Specific Books Discussed

Here are some of the specific books we have discussed:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (July 25, 1996)
The Bohr Maker by Linda Nagata
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny (April 24, 1997)
The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt (June 26, 1997)
Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg (July 1997)
Replay by Ken Grimwood (August 1997)
Contact by Carl Sagan (September 1997)
Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart (October 1997)
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban (November 19, 1997). (See our News section for an important note on this book.)
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (December 11, 1997)
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (January 15, 1998)
Quarantine by Greg Egan (February 19 1998)
Wild Seed by Octavia Butler (March 12, 1998)
Timescape by Gregory Benford (April 16, 1998)
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers (May 21, 1998)
Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick (June 18, 1998)
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe (July 16, 1998)
Brain Wave by Poul Anderson (August 20, 1998)
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (September 24, 1998). Sadly, it looks like I'll never post this one because I seem to have lost my notes :-(
Fairyland by Paul J. McAuley (October 22, 1998)
The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper (November 19, 1998)
Hyperion by Dan Simmons (January 14, 1999)
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman (February 18, 1999)
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (March 18, 1999)
Distress by Greg Egan (April 15, 1999)
The Steampunk Trilogy by Paul Di Filippo (May 20, 1999)
Gateway by Frederik Pohl (June 24, 1999)
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm (July 15, 1999)
Cyteen by CJ Cherryh (August 26, 1999)
Bloom by Wil McCarthy (September 23, 1999)
Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks (October 21, 1999)
Rendezvous with Rama by Sir Arthur C Clarke (December 2, 1999)
Startide Rising by David Brin (January 20, 2000)
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (February 17, 2000)
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (March 23, 2000)
Year's Best SF 4 by David G. Hartwell (April 27, 2000)
Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick (May 18, 2000)
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling (June 22, 2000)
As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem (July 20, 2000)
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear (August 24, 2000)
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone by J. K. Rowling (September 28, 2000)
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh (October 25, 2000)
Aftermath by Charles Sheffield (November 15, 2000)
Slow River by Nicola Griffith (January 18, 2001)
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (February 22, 2001)
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (March 22, 2001)
The Light of Other Days by Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter (April 19, 2001)
The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov (May 24, 2001) (Currently in print as the individual volumes: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation)
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (June 28, 2001)
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick (July 12, 2001)
The Stone Canal by Ken MacLeod (August 16, 2001)
Brain Plague by Joan Slonczewski (September 20, 2001)
Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro (October 25, 2001)
Bible Stories for Adults by James Morrow (November 29, 2001)
The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold (January 24, 2002)
Ventus by Karl Schroeder (February 21, 2002)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (March 21, 2002)
Starfish by Peter Watts (April 25, 2002)
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card (May 23, 2002)
Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (June 20, 2002)
Mars Crossing by Geoffrey A. Landis (July 18, 2002)
The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon (August 15, 2002)
Limit of Vision by Linda Nagata (September 19, 2002)
The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson (October 24, 2002)
Probability Moon by Nancy Kress (November 21, 2002)
Armor by John Steakley (January 23, 2003)
Vectors by Michael P. Kube-McDowell (February 27, 2003)
Kiln People by David Brin (March 27, 2003)
Passage by Connie Willis (April 24, 2003)
Time Out Of Joint by Philip K. Dick (May 15, 2003)
Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick (June 26, 2003)
The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin (July 24, 2003)
Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds (August 21, 2003)
Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler (September 25, 2003)
Kalpa Imperial by Angelica Gorodischer (October 30, 2003)
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (November 20, 2003)
The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith (January 29, 2004)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick (February 26, 2004)
Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany (March 11, 2004)
Down And Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (April 15, 2004)
Nekropolis by Maureen F. McHugh (May 13, 2004)
Spin State by Chris Moriarty (June 24, 2004)
Red Thunder by John Varley (July 29, 2004)
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (August 19, 2004)
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross (September 23, 2004)
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (October 28, 2004)
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon (November 18, 2004)
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (January 20, 2005)
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (February 24, 2005)
Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo (March 24, 2005)
Emprise by Michael P. Kube-McDowell (April 21, 2005)
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart (May 19, 2005)
Lord Of Light by Roger Zelazny (June 23, 2005)
Gridlinked by Neal Asher (July 21, 2005)
Ilium by Dan Simmons (August 25, 2005)
The Gunslinger by Stephen King (September 22, 2005)
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (October 20, 2005)
Storm Front by Jim Butcher (November 17, 2005)
VALIS by Philip K. Dick (January 26, 2006)
Nova by Samuel R. Delany (February 23, 2006)
Coalescent by Stephen Baxter (March 23, 2006)
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (April 20, 2006)
Old Man's War by John Scalzi (May 25, 2006)
The Disappeared by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (June 22, 2006)
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (July 20, 2006)
Dread Empire's Fall: The Praxis by Walter Jon Williams (August 17, 2006)
The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley (September 21, 2006)
Accelerando by Charles Stross (October 19, 2006)
Camouflage by Joe Haldeman (November 16, 2006)
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (January 18, 2007)
Bellwether by Connie Willis (February 22, 2007)
Wasp by Eric Frank Russell (March 29, 2007)
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester (April 12, 2007)
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (May 24, 2007)
Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy (June 21, 2007)
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (July 19, 2007)
Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter (August 23, 2007)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (September 27, 2007)
Survival by Julie Czerneda (October 18, 2007)
At The Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft (November 29, 2007)
Protector by Larry Niven (January 31, 2008)
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds (February 21, 2008)
Sunshine by Robin McKinley (March 20, 2008)
Red Lightning by John Varley (April 24, 2008)
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (May 22, 2008)
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (June 26, 2008)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (July 17, 2008)
Dune by Frank Herbert (August 14, 2008)
The Black Company by Glen Cook (September 18, 2008)
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny (October 23, 2008)
Replay by Ken Grimwood (November 20, 2008)
Anathem by Neal Stephenson (January 29, 2009)
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (February 26, 2009)
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (March 26, 2009)
The Peace War by Vernor Vinge (April 23, 2009)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (May 21, 2009)
Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher (June 25, 2009)
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (July 23, 2009)
Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey (August 27, 2009)
Desolation Road by Ian McDonald (September 24, 2009)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (October 29, 2009)
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross (November 19, 2009)
Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold (January 28, 2010)
Friday by Robert Heinlein (February 25, 2010)
2010: Odyssey Two by Sir Arthur C. Clarke (March 25, 2010)
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov (April 22, 2010)
The Practice Effect by David Brin (May 27, 2010)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (June 24, 2010)
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (July 8, 2010)
Daemon by Daniel Suarez (August 19, 2010)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (September 23, 2010)
Frankenstein (later edition) by Mary Shelley (October 28, 2010)
Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein (November 18, 2010)
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut (January 27, 2011)
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr. (February 24, 2011)
Halfway Human by Carolyn Ives Gilman (March 31, 2011)
Great Apes by Will Self (April 28, 2011)
A Game Of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (May 26, 2011)
Man Plus by Frederik Pohl (June 16, 2011)
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (July 28, 2011)
A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick (August 18, 2011)
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (September 22, 2011)
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (October 27, 2011)
The Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge (November 17, 2011)
A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski (January 19, 2012)
The Many-Colored Land by Julian May (February 23, 2012)
Wool by Hugh Howie (March 29, 2012)
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (April 26, 2012)
Blindsight by Peter Watts (May 24, 2012)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (June 28, 2012)
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (July 19, 2012)
Aggressor Six by Wil McCarthy (August 23, 2012)
Fallen Angels by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn (September 27, 2012)
Mortality Bridge by Steven R. Boyett (October 25, 2012)
Redshirts by John Scalzi (November 15, 2012)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin (January 24, 2013)
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin (February 28, 2013)
Among Others by Jo Walton (March 28, 2013)
Icerigger by Alan Dean Foster (April 25, 2013)
Upcoming: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (May 30, 2013)
Upcoming: Embassytown by China Miéville (June 29, 2013)

Specific Books Discussed

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