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)
- Upcoming: 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)
You can see some of our voting
results from around the turn of the millennium.