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Arnold Hermann's Recommended Reads
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A hand-picked selection of literary fiction, science fiction, and classic thought that inspired the worlds within Masks of God.
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1. Umberto Eco: The Name of the ...............Rose and Focaults Pendulum
2. Hermann Hesse: Orgelspiel, Glass ...............Bead Game, Steppenwolf, Klein ...............und Wagner, and Siddhartha
3. Franz Kafka: The Trial, The Castle, ...............The Metamorphosis
4. Edgar Allan Poe: “The Masque of ...............the Red Death”; The Narrative of ...............Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
5. Ernest Hemingway: Death in the ...............Afternoon
6. Mary Shelley: The Last Man
7. Albert Camus: The Plague, The ..............Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus
8. Luis Borges: The Immortal
9. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day ................in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, ...............ApricJam: And Other Stories
10. Maxim Gorky: Confession
11. Arthur Koestler: Darkness at Noon
Literary Fiction
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Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum.
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Hermann Hesse: "Orgelspiel," in Wege nach Innen, Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf, Klein und Wagner, Siddhartha, and Orgelspiel.
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Franz Kafka: The Trial, The Castle, The Metamorphosis
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Edgar Allan Poe: "The Masque of the Red Death," The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
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Ernest Hemingway: Death in the Afternoon
6.
Mary Shelley: The Last Man
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Albert Camus: The Plague, The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus (nonfiction)
9.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Apricot Jam: And Other Stories
10.
Maxim Gorky: Confession
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George Orwell: 1984, and Burmese Days
SCIENCE-FICTION / FANTASY
1.
Jack Vance: The Dying Earth series (The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, Rhialto the Marvellous), Planet of Adventure series (City of the Chasch, Servants of the Wankh, The Dirdir, The Pnume)
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Joe Haldeman: All My Sins Remembered and The Forever War
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Gordon Dickson: Childe Cycle Series (Dorsai!, Necromancer, Soldier, Ask Not, Tactics of Mistake, The Spirit of Dorsai, Lost Dorsai, and The Final Encyclopedia)
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A. E. Van Vogt: The Null-A series (The World of Null-A, The Pawns of Null-A, Null-A Three)
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Jack L. Chalker: Well of Souls Series (esp. Midnight at the Well of Souls), Quintara Marathon series (The Demons at Rainbow Bridge and The Ninety Trillion Fausts)
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Frank Herbert: ConSentiency Universe series (Whipping Star and The Dosadi Experiment), and Dune
14.
Roger Zelazny: The Chronicles of Amber series; Eye of Cat and My Name Is Legion
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Isaac Asimov: Foundation Series (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation), Nightfall, and I, Robot
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E. E. Doc Smith: The Lensman series (Triplanetary, First Lensman, Galactic Patrol, and Gray Lensman)
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H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Call of Cthulhu, and The Shadow Out of Time
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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Word for World Is Forest
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Philip José Farmer: The Riverworld series and the World of Tiers series
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Poul Anderson: Tau Zero and The Boat of a Million Years
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Arthur C. Clarke: Childhood's End, and Islands in the Sky
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Richard Matheson: I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come
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Frederik Pohl: The Space Merchants (with Kornbluth), The World at the End of Time, and the Starchild Trilogy
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Robert Silverberg: Shadrach in the Furnace and the Gilgamesh series (Gilgamesh the King and To the Land of the Living)
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Fritz Leiber: The Wanderer and The Big Time
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Michael Moorcock: The Blood Red Game and The Multiverse trilogy
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Robert Sheckley: Immortality, Inc., Cordle to Onion to Carrot, and The Petrified World
1. Umberto Eco: The Name of the ...............Rose and Focaults Pendulum
2. Hermann Hesse: Orgelspiel, Glass ...............Bead Game, Steppenwolf, Klein ...............und Wagner, and Siddhartha
3. Franz Kafka: The Trial, The Castle, ...............The Metamorphosis
4. Edgar Allan Poe: “The Masque of ...............the Red Death”; The Narrative of ...............Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
5. Ernest Hemingway: Death in the ...............Afternoon
6. Mary Shelley: The Last Man
7. Albert Camus: The Plague, The ..............Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus
8. Luis Borges: The Immortal
9. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day ................in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, ...............ApricJam: And Other Stories
10. Maxim Gorky: Confession
11. Arthur Koestler: Darkness at Noon
Historical Travelogues & Biographies
5.
Gabriele de Mussi: Historia de Morbo
6.
Karl F. Neumann: Russland und die Tscherkessen
1. Umberto Eco: The Name of the ...............Rose and Focaults Pendulum
2. Hermann Hesse: Orgelspiel, Glass ...............Bead Game, Steppenwolf, Klein ...............und Wagner, and Siddhartha
3. Franz Kafka: The Trial, The Castle, ...............The Metamorphosis
4. Edgar Allan Poe: “The Masque of ...............the Red Death”; The Narrative of ...............Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
5. Ernest Hemingway: Death in the ...............Afternoon
6. Mary Shelley: The Last Man
7. Albert Camus: The Plague, The ..............Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus
8. Luis Borges: The Immortal
9. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day ................in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, ...............ApricJam: And Other Stories
10. Maxim Gorky: Confession
11. Arthur Koestler: Darkness at Noon
NON-FICTION / PHILOSOPHY
3.
Nikolai Bukharin: Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology; Philosophical Arabesques
15.
Plato: The Republic, Parmenides, Sophist, and Timaeus
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Simon Sebag Montefiore: Stalin: The Court of the Red Czar and Young Stalin
28.
Gabriele de’ Mussi: Istoria de Morbo sive Mortalitate quae fuit Anno Dni 1348 | The most comprehensive translation of the text was translated into English by Rosemary Horrox in her highly regarded academic sourcebook, The Black Death (1994). Worthy of praise on the entire subject of the Black Death is the work by Robert S. Gottfried, The Black Death, Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe, (1985).
1. Umberto Eco: The Name of the ...............Rose and Focaults Pendulum
2. Hermann Hesse: Orgelspiel, Glass ...............Bead Game, Steppenwolf, Klein ...............und Wagner, and Siddhartha
3. Franz Kafka: The Trial, The Castle, ...............The Metamorphosis
4. Edgar Allan Poe: “The Masque of ...............the Red Death”; The Narrative of ...............Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
5. Ernest Hemingway: Death in the ...............Afternoon
6. Mary Shelley: The Last Man
7. Albert Camus: The Plague, The ..............Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus
8. Luis Borges: The Immortal
9. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day ................in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, ...............ApricJam: And Other Stories
10. Maxim Gorky: Confession
11. Arthur Koestler: Darkness at Noon
NON-FICTION: SCIENCE, PHYSICS, QUANTUM THEORY, COMPUTING, BIOLOGY, CLONING, CLIMATE
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Diederik Aerts: "Towards a Quantum World Wide Web," "On the Conceptuality Interpretation of Quantum and Relativity Theories," and "Quantum entanglement in physical and cognitive systems: a conceptual analysis and a general representation"
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Jennifer Doudna: "The new frontier of genome engineering with CRISPR-Cas9"
1. Umberto Eco: The Name of the ...............Rose and Focaults Pendulum
2. Hermann Hesse: Orgelspiel, Glass ...............Bead Game, Steppenwolf, Klein ...............und Wagner, and Siddhartha
3. Franz Kafka: The Trial, The Castle, ...............The Metamorphosis
4. Edgar Allan Poe: “The Masque of ...............the Red Death”; The Narrative of ...............Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
5. Ernest Hemingway: Death in the ...............Afternoon
6. Mary Shelley: The Last Man
7. Albert Camus: The Plague, The ..............Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus
8. Luis Borges: The Immortal
9. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day ................in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, ...............ApricJam: And Other Stories
10. Maxim Gorky: Confession
11. Arthur Koestler: Darkness at Noon
NON-FICTION: ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA, ALTERNATIVE (PSEUDO) HISTORY, FANTASTIC REALISM, PARANORMAL, PSEUDOSCIENCE, FRATERNITIES, CONSPIRACIES
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Guido Wolther (Frater Daniel): Danielis Magia Lunae
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Adolf Hemberger: Pansophie und Rosenkreuz Teil II