Friday, May 8, 2009

My Own Private Appendix

If everyone else is doing it, why can't I?

My own version of the famed Appendix N

* JRR Tolkien's THE HOBBIT and LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy
* Weis and Hickman's DRAGONLANCE CHRONICLES trology and "Test of the Twins" trilogy
* TSR "Endless Quest" books, esp. RETURN TO BROOKMERE and DUNGEON OF DREAD
* Stephen King's THE STAND and SALEM'S LOT
* Homer's THE ODYSSEY
* Milton's PARADISE LOST
* Leiber's Fafhnard and the Grey Mouser novels, esp. SWORDS AGAINST DEVILTRY
* Terry Brooks' Shannara books, especially WISHSONG OF SHANNAR and THE SWORD OF SHANNARA
* H.P. Lovecraft
* Robert E. Howard
* Miyamoto Musashi's THE BOOK OF FIVE RINGS
* William Gibson, especially IDORU, BURNING CHROME, ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES and SPOOK COUNTRY
* Norman Spinrad's LITTLE HEROES, DEUS EX and BUG JACK BARRON
* George Alec Effinger, esp. his Marid Audran novels
* Bruce Sterling, esp. HEAVY WEATHER and ISLANDS IN THE NET
* Brian Daley's Han Solo novels, esp. HAN SOLO AT STAR'S END
* Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy of STAR WARS novels, esp. HEIR TO THE EMPIRE
* Michael Stackpole's X-WING: ROGUE SQUADRON novels
* Robert Anton Shea's THE ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY
* Neil Gaiman, esp. AMERICAN GODS, ANASI BOYS, SMOKE & MIRRORS and FRAGILE THINGS
* the original STAR WARS trilogy of movies
* BLADE RUNNER
* TRON
* STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN
* STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY
* Monty Python and the Holy Grail
* ROBIN HOOD, PRINCE OF THIEVES
* Disney's ALADDIN and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
* GOODFELLAS
* the original BATTLESTAR GALACTICA tv series
* MILLENNIUM tv series
* THE X-FILES tv series
* LOST tv series
* THE PRETENDER tv series, esp. the first two seasons
* DARK SKIES tv series
* the first season of DARK ANGEL tv series
* Toho GODZILLA movies
* Kurosawa's THE SEVEN SAMURAI, THE HIDDEN FORTRESS and RAN
* BRAVEHEART
* MONGOL
* BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF
* the ILLUMINATI game
* the ARKHAM HORROR boardgame
* Queensryche's OPERATION: MINDCRIME and RAGE FOR ORDER albums
* Front Line Assembly's TACTICAL NEURAL IMPLANT album, esp. the video for "Gun"
* KMFDM's ANGST, NIHIL and XTORT albums
* Radiohead's THE BENDS and OK COMPUTER albums
* NIN's BROKEN and THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL albums
* Pop Will Eat Itself's DOS DEDOS, MIS AMIGOS album
* the art of M.C. Escher
* the art of H.R. Giger
* Chris Claremont and John Byrne's run on THE UNCANNY X-MEN, esp. "Days of Future Past"
* Mike Grell's run on GREEN ARROW, and JON SABLE, FREELANCE
* Mark Waid and Alex Ross's KINGDOM COME
* Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's original WOLVERINE mini-series
* Marvel's old STAR WARS, SHOGUN WARRIORS and GODZILLA comics

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