Reading Orbit: The OCSFC Book Club
Past Readings
2005
Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith
Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton (Analysis)
2004
The World of Null-A by A. E. Van Vogt
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (Analysis)
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Analysis)
The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (Analysis)
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan (Analysis)
Gnarl! by Rudy Rucker
Shikasta by Doris Lessing (Analysis)
Cryptozoic! by Brian Aldiss (Analysis)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (Analysis)
2003
Pavane by Keith Roberts
Solar Lottery by Philip K. Dick (Analysis)
Shatterday by Harlan Ellison
The Years of Rice and Salt
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Up the Walls of the World
by James Tiptree, Jr.
Gateway by Frederik Pohl
Left Hand of Darkness by
Ursula K. LeGuin
Revelation Space by
Alastair Reynolds
Forever Free by Joe Haldeman
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
1998
Destiny's Road by Larry Niven
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Jack Faust by Michael Swanwick
Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
1997
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Brightness Reef by David Brin
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Dawn by Octavia Butler
Ringworld by Larry Niven
VALIS by Philip K. Dick
1996
Lethe by Tricia Sullivan
Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
Northlight by Deborah Wheeler
Night Relics by James Blaylock
Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming by Roger Zelazny
Witch Light by Nancy Holder
Don't Forget Your Spacesuit Dear by Jody Lynne Nye
1995
Virtual Light by William Gibson
Captains Outrageous by Roy Young
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Last Call by Tim Powers
Gun with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
UBIK by Philip K. Dick
1994
Glory Season by David Brin
The Children of Men by P.D. James
No Time Like Tomorrow by Brian Aldiss
Always Coming Home by Ursula K. LeGuin
Phoenix in Flight by Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge
Agent of Byzantium by Harry Turtledove
Mars by Ben Bova
Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
1993
The Turing Option by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky
The Hollow Man by Dan Simmons
The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Deus X by Norman Spinrad
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
The Trikon Deception by Ben Bova and Bill Pogue
"Fire Watch" by Connie Willis
Steel Beach by John Varley
Wolves of Memory by George Alec Effinger
"Barnacle Bill the Spacer" by Lucius Shepard
pre-1993
Rusalka by C.J. Cherryh
Clark County, Space by Alan Steele
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel Delany
Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon
The Hemmingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Great Sky River by Greg Benford
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Frankenstein Unbound by Brian Aldiss
The Green Millenium by Fritz Lieber
Preferred Risk by Edison McCann (Frederic Pohl)
This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dracula Unbound by Brian Aldiss
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