Collective Chronicles Reading Experience - Have We Read Everything?

[BAYLOR]

To avoid the necessity of typing them all out, I've copy-pasted all the books mentioned in the Wikipedia article on the Ballentine Adult Fantasy series, (I've put the ones I've read into bold, in case anyone is about to propose them as among the books unread by Chronicles members, and simply list the rest in plain text to see if anyone else has read them.)

The precursors to the series:

1. The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien (August 1965)
2. The Fellowship of the Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien (October 1965)
3. The Two Towers, J. R. R. Tolkien (October 1965)
4. The Return of the King, J. R. R. Tolkien (December 1965)
5. The Tolkien Reader, J. R. R. Tolkien (September 1966)
6. The Worm Ouroboros, E. R. Eddison (April 1967, later reprinted (5th) with colophon)
7. Mistress of Mistresses, E. R. Eddison (August 1967)
8. A Fish Dinner in Memison, E. R. Eddison (February 1968)
9. The Road Goes Ever On, J. R. R. Tolkien and Donald Swann (October 1968)
10. Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake (October 1968; later reprinted (5th) with colophon)
11. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake (October 1968; later reprinted (5th) with colophon)
12. Titus Alone, Mervyn Peake (October 1968; later reprinted (4th & 5th) with colophon)
13. A Voyage to Arcturus, David Lindsay (November 1968; later reprinted (2nd & 3rd) with colophon)
14. The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle (February 1969, with "A Ballantine Adult Fantasy" on the cover; later reprinted with colophon)
15. A Fine and Private Place, Peter S. Beagle (February 1969, with "A Ballantine Adult Fantasy" on the cover of the first two printings)
16. Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham, J. R. R. Tolkien (March 1969)
17. Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of the Rings", Lin Carter (March 1969)
18. The Mezentian Gate, E. R. Eddison (April 1969, with "A Ballantine Adult Fantasy" on the cover)

So I've read all the books they published before the series was officially a series.


Volumes published as part of the series, based on a listing by Lin Carter in Imaginary Worlds: the Art of Fantasy .

1. The Blue Star, Fletcher Pratt (May 1969) (#01602)
2. The King of Elfland's Daughter, Lord Dunsany (June 1969) (#01628)
3. The Wood Beyond the World, William Morris (July 1969) (#01652)
4. The Silver Stallion, James Branch Cabell (August 1969) (#01678)
5. Lilith, George MacDonald (September 1969) (#01711)
6. Dragons, Elves, and Heroes, Lin Carter, ed. (October 1969) (#01731)
7. The Young Magicians, Lin Carter, ed. (October 1969) (#01730)
8. Figures of Earth, James Branch Cabell (November 1969) (#01763)
9. The Sorcerer's Ship, Hannes Bok (December 1969) (#01795)
10. Land of Unreason, Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp (January 1970) (#01814)
11. The High Place, James Branch Cabell (February 1970) (#01855-9)
12. Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirrlees (March 1970) (#01880-X)
13. At the Edge of the World, Lord Dunsany (March 1970) (#01879-6)
14. Phantastes, George MacDonald (April 1970) (#01902-4)
15. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, H. P. Lovecraft (May 1970) (#01923-7)
16. Zothique, Clark Ashton Smith (June 1970) (#01938-5)
17. The Shaving of Shagpat, George Meredith (July 1970) (#01958-X)
18. The Island of the Mighty, Evangeline Walton (July 1970) (#01959-8)
19. Deryni Rising, Katherine Kurtz (August 1970) (#01981-4)
20. The Well at the World's End, Vol. 1, William Morris (August 1970) (#01982-2)
21. The Well at the World's End, Vol. 2, William Morris (September 1970) (#02015-4)
22. Golden Cities, Far, Lin Carter, ed. (October 1970) (#02045-6)
23. Beyond the Golden Stair, Hannes Bok (November 1970) (#02093-6)
24. The Broken Sword, Poul Anderson (January 1971) (#02107-X)
25. The Boats of the "Glen Carrig", William Hope Hodgson (February 1971) (#02145-2)
26. The Doom that Came to Sarnath and Other Stories, H. P. Lovecraft (February 1971) (#02146)
27. Something About Eve, James Branch Cabell (March 1971) (#02067-7)
28. Red Moon and Black Mountain, Joy Chant (March 1971) (#02178-9)
29. Hyperborea, Clark Ashton Smith (April 1971) (#02206-8)
30. Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley, Lord Dunsany (May 1971) (#02244-0)
31. Vathek, William Beckford (June 1971) (#02279-3)
32. The Man Who Was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton (July 1971) (#02305-6)
33. The Children of Llyr, Evangeline Walton (August 1971) (#02332-3)
34. The Cream of the Jest, James Branch Cabell (September 1971) (#02364-1)
35. New Worlds for Old, Lin Carter, ed. (September 1971) (#02365-X)
36. The Spawn of Cthulhu, Lin Carter, ed. (October 1971) (#02394-3)
37. Double Phoenix, Edmund Cooper and Roger Lancelyn Green (November 1971) (#02420-6)
38. The Water of the Wondrous Isles, William Morris (November 1971) (#02421-4)
39. Khaled, F. Marion Crawford (December 1971) (#02446-X)
40. The World's Desire, H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang (January 1972) (#02467-2)
41. Xiccarph, Clark Ashton Smith (February 1972) (#02501-6)
42. The Lost Continent, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (February 1972) (#02502-4)
43. Discoveries in Fantasy, Lin Carter, ed. (March 1972) (#02546-6)
44. Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship, James Branch Cabell (March 1972) (#02545-8)
45. Kai Lung's Golden Hours, Ernest Bramah (April 1972) (#02574-1)
46. Deryni Checkmate, Katherine Kurtz (May 1972) (#02598-9)
47. Beyond the Fields We Know, Lord Dunsany (May 1972) (#02599-7)
48. The Three Impostors, Arthur Machen (June 1972) (#02643-8)
49. The Night Land, Vol. 1, William Hope Hodgson (July 1972) (#02669-1)
50. The Night Land, Vol. 2, William Hope Hodgson (July 1972) (#02670-5)
51. The Song of Rhiannon, Evangeline Walton (August 1972) (#02773-6)
52. Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy I, Lin Carter, ed. (September 1972) (#02789-2)
53. Evenor, George MacDonald (November 1972) (#02874)
54. Orlando Furioso: The Ring of Angelica, Volume 1, Ludovico Ariosto, translated by Richard Hodgens (January 1973) (#03057-5)
55. The Charwoman's Shadow, Lord Dunsany (February 1973) (#03085-0)
56. Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II, Lin Carter, ed. (March 1973) (#03162-8)
57. The Sundering Flood, William Morris (May 1973) (#03261-6)
58. Imaginary Worlds: the Art of Fantasy, Lin Carter (June 1973) (#03309-4)
59. Poseidonis, Clark Ashton Smith (July 1973) (#03353-1)
60. Excalibur, Sanders Anne Laubenthal (August 1973) (#23416-2)
61. High Deryni, Katherine Kurtz (September 1973) (#23485-5)
62. Hrolf Kraki's Saga, Poul Anderson (October 1973) (#23562-2)
63. The People of the Mist, H. Rider Haggard (December 1973) (#23660-2)
64. Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, Ernest Bramah (February 1974) (#023787-0)
65. Over the Hills and Far Away, Lord Dunsany (April 1974) (#023886-9)

(A number of these I started but just didn't care for them enough to finish, so don't count them as books I have read. Also, where the collections of writers like Clark Ashton Smith, Dunsany, and Lovecraft are concerned, I've probably read most of the stories in other collections but not these particular volumes, so again not counted. So that leaves about three quarters of the books in the actual series that I wonder if anyone here has read.)

Two volumes published after retirement of the Unicorn's Head colophon were evidently intended for the series. The first has a Carter introduction and the second completes a set of four begun under his editorship.

1. Merlin's Ring, H. Warner Munn (June 1974)
2. Prince of Annwn, Evangeline Walton (November 1974)

Ive read 27 of the books on that list.

 

[The Big Peat]

A more interesting list to cross off would be if we've read all the major award winners. Here's everything on the World Fantasy Award winners list on wiki, with the ones I've read bolded

Forgotten Beasts of Eld - McKillip
Bid Time Return - Matheson
Doctor Rat - Kotzwinkle
Our Lady of Darkness - Leiber
Gloriana - Moorcock
Watchtower - Lynn
The Shadow of The Torturer - Wolfe
Little, Big - Crowley
Nifft the Lean - Shea
The Dragon Waiting - Ford
Bridge of Birds - Hughart
Mythago Wood - Holdstock
Song of Kali - Simmons
Replay - Grimwood
Koko - Straub
Madouc - Vance
Only Begotten Daughter - Morrow
Thomas the Rhymer - Kushner
Boy's Life - McCammon
Last Call - Powers
Glimpses - Shiner
Towing Jehovah - Morrow
The Prestige - Priest
Godmother Night - Pollack
The Physiognomy - Ford
The Antelope Wife - Erdrich
Thraxas - Scott
Declare - Powers
Galveston - Stewart
The Other Wind - Le Guin
The Facts of Life - Joyce
Ombria in Shadow - McKillip
Tooth and Claw - Walton
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Clarke
Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
Soldier of Sidon - Wolfe
Ysabel - Kay
The Shadow Year - Ford
Tender Morsels - Lanagan
The City & The City - Mieville
Who Fears Death - Okorafor
Osama - Tidhar
Alif the Unseen - Wilson
A Stranger in Olondira - Samatar
The Bone Clocks - Mitchell
The Chimes - Smaill
The Sudden Appearance of Hope - North
The Changeling - LaValle
Jade City - Lee
The Witchmark - Polk

 

[BAYLOR]

A more interesting list to cross off would be if we've read all the major award winners. Here's everything on the World Fantasy Award winners list on wiki, with the ones I've read bolded

Forgotten Beasts of Eld - McKillip
Bid Time Return - Matheson
Doctor Rat - Kotzwinkle
Our Lady of Darkness - Leiber
Gloriana - Moorcock
Watchtower - Lynn
The Shadow of The Torturer - Wolfe
Little, Big - Crowley
Nifft the Lean - Shea
The Dragon Waiting - Ford
Bridge of Birds - Hughart
Mythago Wood - Holdstock
Song of Kali - Simmons
Replay - Grimwood
Koko - Straub
Madouc - Vance
Only Begotten Daughter - Morrow
Thomas the Rhymer - Kushner
Boy's Life - McCammon
Last Call - Powers
Glimpses - Shiner
Towing Jehovah - Morrow
The Prestige - Priest
Godmother Night - Pollack
The Physiognomy - Ford
The Antelope Wife - Erdrich
Thraxas - Scott
Declare - Powers
Galveston - Stewart
The Other Wind - Le Guin
The Facts of Life - Joyce
Ombria in Shadow - McKillip
Tooth and Claw - Walton
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Clarke
Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
Soldier of Sidon - Wolfe
Ysabel - Kay
The Shadow Year - Ford
Tender Morsels - Lanagan
The City & The City - Mieville
Who Fears Death - Okorafor
Osama - Tidhar
Alif the Unseen - Wilson
A Stranger in Olondira - Samatar
The Bone Clocks - Mitchell
The Chimes - Smaill
The Sudden Appearance of Hope - North
The Changeling - LaValle
Jade City - Lee
The Witchmark - Polk

Ive only read 5 on that list.

 

[Bick]

Ive only read 5 on that list.

Saying how many you've read on a list doesn't help Baylor - you'd need to say which ones, so the list can be whittled down.

 

[Extollager]

The following is a list of fairly big name contemporary authors where I've yet to read all their books in the fantasy genre

NK Jemisin
Rebecca Kuang
Jeanette Ng
Sarah J Maas
Cassandra Clare
Brandon Sanderson
Brent Weeks
Mark Lawrence
Joe Abercrombie
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Ed McDonald
Daniel Abraham
Sebastien de Castell
Miles Cameron
Josiah Bancroft
Sarah Shannon
Jen Williams
Anna Smith Sparks
Leigh Bardugo
Seanan McGuire

Given how much chat I see about these authors here, I'd be surprised if none of them went unticked.

I haven't read any of these....

 

[Extollager]

Here's a. few more

Alph by Charles Eric Main a future world in which use to an unfortunate break though Parthenogenesis human reproduction has resulted in a future in which in there are only woman and no men, In this future world onescientist who wants bring back men back.
The Heads of Cerberus by France Stevens a dystopia novel by a neglected figure in Science fiction.
The Revolt of Angels by Anatole France A fantasy novel by the man who wrote the Reign of Terror The Gods Will Have Blood
Paris in the Twentieth Century. by Jules Verne Never saw publication in his lifetime because his publisher that the the starting productions he made in the book were too preposterous for readers to believe . The manuscript fo the book was left in a safe until rediscovered in 1989 by one of his descendants.
The Castle in Transylvania by Jules Verne There had been a English translation of this novel in over 100 years.
Rim of the Morning Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by William Sloane
Merlin's Ring by H Warner Munn Very much and underrated fantasy novel by a water who should be far better remembered then he is.

I haven't read any of these, either.

 

[Extollager]

Has anyone else read Maddux's The Green Kingdom? If pulp adventure, horror, etc. are your bag, skip this.

 

[Extollager]

To avoid the necessity of typing them all out, I've copy-pasted all the books mentioned in the Wikipedia article on the Ballentine Adult Fantasy series, (I've put the ones I've read into bold, in case anyone is about to propose them as among the books unread by Chronicles members, and simply list the rest in plain text to see if anyone else has read them.)

The precursors to the series:

1. The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien (August 1965)
2. The Fellowship of the Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien (October 1965)
3. The Two Towers, J. R. R. Tolkien (October 1965)
4. The Return of the King, J. R. R. Tolkien (December 1965)
5. The Tolkien Reader, J. R. R. Tolkien (September 1966)
6. The Worm Ouroboros, E. R. Eddison (April 1967, later reprinted (5th) with colophon)
7. Mistress of Mistresses, E. R. Eddison (August 1967)
8. A Fish Dinner in Memison, E. R. Eddison (February 1968)
9. The Road Goes Ever On, J. R. R. Tolkien and Donald Swann (October 1968)
10. Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake (October 1968; later reprinted (5th) with colophon)
11. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake (October 1968; later reprinted (5th) with colophon)
12. Titus Alone, Mervyn Peake (October 1968; later reprinted (4th & 5th) with colophon)
13. A Voyage to Arcturus, David Lindsay (November 1968; later reprinted (2nd & 3rd) with colophon)
14. The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle (February 1969, with "A Ballantine Adult Fantasy" on the cover; later reprinted with colophon)
15. A Fine and Private Place, Peter S. Beagle (February 1969, with "A Ballantine Adult Fantasy" on the cover of the first two printings)
16. Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham, J. R. R. Tolkien (March 1969)
17. Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of the Rings", Lin Carter (March 1969)
18. The Mezentian Gate, E. R. Eddison (April 1969, with "A Ballantine Adult Fantasy" on the cover)

So I've read all the books they published before the series was officially a series.


Volumes published as part of the series, based on a listing by Lin Carter in Imaginary Worlds: the Art of Fantasy .

1. The Blue Star, Fletcher Pratt (May 1969) (#01602)
2. The King of Elfland's Daughter, Lord Dunsany (June 1969) (#01628)
3. The Wood Beyond the World, William Morris (July 1969) (#01652)
4. The Silver Stallion, James Branch Cabell (August 1969) (#01678)
5. Lilith, George MacDonald (September 1969) (#01711)
6. Dragons, Elves, and Heroes, Lin Carter, ed. (October 1969) (#01731)
7. The Young Magicians, Lin Carter, ed. (October 1969) (#01730)
8. Figures of Earth, James Branch Cabell (November 1969) (#01763)
9. The Sorcerer's Ship, Hannes Bok (December 1969) (#01795)
10. Land of Unreason, Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp (January 1970) (#01814)
11. The High Place, James Branch Cabell (February 1970) (#01855-9)
12. Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirrlees (March 1970) (#01880-X)
13. At the Edge of the World, Lord Dunsany (March 1970) (#01879-6)
14. Phantastes, George MacDonald (April 1970) (#01902-4)
15. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, H. P. Lovecraft (May 1970) (#01923-7)
16. Zothique, Clark Ashton Smith (June 1970) (#01938-5)
17. The Shaving of Shagpat, George Meredith (July 1970) (#01958-X)
18. The Island of the Mighty, Evangeline Walton (July 1970) (#01959-8)
19. Deryni Rising, Katherine Kurtz (August 1970) (#01981-4)
20. The Well at the World's End, Vol. 1, William Morris (August 1970) (#01982-2)
21. The Well at the World's End, Vol. 2, William Morris (September 1970) (#02015-4)
22. Golden Cities, Far, Lin Carter, ed. (October 1970) (#02045-6)
23. Beyond the Golden Stair, Hannes Bok (November 1970) (#02093-6)
24. The Broken Sword, Poul Anderson (January 1971) (#02107-X)
25. The Boats of the "Glen Carrig", William Hope Hodgson (February 1971) (#02145-2)
26. The Doom that Came to Sarnath and Other Stories, H. P. Lovecraft (February 1971) (#02146)
27. Something About Eve, James Branch Cabell (March 1971) (#02067-7)
28. Red Moon and Black Mountain, Joy Chant (March 1971) (#02178-9)
29. Hyperborea, Clark Ashton Smith (April 1971) (#02206-8)
30. Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley, Lord Dunsany (May 1971) (#02244-0)
31. Vathek, William Beckford (June 1971) (#02279-3)
32. The Man Who Was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton (July 1971) (#02305-6)
33. The Children of Llyr, Evangeline Walton (August 1971) (#02332-3)
34. The Cream of the Jest, James Branch Cabell (September 1971) (#02364-1)
35. New Worlds for Old, Lin Carter, ed. (September 1971) (#02365-X)
36. The Spawn of Cthulhu, Lin Carter, ed. (October 1971) (#02394-3)
37. Double Phoenix, Edmund Cooper and Roger Lancelyn Green (November 1971) (#02420-6)
38. The Water of the Wondrous Isles, William Morris (November 1971) (#02421-4)
39. Khaled, F. Marion Crawford (December 1971) (#02446-X)
40. The World's Desire, H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang (January 1972) (#02467-2)
41. Xiccarph, Clark Ashton Smith (February 1972) (#02501-6)
42. The Lost Continent, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (February 1972) (#02502-4)
43. Discoveries in Fantasy, Lin Carter, ed. (March 1972) (#02546-6)
44. Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship, James Branch Cabell (March 1972) (#02545-8)
45. Kai Lung's Golden Hours, Ernest Bramah (April 1972) (#02574-1)
46. Deryni Checkmate, Katherine Kurtz (May 1972) (#02598-9)
47. Beyond the Fields We Know, Lord Dunsany (May 1972) (#02599-7)
48. The Three Impostors, Arthur Machen (June 1972) (#02643-8)
49. The Night Land, Vol. 1, William Hope Hodgson (July 1972) (#02669-1)
50. The Night Land, Vol. 2, William Hope Hodgson (July 1972) (#02670-5)
51. The Song of Rhiannon, Evangeline Walton (August 1972) (#02773-6)
52. Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy I, Lin Carter, ed. (September 1972) (#02789-2)
53. Evenor, George MacDonald (November 1972) (#02874)
54. Orlando Furioso: The Ring of Angelica, Volume 1, Ludovico Ariosto, translated by Richard Hodgens (January 1973) (#03057-5)
55. The Charwoman's Shadow, Lord Dunsany (February 1973) (#03085-0)
56. Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II, Lin Carter, ed. (March 1973) (#03162-8)
57. The Sundering Flood, William Morris (May 1973) (#03261-6)
58. Imaginary Worlds: the Art of Fantasy, Lin Carter (June 1973) (#03309-4)
59. Poseidonis, Clark Ashton Smith (July 1973) (#03353-1)
60. Excalibur, Sanders Anne Laubenthal (August 1973) (#23416-2)
61. High Deryni, Katherine Kurtz (September 1973) (#23485-5)
62. Hrolf Kraki's Saga, Poul Anderson (October 1973) (#23562-2)
63. The People of the Mist, H. Rider Haggard (December 1973) (#23660-2)
64. Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, Ernest Bramah (February 1974) (#023787-0)
65. Over the Hills and Far Away, Lord Dunsany (April 1974) (#023886-9)

(A number of these I started but just didn't care for them enough to finish, so don't count them as books I have read. Also, where the collections of writers like Clark Ashton Smith, Dunsany, and Lovecraft are concerned, I've probably read most of the stories in other collections but not these particular volumes, so again not counted. So that leaves about three quarters of the books in the actual series that I wonder if anyone here has read.)

Two volumes published after retirement of the Unicorn's Head colophon were evidently intended for the series. The first has a Carter introduction and the second completes a set of four begun under his editorship.

1. Merlin's Ring, H. Warner Munn (June 1974)
2. Prince of Annwn, Evangeline Walton (November 1974)

I've read the following:

Precursors: 1-6, 9-14, 16 & 17
Ballantine AF: 2, 3, 5-7, 10, 13-18 (not certain about Zothique, but probably read it), 20-22, 24-26, 28-20, 32 &33, 35 & 36, 38, 40, probably 41, 47-49 (I'm pretty sure I completed the first volume of The Night Land), 51, 53 (I read the stories in different books), 55, 58, 60, 62, 63, 65; and Prince of Annwn.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

TBP, I started some of those and didn't finish, but the ones that I did read all the way through:

Forgotten Beasts of Eld - McKillip
Madouc - Vance
Thomas the Rhymer - Kushner
Last Call - Powers
The Other Wind - Le Guin
Ombria in Shadow - McKillip
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Clarke

 

[BAYLOR]

Saying how many you've read on a list doesn't help Baylor - you'd need to say which ones, so the list can be whittled down.

Correction 6 on that list

The Forgotten Beast of Eld by Patricia Mckillip
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
Nift the Lean by Micheal Shea
Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
Mythago Woods by Robert Holdstock
Declare by Tim Powers

 

[Extollager]

I could make a better claim for having read "all" the major fantasy rather than major sf; I've read the major works of Tolkien, Lewis, Peake, Lovecraft, Dunsany (can't read him now, much, but I read all his BAF books), Morris except for The Sundering Flood (all of the other BAF titles at least twice), Machen, Garner (assuming his latest few novels are not fantasy), Lloyd Alexander (i.e. the 5 Prydain books), Charles Williams, G. MacDonald, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. But if Cabell is major -- I can't read him. Whatever it is that I'm looking for when I turn to fantasy it's not that.

In sf I've read what I suppose would be agreed upon as being the major sf novels of H. G. Wells and all or most of the major stories, all the early Asimov novels, only a few Heinleins, the essential early Bradbury, etc.

But we could go on this way for a long time. What about the prolific sf authors? Who has read everything or even half of the output of, say, John Brunner? Or did he write nothing that's major except Stand on Zanzibar and The Sheep Look Up (neither of which I've read)? What by PKD is major other than The Man in the High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and A Scanner Darkly? What about Silverberg?

I do very much like this thread idea.

 

[BAYLOR]

Has anyone else read Maddux's The Green Kingdom? If pulp adventure, horror, etc. are your bag, skip this.

Heard of it bu, have never see a copy of it.

 

[BAYLOR]

Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright

 

[Extollager]

Who's read Islandia? Not I, though I have a copy. Anyone here? I couldn't tell if you have read it, Baylor, or were just running it up the flagpole to see who saluted.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I've heard of Islandia forever but have never seen a copy.

 

[Extollager]

Has anyone read Wells's The Food of the Gods or In the Days of the Comet? Not I.

How about Beresford's The Hampdenshire Wonder? Eden Phillpotts's Saurus? Alun Llewellyn's Strange Invaders? Giesy's Palos of the Dog Star Pack? Čapek's The Absolute at Large? These seem to be five classic early-sf novels, but I don't know if I know anyone who's read them -- not I.

 

[Extollager]

My guess is that there is little or no major sf published since 1940 or so that someone or other at Chrons hasn't read, but that we might have missed a number of the earlier works that get mentioned in books like Billion-Year Spree.

I guess, too, that no one here has read all of the works of some of the major authors who wrote recognized classics and then a great deal of other stuff too, such as Brunner and Silverberg.

What about the Newcastle fantasy reprints? Note -- I don't say that these are all major works. This was the series, though, that was kind of the successor to the Ballantine series that Teresa listed.

1. The Glittering Plain, William Morris (September 1973)
2. The Saga of Eric Brighteyes, H. Rider Haggard (March 1974)
3. The Food of Death: Fifty-One Tales, Lord Dunsany (September 1974)
4. The Haunted Woman, David Lindsay (March 1975)
5. Aladore, Sir Henry Newbolt (September 1975)
6. She and Allan, H. Rider Haggard (September 1975)
7. Gerfalcon, Leslie Barringer (March 1976)
8. Golden Wings and Other Stories, William Morris (March 1976)
9. Joris of the Rock, Leslie Barringer (September 1976)
10. Heart of the World, H. Rider Haggard (September 1976)
11. The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician, Edwin Lester Arnold (April 1977)
12. Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair, William Morris (April 1977)
13. Shy Leopardess, Leslie Barringer (October 1977)
14. Ayesha: the Return of She, H. Rider Haggard (October 1977)
15. The Fates of the Princes of Dyfed, Kenneth Morris (April 1978)
16. The House of the Wolfings, William Morris (April 1978)
17. Under the Sunset, Bram Stoker (October 1978)
18. Allan Quatermain, H. Rider Haggard (October 1978)
19. The Roots of the Mountains, William Morris (April 1979)
20. Nada the Lily, H. Rider Haggard (April 1979)
21. Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende, translated by Alfred Elwes (October 1979)
22. The Spirit of Bambatse, H. Rider Haggard (October 1979)
23. When the Birds Fly South, Stanton A. Coblentz (April 1980)
24. Allan's Wife, H. Rider Haggard (October 1980)

Of those, I have read nos. 2, 4, 6, 10, 14, 18, 20, maybe 22, and 24. I have but haven't yet read 1, 15, 16, 19. I had a copy of 3 but gave it away, I think, without having read much, having eventually realized that, for the most part, Dunsany is an author who's had his day with me.

 

[Danny McG]

Beresford's The Hampdenshire Wonder? Eden Phillpotts's Saurus? Alun Llewellyn's Strange Invaders? Giesy's Palos of the Dog Star Pack? Čapek's The Absolute at Large? These seem to be five classic early-sf novels, but I don't know if I know anyone who's read them -- not I.

Llewellyn's Strange Invaders is the only one of those I've read.
Oh! And The Food of the Gods from higher up your list

 

[Extollager]

Danny, what'd you think of Strange Invaders?

 

[tegeus-Cromis]

Has anyone read Wells's The Food of the Gods or In the Days of the Comet? Not I.

I've read them both.