Here are a bunch of suggestions for possible future meetups:
British "New Space Opera"
- John M. Harrison "The Centauri Device" (published 1974, 185 pages)
- Iain M. Banks "Consider Phlebas" (published 1987, 471 pages)
Robot Crime Mysteries
- Isaac Asimov "The Caves Of Steel" (published 1954, 224 pages)
- Adam Christopher "Made To Kill" (published 2015, 240 pages), Excerpt, Novelette prequel
Books that deal with consciousness, by writers who are actual biologists
- Joan Slonczewski "Brain Plague" (published 2001, 384 pages), Excerpt
- Peter Watts "Blindsight" (published 2006, 384 pages), Full book viewable online
Military Scifi
- Joe Haldeman "The Forever War" (published 1974, 236 pages)
- John Scalzi "Old Man’s War" (published 2005, 320 pages)
Moon Colonisation
- Robert Heinlein "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" (published 1966, 382 pages)
- Ian McDonald "Luna: New Moon" (published 2015, 416 pages), Excerpt
Nebula Suggested Reading
Maybe do two (or more?) books from the the Nebula Awards Suggested Reading List 2015? Following are the four highest-placed science fiction entries in that list – omitting "Seveneves" by Neal Stephenson, (which we’ve already read), and "Ancillary Mercy" by Ann Leckie, (we’ve already read the first book in the series):
- Paolo Bacigalupi "The Water Knife" (376 pages), Excerpt
- Carolyn Ives Gilman "Dark Orbit"(303 pages), Excerpt
- Kim Stanley Robinson "Aurora" (480 pages), Excerpt
- Lawrence M. Schoen "Barsk: The Elephant’s Graveyard" (384 pages), Excerpt
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