Aaron Fuegi's Lists of Favorites

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FAVORITE AUTHORS (generally ordered by author preference with one favorite book or series listed as appropriate):

SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

• Ursula K. Le Guin A Wizard of Earthsea
• J. R. R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings
• Orson Scott Card Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead
• Robert Anson Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
• Neal Stephenson Snow Crash
• Matt Ruff Sewer, Gas, Electric
• Roger Zelazny (Lord of Light and Amber series)
• Frank Herbert DUNE
• George RR Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire series)
• Lloyd Alexander (Chronicles of Prydain series (aka 'Taran Wanderer' series))
• Steven K. Brust (Dragaera books)
• Neil Gaiman (Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett))
• Terry Pratchett (Discworld series)
• Daniel Keys Moran (Tales of the Continuing Time series)
• Raymond E. Feist Magician
• Douglas Adams Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency series
• Philip Jose Farmer (Riverworld series)
• David Brin The Uplift War
• Patricia McKillip (Riddlemaster of Hed series)
• Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (Deathgate Cycle series)
• Micheal Moorcock (Hawkmoon series)
• Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars and Green Mars
• Joan D. Vinge The Snow Queen
• Larry Niven The Integral Trees
• Robert Asprin (MYTH series)
• Anne McCaffrey (Pern series)
• Isaac Asimov I Robot and Foundation series
• Arthur C. Clarke The Fountains of Paradise
• Katherine Kurtz (Deryni series)
• Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

  Non SF/F

• Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Ayn Rand The Fountainhead
• Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
• George Orwell Animal Farm
• Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence
• James Madison (his Federalist Papers)
• William Shakespeare (almost everything)
• Aristotle Politics

OTHER FAVORITE WRITINGS (this is a separate category from authors as some authors' writings are not generally my favorite but specific books are or perhaps I have just not read enough of the author to know):
• Watership Down - Richard Adams
• The Bridge Across Forever - Richard Bach
• Scott and Amundsen - Roland Huntford
• Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Dragon and the George - Gordon R. Dickson
• Dragonsbane - Barbara Hambly
• Buffett, the Making of an American Capitalist - Roger Lowenstein
• Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

FAVORITE SHORT STORIES:
• Slow Sculpture - Theodore Sturgeon
• Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
• The Gift of the Maji - O'Henry

FAVORITE MOVIES(a sampling - alphabetical order): 7 Up and rest of series, Amelie, Batman, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, Best in Show, Blazing Saddles, Brazil, Bull Durham, Civil War series, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon', Dances With Wolves, Dead Poets' Society, The Decalogue, Dr. Stangelove, Duma, Fargo, A Fish Called Wanda, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Gods Must be Crazy, The Graduate, Heathers, The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit, The Iron Giant, Kill Bill: Vol.1 and Vol.2, Life as a House, A Man for All Seasons, M*A*S*H, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, My Dinner with Andre, The Night We Never Met, 'O Brother, Where art Thou?', Once, The Princess Bride, Raising Arizona, RAN, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Roxanne, Rushmore, Ruthless People, Schindler's List, The Seven Samurai, Sex, Lies and Videotape, Shakespeare in Love, The Shawshank Redemption (probably my single favorite movie), Short Cuts, Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan, Star Wars, Tampopo, This is Spinal Tap, Touching the Void, Toy Story and Toy Story 2, Unforgiven, United 93, A Very Long Engagment, A Walk on the Moon, When Harry met Sally, The Wild Bunch, The Wrong Trousers

FAVORITE MUSICAL GROUPS (generally in order, at least today): The Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Arlo Guthrie, Indigo Girls, Led Zeppelin, Eagles, Credence Clearwater Revival, CSNY, Bob Dylan

FAVORITE TELEVISION (no particular order - in some cases a particular episode is listed which I think amazingly good) The West Wing ("Two Cathedrals"), Star Trek: the Next Generation ("The Inner Light" - I actually generally liked ST:TOS better but this single episode elevates this series for me), Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Once More, With Feeling"), M*A*S*H ("The Interview"), Babylon 5 ("The Coming of Shadows"), Foyle's War, The Wire, The Sopranos ("College"), Fawlty Towers, Hill Street Blues, Arrested Development, Venture Brothers, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons

FAVORITE GAMES: Tichu, Cosmic Encounter(Mayfair and EON), Titan, Time's Up/Celebrities, Euphrat & Tigris, Poker, Spades, Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage, Mu & Mehr, Showmanager, Ricochet Robot, Black Vienna, 6 Nimmt!, Funkenschlag, Modern Art, Wildlife Adventure, Crokinole, Aquarium Derby, Battle Line, 25 Words or Less, Merchants of Venus, Timbuktu, Wyvern (CCG), Chess, Ogre/GEV, Illuminati, Loopin' Louie, Quack Shot, etc . . .

OTHER HOBBIES (besides Reading, Gaming and Computers): Backpacking, Cooking, Kayaking/Canoeing, Sports (Volleyball, Soccer), Swimming, Cats

POLITICS: generally Libertarian - the issues most important to me are Civil Liberties and the Environment.

RELIGION(or lack of religion in this case): Atheism

ALIAS: Sparrowhawk/Ged

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