- Mysterious Island, Movie and book (Jules Verne)
- Tom Swift and His Megascope Space Prober, Victor Appleton
- West with the Night, Deryle Markham
- Don Martin, Illustrator, Cartoonist circa 1960’s Mad Magazine
- Jurassic Park, or anything by Michael Creiton
- Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’engle
- Farewell to Arms, and anything by Ernest Hemmingway
- Magnificent Men in their flying Machines – movie
- Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler
- Minority Report and other stories by Phillip K. Dick
It was my birthday yesterday; seems apropos to post my own dad’s list, non?