Each story was usually written by the original screenplay's author and sometimes had more detailed information about the story than the TV show. Many were by Rod Serling himself.

...Theodore Sturgeon, Fredric Brown, Fritz Leiber, and henry Kuttner/C.L. Moore? They all wrote roughly in that era, and their stories have a sort of SF "noirish" feel that the best TZ episodes had. Indeed, some of the shows were based on their stories. Tough to find these days, but worth it.

Fiction - The Flashman series

Non-Fiction - - Blowback by Chalmers Johnson

I have a vast variety of sources.

Also "The Last Camel Charge", and "The Lost Colony of the Confederacy".

Obscure chapters in American history that very few people ever know about.



"East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia"

Far less well-known than Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange", it is, in some ways, far more radical in concept. It takes place not in some dystopian future, but in what Burgess calls 'an extension of the present'.

It deals with themes like interpersonal communication, human reproduction and the various movements to either increase or decrease the rate of it, overpopulation, marital infidelity, atypical sexuality, and others.

Earth Abides is a 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer George R. Stewart. It tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and its rebirth. The story was set in the United States in the 1940s in Berkeley, California and told by a character, Isherwood Williams, who emerges from isolation in the mountains to find almost everyone dead.

Also, Stewart's Fire (1948) and Storm (1941) made an impact on me when I was a kid.

Fire: A fire started by lightning in the dry heat of September, and fanned out of control by unexpected winds. (I read it in the early sixties, then reread it just a few years ago and was amazed how how much of the basic fire fighting technology hasn't changed all that much)

Storm: A violent storm sweeps through California, taking on a life of her own. Making her way from the Pacific Coast, she gains momentum as she approaches the Sierra and transforms into a blizzard of great strength, covering mountain ranges and roads with twenty feet of snow. Originally published in 1941, Storm is a rare combination of fiction and science by a master storyteller, drawing upon a deep knowledge of geography, meteorology, and human nature.

By Mark Twain

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time by Dava Sobel

by Milo S.W. Higginbotham, Ph.D.

What a wild ride! Hang on to your hats, though. The Indy 500 is like a parking lot by comparison

It's about a normal couple that try to spread antiwar propaganda in Nazi Berlin.

Based on a true story.

They tend to be quite dark but well-constructed, and most of the translations are very good. Authors I like include Jo Nesbø, Jørn Lier Horst, Anne Holt, Henning Mankell (the author of the Wallander books, which were turned into a series on PBS starring Kenneth Branagh, but the Swedish series is better), Camilla Läckberg, Jussi Adler-Olsen (the Department Q series) and Arnaldur Indriðason. And I think it's interesting that there are so many books about deranged serial killers coming out of countries with such low crime rates.

*Beware of Parents* by the same.

Wolf

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Acid Dreams: The Complete History of LSD : the CIA, the Sixties and Beyond. You'll want to listen to some great 60's early 70's music after reading this.

First, I hate winter and love summer, so any books or movies that help transport me to warm, sunny days are good. "Dandelion Wine" transports me back to boyhood and summer, even though mine was in the '60's rather than 1928. The feelings and emotions in it are timeless. These words appear very early in the book, "Summer had gathered in the weather, the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow. You had only to rise, lean from your window, and know that this indeed was the first real time of freedom and living, this was the first morning of summer."