Although I probably should have looked back after reading the dreadfully dull Starship Troopers, though a rewatch of the film adaptation convinced me that science fiction was worth giving another go and I got stuck into the Foundation Trilogy and now A Princess of Mars, which is the tale of the enigmatic John Carter, whose first person account of his interplanetary travels never gets tired of telling you how awesomely manly he is - though to be fair he goes on to recount how he beat up the planet Mars, so I can sort of understand why the man would have a high opinion of himself. He's a bit of an imperialist scumbag, too, smiting his way through the natives like a walking smallpox until he finds himself a bit of posh Martian tottie to lay some eggs with - but his tale is an enjoyable romp with some good world-building along the way, even if the politics of the text don't bear up to modern scrutiny.
Should you be wondering, the full list is as follows, with books I have managed to read so far being bolded - yeah I know there's only 12 of them so far, but I am reasonably sure I have actually read one or two of the others:
Frank Herbert - Dune
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy
Douglas Adams - Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Robert A Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land
George Orwell - 1984
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Arthur C Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
William Gibson - Neuromancer
Isaac Asimov - I, Robot
Robert A Heinlein - Starship Troopers
Larry Niven - Ringworld
Arthur C Clarke - Rendezvous With Rama
Dan Simmons - Hyperion
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
H G Wells - The Time Machine
Arthur C Clarke - Childhood's End
Robert A Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
H G Wells - The War of the Worlds
Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
Ursula K Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
Niven & Pournelle - The Mote in God's Eye
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead
Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park
Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
Philip K Dick - The Man in the High Castle
Isaac Asimov - The Caves of Steel
Frederik Pohl - Gateway
Roger Zelazny - Lord of Light
Stanislaw Lem - Solaris
Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Michael Crichton - The Andromeda Strain
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
Philip K Dick - Ubik
Carl Sagan - Contact
Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle In Time
Isaac Asimov - The Gods Themselves
John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids
Vernor Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep
Walter M Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz
Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Robert A Heinlein - Time Enough For Love
Ursula K Le Guin - The Dispossessed
Isaac Asimov - The End of Eternity
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
L Ron Hubbard - Battlefield Earth
Jules Verne - Journey to the Center of the Earth
Philip Jose Farmer - To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Peter F Hamilton - The Reality Dysfunction
Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age
Philip K Dick - A Scanner Darkly
David Brin - Startide Rising
Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
Greg Bear - Eon
Iain M Banks - Use of Weapons
John Scalzi - Old Man's War
Arthur C Clarke - The City and the Stars
Michael Crichton - Sphere
Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man
Robert A Heinlein - The Door Into Summer
Alastair Reynolds - Revelation Space
Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat
Iain M Banks - Player of Games
Edgar Rice Burroughs - A Princess of Mars
Connie Willis - Doomsday Book
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Robert A Heinlein - Citizen of the Galaxy
Gene Wolfe - The Fifth Head of Cerberus
C S Lewis - Out of the Silent Planet
Dan Simmons - Ilium
Philip K Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon
John Wyndham - The Chrysalids
Niven & Pournelle - Lucifer's Hammer
Robert A Heinlein - Have Space-Suit - Will Travel
Edwin A Abbott - Flatland
Clifford Simak - Way Station
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic
Ursula K Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven
John Brunner - Stand on Zanzibar
Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
Stanislaw Lem - The Cyberiad
Neal Stephenson - Anathem
Clifford Simak - City
Julian May - The Many-Colored Land
Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Philip K Dick - VALIS
Orson Scott Card - Xenocide
David Brin - The Postman
Theodore Sturgeon - More Than Human
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World
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