Sci-Fi Reading¶
I read a lot of science fiction -- mostly space opera, hard sci-fi, and the occasional military SF binge. My Kindle is never empty and my to-read list never gets shorter. These are the books I have tracked from 2011 onwards, pulled from my Kindle order history. Some are great, some are forgettable, and a few completely changed how I think about technology and the future. The lists are unfiltered -- every book I finished that year, in roughly the order I read them.
Standouts¶
A few that stuck with me across the years:
Hyperion & Fall of Hyperion Still the benchmark for ambitious science fiction
Blindsight The most unsettling take on consciousness I have read
Children of Time Evolution and alien minds done right
The Three-Body Problem Before it was everywhere
Seveneves Brutal, brilliant, unforgettable
Dark Matter Perfect pacing, genuinely surprising
Shards of Earth The best space opera of the 2020s so far
Wool Indie sci-fi at its best
The Forever War Timeless
House of Suns Galactic-scale and beautiful
By year¶
2025 53 books USS Hamilton series, The Convergence War, Rise of the Republic, The Eden Chronicles
2024 37 books Rise of the Republic, Starship's Mage, Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, Sunken Spaceship
2023 46 books Aurora Cycle, Solar System series, Daemon, Project Hail Mary
2022 22 books Shards of Earth, The Fold, Yestertime, Signal series
2021 42 books Project Hail Mary, Stasis Stories, Earth Song, Kragdon-ah
2020 29 books Jasper T. Scott, Jane Bond, Stasis Stories, Laurence Dahners
2019 35 books A.I. Series, Singularity Series, Artifact Series, Laurence Dahners
2018 32 books Murderbot, Human Chronicles, Three-Body Problem, Revelation Space
2017 12 books Children of Time, Colony Mars, Justar Journal
2016 33 books Seveneves, Dark Matter, Lost Starship, Trader's Tales
2015 33 books The Three-Body Problem, Code Breakers series, Vaughn Heppner
2014 66 books Hyperion Cantos, Blindsight, Scrapyard Ship, Ark Royal
2013 57 books Hyperion, Koban series, Steel World, Dark Space
2012 78 books Wool, Ender's Game, The Forever War, House of Suns, Area 51 series