Revelation Space ,by Alastair Reynolds, copyright © 2000 by Orion Publishing Group; Berkley Publishing Group/Penguin Group (USA) Inc./Penguin Books Ltd.; June 2002; 15th printing; ISBN 978-0-441-00942-8.

I haven't read as much science fiction as I once did, but I've been reading more of it again in the last year or so. I got Reynolds' Pushing Ice from the library, and enjoyed it, so I bought Revelation Space, and was hooked.

Three Hearts and Three Lions, by Poul Anderson; copyright 1953 by Fantasy House, Inc.; copyright 1961 by Poul Anderson.; Berkely Medallion Books/Perkley Publishing Corporation; April 1978; second printing; SBN 425-03680-4; published by arrangement with Doubleday & Company, Inc.

This is one of the books Gary Gygax lists in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Masters Guide, APPENDIX N: INSPIRATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL READING.