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Jay’s Revised Modern Canon Modern American Literature 2022 Edition  American Science and other Fictions

                                

     Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Man in the High Castle, The Minority Report,  Lies, Inc., Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, Valis, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick

Mind in Motion: the fiction of Philip K. Dick, Patricia Warrick

     The Third Bear, City of Saints and Madmen, The Day Dali Died,  Secret Life , The Ambergris Trilogy ( City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: an afterword,  & Finch), Dradin in Love: A Tale of Elsewhen & Otherwhere, The Surgeon’s Tale, Komodo, The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, & Acceptance), Borne. Monstrous Creatures: Explorations of Fantasy Through Essays, Articles and Reviews, Dead Astronauts, Jeff Vander Meer

    Complete Works, H.P. Lovecraft

 H.P. Lovecraft: against the world, against life, Michel Houellebecq

An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia, S.T. Joshi

    Vorkosigan Saga, Lois McMaster Bujold

    Grimscribe, Noctuary, Teatro Grottesco, The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein and Other Gothic Tales, The Spectral Link,The Conspiracy against the Human Race, Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti, Thomas Ligotti

    The Left Hand of Darkness, The Lathe of Heaven, The Dispossessed, Ursula K. LeGuin

Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations) Harold Bloom

     Ring of Fire series, Eric Flint

     The Deep, Beasts, Engine Summer, Aegypt, Great Work of Time, Love and Sleep, Antiquities, John Crowley

         Wild Cards Series, Game of Thrones series, George R.R. Martin                               

         Intervention, Jack the Bodiless, Diamond Mask, Magnificat, Julian May

        The Maker of Universes, Philip Jose Farmer

        Creatures of Light and Darkness, Lord of Light, Amber series, Roger Zelazny

   The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov

   Dune series, Frank Herbert

   Venus Plus X, Godbody, Theodore Sturgeon

   Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury

` Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations) Harold Bloom Editor

   Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy, Illuminatus Trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson

   Mindswap, Dimension of Miracles, Options, Compton Divided, The Tenth Victim, Robert Sheckley

    Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection. Samuel Delaney

    Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, The Fresco, The Visitor, The Companions, The Margarets, Sherri S. Tepper

    Eight Worlds Series (The Ophiuchi Hotline, Steel Beach, The Golden Globe, Irontown Blues), Thunder and Lightning Series (Red Thunder, Red Lightning, Rolling Thunder, Dark Lightning) The Persistence of Vision, Good-bye Robinson Crusoe and Other Stories, John Varley

     Night Tracker series : (Demons Not Included, No Werewolves Allowed, Vampires Not Invited, Zombies Sold Separately, Vampires Dead Ahead,     Cheyenne McCray

     Hawksbill Station, Across a Billion Years,  A Time of Changes, Dying Inside, The Stochastic Man, The Face of the Waters, Kingdoms of the Wall , Sailing to Byzantium, Majpoor series, Robert Silverberg

     Native Tongue Trilogy (Native Tongue, The Judas Rose, Earthsong), Suzette Haden Elgin

     The Essential Ellison: a 50-Year Retrospective Revised & Expanded, Harlan Ellison, eds Dowling, Delap, and Lamont

     Dresden Files series, Jim Butcher

     Lyonesse Trilogy (Suldrun’s Garden, The Green Pearl, Madouc) The Languages of Pao, Jack Vance

     The Boat of a Milliion Years, A Midsummer Tempest, Poul Anderson

     Book of the New Sun series (The Shadow of the Torturer , The Claw of the Conciliator ,  The Sword of the Lictor ,The Citadel of the Autarch , and a coda, The Urth of the New Sun), The Book of the Long Sun series ( Nightside the Long Sun , Lake of the Long Sun , Caldé of the Long Sun , and Exodus From the Long Sun), The Book of the Short Sun series ( On Blue’s Waters, In Green’s Jungles  and Return to the Whorl) Gene Wolfe

     Aliens series, Gini Koch

     Blood Music, The Forge of God, Anvil of Sars, Darwin’s Radio, Darwin’s Children, Queen of Angels, Slant, Heads, Moving Mars, City at the End of Time, Greg Bear

     Song of Kali, Hyperion Cantos series (Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion) Ilium, Olympos, Dan Simmons

     R. A. Lafferty: The Collected Short Fiction (The Man Who Made Models Volume 1, The Man With the Aura Volume 2, The Man Underneath Volume 3,

The Man With The Speckled Eyes Volume 4) The Devil is Dead trilogy (Archipelago, The Devil is Dead, More Than Melchisedech- consists of Tales of Chicago, Tales of Midnight, & Argo), Sinbad: the Thirteenth Voyage, R.A. Lafferty

     Honor Harrington series, David Weber

     Chanur series: (The Pride of Chanur, Chanur’s Venture, The Kif Strike Back, Chanur’s Homecoming, Chanur’s Legacy), The Faded Sun Series: (Kesrith,  

Shon’jir, Kutath), Foreigner series, Merovingen Nights Series: (Angel with the Sword, Festival Moon, Fever Season, Troubled Waters, Smuggler’s Gold, Divine Right, Flood Tide, Endgame), Faery Moon, Russian Stories series: (Rusalka, Chernevog, Yvgenie), Fortress series, C.J. Cherryh

     The Lost Fleet series, Jack Campbell

    The Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, & Mona Lisa Overdrive), The Bridge Trilogy (Virtual Light, Idoru, & All Tomorrow’s Parties) the political-spy thriller trilogy  (Pattern Recognition, Spook County, & Zero History), The Difference Engine, The Peripheral, Agency, William Gibson

    Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire, Zeitgeist, Islands in the Net, Schismatrix Plus, Pirate Utopia, Bruce Sterling

 The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson      

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I am a former counselor, teacher, and debate coach who loves to read and write, and a student of literature, psychology, history, philosophy, and languages who loves to travel. Help me celebrate the lives and works of our great authors as a common human heritage. I can also be reached at jayofdollhousepark@gmail.com. Regarding my literary criticism on Dollhouse Park Conservatory and Imaginarium: My initial project was to celebrate the authors whose work I love on their birthdays, by reading something of theirs and writing an appreciation. I've now come full circle and completed the calendar year. These are the authors whose works have been my companions through life, and some new discoveries. Many of their books are ones I also taught in high school English classes; works thoroughly lived with. I also include reading lists by national literature, a Modern American Literature group of lists, and Best Books of the Year lists and reviews. There will occasionally be my own poetry as well; you are warned. I hope that you may also find books which will help you through life and bring depth and joy to your days. As to my aesthetics, I envision the mission of creating civilization as a game played by figures which represent conserving and revolutionary forces, as James Joyce and T.S. Eliot may serve as paragons of their sides of the board and reflect each other as partners in the great game of reimagining humankind, a result of the early influence of Herman Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game and Yasunari Kawabata’s The Master of Go, which I read during seventh grade, and Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, which I read the following year. Each of us, as with every author, musician, artist, scientist, or public figure, plays the Great Game on one of these dyadic teams. The function of conservatism is to buffer order from the shock of the new and withstand stresses and changing conditions without losing ourselves or undergoing morphogenic change, the loss of identity as structural form, or ruptures to our prochronism, the memory and history of our choices, successful adaptations and strategies of survival as expressed in our systemic form, the loss of our culture and traditions. The function of revolution and innovation is to capitalize on chaos as adaptive potential in dynamically unstable conditions, to adapt and shape ourselves to future needs and to transform, create, and discover new forms, meanings, and values. We need both conserving and revolutionary forces to envision and enact a thing of beauty, be it a person, story, song, film, theory, or any creative artifact of authentic human imagination and experience. A beautiful political structure may be judged by the same criterion as a beautiful poem; so also with humans and the values their actions embody. Thank you so much for your company on this journey. Regarding my daily political journal on Torch of Freedom, a voice of progressive democracy and the antifascist Resistance: I stand for liberty, equality, truth, and justice; a free society of equals. My America is a torch of Liberty and a beacon of hope to the world. I stand for the absolute structural and systemic equality of all human beings, and for the Rights of Man everywhere on earth. I am on the side of Prometheus; rebellion, chaos, anarchy, resistance, transgression, revolution, and the frightening of the horses. Herein I write as an agent of Chaos and Transformation whose goal in life is to become a fulcrum and change the balance of power in the world. For thirty-nine years now I have been engaged in antifascist action, democracy activism, and revolutionary struggle against tyranny and state terror for the liberation of humankind, wherever men hunger to be free. And so I offer to all of you the Oath of the Resistance as it was given to me in Beirut 1982 by the great Jean Genet as he formulated it in Paris 1940, in a burning house, in a lost cause, in a time of force and darkness, in a last stand and an act of defiance beyond hope of victory or survival; “We swear our loyalty to each other, who answer tyranny with Liberty and fascism with Equality. We shall resist and yield not, and abandon not our fellows.” Resist and fear not, O my brothers and sisters, for in resistance we seize our freedom and become Unconquered.

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