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 Zelazny (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)
• Selections from Vernor Vinge by Vernor Vinge (selected by Alek) (June 6, 2024)
• Red Rising by Pierce Brown (June 27, 2024)
• Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (July 25, 2024)
• Titan by John Varley (August 29, 2024)
• The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem (September 26, 2024)
• Bookshops and Bone Dust by Travis Baldree (October 24, 2024)
• Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell (November 21, 2024)
• Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (December 19, 2024)
• Orbital by Samantha Harvey (January 23, 2025)
• The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth (February 27, 2025)
• Morphotrophic by Greg Egan (March 27, 2025)
• War with the Newts by Karel Čapek (April 24, 2025)
• Golem XIV by Stanisław Lem (May 22, 2025)
• The Swarm by Frank Schätzing (July 3, 2025)
• Upcoming: Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler (July 24, 2025)
• Upcoming: The Omelas Project by Ursula K. Le Guin, N. K. Jemisin, John Holbo, Jed Hartman and others. (Selected by Alek Slominski, Raja Thiagarajan, and Ignacio Viglizzo) (August 28, 2025)

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

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