42 Challenge: 01/05/09
Douglas Adams fans will recognize the significance of the number 42. The aptly named 42 Challenge is to review forty-two science fiction things: stories, novels, novelas, television shows, films and so forth. My collection will be a combination of stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and these novels:

1. Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom by Philip Hinchcliffe
2. A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
3. A Rebel in Time by Harry Harrison
4. A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle
5. A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
6. A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones
7. Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke
8. All the Colors of Darkness by Lloyd Biggle Jr
9. All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson
10. Alph by Charles Eric Maine
11. Apocalypses and Apostrophes by John Barnes
12. Becoming Alien by Rebecca Ore
13. Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl
14. Bombardiers by Po Bronson
15. The Candle of Distant Earth by Alan Dean Foster
16. Code of the Lifemaker by James P. Hogan
17. Crystal Line by Anne McCaffrey
18. Daughters of Earth by Judith Merril
19. Destination Void by Frank Herbert
20. A Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
21. Empire by H. Bean Piper
22. Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Engdahl
23. Exiles of the Stars by Andre Norton
24. Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
25. Gray Lensman by Edward E. Smith
26. Heechee Rendezvous by Frederik Pohl
27. I Sing the Body Electric by Ray Bradbury
28. Immortality Inc. by Robert Sheckley
29. Light Years Beneath My Feet by Alan Dean Foster
30. Lost and Found by Alan Dean Foster
31. Making Money by Terry Pratchett
32. Mind Snare by Gayle Greeno
33. Mountain of Mirrors by Rose Estes
34. Outcats of Heaven's Belt by Joan D. Vinge
35. Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton
36. Seven Worlds by Mary Caraker
37. Shiva 3000 by Jan Lars Jensen
38. Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye
39. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
40. The Artificial Man by L. P. Davies
41. The Boy Who Would Live Forever by Frederik Pohl
42. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K LeGuin

The above list is tentative. I know the goal is to review forty-two science fiction things but I think I will end up doing more. One of my goals for 2009 is to get back to reading science fiction.

I will keep the actual list of reviews here:

1. The Perfect Infestation by Carol Emshwiller
2. Seafarer's Blood by Albert E. Cowdrey
3. Dance of Shadows by Fred Chappell
4. All in Fun by Jerry Oltion
5. Texas Bake Sale by Charles Coleman Finlay
6. Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl
7. Catalog by Eugene Mirabelli
8. Heechee Rendezvous by Frederik Pohl
9. The Host by Stephanie Meyer
10. Unstrung Zither by Yoon Ha Lee
11. Doctor Who and the War Games by Malcolm Hulke
12. The Boy Who Would Live Forever by Frederik Pohl
13. The Tribes of Bela by Albert E. Cowdrey
14. Sorcerers of Majipoor by Robert Silverberg
15. Avenger of Love by Jack Skillingstead
16. Andreanna by S L Gilbow
17. The Heroes of Googly-Woogly by Dalton James
18. Stratosphere by Henry Garfield
19. Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
20. The Price of Silence by Deborah Ross
21. Doctor Who and the Three Doctors by Terrance Dicks
22. The Second Ship by Richard Phillips
23. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
24. Firehorn by Robert Reed
25. Destination Moon by Georges Remi Hergé
26. Explorers on the Moon by Georges Remi Hergé
27. A Rebel in Time by Harry Harrison
28. Retrograde Summer by John Varley
29. The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
30. Paradiso Lost by Albert E. Cowdrey
31. Adaptogenia by Wayne Wightman
32. Spaceman by Mike O'Driscoll
33. Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye
34. The Art of the Dragon by Sean McMullen
35. Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars by Ellen MacGreggor
36. Hunchster by Matthew Hughes
37. Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
38. Icarus Saved from the Sky by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud
39. Synarchy: Book 1: The Awakening by DCS
40. The Others by Lawrence C. Connolly
41. Enemies and Allies by Kevin J. Anderson
42. A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold

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