Books:
- Fiction:
- Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Brian Aldiss: The Canopy of Time (aka Galaxies Like Grains of Sand);
Starswarm;
Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (short story); Let's Be Frank (short story)
- Ray Aldridge: The Beauty Addict (short story)
- Isaac Asimov: The Caves of Steel; The Currents of Space; The Naked Sun; I, Robot
- J.G. Ballard: Manhole 69 (short story)
- Gregory Benford: A Dance to Strange Musics (short story)
- Thomas Berger: Regiment of Women
- James Blish: Cities in Flight
- Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles; The Machineries of Joy
- Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange, M/F
- Arthur C. Clarke:
Against the Fall of Night; Childhood's End
- Philip K. Dick: Impostor (short story); The Man in the
High Castle
- Paul Di Filippo: MacGregor (short story)
- George Alec Effinger: When Gravity Fails
- Greg Egan:
Oracle (novella)
- Robert Graves: I, Claudius; Claudius the God
- Frank Herbert: God Emperor of Dune
- C.S. Lewis: Out of the Silent Planet; The Chronicles of Narnia
- Jay McInnerny: Bright Lights, Big City
- Walter Miller: A Canticle for Liebowitz
- Larry Niven: Ringworld; The Ringworld Engineers; Neutron Star;
Tales of Known Space; Protector; A Teardrop Falls (short story);
The Fourth Profession (short story)
- William Gibson: Neuromancer; Count Zero
- Frederick Pohl: The Heechee Saga
- Rudy Rucker: Software; Wetware; Freeware
- Johanna Russ: An Old-Fashioned Girl (short story)
- Cordwainer Smith (aka Paul Linebarger): Scanners Live in Vain (short story)
- Norman Spinrad: Other Americas
- Olaf Stapledon: Star Maker
- Neal Stephenson:
Snow Crash
- James P. Tiptree Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon): Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (short story);
The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats (short story); The Screwfly Solution (short story);
Love is the Plan and the Plan is Death (short story)
- Vernor Vinge: A Deepness in the Sky; A Fire Upon The Deep
- Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle; The Sirens of Titan
- H.G. Wells: The First Men In The Moon; The Time Machine
-
Gene Wolfe: The Death of Doctor Island (short story)
- Non-fiction:
Books: Children's
Books: On Tape
- Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson: Dune: House Atreides, narrated by Tim Curry
Drink:
- Beer: Ayinger Celebrator;
Chimay; Corsendonk Abbey Pale Ale;
Duvel; Guinness Stout; Hen's Tooth English Ale; Hoegaarden White Beer;
Leffe Blonde Ale; Paulaner Salvatore; Samuel Smith's:
Imperial Stout, Oatmeal Stout, Winter Warmer Ale; St. Andrew's Scotch Ale; The Shipyard Export Ale;
Trois Pistoles; Wee Heavy Scottish Ale; Young's Double Chocolate Stout
- Scotch (single malt, of course): Ardbeg; Bowmore 17;
Cragganmore 12; Glenlivet 18; Lagavulin 16; Laphroaig;
Talisker 10; The Macallen 25
- Tea: Bigelow's Constant Comment;
Twining's Earl Grey, Russian Caravan
- Wine:
- Cotes du Rhone: Paul Jaboulet Aine: Parallele "45"
- Merlot: Santa Rita 2000 (Maipo Valley, Chile)
Movies:
- 12 Monkeys
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence
- A Bug's Life
- A Clockwork Orange
- A Taxing Woman
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- Addams Family Values
- Alien
- Aliens
- All The Mornings of the World
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
- Austin Powers: Goldmember
- Babe
- Back To The Future
- Bananas
- Beat the Devil
- Beetlejuice
- Blade Runner (Director's Cut version)
- Blazing Saddles
- Blowup
- Brazil
- Cabaret
- Casino Royale (1966)
- Chicken Run
-
Colossus: The Forbin Project
- Consuming Passions
- Crybaby
- Desperately Seeking Susan
- Diva
- Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)
- Fantastic Planet
- Farenheit 451
- Finding Nemo
- Forbidden Planet
- Galaxy Quest
- Gambit
- Gaslight
- Ghostbusters
- Hairspray
- How To Steal A Million
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Liquid Sky
- Mary Poppins
- Men in Black
- Metropolis (1926)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Muppet Treasure Island
- Napoleon Dynamite
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Performance
- Polyester
- School of Rock
- Some Like It Hot
- Splash
- Tampopo
- The Addams Family
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
- The Blues Brothers
- The Captain's Paradise
- The Crawling Eye
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- The Exterminating Angel
- The Great Race
- The Life of Brian
- The Little Shop of Horrors (the musical)
- The Man in the White Suit
- The Matrix
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
-
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as
Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the
Direction of the Marquis de Sade
- The Producers
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
- The Ruling Class
- The Witches of Eastwick
- This Is Spinal Tap
- THX 1138
- Toy Story
- Withnail and I
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Music:
- J.S. Bach (1685-1750): Saint Matthew Passion; Sonatas for Solo Violin in G minor and A minor; Partita for Solo Violin in D minor
- P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742), aka Peter Schickele (1935-):
1712 Overture;
Royal Firewater Musick
- Bela Bartok (1881-1945): Violin Concertos #1, 2; Music for Strings, Percussion,
and Celeste; The Miraculous Mandarin; Roumanian Dances
- Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827): Symphony #6; Piano Concerto #5
- Alban Berg (1885-1935): Altenberg Leider; Violin Concerto
- Luciano Berio (1925-2003): Sinfonia for 8 Amplified Voices and Orchestra
- Hector Berlioz (1803-1869): Roman Carnival Overture
- Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Symphonies #1, 2; Piano Concerto #1
- Anton Bruckner (1824-1896): Symphonies #4, 9
- Craig Burket (1955-): Agapae (for concert band, 1982); Apertures (for string orchestra, 1974); Canzona for Orchestra (1975); Homage to Bela Bartok (for string quartet, 1979); Meditation on Bosch's Terrestrial Paradise (for chamber orchestra, 1981); Music for Brass and Percussion (1981); Pama Gardens (for solo oboe, 1980); Telomere (for organ, 1982); Winter (for orchestra, 1980)
- Wendy (nee Walter) Carlos (1939-): Timesteps; Switched-On Bach; The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
- Jacob Druckman (1928-): Valentine
- Henri Dutilleux (1916-): Cello Concerto
- Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904): Carnival Overture; Cello Concerto; Symphony #8
- Edward Elgar (1857-1934): Enigma Variations
- Carlo Farina (1600?-1640?): Capriccio Stravagante
- Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613): Io Parto; Merce grido piangendo
- Charles Ives (1874-1954): The Unanswered Question; Decoration Day; General William Booth Enters into Heaven
- Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967): Dances of Galanta; Hary Janos
- Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006): Atmospheres; Continuum; Lux Etaerna; Requiem; Volumina
- Gustav Mahler (1860-1911): Symphonies #1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10; Ruckert Leider
- Marin Marais (1656-1728): Tombeau pour Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe
- Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992): Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
- Eugene Minor (19??-): The Strange Scene at Gibraltar Which Caused
Mild Concern In Bergen County New Jersey; Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old (operetta); Norman Blood (musical); Sisters (musical)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Clarinet Concerto; Divertimento in D for Strings; Symphonies #35, 39, 41
- Modest Mussorgsky (1809-1847): Pictures at an Exhibition
- Carl Nielsen (1865-1931): Symphony #5
- Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-): Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953): Symphony #5; Romeo and Juliet (ballet)
- Henry Purcell (1659-1695): Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary
- Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): La Valse; Mother Goose Suite
- Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936): The Pines of Rome
- Joseph Schwantner (1943-): Aftertones of Infinity
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Symphonies #1, 5; Piano Concerto #1
- Jean Sibelius (1865-1957): Symphony #2
- Solage (1300?-1350?): Fumeaux Fume
- Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-):
Hymnen; Kurzwellen
- Richard Strauss (1864-1949): Horn Concerto #1;
Also Sprach Zarathustra; Don Juan; Til Eulenspiegel's
Merry Pranks; Four Last Songs
- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971): The Rite of Spring
- Morton Subotnick (1933-): Four Butterflies; Silver Apples of the Moon
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893): Romeo and Juliet
- Ralph Vaughn Williams (1872-1958): Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis;
Sinfonia Antarctica
Music: Opera
- David Bass (1953?-): Space Opera; The Coronation of Esther; Springtime for Haman; Kids Court
- Alban Berg (1885-1935): Wozzeck; Lulu
- Engelberg Humperdinck (1854-1921): Hansel und Gretel
- Leos Janacek (1854-1928): Osud (Fate)
- Oliver Knussen (1952-): Higglety Pigglety Pop; Where The Wild Things Are
- Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006): Le Grand Macabre
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Cosi Fan Tutte; The Marriage of Figaro
- Richard Strauss (1864-1949): Salome; Der Rosenkavalier
- Giuseppi Verdi (1813-1901): Aida; Othello
- Richard Wagner (1813-1883): The Flying Dutchman; Parsifal
- Kurt Weill (1900-1950): The Threepenny Opera
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970): Die Soldaten
Radio:
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TV:
- Absolutely Fabulous
- Astro Boy
- Black Adder
- Dark Shadows
- Diver Dan
- Doctor Who
- Felix the Cat
- Flash Gordon
- I, Claudius
- Lost in Space
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- My Favorite Martian
- My Mother the Car
- Ren and Stimpy
- Robot Wars
- Rocky and Bullwinkle
- Space Angel
- Star Trek (TOS)
- Tales of the City
- Teletubbies
- The Avengers
-
The Invaders
- The Jetsons
-
The Man From
U.N.C.L.E.
-
The Prisoner
- The Simpsons
- The Time Tunnel
- The X Files
- Thunderbirds
- To Tell The Truth