Books

Books

Science Fiction books you really ought to read! (In no particular order).
Stories that have First Contact as the prime driving theme are marked with 
asterisks,*, (Because they're the most interesting!).

Ben Bova:
  • Mars
  • Return to Mars
  • Venus
  • Jupiter
  • Saturn
  • Colony
  • Moonrise
  • Moonwar
Orson Scott Card:
    Ender *
  • Ender's Game
  • Speaker for the Dead
  • Xenocide
  • Children of the Mind
  • Ender's Shadow
  • Shadow of the Hegemon
  • Shadow Puppets
  • Shadow of the Giant
    Homecoming *
  • Memory of Earth
  • Call of Earth
  • Ships of Earth
  • Earthfall
  • Earthborn
Stephen Baxter
  • Evolution
  • Moon Seed
  • Titan
Isaac Asimov
  • Nemesis *
  • I, Robot
Greg Bear
  • Darwin's Radio
  • Darwin's Children
Gregory Benford
  • The Martian Race
Richard Paul Russo
  • Unto Leviathan
George Orwell
  • Animal Farm
  • 1984
Arthur C. Clarke
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey *
  • 2010: Odyssey Two *
  • Rendezvous with Rama *
  • Rama II *
Frank Herbert
  • Dune
Ken MacLeod
  • Learning the World **