Books I will (might) read in 2021
My dad bought me Gateway by Frederik Pohl (plus all the sequels!) for Xmas 2020, and this sent me on a journey into the (massive) list of SF Masterworks books. I am under no illusion that I will finish all 180 books in one year, but I aim to get through a few.
I usually manage about 50 books a year, but I already have a few others (Undead Series, Tim Peake's Autobiography) in the pipeline so I'm going to aim for maybe 30 of these in 2021..?
Number | Year | Cover | Title | Author | Review |
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1 | 1974 | The Forever War | Joe Haldeman | ||
2 | 1954 | I Am Legend | Richard Matheson | ||
3 | 1970 | Cities in Flight | James Blish | ||
4 | 1975 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | ||
5 | 1956 | The Stars My Destination | Alfred Bester | ||
6 | 1966 | Babel-17 | Samuel R. Delany | ||
7 | 1967 | Lord of Light | Roger Zelazny | ||
8 | 1972 | The Fifth Head of Cerberus | Gene Wolfe | ||
9 | 1977 | Gateway | Frederik Pohl | ||
10 | 1975 | The Rediscovery of Man | Cordwainer Smith | ||
11 | 1930 | Last and First Men | Olaf Stapledon | ||
12 | 1949 | Earth Abides | George R. Stewart | ||
13 | 1964 | Martian Time-Slip | Philip K. Dick | ||
14 | 1953 | The Demolished Man | Alfred Bester | ||
15 | 1968 | Stand on Zanzibar | John Brunner | ||
16 | 1975 | The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
17 | 1962 | The Drowned World | J. G. Ballard | ||
18 | 1959 | The Sirens of Titan | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | ||
19 | 1969 | Emphyrio | Jack Vance | ||
20 | 1977 | A Scanner Darkly | Philip K. Dick | ||
21 | 1937 | Star Maker | Olaf Stapledon | ||
22 | 1969 | Behold the Man | Michael Moorcock | ||
23 | 1972 | The Book of Skulls | Robert Silverberg | ||
24 | 1895 | The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells | ||
25 | 1966 | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | ||
26 | 1969 | Ubik | Philip K. Dick | ||
27 | 1980 | Timescape | Gregory Benford | ||
28 | 1953 | More Than Human | Theodore Sturgeon | ||
29 | 1976 | Man Plus | Frederik Pohl | ||
30 | 1958 | A Case of Conscience | James Blish | ||
31 | 1974 | The Centauri Device | M. John Harrison | ||
32 | 1965 | Dr. Bloodmoney | Philip K. Dick | ||
33 | 1958 | Non-Stop | Brian W. Aldiss | ||
34 | 1979 | The Fountains of Paradise | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
35 | 1968 | Pavane | Keith Roberts | ||
36 | 1966 | Now Wait for Last Year | Philip K. Dick | ||
37 | 1968 | Nova | Samuel R. Delany | ||
38 | 1901 | The First Men in the Moon | H. G. Wells | ||
39 | 1956 | The City and the Stars | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
40 | 1985 | Blood Music | Greg Bear | ||
41 | 1979 | Jem | Frederik Pohl | ||
42 | 1953 | Bring the Jubilee | Ward Moore | ||
43 | 1981 | Valis | Philip K. Dick | ||
44 | 1971 | The Lathe of Heaven | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
45 | 1980 | The Complete Roderick | John Sladek | ||
46 | 1974 | Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said | Philip K. Dick | ||
47 | 1897 | The Invisible Man | H. G. Wells | ||
48 | 1989 | Grass | Sheri S. Tepper | ||
49 | 1961 | A Fall of Moondust | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
50 | 1985 | Eon | Greg Bear | ||
51 | 1956 | The Shrinking Man | Richard Matheson | ||
52 | 1965 | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | Philip K. Dick | ||
53 | 1972 | The Dancers at the End of Time | Michael Moorcock | ||
54 | 1953 | The Space Merchants | Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth | ||
55 | 1959 | Time Out of Joint | Philip K. Dick | ||
56 | 1970 | Downward to the Earth | Robert Silverberg | ||
57 | 1964 | The Simulacra | Philip K. Dick | ||
58 | 1964 | The Penultimate Truth | Philip K. Dick | ||
59 | 1972 | Dying Inside | Robert Silverberg | ||
60 | 1970 | Ringworld | Larry Niven | ||
61 | 1989 | The Child Garden | Geoff Ryman | ||
62 | 1954 | Mission of Gravity | Hal Clement | ||
63 | 1970 | Maze of Death | Philip K. Dick | ||
64 | 1970 | Tau Zero | Poul Anderson | ||
65 | 1973 | Rendezvous with Rama | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
66 | 1987 | Life During Wartime | Lucius Shepard | ||
67 | 1976 | Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang | Kate Wilhelm | ||
68 | 1977 | Roadside Picnic | Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky | ||
69 | 1980 | Dark Benediction | Walter M. Miller, Jr. | ||
70 | 1980 | Mockingbird | Walter Tevis | ||
71 | 1965 | Dune | Frank Herbert | ||
72 | 1966 | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
73 | 1962 | The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | ||
74 | 1969 | The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
75 | 1959 | A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller, Jr. | ||
76 | 1953 | Childhood's End | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
77 | 1951 | The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham | ||
78 | 1974 | The Inverted World | Christopher Priest | ||
79 | 1963 | Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | ||
80 | 1896 | The Island of Dr. Moreau | H. G. Wells | ||
81 | 1974 | Dhalgren | Samuel R. Delany | ||
82 | 1895 | The Time Machine | H. G. Wells | ||
83 | 1986 | Helliconia | Brian W. Aldiss | ||
84 | 1904 | The Food of the Gods | H. G. Wells | ||
85 | 1955 | The Body Snatchers | Jack Finney | ||
86 | 1975 | The Female Man | Joanna Russ | ||
87 | 1976 | Arslan | M. J. Engh | ||
88 | 1990 | The Difference Engine | William Gibson & Bruce Sterling | ||
89 | 1995 | The Prestige | Christopher Priest | ||
90 | 1964 | Greybeard | Brian W. Aldiss | ||
91 | 1944 | Sirius | Olaf Stapledon | ||
92 | 1989 | Hyperion | Dan Simmons | ||
93 | 1952 | City | Clifford D. Simak | ||
94 | 1973 | Hellstrom's Hive | Frank Herbert | ||
95 | 1968 | Of Men and Monsters | William Tenn | ||
96 | 2011 | RUR & War with the Newts | Karel Capek | ||
97 | 1981 | The Affirmation | Christopher Priest | ||
98 | 1976 | Floating Worlds | Cecelia Holland | ||
99 | 1960 | Rogue Moon | Algis Budrys | ||
100 | 1967 | Dangerous Visions | Harlan Ellison | ||
101 | 1935 | Odd John | Olaf Stapledon | ||
102 | 1990 | The Fall of Hyperion | Dan Simmons | ||
103 | 1979 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | ||
104 | 1898 | The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells | ||
105 | 1991 | Synners | Pat Cadigan | ||
106 | 1991 | Sarah Canary | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
107 | 1993 | Ammonite | Nicola Griffith | ||
108 | 1974 | The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe | D. G. Compton | ||
109 | 1818 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | ||
110 | 1980 | Riddley Walker | Russell Hoban | ||
111 | 1992 | Doomsday Book | Connie Willis | ||
112 | 1988 | Unquenchable Fire | Rachel Pollack | ||
113 | 1968 | The Caltraps of Time | David I. Masson | ||
114 | 1979 | Engine Summer | John Crowley | ||
115 | 1989 | Take Back Plenty | Colin Greenland | ||
116 | 1995 | Slow River | Nicola Griffith | ||
117 | 1988 | The Gate to Women's Country | Sheri S. Tepper | ||
118 | 1987 | The Sea and Summer | George Turner | ||
119 | 1958 | Wasp | Eric Frank Russell | ||
120 | 1998 | To Say Nothing of the Dog | Connie Willis | ||
121 | 1972 | The Gods Themselves | Isaac Asimov | ||
122 | 1986 | This is the Way the World Ends | James Morrow | ||
123 | 1975 | The Deep | John Crowley | ||
124 | 2013 | Time Is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis | Connie Willis | ||
125 | 1982 | No Enemy But Time | Michael Bishop | ||
126 | 1956 | Double Star | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
127 | 2000 | Revelation Space | Alastair Reynolds | ||
128 | 1993 | Random Acts of Senseless Violence | Jack Womack | ||
129 | 1979 | Transfigurations | Michael Bishop | ||
130 | 1981 | The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | Douglas Adams | ||
131 | 1957 | The Door Into Summer | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
132 | 1982 | Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | ||
133 | 1971 | Half Past Human | T. J. Bass | ||
134 | 1955 | The Long Tomorrow | Leigh Brackett | ||
135 | 1975 | The Godwhale | T. J. Bass | ||
136 | 1990 | Her Smoke Rose Up Forever | James Tiptree, Jr. | ||
137 | 1972 | The Word for World is Forest | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
138 | 1964 | Hard to Be a God | Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky | ||
139 | 1996 | Night Lamp | Jack Vance | ||
140 | 1965 | Monday Begins on Saturday | Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky | ||
141 | 2015 | The Wind's Twelve Quarters & The Compass Rose | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
142 | 1977 | Dying of the Light | George R. R. Martin | ||
143 | 1992 | A Fire Upon the Deep | Vernor Vinge | ||
144 | 1975 | Norstrilia | Cordwainer Smith | ||
145 | 1952 | Limbo | Bernard Wolfe | ||
146 | 1963 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Walter Tevis | ||
147 | 1995 | Fairyland | Paul J. McAuley | ||
148 | 1955 | The Chrysalids | John Wyndham | ||
149 | 1985 | Always Coming Home | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
150 | 1994 | Feersum Endjinn | Iain M. Banks | ||
151 | 1999 | A Deepness in the Sky | Vernor Vinge | ||
152 | 1937 | Swastika Night | Murray Constantine | ||
153 | 1957 | The Midwich Cuckoos | John Wyndham | ||
154 | 1992 | China Mountain Zhang | Maureen F. McHugh | ||
155 | 1959 | Starship Troopers | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
156 | 1984 | Neuromancer | William Gibson | ||
157 | 2016 | The Book of the New Sun, Volume 1 | Gene Wolfe | ||
158 | 2016 | The Book of the New Sun, Volume 2 | Gene Wolfe | ||
159 | 1933 | The Shape of Things to Come | H. G. Wells | ||
160 | 1989 | The Doomed City | Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky | ||
161 | 1990 | Raising the Stones | Sheri S. Tepper | ||
162 | 1973 | The Embedding | Ian Watson | ||
163 | 1967 | Cryptozoic! / An Age | Brian W. Aldiss | ||
164 | 1935 | Land Under England | Joseph O'Neill | ||
165 | 1991 | Raft | Stephen Baxter | ||
166 | 1998 | Dreaming in Smoke | Tricia Sullivan | ||
167 | 1992 | Fools | Pat Cadigan | ||
168 | 2019 | The Best of R. A. Lafferty | R. A. Lafferty | ||
169 | 2002 | Light | M. John Harrison | ||
170 | 1984 | Native Tongue | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
171 | 1968 | The Snail on the Slope | Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky | ||
172 | 1975 | The Shockwave Rider | John Brunner | ||
173 | 1980 | Lord Valentine's Castle | Robert Silverberg | ||
174 | 2004 | River of Gods | Ian McDonald | ||
175 | 1971 | A Time of Changes | Robert Silverberg | ||
176 | 2020 | The Andromeda Anthology | Fred Hoyle & John Elliot | ||
177 | 2020 | Worlds of Exile and Illusion | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
178 | 2001 | Bold as Love | Gwyneth Jones | ||
179 | 1988 | Desolation Road | Ian McDonald | ||
180 | 2002 | Castles Made of Sand | Gwyneth Jones |