Monday, January 7, 2008

First Book List In!!!

WOOHOO!!!
Leave it to the retired teacher to have his homework done first - here's Alex's suggestions for our reading lists! THANKS ALEX!
1890 - 1900 - War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (1898)
1900 - 1910 - Master of the World by Jules Verne (1904)
1910 - 1920 - Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
1920 - 1930 - When the World Screamed by Arthur Conan Doyle (1929)
1930 - 1940 - Slan by A.E. VanVogt (1940)
1940 - 1950 - Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
1950 - 1960 - Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (1953)
1960 - 1970 - Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boule (1963)
1970 - 1980 - Ringworld by Larry Niven (1970)
1980 - 1990 - Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederick Polh (1980)
1990 - 2000 - Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates (1995)
2000 - 2007 - The Dark Tower by Stephen King (2004)
Discuss! Looks like a great list to me - some really pivotal authors, and some pivotal titles, and some pivotal authors with non-traditional works and even a lady - nice mix!
Sorry I've been late posting this, but we've been closed for the holidays and then painting....ish. But I'm back now....so....send those lists in!
FL
P.S. I ordered interloan copies of Strange Manuscript today - hopefully they'll start coming in at the start of next week for loan...I'll post.

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