williamjm Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 The Stress of Her Regard isn't Tim Powers' best book, but I think it's his best title. The semi-sequel Hide Me Among The Graves is a pretty good title as well.Life, The Universe and Everything and So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish by Douglas AdamsA Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge, I know it's been mentioned a couple of times already but it deserves mentioning again.The Year of Our War and No Present Like Time by Steph SwainstonAdolf Hitler, My Part In His Downfall, the first volume of Spike Milligan's war memoirsThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, great use of alliterationThe Stars My Destination by Alfred BesterThe Diamond Age, or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal StephensonTo Your Scattered Bodies Go by Phillip Jose Farmer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galactus Posted August 12, 2014 Author Share Posted August 12, 2014 So, this will take a bit of explanation: 吾輩は猫である (Wagahai wa Neko de aru) "I am a Cat" by Natsume Souseki I love the title of this book because of the way it's written. It translates to 'I am a Cat', but the way it is written has a very self-important and condescending tone to it, putting the speaker above his company, which fits the point of the book perfectly. The speaker in the book is an actual cat who sits around all day watching humans (and then makes fun of them for being lazy). It's purposely ironic that the cat looks down on the humans for the things they do while the cat does the same thing. I should probably explain my own: Den allvarsamma leken means "the serious game" (game in the sense of children playing, not in the sense of chess, or hockey, doesen't have the connotations of rules and such) but it also has a meaning as the word in swedish for "love" is kärlek, that means something like "dear/beloved play/game". It's just a great sentence. A few others I like: Against all things ending Attack of the Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse Ten Thousand Leagues under the Sea (and I guess, Around the World in Eighty Days) Repent Harlequin! Said the Tictocman Have Spacesuit, will Travel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 One Hundred.Years of SolitudeBeneath the Underdog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Star Smashers Of The Galaxy Rangers by Harry HarrisonThe Doors of his Face, The Lamps of his Mouth by Roger Zelazny.Look To Windward by Iain Banks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galactus Posted August 13, 2014 Author Share Posted August 13, 2014 Oh yeah I have no Mouth and I must Scream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sci-2 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Not exactly the same as your question but here's a good list: Awesome SFF Book Titles Other titles I like: God Loves, Man KillsThe Bread We Eat in Dreams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Oh yeah I have no Mouth and I must Scream Dammit I just thought of that one too. How about just any title from Dangerous Visions? The Einstein Intersection By Samuel Delaney and Babel-17 also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolverine Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Lots of titles I agree with on the list already but I don't think I saw: The Left Hand of Darkness For Whom the Bell Tolls was listed and I would add The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway is pretty good with titles IMO) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all swedes are racist Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Another Bullshit Night in Suck CityAlso Gun, with Occasional Music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 I remember that as a young kid, before having read most of this stuff (and I have not read all of them now), I was quite enthralled by many of Jules Verne's titles: Five weeks in a balloon, Around the world in 80 days, Two years of Holidays etc. (I also remember being confused at "20000 leagues/miles under the sea", because I knew the oceans were only about 11 kilometres deep at their deepest...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Marquis de Leech Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 . (I also remember being confused at "20000 leagues/miles under the sea", because I knew the oceans were only about 11 kilometres deep at their deepest...) I remember thinking that too. Though I did think how cool it would be to have an ocean 20,000 leagues (100,000 km!) deep, seeing as that is almost ten times the diameter of the Earth (are we talking transdimensional travel? imagine the pressure!). I also remember nitpicking Around the World in 80 Days on the grounds that Verne has Fogg manage it in 79 (he spends the 80th in a prison cell). Yes, I was a very strange kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Selig Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Alice Sheldon aka James Tiptree Jr. was particular good at coming up with great titles. The Boy Who Waterskied to ForeverAnd I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s SideHappiness is a Warm SpaceshipLove is the Plan the Plan is DeathThe Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to RatsHouston, Houston, Do You Read? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 I didn't think so far to take the earths diameter into account. In any case, some years later when I actually read some Verne all those obsolete units which were kept in the translation were highly confusing for someone used to the metric system who had just learned to understand feet, inches and (nautic and imperial) miles, because these occured in novels. Now there were in addition toises, leagues and whatnot, pressure units, meridians, often stuff I had not learned in school yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biter Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Tell The Wolves I'm Home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentRoamer Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 I remember thinking that too. Though I did think how cool it would be to have an ocean 20,000 leagues (100,000 km!) deep, seeing as that is almost ten times the diameter of the Earth (are we talking transdimensional travel? imagine the pressure!). Theoretically a water planet could exist with this sort of depth. However at 20,000 leagues the pressure would ensure any fluids existed in a supercritical state. Depending on the distance from the star it is entirely possible a planet could be temperate at that depth and not "frozen" but the pressure involved would essentially cause a supercritical state of any liquid and by extension this would mean the surface is not clearly defined. TL:DR - AT this sort of depth liquid H2O ceases to exist in liquid or solid state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 I like the snl skit where Adam Sandler (or maybe Rob Schneider) as Ned pesters Phil Hartman's Captain Nemo about being 20,000 leagues under the sea while Hartman tries in vain to clarify that leagues are a measure of distance not depth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veltigar Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 'In Flanders Fields' (EDIT: Poems count right?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theda Baratheon Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 All Families Are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HexMachina Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Of Mice and MenLord of the FliesHe Who Fears the Wolf (The original Norwegian title is Den som frykter ulven, apparently) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrum Aeternum Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Besides some already named... Last Argument of KingsI Am LegendA Canticle for LeibowitzChildhood's EndA Confederacy of DuncesBlood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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