I find it a bit difficult to accept however, that the list has no Lem and no Lovecraft in it.
Do you work in IT by any chance? That sounds like the kind of stuff the IT department at my last university had to deal with.Funny thing about computers. I set up 10 identical towers. I made a 'clone' of the setup, and pushed it to the machines. Yet, once you fire up the newly cloned PC, they each have different updates needed and have different weirndness to fix. One the printer doesn't work, but it does on the other 9. One PDF viewer doesn't work.
Computers are fun.
I've read 15 of the sci-fi books mentioned. Not a big cinema fan so my performance on the other one would be awful.