my latest project...doing research

[demongrey]

Okay, see if you can add appropriate items to the following list. The genre should become fairly obvious upon reading it through.

Comments

[collacentaur]

Best guess at genre being Weird Science?

[demongrey]

close enough. Mad Science, taken broadly.

[soupkills]

I'm not entirely sure I have the genre right (some explanation would be helpful, since I haven't seen a lot of these :)) but Transmetropolitan will probably have some useful things. And is tasty-licious anyway.

Ooh, Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep and a Deepness in the Sky. Oh goodness yes.

Gurps Steampunk had a reading list that might be helpful.

The Belisarius series. David Drake and John Ringo. (first book is An Oblique Approach)

March to the Shore/Stars and another one I can't remember at the moment, also John Ringo.

Perdido Street Station, the Scar, and Iron Council, China Mieville

Some of the Oz series.

Wicked

Cryptonomicon

The Baroque Cycle

Waterworld

Batman

Spiderman, esp. Mysterio

Dr. Doom and Reed Richards from Fantastic Four

Ironman

I will post again after I'm home and I can review my shelves. :)

[soupkills]

some of what I posted doesn't fall under Mad Science so much as just "Invention/Inventor Driven" but should still be pretty appropriate.

[soupkills]

Oh! and of course.

The Illuminatus Trilogy. Science at its maddest.

[amy_pearlman]

If some of this applies, I'd add Otherland, which I didn't see on your list.

And there's a whole mess of fracked up cyberpunkish stuff which could qualify. Can I suggest you narrow your terms?

[soupkills]

Dr. Who is actually up there 3 times.

[demongrey]

There's Dr Who listed 1963-1989, again in 1996, and a third time in 2005. Also The 5 Doctors (1983) is a Dr. Who bit.

[calloocallay]

YOu may have already read these -
From Hell, graphic novel by Alan Moore
Deep Secret, by Diana Wynne Jones
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer - pixies and gadgets and the underworld.
Red Dwarf - so low budget I bbcgasm a little every time I watch.
Virtual Light and Idoru by WIlliam Gibson. My favorite of his stuff.
Snowcrash, well duh.
Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff
Sirens of Titan, Vonnegut - his scienciest one, I think.
Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny. Not so much science as pure concentrated Badassery.
Bellwether by Connie Willis. The scientists are the protagonists.
Anything by Arthur C. Clarke. I prefer the short stories.

[amy_pearlman]

Aaaaah. She mentioned Red Dwarf. Now we will never hear the end of the mad obsession...

(He's already quite obsessed with that)

[soupkills]

Oh. Sluggy. Duh. (chick magnet!) Also, User Friendly somewhat.