate batter between Order and Chaos <br>The Man in the High Castle. Philip K. Dick. Full of paranoia and sophisticated <br>reality games, this "what if Nazi Germany had won" storyline is the best alternative <br>history ever written. <br>1984. George Orwell. The Ministry of Truth says you will enjoy this book. It's the <br>only book you can read; there are no others available. You will spend two hours <br>after dinner every day reading this book; the telescreens insure this. Big Brother <br>is your friend. <br>Hyperion. Dan Simmons. The Shrike: the ultimate killing machine that can stop time <br>with a thought. The Hegemony/AI Consortium alliance: an empire that dominates an <br>entire galaxy. The Ousters: eon-long mutated humanoids bent on overthrowing the <br>Hegemony. Add them up and you've got Armageddon. <br>The Stars My Destination. Alfred Bester. When Gully Foyle gets screwed over and vows <br>revenge, he transforms himself into an all-powerful quasi-Superman with the power to <br>change the universe. <br>Tigana. Guy Gavriel Kay. In an act of revenge, a powerful sorcerer erases the <br>kingdom of Tigana from existance. But a small band of heros clings to the memory of <br>their homeland and quests to restore Tigana once again to its rightful place. <br>Frankenstein. Mary Shelly. The classic tale of a mad scientist's creation, a monster <br>pieced together from graveyard body parts, and the monster's struggle to have the <br>world recognize his humanity. <br>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Philip K. Dick. A Bladerunner policeman is <br>assigned to hunt down andriods posing as human and questions the definition <br>of "humanity" in the process. <br>The Sword of Shannara. Terry Brooks. The first book in the "Shannara" series pits <br>Shea Ohmsford against the evil Warlock Lord and his Skull Bearer minions. This book <br>was pivotal in popularizing modern fantasy. <br>The Anubis Gates. Tim Powers. A modern scholar gets caught up in time travel, body- <br>swapping, swashbuckling, and sorcery in London, circa 1810. Thing Charles Dickens <br>meets Indiana Jones. <br>Lightning. Dean Koontz. A time traveler from the past seeks to avert Nazi Germany's <br>alterations to the present. <br>The Uplift Trilogy. David Brin. All the other races across the galaxy - including <br>sentient dolphins and chimps - gained intelligence by genetic modification <br>or "uplift" and can trace their heritage to their benefactors. Mankind cannot, <br>leaving them at the bottom of the universal totem pole against technologically <br>superior and often hostile races. <br>Ringworld. Larry Niven. A space expedition crashes onto an artificial planet shaped <br>like a giant hula hoop 190 million miles in diameter. The survivors must fight the <br>barbarian descendants of the original builders as they adventure across the ring in <br>search of answers. <br>The Time Machine. H.G. Wells. A time-traveler explores a conflict in the year <br>802,701 A.D. between the meek and beautiful Eloi and the underground-dwelling, <br>ruthless Morlocks. <br>Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Fritz Leiber. A barbarian and master thief band together <br>and bungle their way through encounters with assassin guilds, deadly sorcerers and <br>scheming gods. <br>A Princess of Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs. In the first book of the "John Carter" <br>series, a Confederate soldier finds himself transported to Mars where he wins <br>acclaim as a warrior. <br>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams. The book that kicked off the <br>five-book trilogy. Arthur Dent is rescued just before the Earth is demolished for a <br>galactic freeway. He and his companion Ford Prefect encounter a depressed robot, <br>visit the world where sofas come from and brave the dangers of Vogon poetry. <br>The Stand. Stephen King. A virus wipes out most of the world's population. While <br>pockets of people fight to restore civilization, a demonic power threatens to the <br>remnants of America. <br>Le Morte d'Arthur. Sir Thomas Malory. The definitive collection of Arthurian tales - <br>from Lancelot's betrayal to the birth of Mordred to invisible knights. <br>I, Robot. Issac Asimov. Short stories that set the standard for intelligent robots <br>in science fiction. Most famous for setting down the Three Laws of Robotics now <br>taken for granted. <br>The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Robert Heinlein. The moon is a penal colony ruled by <br>an iron-fisted administration. The citizens want freedom and turn to a self-aware <br>computer for rebellion plans. <br>Watership Down. Richard Adams. The search for a new home and struggle for survival, <br>all from a rabbit's point of view. A unique take on the biblical story of Exodus. <br>Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury. Firemen in the world of Guy Montag don't read books; <br>they burn them. And Guy enjoys his job. Ten years as a fireman, he never questions <br>the reasons behind book-burning or the pleasure it gives him...until a 17 year-old <br>girl shares a past with him where people were not afraid to read. <br>The Hobbit.. J.R.R. Tolkien. The hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf and 13 <br>dwarves embark on a quest to retake the dwarven treasure in the Lonely Mountain. <br>Trolls, goblins, giant spiders, and the infamous dragon, Smaug, stand in their way. <br>Helliconia. Brian Aldiss. Civilizations rise and fall on a planet where their year <br>equals 3,000 of our years and winter's like an ice age. <br>The Book of the New Sun. Gene Wolfe. How many series have a torturer as the main <br>character? Follow along as a young apprentice torturer graduates to mass <br>executioner, moves on to ruler of the world, savior of humanity, and, finally, a <br>ghost. <br>Gulliver's Travels. Jonathan Swift. A shipwreck survivor encounters miniature <br>people, giants and superintelligent, talking horses among other things in a series <br>of political satires. <br>Mindkiller. Spider Robinson. What do you do when you find someone can erase minds? <br>Mindkiller (the first novella in Deathkiller) traces the paths of two men as <br>mysteries in their lives irrevocably draw them to converge on one enigmatic <br>organization - a corporation that is responsible for creating technology that lets <br>people die from pure pleasure. It also has the first permanent means of brainwashing <br>a person. The protagonists decide to try to shut down this cartel, even though they <br>know it will certainly mean their doom. The book reads like a mystery-thriller the <br>first time through, offers rich characterization on a second reading, and underneath <br>asks: What makes life worth living? <br>Blood Music. Greg Bear. A nerdy researcher develops biochips - intelligent cells - <br>and injects them into himself. They spread like a disease, with apocalyptic results. <br>The Green Mile. Stephen King. The eerie struggle of death row inmates as they fact <br>the electric chair. <br>Interview with the Vampire. Anne Rice. The novel that took the gothic mystique of <br>the vampire into the nights of modern San Francisco. <br>Starship Troopers. Robert Heinlein. A recruit of the future goes through the <br>toughest boot camp in the universe - and into battle against humanity's deadliest <br>enemy. Forget the movie, read the book. <br>The Chronicles of Narnia. C.S. Lewis. This series contains The Lion, The Witch and <br>the Wardrobe, the most famous book of the series, wherein four children step inside <br>a wardrobe in England and emerge into the magical land of Narnia, a land complete <br>with fauns and talking beavers, a land under the rule and spell of eternal winter by <br>the White Witch. <br>The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. The three books of <br>the Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the cover- <br>ups of our time, from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one- <br>dollar bill. <br>Watchers. Dean Koontz. A genetic experiment creates two super-intelligent beasts. <br>One, a twisted creature of evil, escapes and the only one that can stop him is <br>his "brother" - a domesticated dog named Einstein. <br>The Demolished Man. Alfred Bester. A thrilling murder/suspense story which answers <br>the question, "How do you commit murder in a 23rd-Century telepathic society?" <br>Emphyrio. Jack Vance. On the planet Halma, the ruling Lords have made mechanization <br>and mass production illegal to keep workers poor by limiting their output. Ghyl <br>Tarvoke, the son of a master woodcarver, works to overthrow the traditional system <br>and earn fair treatment for the working class. <br>The Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum. Dorothy seeks to return home while exploring a <br>fantasy world with her companions. This is the first in a series of Oz books, <br>containing much more material than the classic film such as an encounter with the <br>monstrous Hammerheads and the origin of the Tin Man. Alas, no winged monkeys though. <br>War of the Worlds. H.G. Wells. The classic alien invasion tale of technologically <br>advanced Martian conquerors with an enormous Achilles' Heel. <br>Mythago Wood. Robert Holdstock. Celtic and Old English myths come alive in a stretch <br>of primeval woodland that generates living "ghosts" from people's unconcious minds. <br>Animal Farm. George Orwell. Mutinous farm animals run off their oppressor to <br>establish a livestock utopia. <br>The Princess Bride. William Goldman. A swashbucking tale of romance and <br>adventure...plus Rodents Of Unusual Size. <br>Wheel of Time. Robert Jordan. One age dies, another age unfolds, and the web of fate <br>shapes events as each cycle reincarnates old heroes and villians in new flesh. <br>Imprisoned throughout the changing of the years is the Dark One, fastened by magic <br>in his mountain prison, Shayol Ghul. He yearns to escape and break all that has <br>escaped his grasp, while his minions scour the land subverting, manipulating and <br>otherwise enforcing his dark will. Enter Rand al'Thor, farm boy. He has no <br>comprehension of the events outside his little villiage. But when a mysterious woman <br>arrives to open his eyes to the approaching evil, Rand and his friends set out on a <br>quest that will forever change the world. You see, Rand is the Dragon Reborn, the <br>most powerful male sorcerer to live during his age. He's got the power to level <br>whole cities, to erase history, to challenge the Dark One himself - except it's <br>slowly driving him insane. <br>It. Stephen King. A creature which preys upon the weak, the vulnerable, the <br>abandoned. A creature which becomes your worst nightmare. <br>A Clockwork Orange. Anthony Burgess. When ultraviolent Alex gets caught, he <br>undergoes treatment to have his antisocial urges artificially controlled. Is a <br>person capable of goodness without free will? <br>Timescape. Gregory Benford. Near-future scientists send messages back in time to <br>1962 to save the planet. <br>Pern. Anne McCaffery. Human riders link minds with benevolent, airplane-sized <br>dragons to fight off the all-devouring Thread.heh <br>Slaughterhouse Five. Kurt Vonnegut. The horrors of war are examined as one man <br>shifts back and forth between existences, from experiences in WWII Dresden to <br>captivity on the alien planet Tralfamadore. <br>Good Omens. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. In this bizarre, end-of-the-world <br>comedy, Armageddon has come, except the angels and devils aren't ready for it. <br>Fionavar. Guy Gavriel Kay. A group of modern-day students is mysteriously <br>transported to a fantasy world in peril. When a malevolent diety is released from <br>1,000 of imprisonment, the students discover that their fates are intertwined with <br>those of Fionavar. <br>Earthsea. Ursula K. Le Guin. A misfit boy named Ged studies to be a wizard and <br>eventually is called to help reestablish the balance of the universe: between light <br>and dark, male and female, life and death, magic and its ultimate price. <br>2001. Arthur C. Clarke. How did we get to be what we are? This series answers that <br>one fundamentally human question. It begins with the establishment of a connection <br>between our ape-ancestors, struggling to merely survive. We are hoplessly weaker and <br>outnumbered by the other animals of the planet. An outside force plants the seeds of <br>real intelligence by way of a great black "monolith." These first conceptual <br>thoughts launch us toward a chain of events into the future. As the future unfolds, <br>our curiosity leads to the discovery of another such box on the moon - proof <br>positive that we are not the only intelligent force in the universe! It is a <br>discovery that is as impossible for us to understand as our survival problem was <br>millennia ago. Still, humanity presses on, only to discover another box near <br>jupiter, which brings even more events crucial to himanity. In 3001: The Final <br>Odyssey, many of the questions raised in the series are - for good or ill - finally <br>answered. <br>Xenogenesis. Octavia Butler. The Oankali aliens have saved the earth. For a price. <br>Oankali survival requires constant genetic exchange...and we are mating stock. <br>A Fire Upon the Deep. Vernor Vinge. A god-like artificial intelligence from another <br>universe threatens this universe. One group has the knowledge to stop it, but <br>they're trapped on a primative planet without the technological means for space <br>travel or communication. <br>Conan. Robert E. Howard. The ultimate barbarian hero kicks the crap out of a <br>cornucopia of evil sorcerers, trashes a legion of demonic monstrosities, and rescues <br>every beautiful princess on the planet. Then he eats breakfast. <br>Mars. Kim Stanley Robinson. In the year 2026, a group of 100 explorers sets out to <br>colonize and terraform Mars. Except, not everyone wants it that way. <br>Midnight at the Well of Souls. Jack L. Chalker. Most of the universe was actually <br>built by an ancient dead race and is manipulated by one massive computer. Whoever <br>controls the computer has ultimate power. <br>A Spell for Chameleon. Piers Anthony. In Xanth, everyone has a special magic power <br>unique to themselves. Unfortunately, Blink is born without one. Or is he? <br>The Gap. Stephen R. Donaldson. From beyond the boundaries of Forbidden Space, the <br>Amnion, an alien race capable to horrific atrocities, want something unspeakable <br>from humanity - and they'll go to unthinkable lengths to get it. <br>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Mark Twain. A 19th century man is <br>transported back to the Round Table where he becomes Arthur's second in command by <br>introducing a number of modern tools like railroads and telephones. <br>Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat. Harry Harrison. Jim diGriz is the most <br>brilliant con artist and thief in the galaxy. When he's finally captured, the law <br>enforcement has only one choice - make him one of their own - for it takes a rat to <br>catch a one. <br>The Martian Chronicles. Ray Bradbury. A collection of short stories focusing on <br>humanity's encounters with the Red Planet and its eerie inhabitants. It starts with <br>first contact and moves on from there. Every story's got a trademark Bradbury twist. <br>Dark Elf. R.A. Salvatore. One of the best series of gaming-related fiction <br>introduces Drizzt Do'Urdern, a dark elf (or drow) born with something that no other <br>drow has or can afford to have: a conscience. His hometown, the underground city of <br>Menzoberranzan, is a rough place, and his family achieved its position of power by <br>adhering to the city's Golden Rule: Don't get caught. As Drizzt comes of age, more <br>and more of life in Menzoberranzan becomes repugnant to him, and he can't perform <br>the evil acts his society requires. Eventually, he embarasses his family, and, being <br>a male in a matriarchal society, the penalty for that sort of thing is death. He has <br>no choice but to escape to the surface world, which doesn't take kindly to dark <br>elves, who have a reputation of beeing bloodthirsty evildoers. Drizzt's quest for <br>acceptance in "good" society and escape from his past lead to many adventures and <br>battles. <br>West of Eden. Harry Harrison. The earth is ruled by intelligent dinosaurs; they <br>discover America, populated by tool-using, Stone Age men. Bloody fights ensue. <br>A Fine and Private Place. Peter S. Beagle. A timeless classic romance between two <br>ghosts who must fight to remember what life and love once were. <br>20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Jules Verne. Captain Nemo's exploration of the oceans <br>and battle for their control. Verne's Nautilus predates real submarines. <br>Dying Inside. Robert Silverberg. An aging telepath starts to lose the grip on his <br>mental powers. A fascinating journey into the mind of an average man granted unusual <br>powers. <br>Dragonlance. Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. The creatures of legend, dragons, have <br>returned - and brought darkness and destruction with them. Only one band of <br>adventurers can save the world...if they're not betrayed from within. <br>Lensman. E.E. "Doc" Smith. Classic space opera with pure-as-Boy-Scout heros and <br>unrelentingly evil bad guys fighting for control of planet-squishing "doomsday <br>devices." <br>Something Wicked This Way Comes. Ray Bradbury. Perhaps the subtlest horror story <br>ever written. The Carnival promises to fulfill your greatest wish, but charges the <br>highest price for it. The images from this book will haunt you for the rest of your <br>life. <br>The Mote in God's Eye. Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It's 3017 A.D. Humanity <br>discovers intelligent aliens in a backwater region of space: Should we embrace them <br>or bomb 'em to bits? <br>Stranger in a Strange Land. Robert A. Heinlein. The stranger is Valentine Michael <br>Smith, and the strange land is Earth. Smith was born on Mars, the only human <br>survivor of our first expedition there. He was raised by Martians, then "rescued" by <br>the second expedition some 25 years later. He thinks of himself as a Martian and <br>uses Martian abilities like levitation without seeing anything unusual about them. <br>Now, like a child raised in the wilderness by wolves, he must learn how to be <br>human...and at the same time, teach his new friends how to think like a Martian. He <br>discovers the joys of sex and free love (which is part of what made this book so <br>popular with the 60's generation), and tries to reconcile the many conflicting <br>teachings of Earthly religions with his Martian knowledge. The reader not only <br>watches Smith's growth, but also gets a tour of a futuristic Earth and all the <br>foibles of human society. <br>Space Trilogy. C.S. Lewis. A Mars rampant with life. A water-covered Venus populated <br>with floating, living "islands." An Earth where King Arthur fights corporate <br>Britain. <br>The Invisible Man. H.G. Wells. A scientist's sanity and morality is the price of his <br>invisibility formula. <br>Gun, With Occasional Music. Jonathan Lethem. A private eye gets involved in a murder <br>mystery in a near, dark future populated by leftover humans and animals - like gun- <br>toting kangaroos - genetically enhanced to near-human intelligence. Scathingly dark <br>and very funny. <br>Lyonesse. Jack Vance. Supernatural novels full of faeries, witches and inter-kingdom <br>intrigue - and it all takes place beneath the English Channel. <br>Catspaw. Joan Vinge. Cyberpunk, murder-mystery and political intrigue twist together <br>in this page-turner which tells the story of Cat, a half-human psychic, forced to <br>work as a bodyguard for the people he hates most. <br>Crystal Express. Bruce Sterling. Humanity has finally abandoned Earth for space and <br>divided into two factions separated by biology as well as philosophy. The Shaper <br>faction uses genetic and bio-engineering to adapt their bodies to space while the <br>Mechanists believe in creating superior humans using cybernetic enhancements. <br>The Last Unicorn. Peter S. Beagle. When a unicorn receives word that all the other <br>unicorns have vanished, she embarks on a quest to find her lost fellows. She is <br>mortal for a brief period and is the only unicorn that has ever loved a human being <br>for more than a short time. <br>To Your Scattered Bodies Go. Philip Jose Farmer. Anyone who has ever died - you, me, <br>Hitler, Mark Twain - ends up on a strange alien world. The first book in the <br>Riverworld series follows the adventures of a lone explorer trying to puzzle out the <br>mysteries of the freakish "afterlife." <br>The Silence of the Lambs. Thomas Harris. An FBI agent must enlist the help of a <br>sadistic serial killer to hunt down another serial killer. <br>Downbelow Station. C.J. Cherryh. Humanity has been exploring space for a few hundred <br>years with sub-light ships, long enough to establish trade routes between orbital <br>stations in a handful of distant solar systems. Downbelow Station is at the crux of <br>the shipping routes, the gateway to Earth's defensive perimeter. Earth authorities <br>worry that the sub-light communication lags - of 10 years or more in some cases - <br>are giving their distant colonies and upstart merchant vessels too much freedom, but <br>when Earth finally cracks down, it's already too late: Scientists at distant Cyteen <br>have already built the first faster-than-light spacedrive, and Cyteen has become the <br>center of a new power called Union. Although Downbelow Station has always prided <br>itseld on its neutrality, it's now caught between Earth, Union, and merchanter <br>forces, fated to become the center of the conflict. <br>Flowers for Algernon. Daniel Keyes. A mentally retarded custodian undergoes a <br>breakthrough surgical technique that triples his IQ. He's got the mind of a genius, <br>but the emotional maturity of a child. <br>The Songs of Distant Earth. Arthur C. Clarke. Humankind learns that the Sun is going <br>to explode and sends its genetic seed into the universe before the Earth is <br>destroyed. This is hard science-fiction with a reasonably viable method of space <br>travel. <br>The Four Lords of the Diamond. Jack Chalker. A secret agent has his mind copied into <br>four different bodies to infiltrate four enemy worlds and assasinate their rulers. <br>Swords. Fred Saberhagen. The god Vulcan crafts magical blades, each with a specific <br>unstoppable power, and unleashes them upon an unsuspecting world. First, humanity <br>uses the swords to kill the gods. After that, things get violent. <br>Way Station. Clifford Simak. An Earthling is employed by an intergalactic federation <br>to watch over a Way Station they secretly set up on Earth. Can he balance the <br>loyalties to his race and to his employers and prevent an atomic war? <br>The Kraken Wakes. John Wydham. An unusual "invasion from below" premise with a <br>couple similar to Paul and Jamie from "Mad About You" fulfilling the lead roles. <br>Snow Crash. Neal Stephenson. The first cyberpunk novel to feature a Matrix with <br>personality and the first hints of virtual reality. Plus, you've gotta love a main <br>character named Hiro Protagonist who's a hacker, samurai-swordsman and pizza- <br>delivery guy for The Mob. <br>The High Crusade. Poul Anderson. Dark Age knights comandeer a space craft and <br>conquer the galaxy, converting aliens to Christianity along the way. <br>Through the Looking Glass. Lewis Carroll. In the novel that follows Alice in <br>Wonderland, young Alice seeks to return home while exploring a mad, enchanted land <br>and dodging those who seek to do her harm. <br>Carrion Comfort. Dan Simmons. A secret society of psychic vampires feed off others' <br>misery and play games with human minds. <br>The Postman. David Brin. You've seen the movie about one man standing up for his <br>ideals in a post-apocalypse America. Now read the book; it's better. <br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>是指这个吗，其实排名这种东西随便看看就算了，一般来说当不得真的^_^