George Bennings's Personnel File
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Yeah, I kinda only have tales at the moment. Bit awkward.

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Adopted Pages/Collaborations:

Foundation Tales:

Stuff That I Need to Host Offsite Because All of My Best Ideas are Shamelessly Stolen from the Estates of Ellison and Christie

Peace, I Would Settle for That: a crossover with I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. From what I can tell it was deleted on 85+ which would make it officially the best thing I ever wrote.

And Then There Were None: a crossover with, uh, And Then There Were None. Not sure what this one was at when they deleted it.

Anyway, I haven't used this page for years and I presume literally nobody has ever looked at it, so I'm going to post a big list of recommended reading here. Is there any kind of consistent theme or quality? No! Does the list include stuff that objectively has zero literary value like Halo or Warhammer novels? Yes! Is it very inconsistent on whether or not novellas are included? Also yes!

Let's face it, the only two things I wrote that people even halfway liked got deleted with the crossover purge, so this is pretty much the best I can offer.

The more pluses, the higher the recommendation.

Literary

The Lessons by Naomi Alderman (+)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (+)

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (+)

The Unnameable by Samuel Beckett (+)

The Aleph and The Maker by Jorge Luis Borges (+++)

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (+++)

The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory by Jorge Luis Borges (+++)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (+)

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (+++)

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (+)

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (++)

A Tale of Two Cites by Charles Dickens (++)

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (+)

Room by Emma Donohue (+++)

Silas Marner, Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot (+)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (+)

The Collector by John Fowles (+++)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon (++)

The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon (+)

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (+++)

Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes (++)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (+)

The Metamorphosis by Frans Kafka (+)

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (+)

A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (+)

Moby Dick by Herman Melville (++)

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien (++)

The Damned United by David Peace (++)

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (+)

Ariel by Sylvia Plath (+++)

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque (++)

The Catcher in the Rye by S. D. Salinger (+)

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (+)

The Tenth of December by George Saunders (+)

Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini (+++)

Pulcinellopaedia by Luigi Serafini (+)

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (+)

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (++)

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (+++)

Non-fiction

Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen (++)

The Indifferent Stars Above by James Brown (+)

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (++)

The Red Prince by Helen Carr (++)

1177 B. C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric Cline (+)

Bitch by Lucy Cooke (+)

Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (+++)

The Red Prince by Helen Carr (++)

The King of the North Wind by Claudia Gold (++)

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (+++)

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann (++)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X (++)

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (++)

Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer (++)

Hunting Monsters by Darren Naish (+)

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup (+++)

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (+)

Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick (++)

In The Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick (++)

Mayflower: Voyage to War by Nathaniel Philbrick (+)

The Woman Who Murdered Babies for Money by Alison Rattle and Allison Vale (+)

Alive by Paul Piers Read (+++)

The Dreyfus Affair by Piers Paul Read (+)

The Five by Hallie Rubenhold (++)

Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny (+++)

A History of Delusion by Victoria Shepard (+)

The Borgias by Paul Strathern (++)

The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern (++)

A History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives by David Stuttard (++)

Historical fiction:

The Liar's Gospel by Naomi Alderman (+)

Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker (++)

HHhH by Laurence Binet (+++)

The Warlord Trilogy by Bernard Cornwell (++)

The Accursed Kings by Maurice Druon (+)

I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves (++)

Roots by Alex Haley (+++)

Company of Liars by Karen Maitland (+)

The Terror by Dan Simmons (+)

Thriller/Crime/Adventure

No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay (++)

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre (+)

The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John le Carre (+)

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (+++)

The White Road by John Connolly (+)

The Wolf in Winter by John Connolly (+)

Deception by Roald Dahl (+)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (+)

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (+)

The Brotherhood of Mutilation by Brian Evenson (++)

The Sanza Affair by Brian Evenson (+)

Maxwell's Demon by Steven Hall (++)

The Appeal by Janice Hallet (+)

The Curious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallet (++)

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (++)

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (++)

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz (++)

Call of the Wild by Jack London (+)

The Skin Trade by George R. R. Martin (+)

Ice Station by Matthew Reilly (++)

Temple by Matthew Reilly (+)

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson(++)

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami (+)

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (+)

Horror

Nocturnes by John Connolly (+)

Noctures 2: Night Music by John Connolly (++)

The Breach by Nick Cutter (++)

The Deep by Nick Cutter (+++)

Little Heaven by Nick Cutter (+)

The Troop by Nick Cutter (++)

House of Leaves by Mark L. Danielewski (++)

A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson (+++)

None of You Shall be Spared by Brian Evenson (+)

Song for the Unravelling of the World by Brian Evenson (+++)

1408 by Stephen King (++)

The Jaunt by Stephen King (+)

Misery by Stephen King (++)

Night Shift by Stephen King (+)

The Bone Key by Sarah Monette (+)

Equoid by Charles Stross (++)

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer (++)

Science Fiction/Fantasy

The Power by Naomi Alderman (+)

Foundation by Isaac Asimov (+)

Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov (+)

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (+)

Halo: Envoy by Tobias Buckell (+)

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (+)

Man After Man by Dougal Dixon (+)

The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin (+)

The Raw Shark Texts by Stephen Hall (+)

XX by Rian Hughes (+)

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (+)

The Children of Men by P. D. James (++)

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (novella) (+++)

Vintage Season by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore (+)

The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. LeGuin (++)

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (++)

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (+)

Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch (+)

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin (++)

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin (++)

The City and the City by China Mieville (++)

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (+)

The Scar by China Mieville (+)

Three Moments of an Explosion by China Mieville (++)

1984 by George Orwell (+++)

A Short Stay in Hell by Stephen L. Peck (+)

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (++)

All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet (+)

Unto Leviathan by Richard Paul Russo (++)

The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons (++)

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Ed. Robert Silverberg (+++)

Halo: Contact Harvest by Joseph Staten (+)

The Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky (+)

The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien (++)

Radiance by Cathrynne M. Valente (+)

Blindsight by Peter Watts (++)

The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts (++)

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (+)

A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum(++)

Short Stories and Novellas

Historical Fiction

The Fortress by George R. R. Martin (collected in Dreamsongs vol. 1)

Astronaut by Maria Davhana Headley (collected in Nevertheless She Persisted)

Fantasy

A Child's Guide To The Hollow Hills by Caitlin R. Kiernan (collected in The Very Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan)

A Long Cold Trail by Garth Nix (Collected in the Book of Swords)

Waterfalling by Lavie Tidhar

Horror
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Other Floor by Brian Evenson

The Sladen Suit by Brian Evenson

Windeye by Brian Evenson

The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Details by China Mieville

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe

This Mother's Love by Fran Tracey

The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft

It's a Good Life by Jerome Bixby

The Music of Erich Zann by H. P. Lovecraft

My Love, A Fishhook by Helen Marshall

The Shallows by John Langan

Where Angels Come In by Adam Neville

The Willows by Algernon Blackwood

Younger by B. K. Evenson

Palisade by Brian Evenson

Hurlock's Law by Brian Evenson

The Miracles of Saint Foy by M. E. Bronstein

The Ammonite Violin by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Andromeda Upon the Stones by Caitlin R. Kiernan

tis the Season by China Mieville

The Familiar by China Mieville

Go Between by China Mieville

It Only Comes Out At Night by Dennis Etchison

Critc by Ellie Towers

The Sea Was As Wet As Could Be by Gahan Wilson

The Night Wire by H. F. Arnold

Dagon by H. P. Lovecraft

The Outsider by H. P. Lovecraft

The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft

The Haunter of the Dark by H. P. Lovecraft

Hey, You Down There! by Harold Rolseth

The Candidate by Henry Slesar

The Mainz Psalter by Jean Ray

There Are More Things by Jorge Luis Borges

The Vegtable Man by Luigi Ungolini

Every Litter Bit Counts by Michael Allvalone

A Face in the Dark by Ruskin Bond

On Ice by Simon Strantzas

Rainy Season by Stephen King

The Lion's Den by Steve Duffy

The Front Room by Susan Hill

Born of Man and Woman by Richard Matheson

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Houses Under the Sea by Caitlin R. Kiernan

1408 by Stephen King

A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor

Literary

Ping by Samuel Beckett

Anabasis by Amal El-Mohtar

Rex by Jon Wallace

Celia and Harold by Patrick Whittaker

The Rain Horse by Ted Hughes

Science Fiction

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

Contingency Plan by Alexander Freed

The Future is Blue by Catherynne M. Valente

This Is No Cave by Catherynne M. Valente

Boojum by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette

Under Siege by George R. R. Martin

Spar by Kij Johnson

Kaleidoscope by Ray Bradbury

The Final Order by Seth Dickinson

To Breathe the Air by Brian Evenson

In View of Nothing by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Mongoose by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette

The Universal Library by Kurd Lasswitz

Episode 22 by Larry Correia

The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin

Thriller/Crime

The Skin Trade by George R. R. Martin

The Brotherhood of Mutilation by Brian Evenson

The Honey Trap by Anna Zourdoui

The Man From Nowhere by Edward D. Hoch

The Case of the Broken Sword by G. K. Chesterton

No Use For Good Men by Guy Haley

Off the Tiles by Ianthe Jarrold

The Footprint in the Sky by John Dickson Carr

The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace

The Part Time Job by P. D. James

Face Value by Stella Duffy

The Fifth Quarter by Stephen King

Scanners Live in Vain by Cordwainer Smith

Vintage Season by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

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