Gateway – Frederik Pohl
Frederik Pohl’s Gateway is novel that seems more and more unique these days. Odd, that things should get more unique with age…
Fiction
Neuromancer – William Gibson
One of the most absolutely influential novels of all time, William GIbson’s Neuromancer did much to create the ambiance of the modern technological world.
The Song of Roland
A classic? A French hero braved the foreign hordes to defend his homeland. I’m not so sure…
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
Daniel Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon is one of those books that proudly wears the label of ‘classic’
Red Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars is one of the most beloved books in science-fiction, and possibly the most popular telling of humanity’s arrival on the red planet.
Semiosis – Sue Burke
A new take on the idea of sentience and the alien other in science-fiction.
Sisters Brothers- Patrick deWitt
In this not-exactly-a-Western two gruff brothers take an assassination job that down through the American West coast
Caliban’s War – James S.A Corey
The second book in James S.A. Corey’s Expanse follows the story pretty much as expected.
Daemon – Daniel Suarez
Imagine a movie about an evil computer algorithm that wasn’t complete trash…
Stand on Zanzibar – John Brunner
It’s a strange, ‘happening’ future. Contemporary, and sixty years too late
Failures in Polymathy 