Posthuman Blues

Jason devoted yesterday's Busy, Busy, Busy post to personal top-ten lists. Not to be outdone, I'm devoting this post to top-fifteen lists. No particular order.

(Click here for more fiction and here for more nonfiction. More music? Click here. Movies? You know what to do.)

Fiction

1.) Memories of the Space Age (J.G. Ballard)
2.) Burning Chrome (William Gibson)
3.) The Stone Canal (Ken MacLeod)
4.) Titus Groan (Mervyn Peake)
5.) Distress (Greg Egan)
6.) Maelstrom (Peter Watts)
7.) Perdido Street Station (China Mieville)
8.) Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
9.) VALIS (Philip K. Dick)
10.) Random Acts of Senseless Violence (Jack Womack)
11.) Software (Rudy Rucker)
12.) The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson)
13.) Silicon Embrace (John Shirley)
14.) The Western Lands (William S. Burroughs)
15.) Only Forward (Michael Marshall Smith)

Nonfiction

1.) Pale Blue Dot (Carl Sagan)
2.) Across the Wounded Galaxies (Larry McCafferey, ed.)
3.) The Holographic Universe (Michael Talbot)
4.) Communion (Whitley Strieber)
5.) Equations of Eternity (David Darlington)
6.) Skeptics and True Believers (Chet Raymo)
7.) Politics of the Imagination (Colin Bennett)
8.) The Nightmare of Reason (Ernst Pawel)
9.) Dumbing Us Down (John Taylor Gatto)
10.) Strange Creations (Donna Kossy)
11.) Apocalypse Pretty Soon (Alex Heard)
12.) Gurdjieff (John Shirley)
13.) UFOs and the National Security State (Richard Dolan)
14.) Passport to Magonia (Jacques Vallee)
15.) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)

Music

1.) Fables of the Reconstruction (R.E.M.)
2.) Dummy (Portishead)
3.) The Queen Is Dead (The Smiths)
4.) OK Computer (Radiohead)
5.) So (Peter Gabriel)
6.) Until the End of the World (soundtrack)
7.) You Are the Quarry (Morrissey)
8.) Blue Wonder Power Milk (Hooverphonic)
9.) Remain In Light (Talking Heads)
10.) Outside (David Bowie)
11.) The Wishing Chair (10,000 Maniacs)
12.) Tears Roll Down (Tears For Fears)
13.) The Essential Simon and Garfunkel
14.) Out of Season (Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man)
15.) Music for Airports (Brian Eno)

Movies

1.) Dead Ringers
2.) Blade Runner
3.) Edward Scissorhands
4.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
5.) The Matrix
6.) Eraserhead
7.) The Elephant Man
8.) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1975 remake)
9.) Donnie Darko
10.) 12 Monkeys
11.) Miracle Mile
12.) Communion
13.) Crash
14.) Contact
15.) American Beauty