The Science Fiction Books That Made Me a Lifelong Reader

when I was reading it I distinctly remember particularly the dawn of man section at the beginning being sort of borderline incomprehensible but kind of going with it.

2010, if I'm honest, I liked a little bit more than 2001.

what they call silverthornne and darkness at Seth and I loved these and read them again and again and again.

another one of his that I really enjoyed as a teen was A Fall of Moond Dust. I read this again and again and again. It's a kind of adventure peril tale.

and then it's a dream of kinship... I absolutely love these books I thought they were very evocative.

I think the third is something like a tapestry of time by Richard Kalpa and I absolutely love these books.

she also had which I also borrowed shamelessly permanently by Jupiter. It's another short story collection a little bit later than the others... I read those again and again and again.

also Where Eagles Dare and Night Without End and Circus and I just love those books. I read them again and again and again.

I think Complicity somebody lent me at university that and I thought that was fantastic. Read that again and again.

the books that he co-wrote with Janney Wartz the daughter of the Empire books... I love those as well. In fact, I might have loved those more than Magician.

the movie tie-in of the 1984 David Lynch version of June... to this day remains one of my favorite books.

Eon by Greg Bear... I think as I recall I enjoyed at least as much if not more than rendevous with Rama back in the day.

another one that I enjoyed in that era was Footfall... I loved it.

what I did buy with my own very own money was the foundation books... I bought this and the following books over a period of months and read them voraciously.

I Robot which is as you all know a short story collection which introduced me for the first time to the three laws of robotics... I thought I probably thought that The Robot was pretty cool.

famous for things like Guns of Navaron and Ice Station Zebra... and I just love those books. I read them again and again and again.

the early James Herbert, things like the rats and the lair... I love those.

The restaurant, the end of the universe, life the universe and everything and so on so forth... I thought these were great.

Some other books that were important to me at the time... Lucifer's Hammer by Nan and Pornell... this is one about a meteor crashes into the earth. It's the end of the world.

magician by Raymond D. Feist and the following two books... I loved these and read them again and again and again.

of them all I think my favorite is Mort.

also Where Eagles Dare and Night Without End and Circus and I just love those books. I read them again and again and again.

The one that I read first I think was actually Red Storm Rising... I thought that was just a mut nuts. It was the story of World War II and I read it again and again and again.

Rondoo with Rama with Rama, which I thought was suitably epic and was a good opener... I read it in the last two or three years and found it to be a bit dull if I'm honest with you.

I also went on to read Ringwing World and the Ring World Engineers by Larry Nan which I really enjoyed. It was mind-blowing the idea of there being sort of so much surface area to explore.

the other one that impressed me at the time was SSGB, the story of the sort of Nazis winning the Second World War and invading England.

what they call silverthornne and darkness at Seth and I loved these and read them again and again and again.

Skeleton Crew which is a short story collection which I absolutely loved and it's got one of my favorite short stories of all time in it which is the Jaunt.

I also I had the paperbacks of these with the Chris Foss covers of Caves of Steel and the other robots books... I really love both series.

I went on to read the chrysalids by John Windham of course which I also loved and still love to this day along with Day of the Triff is my two favorite.

It's The Color of Magic, which was the first one, which is not actually all that good, but they got better... I of course loved them at the time.

The one that stayed with me the most and the one that I've reread the most since then is day of the tripffids by John Windham... that's kind of triggered my love for the end of the world.

The Demolished Man I mainly remember and I've since retained a soft spot for this story to the point where I actually prefer it... I still prefer the Demolished Man of the two.

I had the early as these are his short stories... are astounding and I remember really liking the little bits of sort of almost like autobiographical detail.

some of some of his others like the mist was it the fog? the fog... I love those.

this is the gunslinger is obviously the first one... I certainly remember reading it and feeling like as he does very well Stephen King that he was talking to me personally... I love these books.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... I also read the books... I thought these were great... I still have a huge soft spot for them.

I read like everyone else The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings... I really loved the books at the time too.

Tom Clansancy Jack Ryan books in the first of them being The Hunt for Red October... Hun Red October I also loved.

I recently read this for the first time in many decades, and I still had a hoot. It's still a hoot.

I still got the first four that I had when I was a teen... this one the light fantastic. Mort is another one... I loved them at the time.

I read like everyone else The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings... I really loved the books at the time too.

the early James Herbert, things like the rats and the lair... I love those.

The restaurant, the end of the universe, life the universe and everything and so on so forth... I thought these were great.

I also went on to read Ringwing World and the Ring World Engineers by Larry Nan which I really enjoyed.

I also read things like The Stand, still one of my all-time favorite books.

famous for things like Guns of Navaron and Ice Station Zebra... and I just love those books. I read them again and again and again.

it's the road to cor is the first one... I absolutely love these books I thought they were very evocative a sort of vision of a future England kind of inundated by rising sea level.

Where Eagles There I thought these were fantastic. They're probably... pitched perfectly to me in my early teens.