Book/CD/DVD/Film Store
Originally posted on 7 March 1998.
This is the Book/DVD/Film Store, where you can buy items that I think
might be of interest to 2300 fans.
Unlike the places listed in sources.htm, I
do make a profit from anything sold from this page (and I'm up-front
about it). One Man's Views of _2300 AD_,
offers these titles in association with Amazon.com,
which allows several
shipping
options &
payment options,
security, and privacy, and handles all
customer
service. If you don't mind supporting this site, here are some
recommendation for 2300 fans:
2300 Modules/Sourcebooks
Films with a 2300 "Feel"
Aliens Books
Cyberpunk Books
For those wanting to see different views of Earth in 2300, the Gibson and
Blade Runner books, especially, might prove useful research materials.
- Svaha,
by Charles De Lint. (Canadian indian mystic cyberpunk!)
- Vacuum
Flowers, by Michael Swanwick. (Cyberpunk, interstellar space
travel, and a plot of Byzantine complexity).
- True
Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier, by Vernor
Vinge. (Some say that this, and not William Gibson's
Neuromancer, was the birth of cyberpunk/space).
- Hardwired,
Walter Jon Williams. (Characterization, plot, gadgets, and
Corporate-controlled Earth).
- Voice
of the Whirlwind, by Walter Jon Williams. (Hardwired fifty
years later...)
- Angel
Station, by Walter Jon Williams. (Bioengineering and bionics
meets Free Traders... Recommended for Space/Cyberpunk campaigns like
2300!)
- Burning
Chrome by William Gibson.
- Neuromancer
by William Gibson.
- Count
Zero by William Gibson.
- Mona
Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson.
- Johnny
Mnemonic by William Gibson.
- Johnny
Mnemonic/the Screenplay and the Story by William Gibson.
- Schismatrix
Plus: Includes Selected Stories from Crystal Express, by Bruce Sterling.
- Islands
in the Net by Bruce Sterling.
- Heavy
Weather by Bruce Sterling.
- Mirrorshades
by Bruce Sterling.
- Globalhead:
Stories by Bruce Sterling.
- Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. This is the
novel that became _Blade Runner_.
- Blade
Runner.
- Blade
Runner 2: The Edge of Human.
- Blade
Runner 3: Replicant Night.
- Blade
Runner: A Movie.
- Future
Noir: The Making of Blade Runner.
- Retrofitting
Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's `Blade Runner' and Philip K. Dick's `Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'.
- Queen
of Angels by Greg Bear.
- Slant
by Greg Bear.
Other Interesting Books
- The
War in 2020, by Ralph Peters.
- Aliens,
Robots, and Spaceships.
- Androids,
Humanoids, and other Science Fiction Monsters: Science and Soul in
Science Fiction Films.
- The
Complete Bolo by Keith Laumer. [Everybody's favorite AI Tanks!]
- Bolo
Brigade by Keith Laumer and William H. Keith, Jr.
- Bolo:
Annals of the Dinochrome Brigade (1986) by Keith Laumer.
- Bolo:
The Annals of the Dinochrome Brigade (1976) by Keith Laumer.
- Rogue
Bolo by Keith Laumer.
- Honor
of the Regiment (Bolos, book 1) Edited by Keith Laumer and Bill
Fawcett.
- The
Unconquerable (Bolos, book 2) by Keith Laumer.
- The
Triumphant (Bolos, book 3) Edited by Keith Laumer.
- Last
Stand (Bolos, book 4) Edited by Keith Laumer and Bill Fawcett.
- Fantastic
Voyages: Learning Science Through Science Fiction Films.
- March
or Die (The Fifth Foreign Legion #1) by Andrew and William Keith.
- Honor
and Fidelity (The Fifth Foreign Legion #2) by Andrew and William Keith.
- Cohort
of the Damned (The Fifth Foreign Legion #3) by Andrew Keith.
- March
or Die: A New History of the French Foreign Legion by Tony Geraghty
(1987). [The Real Life Legion Etrangere.]
- March
or Die: A New History of the French Foreign Legion by Tony Geraghty
(1990). [Reprint of the above.]
- The
French Foreign Legion. [Another factual account of the FFL.]
- The
French Foreign Legion: The Inside Story by John Robert Young.
[Another look at the FFL.]
- The
French Foreign Legion: The Inside Story by John Robert Young.
- Cal 98
H.R. Giger. [H. R. Giger did the artwork for Alien.]
- Giger's
Alien.
- H.R.
Giger's Biomechanics.
- H.R.
Giger's Film Design.
- H.R.
Giger's Necronomicon.
- H.R.
Giger's Necronomicon II.
- H.R.
Giger's Retrospective: 1964-1984.
- Species
Design.
- Www.HRGiger.com.
- The
Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven. [Colonists to Tau Ceti have one
major problem in living on their new world: the Grendels!]
- Beowulf's
Children by Larry Niven, Steven Barnes, and Jerry Pournelle. [The
sons and daughters of the original colonists aren't happy on Camelot,
their island home, so they return to Avalon; land of the Grendels.]
- The
Reality Dysfunction: Emergence by Peter F. Hamilton. [A trilogy
in six volumes about future mankind's war with itself.]
- The
Reality Dysfunction: Expansion.
- The
Neutronium Alchemist: Consolidation by Peter F. Hamilton.
[Sequel/continuation to the above.]
- The
Neutronium Alchemist: Conflict.
- Replicants:
A Robotic History of the Science Fiction Film.
- Science
Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia.
- Science
in Cinema: Teaching Science Fact Through Science Fiction Film.
Gearhead Stuff
- The
Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
by Robert Zubrin and Richard Wagner. Written by aerospace engineering
experts, this book claims that we can go to Mars now, with today's (even
yesterday's) technology, on less than 1% of the national budget!
- Fantastic
Voyages: Learning Science Through Science Fiction Films, by Leroy
W. Dubeck and Suzanne E. Moshier. Using Sci-Fi films to illustrate the
laws of science (or their breakage).
- Faster
Than Light: Superluminal Loopholes in Physics, by Nick Herbert.
A leading expert in quantumn theory explains how FTL communications and
travel are being explored by scientists.
- The
Grand Encampment: Settling the High Country, by Candy Vyvey
Moulton.
- Halfway
to Anywhere: Achieving America's Destiny in Space, by G. Harry
Stine and Pete Conrad. Covers the development of the reusable DC-X SSTO
(Single-Stage-To-Orbit) vehicle built in 20 months from parts found in
space junkyards and WalMart, and flown and tested from 1993 to 1995!
This is the first edition.
- Halfway
to Anywhere: (Updated Paperback 2nd Edition), by G. Harry Stine,
Wolfgang Demisch, and Pete Conrad.
- High
Frontier: Human Colonies in Space, by Dr. Gerard K. O'Neil. A
tenured professor of Physics at Princeton looks at the possibilities (and
economic feasibilities) of colonizing space with 1970s and '80s
technology.
- Islands
in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space. Edited by
Stanley Schmidt and Robert Zubrin. A collection of "Analog" Sci-Fi
magazine articles on multiple aspects of colonizing space.
- Living
in Space, by G. Harry Stine. Conditions, health hazards,
physical requirements, etc., for being there long-term.
- The
Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps, by
Marshall T. Savage (with introduction by Arthur Charles Clarke). An
enginner's views on how to colonize the galaxy, with each step paying for
the next. Begin with floating ocean cities, move into space, go back to
the moon, terraform Mars...
- Mining
the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets,
by John S. Lewis. Co-director of the NASA/University of Arizona Space
Engineering Research Center argues the possibilities and profitabilities
of "Mining the Sky". 41.25 sextillion dollars worth of iron, alone (not
to mention the gold, silver, copper, manganese, titanium, uranium, and
other materials comprising the asteroids) are powerful economic
incentives for going!
- Outbound
(Voyage Through the Universe) © 1989 by Time-Life Books.
Contains lots of good information on human tolerances (temperature,
pressure, radiation, etc).
- PERMANENT by
Marc Prado. Projects to Employ the Resources of the Moon and Asteroids
Near Earth in the Near Term.
- Science
in Cinema: Teaching Science Fact Through Science Fiction Film, by
Leroy W. Dubeck, Suzanne E. Moshier, and Judith E. Boss. Similar to
their "Fantastic Voyages" book, above.
- Suiting
Up for Space: The Evolution of the Space Suit, by Lloyd Mallan.
Out of print, but considered the best of the spacesuits bunch.
- Space
Walks, by Robin Kerrod. This one's also out of print.
- The
Starflight Handbook: A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travel
(Wiley Science Edition), by Eugene F. Mallove and Gregory L. Matloff.
- U.S.
Space Gear: Outfitting the Astronaut, by Lillian D. Kozloski,
Smithsonian Press. More coverage of spaceflights, than the suits, but
this one's still in print, so it's easier to find.
- .
Can't find what you want? Search Amazon.com!
Back to One Man's Views of _2300 AD_.