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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.​

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

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

  • Cixin Liu | Three Body Problem

  • William Gibson | Neuromancer (Book 1) + the entire Sprawl Trilogy

  • Dan Simmons | Hyperion Cantos

  • NK Jemisin | Broken Earth Trilogy

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

  • Ursula K. LeGuin | The Lathe of Heaven, The Left Hand of Darkness 

  • Bruce Sterling | Schismatrix

  • Isaac Asimov | I, Robot and The Foundation Series

  • Greg Egan | Eon Series, Permutation City, Diaspora 

  • Iain M. Banks | The Culture Series

  • Orson Scott Card | Ender’s Game

  • Adrian Tchaikovsky | Children of Time, Children of Ruin

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

  • Poul Anderson | Tau Zero

  • Karl Schroeder | Lady of Mazes

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

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

  • Alastair Reynolds | Revelation Space Series

  • Kim Stanley Robinson | Mars Trilogy

  • Martha Wells | Murderbot Diaries

  • Richard K Morgan | Altered Carbon, 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)

  • Brandon Sanderson | Mistborn, The Wax and Wayne Series

  • Stanislaw Lem | His Master's Voice

  • Mary Robinette Kowal | The Calculating Stars

  • Yoon Ha Lee | Revenant Gun

  • James S.A. Corey | The Expanse Series

  • 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

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

  • Patrick Rothfuss | The Name of the Wind + The Kingkiller Chronicle

  • 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

  • Annalee Newitz  | Autonomous

  • Neil Gaiman | The Graveyard Book

  • 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 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

  • Neil Asher | The Owner Trilogy

  • Naomi Novik | His Majesty’s Dragon

  • Jason N Hough | Zero World

  • Sulvain Neuvel  Sleeping Giants + the Themis Files Series

  • Paco Ahlgren | Discipline

  • Larry Niven | Ringworld Series

  • Robert Charles Wilson | The Chronoliths

  • Charles Stross | Accelerando + the Singularity Series, The Atrocity Archive  + the Laundry Files Series

  • Malka Older | Infomocracy + the Centennial Cycle

  • Adam Roberts | The Thing Itself

  • Hugh Howey | Wool / Shift / Dust

  • Daniel Suarez | Daemon, Freedom

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