50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read By China Mieville

11:37 pm 8 April 2013

Being a China Mieville Fan I will take note when he suggests books to read, these 50 books of fiction are what China feels every socialist should read. 

 

More information on the selection can be found at: http://theweeklyansible.tumblr.com/post/20777236577/50-sci-fi-fantasy-works-every-socialist-should-read

 

Bold = read

Underlined = own / tbr

 

 

  1. Iain M. Banks - Use of Weapons
  2. Edward Bellamy - Looking Backward
  3. Alexander Bogdanov - The Red Star: A Utopia
  4. Emma Bull & Steven Brust - Freedom & Necessity
  5. Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
  6. Katherine Burdekin (asa Murray Constantine) - Swastika Night
  7. Octavia Butler - Survivor
  8. Julio Cortazar - House Taken Over
  9. Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly
  10. Thomas Disch - The Priest
  11. Gordon Eklund - All Times Possible
  12. Max Ernst - Une Semaine de Bonte
  13. Claude Farrere - Useless Hands
  14. Anatole France - The White Stone
  15. Jane Gaskell - Strange Evil
  16. Mary Gentle - Rats and Gargoyles
  17. Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper
  18. Lisa Goldstein - The Dream Years
  19. Stefan Grabinski - The Dark Domain
  20. George Griffith - The Angel of Revolution
  21. Imil Habibi - The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist
  22. M. John Harrison - Virconium Nights
  23. Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
  24. Jack London - Iron Heel
  25. Ken MacLeod - The Star Fraction
  26. Gregory Maguire - Wicked
  27. J. Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) - Gay Hunter
  28. Michael Moorcock - Hawkmoon
  29. William Morris - News From Nowhere
  30. Toni Morrison - Beloved
  31. Mervyn Peake - The Gormenghast Novels
  32. Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time
  33. Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
  34. Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
  35. Mack Teynolds - Lagrange Five
  36. Keith Roberts - Pavane
  37. Kim Stanley Robinson - The Mars Trilogy
  38. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
  39. Lucius Shepard - Life During Wartime
  40. Norman Spinrad - The Iron Dream
  41. Eugene Sue - The Wandering Jew
  42. Michael Swanwick - The Iron Dragon's Daughter
  43. Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
  44. Alexei Tolstoy - Aelita
  45. Ian Watson - Slow Birds
  46. H. G. Wells - The Island of Dr Moreau
  47. E. L. White - Lukundoo
  48. Oscar Wilde - The Happy Prince and Other Stories
  49. Gene Wolfe - The Fifth Head of Cerberus
  50. Yevgeny Zamyatin - We