S5.14 Outskirters
The Steerswomen Series
by Rosemary Kirstein
Steerswomen — always seeking, always investigating — have gathered more and more knowledge about the world they traveled, and they share that knowledge freely. Until the day that the steerswoman Rowan begins asking innocent questions about one small, lovely, inexplicable object…
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
by Philip José Farmer
Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip José Farmer's unequaled tale about life after death. It seems that all of Earthly humanity has been resurrected on the planet. But why? And by whom?
That's what adventurers are determined to discover as they construct a boat and set out in search of the river's source, thought to be millions of miles away.
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.
Blackadder
BBC series for folks who wouldn't know a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord, singing “Subtle Plans Are Here Again!”Ok, that's a later season...
Thomas Covenant Series
by Stephen R. Donaldson
Before GrimDark was a thing, he was fantasy's loathesome antihero.
Thomas Covenant had been sick; now, in what felt like a dream, he is better than ever before. Through no fault of his own, he had been outcast, unclean, a pariah. Now he was regarded as a reincarnation of the Land's greatest hero.
The Peripheral
by William Gibson
2014 science fiction mystery-thriller set in near- and post-apocalyptic versions of the future. The story focuses on a young rural-town American woman who lives in the near future, and on a London publicist who lives 70 years thereafter.
Gravity’s Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. And at this point we could insert 500 pages of lorum impsum and people will claim to have read it.
Mayflower Poultry Company
The Mayflower Poultry Company shows up twice in Infinite Jest, (but not on the cover?) on neither occasion with that name given.
Dreamsnake
by Vonda McIntyre
In a far-future, post-holocaust Earth, a young healer named Snake travels the world, healing the sick and injured with her companion, the alien dreamsnake. But she is being pursued. . . .