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Sci Fi Reading List
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Reading is the easiest way to time travel and explore alternate states of reality and universes with different rules and norms. Let me know what I'm missing! Always looking for some good mind benders.​

  • Dan Simmons | Hyperion Cantos

  • Cixin Liu | Three Body Problem

  • Hannu Rajaniemi | The Quantum Thief (Book 1) + the entire Jean le Flambeur Trilogy

  • Frank Herbert | Dune Series, especially Dune and Children of Dune

  • Neal Stephenson | the Diamond Age, Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon

  • William Gibson | the entire Sprawl Trilogy, starting with Neuromancer

  • Adrian Tchaikovsky | Children of Time, Children of Ruin

  • James S.A. Corey | The Expanse Series

  • China Miéville | Perdido Street Station + the New Crobuzon Series

  • Iain M. Banks | The Culture Series

  • Yoon Ha Lee | Ninefox Gambit + Machineries of Empire Series

  • Isaac Asimov | I, Robot and The Foundation Series

  • Greg Egan | Eon Series, Permutation City, Diaspora 

  • Orson Scott Card | Ender’s Game

  • Margaret Atwood | Oryx & Crake (Book 1) + the entire MaddAddam Trilogy

  • Poul Anderson | Tau Zero

  • Karl Schroeder | Lady of Mazes

  • Peter Watts | Blindsight (Book 1) + the entire Firefall Series

  • Alastair Reynolds | Revelation Space Series

  • Martha Wells | Murderbot Diaries

  • Richard K Morgan | Altered Carbon series, aka the Takeshi Kovacs Novels

  • John Brunner | Shockwave Rider, Stand on Zanzibar

  • James Halperin | The Truth Machine 

  • Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice, the Imperial Ranch Series

  • Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson | The Wheel of Time Series (Books 1,2,3 then 9 - 12)

  • Stanislaw Lem | His Master's Voice

  • Mary Robinette Kowal | The Calculating Stars

  • Ramez Naam | Nexus Series

  • Robert A Heinlein | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

  • Lois McMaster Bujol | Vorkosigan Saga

  • Pierce Brown | Red Rising Series

  • Nnedi Okorafor | Lagoon 

  • Paolo Bacigalupi | The Windup Girl

  • Chang-Rae Lee | On Such a Full Sea

  • Patrick Rothfuss | The Name of the Wind / The Kingkiller Chronicles (book 3 soon plz)

  • Mary Doria Russel | The Sparrow + Sparrow Series

  • Linda Negate | The Last Good Man

  • Saladin Ahmed | Throne of the Crescent Moon

  • John Scalzi | Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas

  • Katherine Addison | The Goblin Emperor

  • Charles Stross | Neptune's Brood, Accelerando + the Singularity Series

  • Annalee Newitz  | Autonomous

  • M.R. Carey | The Girl with All the Gifts

  • Dennis Taylor | Bobiverse Series

  • Yevgeny Zamyatin | We

  • Catherynne M. Valente | Palimpsest

  • Bernard Werber | Empire of the Ants

  • Blake Crouch | Dark Matter

  • Olaf Stapledon | Last and First Men

  • Olivia E Butler | Seed to Harvest, The Patternist Series

  • John C Wright | Awake in the Night Land

  • John Wyndham | The Chrysalids

  • Peter F Hamilton | Salvation + the Salvation Sequence Series

  • Connie Willis | Black Out + the All Clear Series

  • Jeff VanderMeer | Annihilation + the entire Southern Reach Trilogy

  • Tal M Klein | The Punch Escrow

  • Ted Kosmatka | The Flicker Men

  • Michael Chabon | The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

  • Andy Weir | Artemis

  • Robert Charles Wilson | Spin, The Chronoliths

  • Neil Asher | The Owner Trilogy

  • Naomi Novik | His Majesty’s Dragon

  • Jason N Hough | Zero World

  • Paco Ahlgren | Discipline

  • Larry Niven | Ringworld Series

  • Malka Older | Infomocracy + the Centennial Cycle

  • Adam Roberts | The Thing Itself

  • Hugh Howey | Wool / Shift / Dust

  • Daniel Suarez | Daemon, Freedom

  • Bruce Sterling | Schismatrix

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