reading
Books.
Finished, in progress, queued. Heavy on sci-fi exploration and one cursed re-read of all of ASOIAF.
Currently reading
- Heaven's River
Bobiverse #4. Slower burn, focused on one alien megastructure. Many fans say it is the best in the series.
Finished
Bobiverse — Dennis E. Taylor
- We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- For We Are Many
- All These Worlds
A Song of Ice and Fire — George R.R. Martin
- A Game of Thrones
- A Clash of Kings
- A Storm of Swords
- A Feast for Crows
- A Dance with Dragons
- The World of Ice and Fire
- Fire and Blood
Dune — Frank Herbert
- Dune
- Dune Messiah
Michael Crichton
- Jurassic Park
- The Lost World
Standalones
- Project Hail Mary
- 1984
- Solaris
Up next
- Not Till We Are Lost
Bobiverse #5. Picks the pace back up; pushes the alien-contact thread further.
- The Martian
The one that started Weir.
The longer queue
Curated list of exploration / first-contact sci-fi to chase the Bobiverse high. Order is roughly priority.
- House of Suns
Clones of one mind split up, explore the galaxy for millions of years, periodically reconvene to share memories. The book most directly Bobiverse-shaped.
- Children of Time
First contact done as anthropology rather than combat. Uplifted spiders, generation ships, lingers on alien perspective.
- Blindsight
Short, brutal. Genuinely alien aliens with a truly unsettling cognitive architecture. Free legally on the author’s site.
- A Fire Upon the Deep
The Tines: a group-mind species made of dog-like creatures. Structurally alien, not humans in suits.
- Revelation Space
The harder, creepier end of exploration. Slower-than-light travel taken seriously, deep-time dread.
- The Algebraist
Gas-giant aliens, deep time, weird civilizations. Standalone.
- Aurora
Counter-argument. A rigorous rebuttal to the romantic interstellar-travel fantasy. Useful either way.
- The Mote in God’s Eye
The first-contact novel that almost everything else is in conversation with.