Fiction on my bookshelf

I thought I’d write an overview of the works of fiction adorning my bookshelf - not a comprehensive list but a fairly good summary, using enough examples to represent the overall spectrum.

To start with, there’s lots of Terry Pratchett, among my favourites “Small Gods“, “Hogfather“, “The Last Hero“, “Going Postal“, and “The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents“. I also have “Good Omens” (written with Neil Gaiman), “The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy” (edited by Mike Ashley and including Pratchett’s “Troll Bridge“), and a special honorable mention goes to “Once More With Footnotes” from NESFA Press.

There’s some Doctor Who and Red Dwarf stuff, some of which are novels (e.g. “Legacy” by Gary Russell, or “The Red Dwarf Omnibus” by Grant Naylor) and some of which are not (e.g. “The Monsters” by Adrian Rigelsford and Andrew Skilleter, or “The Space Corps Survival Manual” by Grant Naylor).

There’s some Tolkien (”The Hobbit“) and some C. S. Lewis (”Out of the Silent Planet” & “That Hideous Strength“). Also some Douglas Adams (”The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy“, up to and including “Mostly Harmless“).

Then there’s some miscellaneous science fiction and fantasy, including “Climbing Olympus” by Kevin J Anderson, “Pawn’s Dream” by Eric S Nylund, and some books by Irene Radford including “Guardian of the Balance” and “Guardian of the Trust“. I still have some anthologies of science fiction and fantasy for younger readers, including “Twisted Circuits” (edited by Mick Gowar) and “A Spadeful of Spacetime” (edited by Fred Saberhagen).

Finally there’s the very miscellaneous category, which includes “God: The Ultimate Autobiography” by Jeremy Pascall, “An Alien at St Wilfred’s” by Adrian Plass, and “The Complete Yes Prime Minister” by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay. I have an edition of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” which I’ve had for over twenty years and never actually read, but it has a cool front cover design.

Thus ends the overview. Below are photographs of the books listed in the last two paragraphs above - miscellaneous science fiction and fantasy, and very miscellaneous.

If you’d like more information on particular works and my opinions of them, requests are welcome (requests are always welcome on this blog). I’ll write a post covering non-fiction sometime in the future.