This week we were talking sci-fi. We were missing quite a few people due to illness. Hope people are feeling better soon!
Authors:
Ursule Le Guin
Asimov
Heinlein
van Vogt
David Wyndam
Jules Verne
Phillip K. Dick,
Gene Brewer,
Kim Stanley Robinson
Gene Wolfe
C J Cherryh
HG Wells
Helen Lowe(great NZ author)
Paul Haines,
Ripley Patton
Mary Victoria,
Lyn McConchie
Ray Bradbury
Andre Norton
Alan E Nourse
Zenna Henderson
E E Doc Smith
Asimov
Arthur C Clarke
Theodore Sturgeon
Clifford Simak
Frank Herbert
Gillian Rubenstein (also writes fantasy under the name Lian Hearn)
John Wyndham
Catharine Asaro(SF romance)
Nancy Kress
Franz Kafka
J G Ballard
Orson Scott Card
James Tiptree Jnr
Kage Baker
Elizabeth Bear
Trent Jamieson
Marriane de Pierres
Cat Sparks
Adam Christopher,
CJ Cherryh,
Larry Niven (Ringworld)
Barry Longyear
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Ann Aguirre (scifi romance)
Susan grant (scifi romance)
Clive Barker?
Robert Sawyer's intelligent dinosaurs,
If you like Ursula Leguin try:
Eleanor Arnason
Octavia Butler
Specific books
Animorphs - K. A. Applegate
All you zombies - Robert Heinlein
Le Guin - Left hand of darkness
Robert Heinlein (especially The Door Into Summer)
The Host - Stephenie Meyer
HG Wells Time Machine, War of the World
Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues beneath the Sea
John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids, Village of the Damned;
Robert Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land;
Isaac Asimov - I, Robot
David Brin - River of time
A Foreign Country by Anna Caro & Juliet Buchanan (editors) (good recent anthology)
Haines novella "Wives" in X6 anthology
Andre Norton Beast Master, Witch World, many more
Anne McCafferey's Ship who Sang
Anne McCaffrey - The Coelura
Iain M. Banks' Culture series
SKINNED by @robinwasserman
JUNO OF TARIS by Fleur Bealet
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke
Neuromancer by William Gibson
K-Pax by Gene Brewer
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (dystopian)
Maria V Snyder's Inside Out and Outside Inn
Hold Me closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride
Kim Stanley Robinson Years of Rice & Salt also Mars bks
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series
Audrey Niffenegger's Time Traveller's Wife.
Longyear - Enemy Mine
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Murakami
David Brin's Practice Effect
Links for further recs
Here's a link to a list of 10 accessible science fiction books by sf signal
http://bit.ly/hLdiwe
@timjonesbooks: This was my attempt to post a list of SF I'd recommend to non-SF readers wanting to get into SF:
http://bit.ly/hqtM0z
SF Signal: "How Important is Plausible Science in Science Fiction"?
http://bit.ly/fKsaRT
Sci-fi experience challenge
http://www.stainlesssteeldroppings.com
Check out the ASiF blog for reviews of new Aussie sf. (Stands for Australian SpecFic in Focus).
Aurealis awards list
Non English Sci-fi
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Paolo Bacigalupi
Metro 2033 by Dmitri G
2017 by Olga Slavnikova
Woman in the Dunes" by Kobo Abe
The Box Man" also by Kobo Abe
Seiun Award winners (Japanese equiv of Hugos)
http://bit.ly/dVovtb
Haika Soru (publishing Japanese science fiction in English)
