SFDG Specific Books Discussed

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 A. Heinlein (February 25, 2010)
• 2010: Odyssey Two by 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 (1831 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 Howey (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)
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (May 30, 2013)
• Embassytown by China Miéville (June 29, 2013)
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (July 25, 2013)
• The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison (August 15, 2013)
• Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon (September 26, 2013)
• The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (October 17, 2013)
• The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King (November 14, 2013)
• "The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling" by Ted Chiang (December 14, 2013)
• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (January 30, 2014)
• Homeland by Cory Doctorow (February 27, 2014)
• The Long Run by Daniel Keys Moran (March 27, 2014)
• The Martian by Andy Weir (April 25, 2014)
• Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway (May 29, 2014)
• Year Zero by Rob Reid (June 12, 2014)
• The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein (July 31, 2014)
• The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers (August 28, 2014)
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (September 25, 2014)
• A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny (October 23, 2014)
• Echopraxia by Peter Watts (November 13, 2014)
• "The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke (December 20, 2014)
• "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke (December 20, 2014)
• Mockingbird by Walter Tevis (January 29, 2015)
• Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (February 26, 2015)
• "The Lady Astronaut of Mars" by Mary Robinette Kowal (March 26, 2015)
• The Peace Machine by Bob Shaw (April 30, 2015)
• The Android's Dream by John Scalzi (May 28, 2015)
• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (June 27, 2015)
• An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe (July 30, 2015)
• The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (August 20, 2015)
• Avogadro Corp by William Hertling (September 17, 2015)
• The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury (October 29, 2015)
• Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie (November 12, 2015)
• "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens (December 19, 2015)
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (January 14, 2016)
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (February 11, 2016)
• Fleet of Worlds by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner (March 10, 2016)
• Love Is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson (April 14, 2016)
• Barsk: The Elephant's Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen (May 12, 2016)
• Parasite by Mira Grant (June 9, 2016)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick (July 23, 2016)
• "Arkfall" by Carolyn Ives Gilman (August 25, 2016)
• The City & The City by China Miéville (September 22, 2016)
• The Rook by Daniel O'Malley (October 13, 2016)
• Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees (November 10, 2016)
• The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher (January 26, 2017)
• Worlds by Joe Haldeman (February 23, 2017)
• The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi (March 30, 2017)
• Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor (April 27, 2017)
• The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi (May 25, 2017)
• Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch (June 29, 2017)
• The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold (July 20, 2017)
• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (August 24, 2017)
• The Pride of Chanur by CJ Cherryh (September 28, 2017)
• Green Eyes by Lucius Shepard (October 26, 2017)
• Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (November 30, 2017)
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (January 25, 2018)
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (February 22, 2018)
• Artemis by Andy Weir (March 29, 2018)
• We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor (April 26, 2018)
• Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey (May 31, 2018)
• Ten Thousand Thorns by Suzannah Rowntree (June 28, 2018)
• Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson (July 28, 2018)
• "Leaf by Niggle" by J. R. R. Tolkien (August 23, 2018)
• Bill, the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison (September 27, 2018)
• The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (October 25, 2018)
• Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (November 29, 2018)
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells (December 15, 2018)
• The Armored Saint by Myke Cole (January 24, 2019)
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (February 28, 2019)
• Deerskin by Robin McKinley (March 28, 2019)
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (April 25, 2019)
• Packing for Mars by Mary Roach (May 30, 2019)
• Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (June 27, 2019)
• Exhalation: stories by Ted Chiang (July 27, 2019)
• Exhalation (continued) by Ted Chiang (August 22, 2019)
• Fall, or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson (September 26, 2019)
• The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (October 24, 2019)
• Who: a Novel of the Near Future by Karen A. Wyle (November 21, 2019)
• "Werewolves in their Youth" by Michael Chabon (December 14, 2019)
• "St Lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves" by Karen Russell (December 14, 2019)
• The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain (January 23, 2020)
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (February 27, 2020)
• A Darkling Sea by James L. Cambias (March 26, 2020)
• Cuckoo's Egg by C. J. Cherryh (April 30, 2020)
• The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (May 28, 2020)
• Too Like The Lightning by Ada Palmer (June 25, 2020)
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (July 30, 2020)
• New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson (August 27, 2020)
• The Long Run by Daniel Keys Moran (September 24, 2020)
• They Shall Have Stars by James Blish (October 29, 2020)
• The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe (November 19, 2020)
• The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts (December 31, 2020)
• City by Clifford D. Simak (January 28, 2021)
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab (February 25, 2021)
• The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester (March 25, 2021)
• God Stalk by P. C. Hodgell (April 22, 2021)
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (May 27, 2021)
• There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm (June 24, 2021)
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (July 29, 2021)
• Instantiation by Greg Egan (August 26, 2021)
• Circe by Madeline Miller (September 30, 2021)
• Dune by Frank Herbert (October 28, 2021)
• The Sandman, book 1 by Neil Gaiman et. al. (November 18, 2021)
• All The Birds In The Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (December 16, 2021)
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (January 27, 2022)
• Made to Order by Jonathan Strahan (February 24, 2022)
• Finder by Suzanne Palmer (March 31, 2022)
• Hard To Be A God by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (April 28, 2022)
• Machinehood by S.B. Divya (May 26, 2022)
• The Architect of Sleep by Steven R. Boyett (June 30, 2022)
• The Godel Operation by James L. Cambias (July 28, 2022)
• The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz (August 25, 2022)
• A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay (September 29, 2022)
• A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (October 27, 2022)
• The Book of All Skies by Greg Egan (November 10, 2022)
• "The Secret Life of Bots" and "Bots of the Lost Ark" by Suzanne Palmer (December 29, 2022)
• Solaris by Stanisław Lem (January 26, 2023)
• Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories by qntm (February 23, 2023)
• The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers (March 30, 2023)
• The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (May 4, 2023)
• Critical Mass by Daniel Suarez (May 25, 2023)
• Rosewater by Tade Thompson (June 22, 2023)
• A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan (July 27, 2023)
• Robot by Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg (August 31, 2023)
• The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu (September 21, 2023)
• Light by M. John Harrison (October 26, 2023)
• The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein (November 30, 2023)
• Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelanzy (December 28, 2023)
• The Invincible by Stanisław Lem (January 25, 2024)
• Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino (February 22, 2024)
• Crystal Society by Max Harms (March 28, 2024)
• A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (April 25, 2024)
• Upcoming: Selections from Vernor Vinge by Vernor Vinge (selected by Alek) (May 30, 2024)
• Upcoming: Red Rising by Pierce Brown (June 27, 2024)

You can see some of our voting results from around the turn of the millennium.

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