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 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)

And here is a summary of voting results so far

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