Reading.
Books I'm reading right now, books I've loved, and a wishlist of women sci-fi authors I'm slowly working through. Audiobook on the commute, Kindle in bed.
Currently Reading.
Project Hail Mary
KindleAndy Weir
Dungeon Crawler Carl
AudiobookMatt Dinniman
Want to Finish.
The Expanse
James S. A. Corey
Devoured the audiobooks; need the Kindle set to actually finish the series.
Favorites.
Rough chronological order, last 25 years.
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Foundation (series)
Isaac Asimov
Tier One (series)
Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson
The Expanse (series)
James S. A. Corey
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
The Martian
FAV BOOK EVERAndy Weir
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Wishlist.
Women sci-fi authors I want on my Kindle. Gift away — these all have ebook editions.
Foundational Heavy-Hitters
The canon. Read these and you've got the vocabulary for the rest of the genre.
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
Anthropological SF, gender, ansibles. The female Asimov.
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
Anarchist physicist, two-world thought experiment.
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
Time-travel slavery novel. Devastating.
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
1993 prophecy of 2026. Required reading.
The Female Man
Joanna Russ
Foundational queer/feminist SF. Formally weird, angry, brilliant.
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
James Tiptree Jr.
Bleak, gorgeous short stories from Alice Sheldon (writing as a man for years).
Downbelow Station
C.J. Cherryh
Hard SF entry to Alliance-Union. Hugo winner. Closest structural match to Asimov.
Cyteen
C.J. Cherryh
700-page identity/cloning thriller.
Modern Heavyweights
Reading these gets you current.
The Fifth Season (Broken Earth #1)
N.K. Jemisin
Geological apocalypse + oppression as physics. Won the Hugo three years running.
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
Default-she pronouns, distributed AI consciousness. Hugo + Nebula + Clarke sweep.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
Cozy queer SF. Antidote to grimdark.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers
Solarpunk tea-monk + robot novella. Perfect.
All Systems Red (Murderbot #1)
Martha Wells
Anxious AI security unit just wants to watch its shows.
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
Aztec-inspired space empire, queer protag, identity-as-imperialism. Hugo winner.
Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
Lesbian necromancers in space. Marketing copy, not a joke.
Ninefox Gambit
Yoon Ha Lee
Trans Korean-American author, exotic-math-as-physics military SF.
Sleeper Picks
Less talked about, no less worth your time.
Dreamsnake
Vonda N. McIntyre
Hugo + Nebula winner. Post-apoc healer. Criminally out of print.
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Kate Wilhelm
Cloning, ecological collapse.
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
Time travel + Black Death. Will wreck you.
Ammonite
Nicola Griffith
Planet where the men all died. Lesbian protag.
An Unkindness of Ghosts
Rivers Solomon
Black, nonbinary author. Generation-ship slavery allegory.