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, online)
Vinge, "a deepness in the sky"
Walter Jon William, "hardwired". But read other cyberpunk first.
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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"
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"
Sep 13, 2026
"the expanse" (Really should have been on this list since 2012.)
"the mercy of gods" (Shaping up to be just as good.)
Walter Jon William, "implied spaces"
Adrian Tchaikovsky, "alien clay"
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