Jun 2, 2006
My Favorite Science Fiction
  • Egan, "permutation city". But read the other Egans first.
  • Cherryh, "cuckoo's egg"
  • Brin, "kiln people"
  • Modesitt, "archform: beauty"
  • Neal Stephenson, "diamond age"
  • Clarke, "childhood's end"
  • Le Guin, "the dispossessed"
  • Bradbury, "fahrenheit 451"
  • Heinlein, "starship troopers"
  • Haldeman, "forever war"
  • Dan Simmons, "hyperion cantos"
  • Stross, "accelerando" (online)
  • Vinge, "a deepness in the sky"
  • Walter Jon William, "hardwired". But read other cyberpunk first. http://reddit.com/info/72lt/comments#c735f

    Dec 30, 2009

  • Stephen Baxter, "destiny's children"
  • Clarke, "tales from the white hart"
  • Stross, Glasshouse

    Jan 19, 2015

  • William Gibson, "pattern recognition"
  • Walter M Miller Jr, "a canticle for leibowitz"
  • Watts, "blindsight"
  • Neal Stephenson, "anathem"
  • Richard Morgan, "altered carbon"
  • Cherryh, "hammerfall"
  • Banks, "the algebraist"
  • Stross, "neptune's brood"
  • Leckie, "ancillary justice"

    Jul 14, 2015

  • Kim Stanley Robinson, "aurora"

    Aug 16, 2016

  • Adrian Tchaikovsky, "children of time"

    Sep 15, 2021

  • Arkady Martine, "a memory of empire"
  • Hamilton, "pandora's star"
  • Cawdron, "retrograde"

    Apr 15, 2022

  • Hamilton, "salvation"
  • Neal Stephenson, "termination shock"
  • Andy Weir, "project hail mary"

    Comments gratefully appreciated. Please send them to me by any method of your choice and I'll include them here.

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