Literary Wonderlands by Miller, Laura -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Table of Contents Introduction 1 ANCIENT MYTH & LEGEND

ANONYMOUS: The Epic of Gilgamesh, c.1750 BCE HOMER: The Odyssey, c.725–675 BCE OVID: Metamorphoses, c.8 ANONYMOUS: Beowulf, c.700–1100 ANONYMOUS: The Thousand and One Nights, c.700–947 ANONYMOUS: The Mabinogion, 12th–14th century SNORRI STURLUSON: The Prose Edda, c.1220 DANTE ALIGHIERI: The Divine Comedy, c.1308–21 THOMAS MALORY: Le Morte d’Arthur, 1485 LUDOVICO ARIOSTO: Orlando Furioso, c.1516/32 THOMAS MORE: Utopia, 1516 EDMUND SPENSER: The Faerie Queene, 1590–1609 WU CHENG’EN: Journey to the West (Xiyouji), c.1592 TOMMASO CAMPANELLA: The City of the Sun, 1602 MIGUEL DE CERVANTES: Don Quixote, 1605/15 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest, 1611 CYRANO DE BERGERAC: A Voyage to the Moon, 1657 MARGARET CAVENDISH: The Description of a New World, called The Blazing-World, 1666

2 SCIENCE & ROMANTICISM

3 GOLDEN AGE OF FANTASY

J. M. BARRIE: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 1906 ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: The Lost World, 1912 EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS: At the Earth’s Core, 1914 CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN: Herland, 1915 CECILIA MAY GIBBS: Tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie: Their Adventures Wonderful, 1918 YEVGENY ZAMYATIN: We, 1924 FRANZ KAFKA: The Castle, 1926 H. P. LOVECRAFT: The Cthulhu Mythos, 1928–37 ALDOUS HUXLEY: Brave New World, 1932 ROBERT E. HOWARD: Conan the Barbarian, 1932–36 VLADIMIR BARTOL: Alamut, 1938 JORGE LUIS BORGES: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, 1941 AUSTIN TAPPAN WRIGHT: Islandia, 1942 ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY: The Little Prince, 1943 TOVE JANSSON: The Moomins and the Great Flood, 1945

4 NEW WORLD ORDER

MERVYN PEAKE: Gormenghast, 1946–59 GEORGE ORWELL: Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949 C. S. LEWIS: The Chronicles of Narnia, 1950–56 ISAAC ASIMOV: I, Robot, 1950 RAY BRADBURY: Fahrenheit 451, 1953 J. R. R. TOLKIEN: The Lord of the Rings, 1954–55 JUAN RULFO: Pedro Páramo, 1955 STANISLAW LEM: Solaris, 1961 ANTHONY BURGESS: A Clockwork Orange, 1962 VLADIMIR NABOKOV: Pale Fire, 1962 PIERRE BOULLE: Planet of the Apes, 1963 GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ: One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967 URSULA K. LE GUIN: A Wizard of Earthsea, 1968 PHILIP K. DICK: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 1968 PETER S. BEAGLE: The Last Unicorn, 1968 KURT VONNEGUT: Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969 LARRY NIVEN: Ringworld, 1970 ITALO CALVINO: Invisible Cities, 1972 WILLIAM GOLDMAN: The Princess Bride, 1973 SAMUEL R. DELANY: Dhalgren, 1975 GEORGES PEREC: W or the Memory of Childhood, 1975 GERD MJØEN BRANTENBERG: Egalia’s Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes, 1977 ANGELA CARTER: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, 1979 OCTAVIA E. BUTLER: Kindred, 1979 DOUGLAS ADAMS: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 1979

5 THE COMPUTER AGE

STEPHEN KING: The Dark Tower series, 1982–2012 TERRY PRATCHETT: The Discworld series, 1983–2015 WILLIAM GIBSON: Neuromancer, 1984 MARGARET ATWOOD: The Handmaid’s Tale, 1985 IAIN M. BANKS: The Culture series, 1987–2012 BERNARDO ATXAGA: Obabakoak, 1988 NEIL GAIMAN et al.: The Sandman, 1988–2015 NEAL STEPHENSON: Snow Crash, 1992 LOIS LOWRY: The Giver, 1993 PHILIP PULLMAN: His Dark Materials, 1995–2000 GEORGE R. R. MARTIN: A Game of Thrones, 1996 DAVID FOSTER WALLACE: Infinite Jest, 1996 J. K. ROWLING: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, 1997 CHINA MIÉVILLE: The Bas-Lag cycle, 2000–04 JASPER FFORDE: The Eyre Affair, 2001 CORNELIA FUNKE: Inkheart, 2003 SUSANNA CLARKE: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, 2004 DAVID MITCHELL: Cloud Atlas, 2004 KAZUO ISHIGURO: Never Let Me Go, 2005 NGUGI WA THIONG’O: Wizard of the Crow, 2006 MICHAEL CHABON: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 2007 SUZANNE COLLINS: The Hunger Games, 2008 HARUKI MURAKAMI: 1Q84, 2009–10 WU MING-YI: The Man with the Compound Eyes, 2011 ANN LECKIE: The Imperial Radch trilogy, 2013–15 NNEDI OKORAFOR: Lagoon, 2014 SALMAN RUSHDIE: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, 2015

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