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... Wyndham - Day Of The Triffids (1951)
Clifford D. Simak - City (1952)
Fred Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth - The Space Merchants (1953)
Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End (1953)
Poul Anderson - Brain Wave (1954)
Jack Vance - Big Planet (1957)
James Blish - ... ... End
Charles L. Harness - The Paradox men
Ward Moore - Bring the Jubilee
Frederik Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth - The Space Merchants
Clifford D. Simak - Ring Around the Sun
Theodore Sturgeon - More than Human
Hal Clement - Mission of Gravity
Edgar Pangborn - A Mirror for O ... ... Pohl/C.M. Kornbluth books I could find, I picked up Venus Inc.... which turned out to be a volume collection The Space Merchants and The Merchants' War. I wound up keeping the former, though, since it was in much better condition than the other two. ... of Atuan
20 mar LeGuin, Ursula The Farthest Shore
29 mar Nourse, A Scavengers in Space
6 apr Pohl,F The Space Merchants
10 apr Del Ray,L Mood of Mutiny
15 apr Leinster,Murray Invaders of space
17 apr Winterbotham, R The Red Planet
20 apr MacConnell, ... ... or Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffery
On The Beach by Nevil Shute
The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
I would stay away from any long series or trilogies.
... writers in the 1940s and 1950s. They wrote separately but are probably best remembered for their collaborations, of which The Space Merchants is the most famous. Wolfbane was first published in 1959. The plot was a departure from traditional genre themes: to start a novel with the Earth ... ... Sturgeon was published in book form in 1953. The same year as Blish's A Case Of Conscience. You could even add in The Space Merchants and Gladiator-at-Law by Pohl and Kornbluth and A Mirror For Observers by Pangborn. all in the 50s.
Although less "nuts & bolts SF" didn't ... ... same author that wrote "the Sand Pebbles")
"Alas, Babylon; a novel" by Pat Frank
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
"The Space Merchants"by Pohl and Kornbluth
I think any of these would lead to a lively group discussions. I'll second (or whatever) the recommendations of A Canticle for Leibowitz, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Space Merchants.
Also, something by Philip K. Dick. The easiest ones to use for your purposes would be Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and The Man in the High Castle.
... ... short ones include Bester's The Stars My Destination (based partly on The Count of Monte Cristo), Pohl and Kornbluth's The Space Merchants, LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness (really fascinating gender roles theme here).
I think it's great that you're doing this! I hope you'll keep us ... ... Pohl
Babel-17 by Samuel Delany
...and for a little fun...
Retief in the Ruins by Keith Laumer
The Space Merchants by Pohl and Kornbluth
Mindswap by Robert Sheckley
and for those of you who are keeping an eye on me, (heheheh), there's always ->
... ... want to kind of stay on topic, yet still kind of lighten up, you could check out Jennifer Government by Max Barry and The Space Merchants by Pohl/Kornbluth ... ... de Poul ANDERSON
"Adam Link-Robot" de Eando BINDER
"Take Back Plenty" de Colin GREENLAND
"Planète à gogos" "The Space Merchants" de Frederik POHL et Cyril M. KORNBLUTH
"Gravité à la manque" "When Gravity Fails" de George EFFINGER
"Synners" de Pat CADIGAN
"Catch ... I just got done re-reading The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth a couple days ago.
Now I'm reading the sequel, The Merchants' War, and The Relativity of Wrong, an essay collection by Isaac Asimov. Another fine dystopian novel is The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth. Along the same lines is a recent novel, Jennifer Government by Max Barry.
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