No, No! Not Another Project! (Part IV)

[faustus]

Okay, here's a provisional reading list - based on awards given in the 1970s or for award-winning books published in the 1970s. (And yes, I also have a listing of short fiction with the same criteria.) Of course, there's a list to be made of books (etc) which didn't win awards but are significant. But not today. And I'm only up to M on the films...


Anthony, Piers, Macroscope (1970)
Brunner, John, The Jagged Orbit (1970)
Le Guin, Ursula K, The Left Hand of Darkness (1970)
Silverberg, Robert, Up the Line (1970)
Spinrad, Norman, Bug Jack Barron1970)
Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse-Five (1970)
Zelazny, Roger, Isle of the Dead (1970)
Anderson, Poul, Tau Zero (1971)
Clement, Hal, Starlight (1971)
Compton, D G, The Steel Crocodile (1971)
Lafferty, R A, Entire and Perfect Chrysolite (1971)
Lafferty, R A, Fourth Mansions (1971)
Niven, Larry, Ringworld (1971)
Russ, Joanna, And Chaos Died (1971)
Silverberg, Robert, Tower of Glass (1971)
Tucker, Wilson, The Year of the Quiet Sun (1971)
Anderson, Poul, The Byworlder (1972)
Bass, T J, Half Past Human (1972)
Farmer, Philip, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1972)
Lafferty, R A, The Devil Is Dead (1972)
Le Guin, Ursula K, The Lathe of Heaven (1972)
McCaffrey, Anne, Dragonquest (1972)
Silverberg, Robert, A Time of Changes (1972)
Wilhelm, Kate, Margaret and I (1972)
Zelazny, Roger, Jack of Shadows (1972)
Anderson, Poul, There Will Be Time (1973)
Asimov, Isaac, The Gods Themselves (1973)
Brunner, John, The Sheep Look Up (1973)
Effinger, George Alec, What Entropy Means to Me (1973)
Gerrold, David, When Harlie Was One (1973)
Gunn, James E, The Listeners (1973)
Malzberg, Barry N , Beyond Apollo (1973)
Priest, Christopher, Fugue for a Darkening Island (1973)
Silverberg, Robert, Dying Inside (1973)
Silverberg, Robert, The Book of Skulls (1973)
Simak, Clifford D, A Choice of Gods (1973)
Spinrad, Norman, The Iron Dream (1973)
Anderson, Poul, The People of the Wind (1974)
Clarke, Arthur C, Rendezvous with Rama (1974)
Dickinson, Peter, The Green Gene (1974)
Gerrold, David, The Man Who Folded Himself (1974)
Heinlein, Robert A, Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long (1974)
Merle, Robert, Malevil (1974)
Niven, Larry, Protector (1974)
Pynchon, Thomas, Gravity's Rainbow (1974)
Watson, Ian, The Embedding (1974)
Anderson, Poul, Fire Time (1975)
Bass, T J, The Godwhale (1975)
Dick, Philip, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1975)
Disch, Thomas M, 334 (1975)
Le Guin, Ursula K, The Dispossessed (1975)
Niven, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye (1975)
Priest, Christopher, The Inverted World (1975)
Anderson, Poul, A Midsummer Tempest (1976)
Bester, Alfred, The Computer Connection (1976)
Bishop, Michael, A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1976)
Bradley, Marion Zimmer, The Heritage of Hastur (1976)
Coney, Michael G, Brontomek! (1976)
Cover, Arthur, Autumn Angels (1976)
Delany, Samuel R , Dhalgren (1976)
Doctorow, E L, Ragtime (1976)
Haldeman, Joe, The Forever War (1976)
Lee, Tanith, The Birthgrave (1976)
Malzberg, Barry N , Guernica Night (1976)
McIntyre, Vonda N, The Exile Waiting (1976)
Niven, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Inferno (1976)
Russ, Joanna, The Female Man (1976)
Shaw, Bob, Orbitsville (1976)
Silverberg, Robert, The Stochastic Man (1976)
Zelazny, Roger, Doorways in the Sand (1976)
Amis, Kingsley, The Alteration (1977)
Delany, Samuel R , Triton (1977)
Haldeman, Joe, Mindbridge (1977)
Herbert, Frank, Children of Dune (1977)
Pohl, Frederik, Man Plus (1977)
Randall, Marta Randall, Islands (1977)
Silverberg, Robert, Shadrach in the Furnace (1977)
Watson, Ian, The Jonah Kit (1977)
Wilhelm, Kate, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1977)
Martin, George R R, Dying of the Light (1978)
Benford, Gregory, In the Ocean of Night (1978)
Bradley, Marion Zimmer, The Forbidden Tower (1978)
Carr, Terry, Cirque (1978)
Dick, Philip, A Scanner Darkly (1978)
Dickson, Gordon R, Time Storm (1978)
Niven, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer (1978)
Pohl, Frederik, Gateway (1978)
Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris, Roadside Picnic (1978)
Ballard, J G, The Unlimited Dream Company (1979)
Benson, Donald R, And Having Writ... (1979)
Chayefsky, Paddy, Altered States (1979)
Cherryh, C J , Kesrith (1979)
McCaffrey, Anne , The White Dragon (1979)
McIntyre, Vonda N, Dreamsnake (1979)
Moorcock, Michael, Gloriana (1979)
Reamy, Tom, Blind Voices (1979)
Vidal, Gore, Kalki (1979)
Benford, Gregory, Timescape (1980)
Clarke, Arthur, The Fountains of Paradise (1980)
Cowper, Richard, The Road to Corlay (1980)
Crowley, John, Engine Summer (1980)
Disch, Thomas M, On Wings of Song (1980)
McKillop, Patricia A, Harpist in the Wind (1980)
Pohl, Frederik, Jem (1980)
Varley, John, Titan (1980)
Wilhelm, Kate, Juniper Time (1980)
Broderick, Damien, The Dreaming Dragons (1981)
Niven, Larry, The Ringworld Engineers (1981)
Pohl, Frederik, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1981)
Silverberg, Robert, Lord Valentine's Castle (1981)
Stallman, Robert, The Orphan (1981)
Tevis, Walter, Mockingbird (1981)
Varley, John, Wizard (1981)
Vinge, Joan D, The Snowqueen (1981)
Wolfe, Gene, The Shadow of the Torturer (1981)


The next question is how many of these do I have already? (Forty at a rough count.)

Comments

[pigeonhed.livejournal.com]

re our conversation at the ACCA, does Doris Lessing count?

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

She counts to the extent that she is a writer in English publishing science fiction (for certain values of science fiction, which would include mine), but she wouldn't be in the list that began "The only female British writers of science fiction in the 1970s were..."

How is that list now, Angela Carter, Mary Gentle, Gwyneth Jones, Tanith Lee, Josephine Saxton, Emma Tennant, Diana Wynne Jones? Slightly longer than I'd imagined but it includes children's writer and stuff closer to fantasy.

I think I'm less likely to be writing such a sentence anyway, but I'm finding it useful to help recall names that might have slipped through the net.

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Jane Gaskell? - except most of her work was done in the 60s, only one of her works first published rather than reissued in the 70s was sff.

Judith Buffery?
Joan Aiken? (more fantasy, I suppose)

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I had the feeling Gaskell was more on the fantasy side but I'll add her to the list

There's a whole shopping list of children's writers. Aiken as alt history. (Although I'm more familiar with Mortimer and Annabel stories to the extent that I remember them thirty years on)

Judith Buffery?

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Ah: (1943- ) UK writer known exclusively for her SPACE-OPERA Star Lord Saga: The Sheeg (1979), Saffron (1979), The Iron Clog (dated 1979 but 1980) and Gringol Weed (1980) says JC in the SFE. Worth a look then.

(I'm up to B in the CD Rom encyclopedia, and wishing I still had software that read it properly. Must contact the relevant party)

[oursin.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how good they were, given that all but the vaguest outlines have faded from memory - only came out in hardback, I think, from some UK press that specialised in sf ?Dobson? I think they published a few other women writers around that period, unfortunately both names and titles have faded.

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Whether Gaskell is sf or fantasy possibly depends on whether the reader accepts the 'prehistoric Atlantis' setting as one or the other. A Sweet Sweet Summer is sf-ish set in more or less contemporary 60s London with aliens. But I'd probably categorise the Atlan sequence as owing rather a lot to Brit Gothic traditions.

[oursin.livejournal.com]

And I can't believe that I forgot to mention Naomi Mitchison! - Solution Three came out in 1975 and Memoirs of a Spacewoman was reprinted in the NEL SF Masters series in 1976, plus I think (would have to delve into the collected vols) a number of her short stories were published during the decade.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Yes, she was on the written down list and I was relying on memory. I'm running through those Women's Press grey spines in my head.

Thanks!

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Anna Livia seems to fall outside the period, by the way.

[gummitch.livejournal.com]

I'm getting rid of some of my old books (for reasons of space). If you let me have a list of the ones you don't have, I'll see if there's any overlap.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this - I'm rather vaguer on my database than I used to be but I think I can be certain of fifty-odd ones. I'll find some time soon to go through and send to your gmail address.


And thanks, again.

[damienw]

which awards are covered?

(pretty interesting list; i'm not sure if i'm more surprised by what i've not read than what i've read, or the idea that a lot of what i've read dates from thirty years ago...)

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

It was Hugo, Nebula and John W Campbell short lists, plus BSFA winners. More digging might turn up the BSFA shortlists.

I also looked at Booker, Whitbread, Mythopaeic, World Fantasy, but that was taking me too far from mainstream sf.


(why do i keep typing shirt list?)