The Sword and Laser discussion

Okay, I got to 16. Someone else take a turn.



In case you can't see the photo clearly, the books are:
Ready Player One
The Two Towers
Three
Four Ways to Forgiveness
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Six-Gun Tarot
Seven Soldiers of Victory
Eight Skilled Gentlemen
Nine Princes in Amber
Top 10
Station Eleven
The Twelve
Thirteen
14
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
16 Heatherdale Drive

Babel-17 has got to be next.

Nice!

Sixteen broke me. If I wanted to venture outside Swordy-Lasery picks, "Sweet 16" books are a dime a baker's dozen.

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EDIT 2023 - nearly nine years later, there is

Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

Not genre but it's the only one I could think of.

Eighteen Acres

I'm thinking the next one can only be...

1984

I was trying to stick to actual numbers rather than segments of other numbers. I find the added degree of difficulty adds to the enjoyment.

18

Squad 19

Twenty Palaces

21st Century Dead: A Zombie Anthology

The 22nd Gear

23 Hours: A Vengeful Vampire Tale

Four and Twenty Blackbirds

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Anyone find anything higher than this? (Excluding anything with infinity in it.) The Nine Billion Names of God

There are tons of books with the word trillion in it.

You also have this.
Large Integers: Googolplex, Ackermann Function, Fermat Number, Busy Beaver, Rsa Numbers, Graham's Number, Googol, Archimedes' Cattle Problem

I like book titles that do interesting things with numbers, like Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence. The logical reading order is, as almost always, the order of publication. You can, however, read them in any order, but for people who like to read things in in-world chronological order he gave the books some helpful titles:

Three Parts Dead
Two Serpents Rise
Full Fathom Five
and the upcoming:
Last First Snow
and one with "four" in the title should be coming out sometime later.

Kevin wrote: "I like book titles that do interesting things with numbers, like Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence. The logical reading order is, as almost always, the order of publication. You can, however, read the..."

So the book with Three in the title is one, the one with Two in the title is second, the sequel with Five in the title is third, while First is fourth and fourth will be fifth.

I don't get this new Common Core math stuff at all.

AndrewP wrote: "Anyone find anything higher than this? (Excluding anything with infinity in it.) The Nine Billion Names of God"

Sure: Count to a Trillion

Ooh, I forgot about this one: The Ninety Trillion Fausts

Continuing the count-up:
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The 26-Storey Treehouse (It has an antigravity chamber and a Maze of Doom, so it counts.)

Twenty-Seven

Twenty-Eight Teeth of Rage

Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes

29

30 Days Of Night

I might have to leave our usual genres briefly:


Thirty-One Brothers and Sisters
Thirty-One and a Half Regrets
Thirty-Two-Year-Old Day Tripper
Part Thirty-three: Justice
Thirty Four Minutes Dead

Joe Informatico wrote: "I might have to leave our usual genres briefly:"

It is pretty difficult at this point, but as long as we don't devolve into recipe or exercise books, most fiction ought to suffice. :p

Two thirty-fives!

Deja: Ghost of the 35th

The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D.

There are actually quite a few books with 36 as the title.

The Thirty-Six

37 Miles

Willie-Washer's Local No. 38

i don't wanna be the one to do this but i will.


...not in title but on the cover anyway ^_^

Forty Signs of Rain

Should have started with this, I guess...

Year Zero

The Forty First Wink

42 Things to Do When You're the Last Man on Earth

Version 43

Letter 44 Volume 1: Escape Velocity

45

It's not in the Goodreads database, but I found it on Amazon: Tom 46

47 Ronin

48

49 DAYS

50 Ways to Hex Your Lover

Directive 51

52, Vol. 1

53 Letters for My Lover

54

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

'56

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare

The 58th Keeper

'59

Sixty Days and Counting

61 Hours

Edit: Oops. Sorry guys. ^_^;

That's not SF or F is it?

Sixty-One Nails

A. D. 62: Pompeii

Dallas 63 (11/22/63)

This is not SFF but I actually loved this book

The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden

It so true, I spend several hundred dollars a year on my garden every spring to get a few mediocre tomatoes in the end.

Sky wrote: "This is not SFF but I actually loved this book

[bookcover:The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden..."

Ah, you got my hopes up!

This is getting difficult. Finding numbers in the thousands, millions and billions is actually easier.

Celebrate 65 Batman '66, Vol. 1

64 is a hard one. You'd think there'd be a lot with 64-bit, Commodore 64, etc.

I came across this, I think I will get it used on Amazon. Contains the source code for 4 ancient C-64 adventure games...Time to fire up my cross compiler and emulator! Though probably the source code is all in BASIC :P

Exploring Adventures on the Commodore 64

Anyways, maybe this is as close as you can get

Zombie High Yearbook '64

For 64 you could have Sixty-Four Chance Pieces: A Book of Changes a lot of the stories are fantasy.

Oh, both of those 64s are excellent. Good finds!

Batman '66 is fine, too, but the typographic one is outside the SFF sandbox. (Just trying to keep the thread within the boundaries of the group.)

Waystation 65

And for when we get there:

Dinosaurs: 65 Million.

The Secret in 67P

68 Knots

Prisoner Sixty-Nine

'I am not a Prisoner. I am an autonomous android! Hang on a minute...sixty-nine? Why sixty-nine?'

'That was the year you were manufactured. 1969.'

'Yes, but...sixty-nine? People are so going to get the wrong idea...'

Tassie Dave wrote: " Prisoner Sixty-Nine

'I am not a Prisoner. I am an autonomous android! Hang on a minute...sixty-nine? Why sixty-nine?'

'That was the year you were manufactured. 1969.'

'Yes, bu..."

I am not a number! :)

Seventy

or

The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude