impending research

well, just about all of my time for the next 2 weeks will be spent maintaining my impeccable school record (as in my work doesn't quite justify kicking my ass out of school). so this will probably be my last post until november 3.

i think it'd be nice to have read the books that harriot's read--considering i intend to write her. just because i need a starting point, i looked up sci-fi/fantasy writers on wikipedia and made a list of any who were published in the 1950's or earlier, some of whose works i may or may not have read already. below is a list of 38 such books (winnowed down from like a million).

before i get to these books, though, i've got three other books to read first: Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card, and The Watchmen by Alan Moore. i'll need to finish these before getting to the research.

the plan is to post synopses of the books as i read them, with analysis as to how they relate to harriot and my story. i suppose i'll practice with the three books i mentioned above (when i get to them, of course).

and now the list:

1. The Snow Queen - Hans Christian Anderson
2. Peter Pan and Wendy - JM Barry
3. The Little White Bird - JM Barry
4. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
5. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
6. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. The Land that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
8. The Pirates of Venus - Edgar Rice Burroughs
9. A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
10. Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice - James Branch Cabell
11. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
12. The Man Who Was Thursday - GK Chesterton
13. Rogue Queen - L Sprague de Camp
14. The Worm Ouroboros - ER Eddison
15. The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
16. Two Sought Adventure - Fritz Leiber
17. The Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis
18. Out of the Silent Planet - CS Lewis
19. The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
20. The Call of Cthulu - HP Lovecraft
21. Lilith - George MacDonald
22. Silverlock - John Myers Myers
23. Portrait of Jennie - Robert Nathan
24. Star Man's Son - Andre Norton
25. The Crossroads of Time - Andre Norton
26. Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
27. Land of Unreason - Fletcher Pratt & L Sprague de Camp
28. Immortality Inc. - Robert Sheckley
29. Citizen in Space - Robert Sheckley
30. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
31. The Night Life of the Gods - Thorne Smith
32. Turnabout - Thorne Smith
33. The Lady or the Tiger - Frank R Stockton
34. Rudder Grange - Frank R Stockton
35. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
36. The Dying Earth - Jack Vance
37. The Island of the Mighty - Evangeline Walton
38. Witch House - Evangeline Walton