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Zane Has Undergone Deep Spiritual & Mental Rebirth by Reading:
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Perhaps one of his greatest books, because it draws on Dick's personal experiences with drugs & druggies. However, it is one of Dick's few books that deals more with Acharacters@ than really ideas.
Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons
Four books, but one really long story. I find they're like potato chips, you can't just eat one. (And that first book even snatched a Hugo.)
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
One of the best books about understanding the visual medium; not just comics, but the entire art of visual literacy.
Widowmaker & The Widowmaker Reborn by Mike Resnick
Is there anyone in science fiction today that writes books as quickly and as well as Resnick. I don't think so. This is another in his long line of western-style science fiction. Read these before they go out of print.
A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehaine
With a solid ear for dialogue and two interesting main characters, this first book in the Lehaine's PI series may some day give good old John D. MacDonald a run for his money. Read him before everyone catches on.
Cerebus, High Society, Church & State I & II, Jaka's Story, Melmouth, Flight, Minds, Reads, Guys by David Sim & Gerhard
The longest running independent comic book and these graphic novels (referred to as "phone books") are the best way to read the series. The series deals with the self-centered actions of the main character, Cerebus, and his continuing quest to find out what its all about - gold? women? godhood? There's a whole host of fascinating characters, such as, Oscar Wilde, and Groucho Marx.
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
One of these books that makes you take another look at the whole question of identity. Dick at his paranoid best. The book won the John Campbell award.
Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis & Derrick Robertson
This on-going comic book is one of the best on the comic stands right now. Its strange, science fiction city is the back-drop for the adventures of its gonzo style journalist, Spider Jerusalem. Spider's the type of journalist you like to read, but would kill if you met him in real life. One of the finest science fiction comic books ever done. [Well, there haven't been that many and most of them were really bad.]
A Deadly Shade of Gold by John D. MacDonald & Sleeping Beauty by Ross MacDonald
Two classic mystery books that go great separately or apart. Gold is another in John's long-line of novels about that lovable beach-bum, Travis McGee. He always gets the women, loses them and ends up with the money. Beauty is another in Ross=classic, "Miles Archer" detective series. The well-worn detective, Miles, is also stuck sorting out a dysfunctional family situation.
The Last Defender of Camelot by Roger Zelazny
In this great collection of short stories, Zelazny treats the reader to worlds full of poignant characters. Read them as collected or read them out of order.
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