| Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought-- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One two! One two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" He chortled in his joy. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. |
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-- Only this and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow;--vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow--sorrow for the lost Lenore-- For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore-- Nameless here for evermore. And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me--filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating "'Tis some visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door-- Some late visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door; This it is and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"--here I opened wide the door-- Darkness there and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"-- Merely this and nothing more. Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping something louder than before. "Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice; Let me see, then, what thereat is and this mystery explore-- Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;-- 'Tis the wind and nothing more. Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he, But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door-- Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door-- Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then the ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning--little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door-- Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore." But the Raven, sitting lonely on that placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if its soul in that one word he did outpour Nothing farther then he uttered; not a feather then he fluttered-- Till I scarcely more than muttered: "Other friends have flown before-- On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before." Then the bird said "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore-- Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never--nevermore.'" But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore-- What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee--by these angels he hath sent thee Respite--respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil!-- Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted-- On this home by Horror haunted--tell me truly, I implore-- Is there--is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us--by that God we both adore-- Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore-- Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." "Be that our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting-- "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul has spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken!--quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadows on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted--nevermore! |
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| My Top 25 Favorite Authors (and their Best Work) 1. Harlan Ellison (1934- ) Novels: Web of the City (1957), The Sound of a Scythe (1960), Spider Kiss (1961) Short Novels: Doomsman (1967), All the Lies That Are My Life (1991), Run for the Stars (1991), Mefisto in Onyx (1993) Graphic Novels: Demon with a Glass Hand (1986), Night and the Enemy (1987), Vic and Blood: The Chronicles of a Boy and his Dog (1989), Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor (1996) Non-fiction: Memos from Purgatory (1961), The Glass Teat (1970), The Other Glass Teat (1975), The Book of Ellison (1978), Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed (1984), An Edge in my Voice (1985), Harlan Ellison's Watching (1989), The Harlan Ellison Hornbook (1990) Short Story Collections: Ellison Wonderland (1962), Paingod and Other Delusions (1965), I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1967), Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled (1968), The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969), Over the Edge (1970), Deathbird Stories (1975), No Doors, No Windows (1975), Strange Wine (1978), Shatterday (1980), Stalking the Nightmare (1982), Angry Candy (1988), Jokes Without Punchlines (1995), Slippage (1996) Stories: “Paingod” (1964), “’Repent Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman”, (1965), “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” (1967), “The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World” (1968), “A Boy and His Dog” (1969), “The Deathbird” (1973), “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs” (1974), “Shatterday” (1975), “Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54'N, Longitude 77° 00'13"W” (1975), “Jeffty is Five” (1977), “Djinn, No Chaser” (1982), “Paladin of the Lost Hour” (1985), “With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole” (1986), “The Function of Dream Sleep” (1989), “Chatting with Anubis” (1996) Teleplays: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Memo from Purgatory" (1964), The Outer Limits: “Soldier” (1964), The Outer Limits: “Demon with a Glass Hand” (1964), Star Trek: “The City on the Edge of Forever” (1966), The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: “The Sort of Do-It-Yourself Dreadful Affair” (1966), The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: “The Pieces of Fate Affair” (1967), The Young Lawyers: “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs”, Tales from the Darkside: “Djinn, No Chaser” (1985), The Twilight Zone: “Gamma” [Adaptation of the Stephen King Short Story] (1985), The Twilight Zone: “Crazy as a Soup Sandwich” (1985), The Twilight Zone: “One Life, Furnished in Poverty” (1985), The Twilight Zone: “Shatterday” (1985), The Twilight Zone: “Paladin of the Lost Hour” (1986) 2. Stephen King (1947- ) Novels: Carrie (1974), Salem’s Lot (1975), The Shining (1977), The Stand (1978), The Dead Zone (1979), Firestarter (1980), Cujo (1981), The Running Man (as Richard Bachman) (1982), Christine (1983), Pet Sematary (1983), Thinner (as Richard Bachman) (1984), It (1986), Misery (1987), The Tommyknockers (1987), The Dark Half (1989), Needful Things (1991), Gerald’s Game (1992), Dolores Claiborne (1992), Insomnia (1994), Rose Madder (1995), Desperation (1996), The Regulators (as Richard Bachman) (1996), The Green Mile (1996), Bag of Bones (1998), The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999), Hearts in Atlantis (1999), Dreamcatcher (2001), From a Buick 8 (2002) Stories: “Graveyard Shift “ (1970), “The Mangler” (1972), “The Boogeyman” (1973), “Trucks” (1973), “Sometimes They Come Back” (1974), “The Lawnmower Man” (1975), “The Ledge” (1976), “Children of the Corn” (1977), “The Mist” (1980), “The Raft” (1982) “Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption” (1982), “The Body” (1982), “Apt Pupil” (1982), “Gramma” (1984), “The Langoliers” (1990) 3. H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) Stories: “The Beast in the Cave” (1918), “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919), “Dagon” (1919), “The Doom That Came to Sarnath” (1920), “Herbert West-Reanimator” (1922), “The Lurking Fear” (1923), “The Unnamable” (1925), “The Outsider” (1926), “The Colour Out of Space” (1927), “The Call of Cthulhu” (1928), “The Dunwich Horror” (1929), “The Other Gods” (1933), “From Beyond” (1934), “At the Mountains of Madness” (1936), “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” (1936), “The Thing on the Doorstep” (1937), “Azathoth” (1938), “The Thing in the Moonlight” (1941), “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” (1941) 4. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) Novels: The Land That Time Forgot, The People That Time Forgot, Out of Time’s Abyss, The Moon Maid, The Moon Men, The Red Hawk, The Lost Continent Mars Series: A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, The Warlord of Mars, Thuvia, Maid of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars, The Master Mind of Mars, A Fighting Man of Mars, Swords of Mars, Synthetic Men of Mars, Llana of Gathol, John Carter of Mars Tarzan Series: Tarzan of the Apes (1914), Return of Tarzan, Beasts of Tarzan, Son of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Tarzan the Untamed, Tarzan the Terrible, Tarzan and the Golden Lion, Tarzan and the Ant Men, Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, Tarzan and the Lost Empire, Tarzan at the Earth's Core, Tarzan the Invincible, Tarzan Triumphant, Tarzan and the City of Gold, Tarzan and the Lion Man, Tarzan and the Leopard Men, Tarzan's Quest, Tarzan and the Forbidden City, Tarzan the Magnificent, Tarzan and “The Foreign Legion”, Tarzan and the Madman, Tarzan and the Castaways Pellucidar Series: At the Earth’s Core, Pellucidar, Tanar of Pellucidar, Tarzan at the Earth's Core, Back to the Stone Age, Land of Terror, Savage Pellucidar Venus Series: Pirates of Venus (1931), Lost on Venus, Carson of Venus, Escape on Venus, The Wizard of Venus 5. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Stories: “Ligeia” (1838), “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1939), “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1941), “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1942), “The Masque of the Red Death” (1942), “The Black Cat” (1842), “The Gold Bug” (1942), “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1943), “The Premature Burial” (1944), “The Oblong Box” (1944), “The Purloined Letter” (1944), “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” (1845), “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846) Poems: “The Haunted Palace” (1939), “Lenore” (1943), “The Conqueror Worm” (1943), “The Raven” (1945) 6. H.G. Wells (1866-1946) Novels: The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The First Men in the Moon (1900), The Food of the Gods (1904), The Outline of History (1920), The Shape of Things to Come (1933) Stories: “The Empire of the Ants” (1905) 7. Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) Stories: “The Thing on the Roof” (1932) Conan Series: “The Phoenix on the Sword” (1932), “The Hyborian Age” (1932), “The Tower of the Elephant” (1932), “The Vale of Lost Women” (1932), “The God in the Bowl” (1932), “The Scarlet Citadel” (1933), “Black Colossus” (1933), “The Pool of the Black One” (1933), “Rogues in the House” (1934), “Queen of the Black Coast” (1934), “The Devil in Iron” (1934), “The People of the Black Circle” (1934), “A Witch Shall Be Born” (1934), “Beyond the Black River” (1935), “Red Nails” (1936), Red Sonja Series: “The Shadow of the Vulture” (1934) Kull Series: “The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune” (1929), “The Shadow Kingdom” (1929) Solomon Kane Series: “Red Shadows” (1928), “Skulls in the Stars” (1929), “Rattle of Bones” (1929), “The Moon of Skulls” (1930), “The Footfalls Within” (1931), “Wings in the Night” (1932) 8. Kurt Vonnegut (1922- ) Novels: Player Piano (1952), The Sirens of Titan (1959), Mother Night (1962), Cat’s Cradle (1963), God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Breakfast of Champions (1973), Slapstick (1976), Jailbird (1979), Deadeye Dick (1982), Galápagos (1985), Bluebeard (1987), Hocus Pocus (1990), Timequake (1997) 9. Richard Matheson (1926- ) Novels: I am Legend (1954), The Shrinking Man (1956), A Stir of Echoes (1958), Hell House (1971), Bid Time Return (1975), What Dreams May Come (1978) Stories: “Third from the Sun” (1950), “Death Ship” (1953), “Little Girl Lost” (1953), “Long Distance Call” (1953), “Steel” (1956), “The Creeping Terror” (1959), “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” (1961), “Mute” (1962), “Prey” (1969), “Duel” (1971) 10. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Novels: The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926), Amerika (1927) Stories: “The Judgment” (1913), “The Metamorphosis” (1915), “Penal Colony” (1919) 11. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Novels: The Lost World (1912), The Poison Belt (1913), The Land of Mist (1926), The Disintegration Machine (1928), When the World Screamed (1929) Sherlock Holmes Novels: A Study in Scarlet (1887), The Sign of Four (1890), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), The Valley of Fear (1915) Stories: “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1892), “The Red-headed League” (1892), “A Case of Identity” (1892), “The Boscombe Valley Mystery” (1892), “The Five Orange Pips” (1892), “The Man with the Twisted Lip” (1892), “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle” (1892), “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” (1892), “The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb” (1892), “The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor” (1892), “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet” (1892), “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches” (1892), “Silver Blaze” (1894), “The Yellow Face” (1894), “The Stock-broker's Clerk” (1894), “The ‘Gloria Scott’” (1894), “The Musgrave Ritual” (1894), “The Reigate Puzzle” (1894), “The Crooked Man” (1894), “The Resident Patient” (1894), “The Greek Interpreter” (1894), “The Naval Treaty” (1894), “The Final Problem” (1894), “The Adventure of the Empty House” (1905), “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder” (1905), “The Adventure of the Dancing Men” (1905), “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist” (1905), “The Adventure of the Priory School” (1905), “The Adventure of Black Peter” (1905), “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton” (1905), “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons” (1905), “The Adventure of the Three Students” (1905), “The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez” (1905), “The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter” (1905), “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange” (1905), “The Adventure of the Second Stain” (1905), “The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge” (1907), “The Adventure of the Cardboard Box” (1907), “The Adventure of the Red Circle” (1907), “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans” (1907), “The Adventure of the Dying Detective” (1907), “The Disappearance of Lady Francis Carfax” (1907), “The Adventure of the Devil's Foot” (1907), “His Last Bow” (1907), “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client” (1927), “The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier” (1927), “The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone” (1927), “The Adventure of the Three Gables” (1927), “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire” (1927), “The Adventure of the Three Garridebs” (1927), “The Problem of Thor Bridge” (1927), “The Adventure of the Creeping Man” (1927), “The Adventure of the Lion's Mane” (1927), “The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger” (1927), “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place” (1927), “The Adventure of the Retired Colourman” (1927) 12. Ray Bradbury (1920- ) Novels: Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Dandelion Wine (1957), A Medicine for Melancholy (1959), Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope (1981) Short Story Collections: The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953), The Day It Rained Forever (1959), R is for Rocket (1962), S is for Space (1966), I Sing the Body Electric (1969), One More for the Road (2002) Play Collections: The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays (1972), Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (1975) Stories: “R is for Rocket” (1943), “Bang! You're Dead!” (1944), “Mars is Heaven!” (1948), “Ylla” (1950), “The Illustrated Man” (1950), “The Taxpayer”, “--And the Moon Be Still As Bright”, “The Settlers”, “The Green Morning”, “The Locusts”, “Night Meeting”, “The Shore”, “Interim”, “The Musicians”, “Way in the Middle of the Air”, “The Naming of Names”, “Usher II”, “The Old Ones”, “The Martian”, “The Luggage Store”, “The Off Season”, “The Watchers”, “The Silent Towns”, “The Long Years”, “There Will Come Soft Rains”, “The Million-Year Picnic”, “The Illustrated Man”, “The Veldt”, “Kaleidoscope”, “The Other Foot”, “The Highway”, “The Man”, “The Long Rain”, “The Rocket Man”, “The Fire Balloons”, “The Last Night of the World”, “The Exiles”, “No Particular Night or Morning”, “The Fox and the Forest”, “The Visitor”, “The Concrete Mixer”, “Marionettes, Inc.”, “The City”, “Zero Hour”, “The Rocket” “The Fog Horn” (“The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms”) (1951), “The Pedestrian”, “The April Witch”, “The Wilderness”, “The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl”, “Invisible Boy”, “The Flying Machine”, “The Murderer”, “The Golden Kite, the Silver Wand”, “I See You Never”, “Embroidery”, “The Big Black and White Game”, “A Sound of Thunder”, “The Great Wide World over There”, “Powerhouse”, “En La Noche”, “Sun and Shadow”, “The Meadow”, “The Garbage Collector”, “The Great Fire”, “Hail and Farewell”, “The Golden Apples of the Sun”, “In a Season of Calm Weather”, “The Dragon”, “A Medicine for Melancholy”, “The End of the Beginning”, “The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit”, “Fever Dream”, “The Marriage Mender”, “The Town Where No One Got Off”, “A Scent of Sarsaparilla”, “Icarus Montgolfier Wright”, “The Headpiece”, “Dark They Were, and Golden-eyed”, “The Smile”, “The First Night of Lent”, “The Time of Going Away”, “All Summer in a Day”, “The Gift”, “The Great Collision of Monday Last”, “The Little Mice”, “The Shore Line at Sunset”, “The Day it Rained Forever”, “R Is for Rocket”, “The End of the Beginning”, “The Long Rain”, “The Exiles”, “Here There Be Tygers”, “The Strawberry Window”, “The Dragon”, “The Gift”, “Frost and Fire”, “Uncle Einar”, “The Time Machine”, “The Sound of Summer Running” 13. Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) Novels: Pebble in the Sky (1950), Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952), Second Foundation (1953), The Caves of Steel (1954), The End of Eternity (1955), The Naked Sun (1957), Fantastic Voyage (1966), The God’s Themselves (1972), Foundation’s Edge (1982), The Robots of Dawn (1983), Robots and Empire (1985), Foundation and Earth (1986), Prelude to Foundation (1988), Forward the Foundation (1993) Short Story Collections: I, Robot (1950), The Complete Robot (1982) Stories: “Robbie” (1940), “Nightfall” (1941), “Reason” (1941), “Runaround” (1942), “Victory Unintentional” (1942), “Evidence” (1946), “Little Lost Robot” (1947), “Satisfaction Guaranteed’ (1951), “Sally” (1953), “Galley Slave” (1957), “Light Verse” (1973), “That Thou Art Mindful of Him” (1974), “The Bicentennial Man” (1976), “Robot Dreams” (1986), “Robot Visions” (1990) 14. Arthur C. Clarke (1917- ) Novels: Islands in the Sky (1952), Childhood’s End (1953), Against the Fall of Night (1953), Prelude to Space (1954), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Meeting with Medusa (1971), Rendezvous with Rama (1973), The Fountains of Paradise (1979), 2010: Odyssey Two (1982), 2061: Odyssey Three (1987), The Ghost from the Grand Banks (1990), 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997) Stories: “Loophole” (1946), “The Star” (1955), “Out of the Sun” (1958), “Maelstrom II” (1962), “Neutron Tide” (1970) 15. Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) Novels: Solar Lottery (1955), The World Jones Made (1956), Eye in the Sky (1957), Time Out of Joint (1959), The Man in the High Castle (1962), The Game Players of Titan (1963), The Crack in Space (1966), Now Wait for Last Year (1966), Counter Clock World (1967), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), Ubik (1969), A Maze of Death (1970), We Can Build You (1972), A Scanner Darkly (1977), Valis (1981), The Divine Invasion (1981), The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982), Radio Free Albemuth (1985) Stories: “Imposter” (1953), “Paycheck” (1953), “Second Variety” (1953), “The Minority Report” (1956), “Psi-Man, Heal My Child” (1955), “War Game” (1959), “Stand-By” (1963), “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (1966), “The Story to End All Stories” (1968), “A. Lincoln, Simulacrum” (1969), “The Alien Mind” (1981) 16. Bram Stoker (1847-1912) Novels: Dracula (1897), The Mystery of the Sea (1902), The Jewel of the Seven Stars (1903), The Lady of the Shroud (1909), Lair of the White Worm (1911) Stories: “The Crystal Cup” (1872), “Dracula’s Guest” (1914), “The Burial of the Rats” (1914), “A Dream of Red Hands” (1914) 17. J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) Novels: The Hobbit (1937), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (1954), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (1955) 18. Frank Herbert (1920-1986) Novels: Dune (1965), The Eyes of Heisenberg (1966), Destination: Void (1966), The Green Brain (1966), The Heaven Makers (1968), Dune Messiah (1969), Whipping Star (1970), Soul Catcher (1972), Hellstrom’s Hive (1973), Children of Dune (1976), The Dosadi Experiment (1977), God Emperor of Dune (1981), The White Plague (1982), Heretics of Dune (1984), Eye (1985), Chapter House: Dune (1985) 19. Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) Novels: Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), Space Cadet (1948), Red Planet (1949), The Puppet Masters (1951), The Star Beast (1954), Double Star (1956), Have Space Suit - Will Travel (1958), Starship Troopers (1959), Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966), I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Time Enough for Love (1973), The Number of the Beast (1979), Friday (1982), Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984), The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985), To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987) Stories: “Life-Line” (1939), “Requiem” (1940), “Space Jockey” (1947), “Ordeal in Space” (1948), “Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon” (1949), “Destination Moon” (1950), “The Man Who Sold the Moon” (1950), “Project Nightmare” (1953), “The Menace from Earth” (1957), 20. Michael Moorcock (1939- ) Novels: Stormbringer (1965), The Final Programme (1968), Behold the Man (1969), Phoenix in Obsidian (1970), The Eternal Champion (1970), Elric of Melnibone (1972), The Dreaming City (1972), The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1976), The Weird of the White Wolf (1977), The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle (1980), Elric at the End of Time (1987) Stories: “While the Gods Laugh” (1961), “The Stealer of Souls” (1962), “Kings in Darkness” (1962), “The Flamebringers” (1962), “Black Sword’s Brothers” (1963), “Dead God’s Homecoming” (1963), “Dead Lord’s Passing (1964), “Sad Giant’s Shield” (1964), “Behold the Man” (1966), “The Singing Citadel” (1967), “The Sleeping Sorceress” (1971), “The Jade Man’s Eyes” (1973), “The Lands Beyond the World” (1977), “The Last Enchantment” (1978), “Elric at the End of Time” (1981), “The White Wolf's Song” (1994) 21. Michael Crichton (1942- ) Novels: The Andromeda Strain (1969), The Terminal Man (1972), The Great Train Robbery (1975), Eaters of the Dead (1976), Congo (1980), Sphere (1987), Jurassic Park (1990), Rising Sun (1992), Disclosure (1993), The Lost World (1995), Airframe (1996), Timeline (1999), Prey (2002) Screenplays: Westworld (1971), Coma [adapted from Robin Cook’s novel] (1978), The Great Train Robbery (1979), Looker (1981), Runaway (1984), Jurassic Park [with David Koepp] (1993), Rising Sun [with Michael Backes and Philip Kaufman] (1993), ER (Pilot) (1994) Twister [with Anne-Marie Martin] (1996) 22. Jules Verne (1828-1905) Novels: Five Weeks in a Balloon (1969), From the Earth to the Moon (1969), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1972), All Around the Moon (1873), Around the World in 80 Days (1873), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1872), Mysterious Island (1875), Master of the World (1911) 23. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Novels: Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (1864), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Through the Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There (1872), A Tangled Tale (1885) Poems: “Jabberwocky” (1872), “The Walrus and the Carpenter” (1872), “The Hunting of the Snark” (1876) 24. Daphne Du Maurier (1907-1989) Novels: Jamaica Inn (1936), Rebecca (1938), Frenchman’s Creek (1941), My Cousin Rachel (1951), The Scapegoat (1957), The Flight of the Falcon (1965) Stories: “The Birds” (1952), “The Blue Lenses” (1959), “The Alibi” (1959), “Don’t Look Now” (1971), “Not After Midnight” (1971), “The Breakthrough” (1971) 25. George Orwell (1903-1950) Novels: A Clergyman's Daughter (1935), Coming Up for Air (1939), Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (1945), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) Other Writers I Like: Douglas Adams, Aesop, James Agee, Brian Aldiss, Woody Allen, Poul Anderson, Jane Austen, Nicholson Baker, J.G. Ballard, Clive Barker, Charles Beaumont, Samuel Beckett, Peter Benchley, Ambrose Bierce, Jerome Bixby, William Peter Blatty, James Blish, Robert Bloch, Robert Bolt, Pierre Boule, Berkeley Breathed, Anthony Burgess, John W. Campbell, Truman Capote, Raymond Chandler, Paddy Chayefsky, Chris Claremont, John Cleese, Joseph Conrad, Howard Cosell, Roald Dahl, L. Sprague deCamp, Marquis De Sade, E.L. Doctorow, Alexandre Dumas, Umberto Eco, Roger Ebert, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pat Frank, Robert Frost, Neil Gaiman, Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), William Gibson, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, William Goldman, Robert Graves, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Joe Haldeman, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Harris, Joseph Heller, James Hilton, Aldous Huxley, Henry James, Pauline Kael, Nikos Kazantzakis, Rudyard Kipling, Dean Koontz, Jon Krakauer, D.H. Lawrence, T.E. Lawrence, Harper Lee, Stan Lee, Ursula LeGuin, Ernest Lehman, Stanislaw Lem, Madeleine L'Engle, Ira Levin, C.S. Lewis, Jack London, Mike Lupica, David Mamet, Arthur Miller, A.A. Milne, John Milton, Terry Nation, Anaïs Nin, Larry Niven, Boris Pasternak, Beatrix Potter, Jerry Pournelle, Richard Preston, Mario Puzo, Ayn Rand, Anne Rice, Sax Rohmer, J.K. Rowling, Salman Rushdie, J.D. Salinger, Jean Paul Sartre, Jerry Seinfeld, Rod Serling, Anthony Shaffer, Peter Shaffer, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, John Steinbeck, Robert Louis Stevenson, J. Michael Straczynski, Peter Straub, Preston Sturges, Hunter S. Thompson, Jim Thompson, François Truffaut, Sun Tzu, Mark Twain, John Varley, Gore Vidal, Bill Waterson, Orson Welles, Donald Westlake, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Calder Willingham, Johann Wyss, Roger Zelazny 5 Writers I Do Not Like: James Fenimore Cooper, Theodore Dreiser, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville |
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| The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. |
| If-- by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream--and not make dreams your master; If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on"; If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run-- Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son! |
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| Yule Horror by H. P. Lovecraft There is snow on the ground, And the valleys are cold, And a midnight profound Blackly squats o'er the world; But a light on the hilltops half-seen hints of feastings un-hallowed and old. There is death in the clouds, There is fear in the night, For the dead in their shrouds Hail the sun's turning flight. And chant wild in the woods as they dance round a Yule- altar fungous and white. To no gale of Earth's kind Sways the forest of oak, Where the sick boughs entwined By mad mistletoes choke, For these pow'rs are the pow'rs of the dark, from the graves of the lost Druid-folk |
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