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On my bookshelf,
    waiting to be read.
Anthology sf The Best Science Fiction of the Year (vol 2)
Anthology sf The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories
Kevin Anderson sf The Dark Between the Stars (1st in Saga of Shadows series)
Kevin Anderson sf Blood of the Cosmos (2nd in Saga of Shadows series)
Kevin Anderson sf Eternity's Mind (3rd in Saga of Shadows series)
Isaac Asimov sf The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire)
Isaac Asimov sf The Naked Sun (The Robot series)
Isaac Asimov sf I, Robot (Short Stories)
Iain Banks sf Feersum Endjinn
Joseph Campbell snf The Hero's Journey
David Chalmers snf The Character of Consciousness
Neil Gaiman sf The Graveyard Book
William Gibson sf The Peripheral
William Gibson sf Agency
David Grann sf The Lost City of Z
Louis Greenberg sf Exposure
M John Harrison sf Light (1st in series)
M John Harrison sf Nova Swing (2nd in series)
M John Harrison sf Empty Space (3rd in series)
Herman Hesse Siddhartha
Marko Kloos sf Aftershocks
Jon Land sf Vortex
Cixin Liu sf The Dark Forest (2nd in Remembrance of Earth's Past series)
China Miéville sf Iron Council
MIT Technology Review sf 12 Tomorrows 2018
Richard Morgan sf The Steel Remains (1st in A Land Fit For Heroes Series)
Nnedi Okorafor sf Remote Control
Antonio Padilla snf Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them
Philip Palmer sf Red Claw
Edgar Allan Poe sf The Raven & other poems and Tales
Frederick Pohl sf Annals of the Heechee (Heechee saga)
Frederick Pohl sf The Gateway Trip (Heechee saga)
Frederick Pohl sf The Boy Who Would Live Forever (Heechee saga)
Jerry Pournelle sf Prince of Mercenaries
Alastair Reynolds sf The Medusa Chronicles
Mack Reynolds sf Lagrange Five
Kim Stanley Robinson sf 2312
John Scalzi sf The Collapsing Empire (1st in The Interdependancy Series)
John Scalzi sf The Last Emperox (2nd in The Interdependancy Series)
J Niel Schulman sf Alongside Night
E. E. "Doc" Smith sf Skylark of Valeron (3rd in Skylark series)
E. E. "Doc" Smith sf Skylark DuQuesne (4th in Skylark series)
E. E. "Doc" Smith sf Triplanetary (1st in Lensman Series)
Neal Stephenson sf Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
Neal Stephenson sf Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson sf Termination Shock
Charles Stross sf Empire Games
Charles Stross sf Singularity Sky (1st in the Eshaton series)
Charles Stross sf The Family Trade (1st in the Merchant Princess series)
Charles Stross sf The Hidden Family (2nd in the Merchant Princess series)
Charles Stross sf The Clan Corporate (3rd in the Merchant Princess series)
David Wellington sf The Last Astronaut
Robert Charles Wilson sf Mysterium


Currently reading.

 Max Gladstone

 sf

  Last Exit
Finished...
    (Some with comments.)

June 2024
May 2024
A E Van Vogt sf The House That Stood Still
April 2024
Gene Wolfe sf Interlibrary Loan
Frederick Pohl sf Heechee Rendezvous (3rd in the Heechee saga)
March 2024
February 2024
Frederick Pohl Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (2nd in the Heechee saga)
January 2024
Frederick Pohl sf Gateway (1st in the Heechee saga)
December 2023
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March 2023
Jessica Easto  nf Coffee - A Manual
E. E. "Doc" Smith sf Skylark Three (2nd in Skylark series)
February 2023
Alastair Reynolds sf  Terminal World
Jim Baggott sf Audiobook - Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe
January 2023
December 2022
Toshikazu Kawaguchi f Before the Coffee Gets Cold
November 2022
 Carlo Rovelli  Audiobook - Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
October 2022
Micaiah Johnson sf The Space Between Worlds
September 2022
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March 2022
Charlie Jane Anders sf Even Greater Mistakes
Charles Stross sf Wireless - The Essential Collection
February 2022
Judy Melinek, M.D. nf Working Stiff
Alastair Reynolds sf Pushing Ice
Theodore Sturgeon sf More than Human
January 2022
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August 2021
Isaac Asimov sf Second Foundation (3rd in Foundation Series)
July 2021
Isaac Asimov sf Foundation and Empire (2nd in Foundation Series)
June 2021
Isaac Asimov sf Foundation (1st in Foundation Series)
Jack Campbell sf Triumphant
Charles Stross sf Neptune's Brood
May 2021
MIT Technology Review sf 12 Tomorrows 2016
April 2021
March 2021
Paolo Bacigalupi sf The Tangled Lands
February 2021
Charlie Jane Anders fsf All the Birds in the Sky
Richard Morgan
 
sf Market Forces
January 2021
December 2020
November 2020
China Miéville sf Kraken
October 2020
Sean Carroll s Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
Clive Cussler sf Celtic Empire
September 2020
Robert Charles Wilson sf A Hidden Place
John Kaplan s Quantum Physics for Beginners
Ivan Doig sf Whistling Season
Cixin Liu sf Supernova Era
August 2020
July 2020
Charles Stross sf Empire Games
June 2020
Michael Crichton sf Terminal Man
May 2020
Chris Moriarty sf Ghost Spin (3rd in Spin Series)
Jack Campbell sf Ascendant
April 2020
Robert Charles Wilson sf A Bridge of Years
J G Ballard sf The Day of Creation
Tom Rob Smith f Agent 6
Allie Brosh f Hyperbole and a Half
Charles Stross sf Accelerando
Max Barry sf Providence
March 2020
February 2020
MIT Technology Review sf Twelve Tomorrows 2014
Carlo Rovelli s Audiobook - The Order of Time
January 2020
Ken MacLeod sf Engine City (3rd in Engines of Light Series)
2019
Richard Calder sf Dead Things
L X Beckett sf Gamechanger
Neal Stephenson sf Cobweb
China Miéville sf Embassytown
V S Ramachandran snf The Tell-Tale Brain
Margot Mifflin f The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
Neal Stephenson sf Zodiac
E E Doc Smith sf The Galaxy Primes
Ken MacLeod sf Dark Light (2nd in Engines of Light Series)
Mark Kurlansky f Salt: A World History
Neil Gaiman fsf Good Omens
Janna Levin snf Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Anthology sf The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018
Frederik Pohl sf The Abominable Earthman
Chris Moriarty sf Spin Control (2nd in Spin Series)
Paolo Bacigalupi sf The Water Knife
Robert Charles Wilson sf Vortex (3rd in Spin series)
Paolo Bacigalupi sf Ship Breaker
Ada Palmer sf Too Like the Lightning
Cixin Liu sf The Three Body Problem (1st in Remembrance of Earth's Past series)
Ken MacLeod sf Cosmonaut Keep (1st in Engines of Light Series)
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky sf Roadside Picnic
2018
Chris Moriarty sf Spin State (1st in Spin Series)
Ken MacLeod sf The Execution Channel
Gregory Benford sf Timescape
Paolo Bacigalupi sf The Drowned Cities
Fredrik Pohl sf World at the End of Time
Anthology sf Upgraded
Jack Mcdevitt sf Moonfall
Louisa Hall sf Speak
Jack Campbell sf Vanguard (1st in The Genesis Fleet series)
David Berlinski nf Newton's Gift: How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World
Vernor Vinge sf Rainbows End
Frank Close snf Neutrino
Gene Wolfe sf Lake of the Long Sun
Gene Wolfe sf Nightside of the Long Sun
Neal Stephenson sf Seveneves
Joe Haldeman sf Forever Peace
John Hemry sf Stark's Crusade (3rd in Stark's War series)
John Hemry sf Stark's Command (2nd in Stark's War series)
John Hemry sf Stark's War (1st in Stark's War series)
Ernest Hemingway f For Whom the Bell Tolls
Sherman Alexie nf You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
Jack Mcdevitt sf The Cassandra Project
Joe Haldeman sf Tool of the Trade
Isaac Asimov nf The Currents of Space (1st in the Galactic Empire series)
Jeffrey Carver sf From a Changeling Star
Frank Close snf Lucifer's Legacy
John D Clark snf Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
Ernest Cline sf Ready Player One
Charles Stross sf Rule 34
2017
Ken MacLeod sf The Restoration Game
Jack Campbell sf Shattered Spear (4th in Lost Stars series)
Joe Haldeman sf Forever Free
Vernor Vinge sf The Children of the Sky (3rd in Zones of Thought series)
Alexander Jablokov sf Nimbus
David Berlinski nf One, Two, Three, Absolutely Elementary Mathematics
Jack Mcdevitt sf The Hercules Text
Iain M Banks f The Crow Road
Jack Mcdevitt sf Thunderbird (2nd in Ancient Shores series)
Jack Mcdevitt sf Starhawk - (7th in Academy series)
Jack Mcdevitt sf Coming Home (7th in Alex Benedict series)
Jack Campbell sf Imperfect Sword (3rd in Lost Stars series)
Jack Campbell sf Tarnished Knight (1st in Lost Stars series)
Jack Campbell sf Perilous Shield (2nd in Lost Stars series)
Joseph Campbell nf The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Jack Mcdevitt sf Infinity Beach
Erin Morganstern f The Night Circus
Daniel Wilson sf Robopocalypse
Neil Gaiman f The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Iain M Banks sf Transition
William Gibson sf The Difference Engine
George Mann sf The Affinity Bridge
Ernest Cline sf Armada
Joe Haldeman sf Marsbound
2016
Bradley Peniston nf No Higher Honor
Jack Mcdevitt sf Eternity Road
Tom Rob Smith sf The Secret Speech
Iain M Banks f Complicity
Alastair Reynolds sf Chasm City
Dan Hampton nf Lords of the sky
Jack Mcdevitt sf Ancient Shores
Alexander Jablokov sf A Deeper Sea
Hannu Rajaniemi sf The Fractal Prince
Jack Campbell nf Leviathan (5th in Beyond the Frontier series)
Jack Campbell nf Steadfast (4th in Beyond the Frontier series)
Jack Campbell nf Guardian (3rd in Beyond the Frontier series)
Neal Stephenson sf Cryptonomicon
Charles Stross sf Halting state
Ken Macleod sf Newton's Wake
Neal Stephenson sf Reamde
Vernor Vinge sf A Deepness in the Sky (2nd in Zones of Thought series)
David Berlinski nf A Tour of The Calculus
2015
Dan Hampton nf Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat
Iain M Banks sf The Hydrogen Sonata
2014
Isaac Azimov sf Second Foundation
Isaac Azimov sf Foundation and Empire
Isaac Azimov sf The Foundation
Vernor Vinge sf A Fire on the Deep (1st in Zones of Thought series)
2013
Jack Campbell sf Invincible (2nd in the Beyond the Frontier series)
William Shakespeare sf The Tempest
Joe Haldeman sf Earthbound (3rd in Mars series)
Joe Haldeman sf Starbound (2nd in Mars series)
Sherman Alexie sf The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Jim Holt sf Why Does the World Exist?
Fred Hoyle sf The Black Cloud
Jack McDevitt sf Firebird (6th in Alex Benedict series)
Jack McDevitt sf Echo (5th in Alex Benedict series)
Ken Macleod sf The Night Sessions
Hannu Rajaniemi sf The Quantum Thief
Tom Rob Smith sf Child 44
Buzz Aldrin sf Encounter with Tiber
Ken Macleod sf The Sky Road (4th in Fall Revolution series)
Ken Macleod sf The Cassini Division (3rd in Fall Revolution series)
Ken Macleod sf The Stone Canal (2nd in Fall Revolution series)
Ken Macleod sf The Star Fraction (1st in Fall Revolution series)
Joe Haldeman sf Worlds Enough and Time
Joe Haldeman sf Worlds Apart
Jo Nesbø nf Headhunters
Iain M Banks sf Dead Air
William Tichy sf Poisons, Antidotes & Anecdotes
2012
Joe Haldeman sf Worlds
William Gibson sf Zero History (3rd in Bigend (Blue Ant) trilogy.)
Stanislaw Lem sf Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
Harlan Ellison sf Deathbird Stories
Iain M Banks sf The Wasp Factory
Alastair Reynolds sf Absolution Gap (4th in Revelation Space series)
Alastair Reynolds sf Redemption Ark (3rd in Revelation Space series)
Michio Kaku snf Visions
Lawrence Krauss snf Hiding in the Mirror
Stanislaw Lem sf Memoirs of a Space Traveller
Michio Kaku snf Parallel Worlds
Iain M Banks sf Canal Dreams
Iain M Banks sf Excession (4th in "The Culture" universe)
Joe Haldeman sf The Forever War
Stanislaw Lem sf Solaris
Stanislaw Lem sf The Cyberiad
Iain M Banks sf Espedair Street
China Miéville sf Railsea
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky sf Roadside Picnic
Alexander Jablokov sf River of Dust
Lawrence Krauss snf The Physics of Start Trek
Paul Davies snf The Matter Myth
Alastair Reynolds sf Century Rain
William Shakespeare f Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Iain M Banks sf A Song of Stone
Jack McDevitt sf The Devil's Eye (4th in Alex Benedict series)
Jack McDevitt sf A Talent for War (1st in Alex Benedict series)
Ilse Aichinger sf The Bound Man
William Gibson sf All Tomorrow's Parties
William Shakespeare f Romeo and Juliet
William Gibson sf Idoru
William Gibson sf Virtual Light
Stanislaw Lem sf More Tales of Pirx the Pilot
David Marusek sf Mind Over Ship
2011
Paul Davies snf About Time
Jack Campbell sf Dreadnaught (1st in the Beyond the Frontier series)
Alexander Jablokov sf Deepdrive
China Miéville sf The City & The City
Iain M Banks sf The Business
Lee Smolin snf The Trouble with Physics
Arthur C. Clarke sf 3001: the final odyssey
Jack McDevitt sf Cauldron (6th in Academy series)
Jack McDevitt sf Odyssey (5th in Academy series)
Jack McDevitt sf Omega (4th in Academy series)
Jack McDevitt sf Deepsix (2nd in Academy series)
Jack McDevitt sf Chindi (3rd in Academy series)
Arthur C. Clarke sf 2061: Odyssey Three
Lee Smolin snf The Life of the Cosmos
Richard Morgan sf Broken Angels
Kurt Vonnegut sf Look at the Birdie
Arthur C Clarke sf From the Ocean, from the stars
William Gibson sf Mona Lisa Overdrive (3rd in Sprawl Trilogy)
William Gibson sf Count Zero (2nd in Sprawl Trilogy)
William Gibson sf Neuromancer (1st in Sprawl Trilogy)
Jeffrey Carver sf Sunborn (4th in Chaos Chronicles)
Jeffrey Carver sf The Infinite Sea (3rd in Chaos Chronicles)
Jeffrey Carver sf Strange Attractors (2nd in Chaos Chronicles)
Jeffrey Carver sf Neptune Crossing (1st in Chaos Chronicles)
Carl Sagan snf Pale Blue Dot
18 Authors* sf Wizards
James Irwin bio To Rule the Night
Iain M Banks sf The Algebraist
Alistair Reynolds sf The Prefect
Alastair Reynolds sf House of Suns
Paolo Bacigalupi sf The Windup Girl
Richard Calder sf Frenzetta
Lisa Genova non Still Alice
Anthology sf Nebula Awards - Showcase 2009
Brian Greene snf The Hidden Reality
Iain M Banks sf Surface Detail (8th in "The Culture" universe)
Iain M Banks sf Matter (7th in "The Culture" universe)
Iain M Banks sf Look to Windward (6th in "The Culture" universe)
Iain M Banks sf Inversions (5th in "The Culture" universe)
Iain M Banks sf Excession (4th in "The Culture" universe)
Iain M Banks sf Use of Weapons (3rd in "The Culture" universe)
Iain M Banks sf The Player of Games (2nd in "The Culture" universe)
Iain M Banks sf Consider Phlebas (1st in "The Culture" universe)
Anthology sf The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century
Jeffrey Overstreet sf Raven's Ladder (Gold strand(3rd) in "The Auralia Thread")
Jeffrey Overstreet sf Cyndere's Midnight (Blue strand(2nd) in "The Auralia Thread")
Jeffrey Overstreet sf Auralia's Colors (Red strand(1st) in "The Auralia Thread")
2010
Four Authors* sf Mean Streets
Neil deGrasse Tyson snf Death by Black Hole
Greg Bear sf City at the End of Time
Jack McDevitt sf Time Travelers Never Die
Charles Stross sf Iron Sunrise
Christopher Priest sf Inverted World
Alexander Jablokov sf Brain Thief
Jack Campbell sf Victorious (6th in "The Lost Fleet" series)
Alexander Jablokov sf Carve the Sky
Mathew B.J. Delaney f Jinn
Elizabeth Bear fsf Blood and Iron
Stefan Klein sf The Secret Pulse of Time
Alastair Reynolds sf Revelation Space
Alastair Reynolds sf Galactic North
Joao Magueijo snf Faster than the Speed of Light
Joe Haldeman sf A Separate War
2009
Jack Campbell sf Relentless (5th in "The Lost Fleet" series)
Jack McDevitt sf The Engines of God (Academy Series 1st)
Joe Haldeman sf Camouflage
Charles Stross sf Glasshouse
Jack Campbell sf Valiant (4th in "The Lost Fleet" series)
Jack Campbell sf Courageous (3rd in "The Lost Fleet" series)
Jack Campbell sf Fearless (2nd in "The Lost Fleet" series)
Jack Campbell sf Dauntless (1st in "The Lost Fleet" series)
William Gibson sf Spook Country (2nd in Bigend (Blue Ant) trilogy.)
Fredrik Pohl/C M Kornbluth sf The Space Merchants
Alan Moore Dave Gibbons sf The Watchmen
Randy Pausch non The Last Lecture
Ed Witten snf Reflections on the Fate of Spacetime
Bill Loehfelm sf Fresh Kills
Jack McDevitt sf Polaris (an Alex Benedict novel 2nd)
Charles Stross fsf Saturn's Children
Joe Haldeman sf The Accidental Time Machine
Peter Watts sf Blindsight
Robert Charles Wilson sf Axis (2nd in the Spin series)
Jack McDevitt sf Seeker (an Alex Benedict novel 3rd)
Alastair Reynolds sf Diamond Dogs (in Revelation Space)
Alastair Reynolds sf Turquoise Days (in Revelation Space)
S. M. Stirling sf The Sunrise Lands
Richard K. Morgan sf Th1rte3n
Michio Kaku snf Physics of the Impossible
Whitehead,McLemmore,Orlando pr World of Warcraft Programming (LUA)
Notables before 2009
(Ones I can recall the titles of.)
Richard K. Morgan sf Woken Furies
Philip Palmer sf Debatable Space
Neil Gaiman f Neverwhere
Mary Shelly sf Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
Neil Gaiman f American Gods
Robert Charles Wilson sf Spin (1st book in the Spin series)
Neil Gaiman f The Anansi Boys
Malcolm Gladwell nf Blink
Neil Gaiman f Fragile Things
David Marusek sf Counting Heads
Nancy Kress sf Beggars in Spain
Dan Ariely snf Predictably Irrational
Lewis Wolpert non Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Richard K. Morgan sf Altered Carbon
Iain M Banks sf State of the Art
Mitch Albom f The Five People You Meet in Heaven
V.S. Ramachandran snf Phantoms of the Brain
Malcolm Gladwell f The Tipping Point
James Gleick non Isaac Newton
James Gleick non Genius: Richard Feynman
William Shakespeare sf Macbeth
William Gibson sf Pattern Recognition (1st in Bigend (Blue Ant) trilogy.)
Edward R Tufte snf Visual Explanations
Alan Lightman f Einstein's Dreams
Scott Adams f Conversations with Dogbert
Steve Martin f Cruel Shoes
Bruce Sterling f Tomorrow Now
Eugen Herringel f Zen in the art of Archery
Jack Dann sf Neblula Awards 32
Tom Brown Jr bio The Search
Paul Davies non The Mind of God
Northrop Frye non Anatomy of Criticism
Albert Einstein non Relativity
Jesse Dilson non Abacus
Richard Feynman non Six Easy Pieces
Richard Feynman non Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!
Doug Boyd non Rolling Thunder
Tom Brown Jr non Field Guide to Wilderness Survival
Ivars Peterson non The Mathematical Tourist
Sun Tzu non The Art of War
James Gleick non Chaos
Isaac Azimov sf i, robot
Greg Bear sf Darwin's Radio
Gene Wolfe f The Knight
Gene Wolfe f The Wizard
Robin Williams non The Mac is Not a Typewriter
Robin Williamsnon Beyond The Mac is Not a Typewriter
Stephen Hawking snf A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking snf Black Holes and Baby Universes
Sherry Sontag/Christopher Drew non Blind Man's Bluff
Bart Kosko snf Fuzzy Thinking
Douglas Adams f Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Theodore Schick Jr snf How to Think About Weird Things
John Allen Paulos non Innumeracy
John Allen Paulos non A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
John Allen Paulos non Once upon a Number
Isaac Asimov snf The Collapsing Universe
Stephen Wolfram snf A New Kind of Science
William Poundstone non How Would You Move Mount Fuji ?
Robert Pirsig non Zen and the Art of Motorcyce Maintenance
Carl Sagan snf Contact
Carl Sagan snf Dragons of Eden
Carl Sagan snf Billions and Billions
John Paul Caponigro non Adobe Photoshop Master Class
Homer f The Odyssey
Herman Hesse f Siddhartha
Herman Hesse f Steppenwolf
Herman Hesse f Narcissus and Goldman
Ray Bradbury sf Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury sf The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury sf Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury sf Martian Cronicles
Ray Bradbury sf October Country
Ray Bradbury sf Fahrenheit 451


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