by
G.K. Chesterton, Mary Tyler
· published 1917
· added on 2021-01-11
popular history, people history. make people understand where we come from
others did it badly, then so can i!
not a good history of england, but an okay rant by a good writer, or a good rant by an okay writer.
Memory
by
Linda Nagata
· published 2003
· added on 2020-08-20
High fantasy feeling where the magic is out of control nanobots.
by
Daniel Abraham
· published 2011
· added on 2020-07-26
Supersedes my previous reading list entry for Long Price Quartet because I listened to people talk about it. Thank you,
book discord. This one sounded better, as per,
ff.
Child of Fire
by
Harry Connolly
· published 2009
· added on 2020-07-26
Rejoice, there is Urban Fantasy without romance. via
The Black Opera
by
Mary Gentle
· published 2012
· added on 2020-07-26
Naples, 1835, and the Church and produce miracles on-demand. Ignoring goodreads reviews in favour of
The Devil You Know
by
Mike Carey
· published 2006
· added on 2020-07-26
For when I’m in the mood of standard-fare Urban Fantasy again. Freelance exorcist in London, cf
An Alien Heat
by
Michael Moorcock
· published 1972
· added on 2020-07-05
Far-future dandies, “soft sf with a vengeance”, tribute to fin de siecle/Oscar Wildes. jml’s favourite. via Lisa
The First Man in Rome
by
Colleen McCullough
· published 1990
· added on 2020-06-30
Historical fiction of Sulla, and Caesar’s granddad, and others. Details, strong characters. via
The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant
by
Drew Hayes
· published 2014
· added on 2020-06-25
With that title, can you resist? Topped the “Novel Featuring Vampires” of the 2019 /r/fantasy bingo.
Crooked
by
Austin Grossman
· published 2015
· added on 2020-06-24
The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution
by
Cailin O'Connor
· published 2019
· added on 2020-02-18
Nonfiction. Recommended by David: “I’ve previously not-really-joked that you can’t understand gender until you’ve read Thomas Schelling’s book about the game theory of nuclear war, “The Strategy of Conflict”. That joke is now deprecated in favour of a recommendation to read this book.”
I really enjoyed Have Space Suit–Will Travel, and I
hope that this more well-known Heinlein book will be similarly good. (Better? More adult? We’ll see …)
Red Mars
by
Kim Stanley Robinson
· published 1992
· added on 2018-03-13
Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
by
James Tiptree Jr.
· published 1976
· added on 2018-03-13
Pandora’s Star
by
Peter F. Hamilton
· published 2004
· added on 2018-03-07
The Inverted World
by
Christopher Priest
· published 1974
· added on 2018-02-19
Mission of Gravity
by
Hal Clement
· published 1954
· added on 2018-02-19
Lord of Light
by
Roger Zelazny
· published 1967
· added on 2018-02-19
Foundation
by
Isaac Asimov
· published 1951
· added on 2018-02-18
Blackout
by
Marc Elsberg
· published 2012
· added on 2018-02-13
Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories in Extreme Futures
by
Elly Blue
· published 2017
· added on 2018-01-27
The Black Company
by
Glen Cook
· published 1984
· added on 2017-11-21