Reply To: Thursday Book Club

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I’ll echo The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and The Lord of the Rings, both incredibly formative books for me. Also:

Dune by Frank Herbert. I’ve never made it past the third book, but I re-read the original novel regularly.

Just about anything by Robert E. Howard. He’s most famous for Conan, and those stories are arguably his best work, but the Kull and Solomon Kane stories are great too, and he wrote a series of comedy/action boxing stories that are terrific.

Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, and The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller. There’s a reason these two graphic novels get talked about so much.

The original Star Wars: Heir to the Empire trilogy by Timothy Zahn. Cast your mind back to a time when Star Wars consisted entirely of 3 movies, an ill-conceived TV special, one original novel, and a run of comic books which no one expected to be consistent with anything else. Zahn’s trilogy was a much more well thought out and exciting sequel to the original films than anything that came later.

Imaro by Charles R. Saunders.

The Old Man’s War series by John Scalzi.

Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton.

And if you can chase it down, Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe by George Takei and Robert Asprin is a surprisingly fun read.