SFF Title Challenge (bingo)

BookForager has a couple of reading challenges up, one of which I stole simply for the purposes of seeing if I could make bingo with just books I’ve already read. Or at least have in my library and could plausibly claim that I can or will, or might, or might have at some time, read.

• Downbelow Station – C. J. Cherryh
• Isle of the Dead – Roger Zelazny
  • The Hills of the Dead – Robert E. Howard
  • Dead Beat – Jim Butcher
  • Dead Men Live – Maxwell Grant (The Shadow #18)
• Wolf and Iron – Gordon Dickson
  • Through Wolf’s Eyes – Jane Linskold
• The Stars My Destination – Alfred Bester
  • The Stars are Ours – Andre Norton
  • The Stars are Also Fire – Poul Anderson
• Library – The only thing that springs to mind is Genevieve Cogman’s The Invisible Library series, which I…I have blogged about before.
• The World Turned Upside Down – anthology edited by David Drake
  • Destroyer of Worlds – Larry Correia
  • The Rebel Worlds – Poul Anderson
  • And for good measure, Edmond “World-Wrecker” Hamilton in general.
• The Witches of Karres – James H. Schmitz
  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis
  • What about a Warlock Inspite of Himself? (Christopher Stasheff)
• Fierce – I’m not getting anything on this one without cheating.
  • ….or with cheating, either, it seems.
  • ?
• All the Way Back – Michael Shaara (a short story, but still.)
  • Backup – Jim Butcher
• Side Jobs – Jim Butcher 
• A Song in the Silence – Elizabeth Kerner. 
  • Kjwalll’kje’k’koothai’lll’kje’k – Roger Zelazny, this counts, because it’s about a song, and its singer.
  • The Song of the Lioness – Tamora Pierce (quartet)
• Woods – hm, have to cheat on this one….
  • North Woods Mystery – Maxwell Grant (The Shadow #96)
• Mission to the Stars – A. E. van Vogt (something of a cheat, I haven’t read much of van Vogt’s stuff with the exception of Clane of the Linn and The Selkie, neither of which were his best work.)
• Midnight at the Well of Souls – Hack Chalker (not a typo.) (Do not read.)
  • Durr, Soul Music – Terry Pratchett
• How – Dude, what? At least have the decency to say “when” or “Who Goes There?”
  • Best I can do is Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones
• Gate – Hm. I can’t find a plausible answer / a book I am actually familiar with, even with cheating. 
• Life – Argh, ditto.
• In the Bone – Gordon Dickson
  • Can These Bones Live? – Manly Wade Wellman
• Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn – Tad Williamson, the Tolkien-aping, elf-maligning hack.
• Ghost Story – Jim Butcher
• Mission to Universe – Gordon Dickson
  • The Man who Used the Universe – Alan Dean Foster (on the readlist at the Father of Skaith’s recommendation.)
  • If you are noticing a pattern here, it’s because the Golden/Silver Age scifi Grand Masters knew how to craft a title with a sense of wonder attached, and Poul Anderson and Gordon Dickson were at the top of that list.
• A Fire Upon the Deep – Vernor Vinge
  • Fire Logic – Laurie Marks (this book confused me deeply when I first read it. Later I realized it was just that poorly written.)
• The Caves of Steel – Isaac Asimov (Robots series)
  • The Proud Robot – Henry Kuttner
• All the Way Back – A duplicate! But if you’re a HFY person, it’s worth mentioning twice.
  • House of Many Ways – Diana Wynne Jones
• Lost Dorsai – Gordon Dickson
  • Citadel of Lost Souls – Leigh Brackett

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