Books and Authors

Who to Start with?
Roger Zelazny
Roger Zelazny
(Roger Joseph Zelazny)
(1937 - 1995)
aka Harrison Denmark

My Favorite of all
The Chronicles of Amber
1. Nine Princes in Amber (1970)
2. The Guns of Avalon (1972)
3. The Sign of the Unicorn (1975)
4. The Hand of Oberon (1976)
5. The Courts of Chaos (1978)
6. Trumps of Doom (1985)
7. Blood of Amber (1986)
8. Sign of Chaos (1987)
9. Knight of Shadows (1989)
10. Prince of Chaos (1991)

Next Up
Philip Jose' Farmer
Philip José Farmer was born in 1918 in North Terre Haute, Indiana. He attended Bradley University, receiving a BA in English in 1950. His novella The Lovers, published in Startling Stories, won a Hugo Award in 1953. He won another in 1968 for the story "Riders of the Purple Wage," which was written for the Dangerous Visions series, and a third in 1972 for the first novel of the Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go. Farmer has written also under a number of pseudonyms, the best known being Kilgore Trout. He passed away in February 2009.

My Personal Favorit of his was World of Tiers and if you read Chronicles of Amber, it was along the same "flavor".
World of Tiers
1. The Maker of Universes (1965)
2. The Gates of Creation (1966)
3. A Private Cosmos (1968)
4. Behind the Walls of Terra (1970)
5. The Lavalite World (1977)
6. Red Orc's Rage (1991)
7. More Than Fire (1993)
The World of Tiers Volume 2 (omnibus) (1979)
The World of Tiers Volume 1 (omnibus) (1986)
Philip Jose Farmer

And Then....
Harry Harrison
Harry Harrison
(Harry Maxwell Harrison)
(1925 - Still with us last I checked )
aka Felix Boyd, Hank Dempsey

My All time personal favorite: I Grew up on these- First Sci Fi Book I ever read was the stainless steel rat
I have a tattered paperback from my dad and I had both of my children read it as well. Call it a family legacy.
I am so very happy to have had this author in my reading life.

Stainless Steel Rat
1. The Stainless Steel Rat (1961)
2. The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge (1970)
3. The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World (1972)
4. The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! (1978)
5. The Stainless Steel Rat for President (1982)
6. A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born (1985)
7. The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted (1987)
8. The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues (1994)
9. Stainless Steel Visions (1992)
10. The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell (1996)
10. The Stainless Steel Rat Returns (2010)
11. The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus (1999)
The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat (1983)
You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat (1985)
A Stainless Steel Trio (omnibus) (2002)
The Stainless Steel Rat Omnibus (omnibus) (2008)
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And Then...
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
(1922 - 2007)
(Uncle of Laureen Vonnegut)

This Author in my opinion is one of the most amazing writers.
The first experience I had with one of his books was "cats cradle".- I have been hooked ever since.

Cat's Cradle: A Novel

Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel

Welcome to the Monkey House: Stories

Breakfast of Champions: A Novel

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