[nazgulnarsil]

Here is a real list, shorter and MUCH higher quality: 1. The Cyberiad 2. Babel-17 3. The Stars My Destination 4. The Sheep Look Up 5. More Than Human 6. Lord of Light 7. To Your Scattered Bodies Go 8. Earth Abides 9. Dying Inside 10. City 11. Last and First Men 12. Slan 13. The World of Null-A

[alex_c]

The only one I've read from your list is The Cyberiad - but that's enough to make me take the rest of your list seriously :)

[queensnake]

The Sheep Look Up++ - a book that makes it possible to imagine how bad things could get, a faculty that helps keep you alert, and out of thinking "How bad could it be? Everything will go on as normal". Funny, we have a lite version of it - we have risen+rising cancer rates, and chemicals being 'innocent til proven guilty' here in the States. Something that still awes me, though perhaps it shouldn't, is the way organic food fits the role of Puritan so exactly.