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Fiction:

- The Time Machine (still holds up very well, and seems strangely eerie and prescient in places)... (H. G. Wells)

- Dune (Frank Herbert)

- The Hobbit (and LotR) (Tolkien)

- Neuromancer (William Gibson)

- Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties (I picked up Idoru first, so I haven't yet read Virtual Light) (also Gibson)

- The Difference Engine (Gibson, Sterling)

- Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)

- Cryptonomicon (" ")

- Circuit of Heaven, End of Days (Dennis Danvers)

- All of the "Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser" stories and novels. (Fritz Leiber)

- The Earthsea trilogy (Ursula K. LeGuin)

- 'salem's Lot (Stephen King)

- Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein)

- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)

- the Coldfire trilogy (C. S. Friedman)

- various Cory Doctorow short stories

- Kamikaze L'Amour (Richard Kadrey)

- Lightpaths (Howard V. Hendrix)

- A Canticle For Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)

- Moonwar, Venus (Ben Bova)

- the Stainless Steel Rat series (Harry Harrison)

- Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)

- Ringworld (Larry Niven)

- Cthon (Piers Anthony) -- Trippiness level approaching Philip Jose Farmer ;-)

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (Douglas Adams)

- The Black Company (Glen Cook)

- there's one particularly good post-cyberpunk series that takes place in a world in which Canada emerged as a major world power, but for the life of me I can't rememeber the title.

- the 1632 series (Eric Flint)... see also S. M. Stirling's Nantucket series ("Island in the Sea of Time", et al.), and H. Beam Piper's novel Kalvan of Otherwhen

Non-fiction:

- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Hume)

- the surviving words and works of Epicurus, and Diogenes the Cynic

- Freakonomics (Levitt, Dubner)

- The Gay Science (Nietzsche)

- The Jefferson Bible (Christ, Jefferson (ed.))

- The Devil's Dictionary (Bierce)

- Brain Droppings (George Carlin)

- anything by P. J. O'Rourke

- anything by Dave Barry



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