#if you don't like strategy games you're not gonna like SMAC

[tanadrin]

I enjoyed listening to SHWEP and am checking out Perdido Street Station thanks to your posts. Would you mind sharing some more of your favourite media?

this is kind of a grab bag but here ya go: lord of the rings, the silmarillion, the children of hurin, anything by kazuo ishiguro, anything by haruki murakami, 100 years of solitude, love in the time of cholera, anything by jorge luis borges, terry pratchett's discworld series, neil gaiman's sandman series, njal's saga, egil's saga, the saga of hervor and heidrek, the rediscovery of man by cordwainer smith, anything by raymond chandler, anything by iain banks, the city and the city by china mieville, plus the two sequels to perdido street station, the inverted world by christopher priest, a canticle for liebowitz by walter miller, anything by octavia butler, anything by ursula le guin, anything by jane austen, gawain and the green knight, pearl (the middle english poem, not the steinbeck novel), as i lay dying by william faulkner, anything by kurt vonnegut, rice boy by evan dahm and its follow up vattu (both available in their entirety online), fine structure by qntm (also online), "the man who ate michael rockefeller" by christopher stokes, tooth and claw (the story collection) by t.c. boyle, frankenstein, hyperion by dan simmons and its sequels, house of leaves, waterland, the making of the atomic bomb by richard rhodes, anything by roger zelazny, edgar rice burroughs' barsoom series, ray bradbury's short fiction, dune, hart's hope by orson scott card (and his collected fiction, maps in a mirror), paradise lost, the andrew george translation of the epic of gilgamesh

(books i wouldn't recommend, exactly, but which had a formative effect on my taste include hart's hope by orson scott card, his short fiction omnibus maps in a mirror, dune, paradise lost, and the work of james joyce)

if you like scripted and informative podcasts, i will never stop recommending mike duncan's history of rome or revolutions, both of which are terrific. there's also a history of byzantium podcast that picks up where mike duncan left off with rome that is quite good, though i haven't listened to all of it.