• Dragon's Egg
• Roche World
• Flight of the Dragonfly
• Marooned on Eden
• Starquake

• The Integral Trees
• Lucifer's Hammer
  Best rendition of what would happen if a comet did hit the earth.
• Neutron Star
• Ringworld
• The Ringworld Engineers
• The Smoke Ring
• The Legacy of Heorot

• The Dune trilogy
  Complex, intricately constructed world/universe, filled with complex people enmeshed in intricately plotted storylines. Oh, and did I remember to say these are intricate stories? Frank Herbert's masterpieces. (Ignore everything else in the Dune "series" - they're simply embarassing disappointments after the original trilogy.)
• The Green Brain
  How insects prevented humanity from wiping them out and destroying the ecology.

• The Mercy Men
  Classic medical science fiction
• The Universe Between
  My personal favorite of all his stories.
• Raiders from the Rings
  An excellent space adventure book about the wrongness of alienation, fear and prejudice.

• Red Mars
• Green Mars

• Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers
  Parody of space opera
• A Transatlantic Tunnel
• Tunnel Through The Deeps

• The Demolished Man
  Excellent combination of science fiction, mystery, and psychological novel.
• The Stars My Destination

• Hyperion
• Fall of Hyperion
  These two are really a single book. Not kid's reading, either!

• Liege-Killer
  A series set in a near-future after war and ecological collapse has rendered Earth nearly uninhabitable. Humanity survives in space habitats orbiting the Earth. Then someone finds and revives one of the Paratwa - genetically-engineered assasins who helped trigger the war that destroyed Earth. This is the best book in the series.
• Ash Ock : the Paratwa saga, book 2
• The Paratwa

• Cities in Flight (two volumes)

• Tau Zero
  Classic science fiction where the plot is absolutely dependent on science - particularly, the theory of relativity.
• The Berserker series

• Sundiver
• The Uplift War
  "Uplift" is David Brin's concept of one intelligent species genetically engineering a non-intelligent species into intelligence. In the series, non-Solarian aliens have been doing this for millions of years, and believe that ALL intelligent species were uplifted by some other species. (Once a species has been uplifted, it is required to serve its uplifter for a certain period of time to "repay" them for the effort.) Then the non-Solarians meet humanity, which has no knowledge of having ever been uplifted! To make it worse, humanity has uplifted Chimpanzees and Dolphins into full intelligence.

• The Solarians
  A fascinating view of a humanity which cast away technology in the interest of developing the human mind.

• Mathematical Recreations
• 2nd Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
• Aha! Aha! Insight
• Aha! Gotcha!

• The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance
  General book about what science doesn't know! And this is real stuff, not the bogus pseudo-science crap that comes out in TV shows like X-Files and Psi Factor.

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