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SkyFi is a mostly science fiction focused (with a mix of philosophy, music, horror, surrealism, and post-modern literature) book club made up of a group of people mostly based in new york city who mostly operate in the field of architecture. The lists below are some of the books we have read together and spinoffs they have inspired me to explore.
Currently Reading :: October 2020
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Psuedo Fiction :: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna Haraway
Watching :: Alien 3
SKYFI :: BOOKS WE HAVE READ (chronological)
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Ubik - Philip K. Dick
Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
The Old Man and the Wasteland
Mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft
Blindsight - Peter Watts
Emabssytown - China Mieville
REAMDE - Neal Stephenson
Halting State - Charles Stross
American Gods - Niel Gaiman
The Spiral - Paul McEwan
Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K LeGuin
Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
"The Dream Quest of the Unknown Kadath" - H.P. Lovecraft
By His Bootstraps - Robert A Heinlein
All You Zombies - Robert A Heinlein
City in The City - China Mieville
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein
The Quantum Theif - Hannu Rajaniemi
Leviathan Wakes - James A Corey
The Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov
Rainbow's End - Vernor Vinge
The Call of Cthulu - H.P. Lovecraft
Broken Angels - Richard K Morgan
The Possibility of an Island - Michel Houellebecq
Brain Plague - Joan Slonczewski
Our Cosmin Habitat - Martic Rees
Schild's Ladder - Greg Eigen
In the Dust of This Planet - Eugene Thacker
Weird Realism - Graham Harmon
Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer
Authority - Jeff Vandermeer
Acceptance - Jeff Vandermeer
2312 - Kim Stanley Robinson
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Posthumanities) - Timothy Morton
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future - Various Authors
Seveneves - Neal Stephenson
Ready Player One - Ernest Klein
High Rise - JG Ballard
The Three Body Problem - Liu Cixin
The Passage - Justin Cronin
The Big Sheep - Robert Kroese
The Last Days of New Paris - China Mieville
Dark Ecology - Timothy Morton
The Year of The Flood - Margaret Atwood
MaddAddam - Margaret Atwood
The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
The Girl With All The Gifts - M.R. Carey
Three Moments of an Explosion - China Mieville
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Lovecraft Country - Matt Ruff
Snow Crash - Neil Stevenson
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Walkaway - Cory Doctorow
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delany
Echopraxia - Peter Watts
Dune - Frank Herbert*
Ancillary Justice - Anne Leckie (+ Ancillary Mercy + Ancillary Sword)
Strange Stars - Jason Heller
The Beast That Shouted Love At The End Of The World - Harlan Ellison (1968)
Shadowbahn - Steve Erickson
Star Maker - Olaf Stapledon
Last and First Men - Olaf Stapledon
Ninefox Gambit - Yoon Ha Lee (+Raven Stratagem + Revenant Gun)
Peripheral - William Gibson
Agency - William Gibson
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
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FAVORITES​
Altered Carbon (Broken Angels + Woken Furies) - Richard K Morgan
Blindsight - Peter Watts
Star Maker - Olaf Stappeldon
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The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
The Tao Te Ching - Ursula K. LeGuin
The Watercourse Way - Alan Watts
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SCIFI :: BOOKS I HAVE READ (under construction)
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The Computer Connection - Alfred Bester
Deceivers - Alfred Bester
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Neuromancer - William Gibson
Count Zero - William Gibson
Idoru - William Gibson
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Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
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The Dispossessed - Ursula K. LeGuin (1994)
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Market Forces - Richard K. Morgan
Thirteen - Richard K. Morgan
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Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
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The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Endymion - Dan Simmons
The Rise of Endymion - Dan Simmons
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Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Speaker For The Dead - Orson Scott Card
Xenocide - Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind - Orson Scott Card
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The Corridors of Time - Poul Anderson (1965)
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PHILOSOPHY :: BOOKS I HAVE READ (under construction)
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*The Stack | On Software and Sovereignty - Benjamin Bratton
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The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
Tao: The Watercourse Way - Alan Watts
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way - Ursula K. LE Guin
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FICTION :: BOOKS I HAVE READ (under construction)
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* Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurty
Remainder - Tom McCarthy
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SKYFI BOOKS :: EXTRA CURRICULAR
SKYFI :: BOOKS ON OUR RADAR (under construction)
CONTEMPORARY (Post 2000)
Genpei - Kara Dalkey (2000)
City Come A Walkin – John Shirley (2001)
Revelation Space – Alastair Reynolds (2002)
Down And Out In Magic Kingdom – Cory Doctrow (2003)
Across The Sea Of Suns – Gregory Benford (2004)
City and Stars - Arthur C Clarke (2004)
The Outback Stars - Sandra McDonald (2007)
January Dancer – Michael Flynn (2008)
Blood Music – Greg Bear (2008)
Fairyland – Paul Mcauley (2009)
Daemon - Daniel Suarez (2009)
Dark Universe - Daniel F. Galouye (2010)
Freedom - Daniel Suarez (2010)
Windup Girl – Paolo Bacigalupi (2010)
After the Apocalypse - Maureen F McHugh (2011)
Robopocalypse – Daniel Wilson (2012)
Skylark – Meagan Spooner (2012)
Rule 34 - Charles Stross (2012)
Throne of the Crescent Moon - Saladin Ahmed (2012)
Zero Sum Game - S.L. Huang (2014)
Lagoon - Nnedi Okorafor (2014)
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers (2015)
Arctic Rising - Tobias S. Buckell (2016)
On the Edge of Gone - Corinne Duyvis (2016)
Ice - Anna Kavan (2016)
The Collapsing Empire - John Scalzi (2018)
Provenance - Anne Leckie (2018)
Oval - Elvia Wilk (2019)
Exhalation - Ted Chiang (2019)
Fall, Or Dodge in Hell - Neal Stephenson (2019)
Infinite Detail - Tim Maughan (2019)
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CLASSICS (Pre 2000)
War In The Air - Hg Wells (1907)
City - Simak (1952)
Chrysalids - John Wyndham (1955)
Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester (1956)
Galactic Derelict - Andre Norton (1959)
Galactic Sibyl Sue Blue - Rosel George Brown (1968)
Enchantress From the Stars - Sylvia Louise Engdahl (1970)
The Sheep Look Up - John Brunner (1972)
Cosmicomics – Italo Calvino (1976)
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm (1976)
Diadem from the Stars - Jo Clayton (1977)
A Voice Out of Ramah - Lee Killough (1979)
The Nitrogen Fix - Hal Clement (1980)
*Wild Seed - Octavia Butler (1980)
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. LeGuin (1994)
The Fortunate Fall - Raphael Carter (1996)
A Dazzle of Day - Molly Gloss (1997)
Vast - Linda Nagata (1998)
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NON-FICTION
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life - Adam Greenfield (2017)
Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People - Timothy Morton (2017)
Being Ecological - Timothy Morton (2018)
New Dark Age - Janes Bridle (2018)
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