My Favorite Titles in Science Fiction

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PLEASE NOTE that this is not a list of recommendations, but most are worth reading.

SHORT STORIES:

"Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38 degrees 54 minutes North, Longitude 77 degrees 00 minutes 13 seconds West" Harlan Ellison [The geographic coordinates are those of Washington D.C., but the Islets of Langerhans belong to anatomy, not geography]
"Davy Jones' Ambassador" R.Z. Gallun
"God's Hooks" Howard Waldrop [A truly wonderful fisherman's tale]
"How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good" Stanislaw Lem
"If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" Theodore Sturgeon
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" Harlan Ellison
"Midnight in the Mirror World" Fritz Leiber
"My Dream of Flying to Wake Island" J.G. Ballard [nice puns]
"Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" John Varley
"A Pail of Air" Fritz Leiber
"The Shirt's Tale, the Short's Story" Thomas M. Disch
"A Subway Named Mobius " A.J. Deutsch
"To Serve Man" Damon Knight
"Two Guys from the Future" Terry Bisson
"Up Schist Creek" Piers Anthony [Schist is a mineral; this is mineralogical sf]
"The World as Will and Wallpaper" R.A. Lafferty [Derived from The World as Will and Representation by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.]
"Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerly Dead" by Robert Sheckley

NOVELS:

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon Frederick Pohl
Blood Music Greg Bear
The Brick Moon Edward E. Hale [Probably the earliest story (1868) about an artificial satellite]
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Farmer in the Sky Robert Heinlein
Gladiator at Law Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
The Godwhale T.J.Bass
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel Robert Heinlein
I Am Legend Richard Matheson
The Man Who Folded Himself David Gerrold
The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham
Mission of Gravity Hal Clement
Neuromancer William Gibson
The Shape of Things to Come H.G. Wells
Syzygy Michael G. Coney [Find another six-letter word with three 'y's in it]
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne
The Voyage of the Space Beagle A.E. Van Vogt