George Bennings's Personnel File

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Yeah, I kinda only have tales at the moment. Bit awkward.

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• A Mother's Love
• An Evergreen Affair
• Bending Over Backwards
• For Old Time's Sake
• No Smoking
• The Glorious and Everlasting Victory of Pablo Foxenflower over the Traitor Lazarus Wyrm

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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.

Pretentious Reading List™

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.

And I've decided I have to be socially conscious here. I don't want anyone giving money to an author who is a piece of shit. I've removed a lot of names from this list, mostly for either supporting Israel or supporting J K Rowling. Dead authors aren't counted, as the main purpose is to stop economically supporting these people rather than a blanket refusal to engage with their work.

Literary

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (+)🇳🇬

The Lessons by Naomi Alderman (+)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✡

The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes (+)🇬🇷

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (+) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (+)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Unnameable by Samuel Beckett (+) 🇮🇪

Selected Poems of William Blake by William Blake (+)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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 (+++)🇺🇲✡

The Iliad by Homer (++)🇬🇷

The Odyssey by Homer (+)🇬🇷

Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes (++)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (+)🇫🇷

The Book of Revelation by John the Apostle (+)🇸🇾

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 (++)🇺🇲

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (+)🇷🇺

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 Maria 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 (+)🇮🇹

Love Sonnets by William Shakespeare (+)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (+)🇮🇪

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (++)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (+++) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧🇮🇪

The Epic of Gilgamesh by anon.(+)🇮🇶

Non-fiction

Bolívar: American Liberator by Marie Arana (++)🇵🇪

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

The Reckoning by Patrick Bishop (+) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown (+)🇺🇲

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (++)🇺🇲🏳️‍🌈

The Red Prince by Helen Carr (++)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Bitch by Lucy Cooke (+)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (+++)🇩🇪✡

The Reckoning by Patrick Bishop (+) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The Red Prince by Helen Carr (++)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The Life and Legacy of Muhammed by Maria Dakake (+) 🇺🇲☪️

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 (++)🇺🇲✊🏿☪️

The Plantagenets by Dan Jones (+)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi (++)🇵🇸

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (++)🇺🇲

Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer (++)🇺🇲

Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (++)🇺🇲

Greece Against Rome by Philip Matyszac (+) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid (+) 🇸🇦🇱🇧

By The Fire We Carry by Rebecca Nagle (++) Flag

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 (+)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Ghost on the Throne by James S. Romm (++)🇺🇲

The Five by Hallie Rubenhold (++)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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

A History of Delusion by Victoria Shepard (+)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Longitude by Dava Sobel (++) 🇺🇲🇷🇺✡

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 Liars' Gospel by Naomi Alderman (+) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✡

Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker (++) 🇺🇲

HHhH by Laurence Binet (+++)🇫🇷

A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges (++)🇦🇷

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 (+++)🇺🇲🇬🇲✊🏿

Fatherland by Robert Harris (+)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Company of Liars by Karen Maitland (+)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Rizzio by Denise Mina (+) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Thriller/Crime/Adventure

No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay (++)🇺🇲

My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (+) 🇳🇬

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 (++)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The Examiner by Janice Hallett (+)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (++)🇺🇲

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

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 (+)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The Last Murder At The End of the World 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 (+++)🇺🇲

Good Night Sleep Tight 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 (+)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Memory's Legion by James S. A. Corey (+)🇺🇲

Terra Ultima by Raoul Deleo (+)🇳🇱

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 (++)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Star Wars: the Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire by Chris Kempshall (+) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (novella) (+++)🇺🇲✡

All Tomorrows by C. M. Kosemen (+)🇹🇷

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 (++)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Unto Leviathan by Richard Paul Russo (++)🇺🇲

The Science-Fiction Hall of Fame Vol. 1 ed. Robert Silverberg (+++)

Halo: Contact Harvest by Joseph Staten (+)🇺🇲

The Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky (+)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇱

The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien (++)🇺🇲

The Children of Hûrin by J. R. R. Tolkein and Christopher Tolkein (++) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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(++)🇺🇲✡

Graphic Novels

Maus by Art Speigelman (+++)🇺🇲🇵🇱✡

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore (++) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Watchmen by Alan Moore (+) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Peterloo by Eva Schlunk (++) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Plays

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (++) 🇮🇪

The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare (+++) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Mike Walker and Harlan Ellison (+++) 🇺🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✡

Corona by Mike Walker and Samuel R. Delaney (+) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇲✊🏿

Who Goes There by Mike Walker and John W. Campbell (++) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇲

Short Stories and Novellas

Historical Fiction

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

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

Fantasy

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

Horror
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Other Floor by Brian Evenson

The Sladen Suit by Brian Evenson

Windeye by Brian Evenson

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

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

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

1408 by Stephen King

The Repairer of Reputations by Robert Chambers

The Cthulhu Navy Wife by Sandra McDonald

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

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

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

Mongoose by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette

The Universal Library by Kurd Lasswitz

The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin

Scanners Live In Vain by Cordwainer Smith

Thriller/Crime

The Skin Trade by George R. R. Martin

The Brotherhood of Mutilation by Brian Evenson

The Honey Trap by Anna Zouroudi

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

Rides a Stranger by David Bell

It's In the Book by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

The Book of Ghosts by Reed Farrell Coleman

The Hand of Glory of Laird Barron