Mar. 6th, 2003

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The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years, 1953-2002
(according to the Science Fiction book club)

bold are the ones I've read
italic I might've read but I'm not sure

The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
Dune, Frank Herbert
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke (I'm fairly sure I own it in an omnibus, but I'm not sure if I've read it. I've read other CLarke, and he's not one of my favorites.)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
Cities in Flight, James Blish
The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison (except that one Philip Jose Farmer story. I found it unreadable.)
Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
Gateway, Frederik Pohl
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
Little, Big, John Crowley
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
On the Beach, Nevil Shute
Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
Ringworld, Larry Niven
Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
Timescape, Gregory Benford
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer
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OK, after further poking at the problem, here's what I need:

-- data is coming from a DB, is of variable length, and will contain images of varying size
-- output should a single file (not a tarball/zip of html + images)
-- the resulting file should be easily printable from the typical in-school computer
-- either the generating program needs to insert page breaks in reasonable places or the result needs to be editable with common software. So I need to either group bits of content such that there won't be a pagebreak in the middle unless the clump is more than a page, or I need to be able to tell how full the page is
-- preferably a module that will work with Perl 5.005_03

Here's what I've looked at so far:
PDF: pagination is difficult, if not impossible, and PDF::API2 requires 5.6, though some of the other PDF modules may work, if the pagination thing can be resolved.
Word: can't find a module to write Word. Word will handle HTML, but images remain separate files when done that way.
RTF: doesn't handle image
HTML: images are separate files.

Other formats? Modules to investigate?

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