sci-fi booklist

i've recently realized that a significant proportion of those in tech are big sci-fi fans. which makes sense, perhaps moreso than climbing, marathons, and hiking as the other stereotypically techbro hobbies, but maybe i am biased because i do fall squarely into this category as opposed to the other three.

in any case, here is what i am currently reading:

• hyperion
• wayward pines

on the list for future:

• the three-body problem
• i, robot
• the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

past favs:

• ender's game - but not ender's game, moreso bean's story, the one called ender's shadow, which got me into geopolitics. started it for the interplanetary war stuff, but stayed for the world domination. i read the rest of both branches too: the shadow series (ender's shadow, shadow of the hegemon, shadow puppets, shadow of the giant, shadows in flight, the last shadow) and the ender's game series (ender's game, speaker for the dead, xenocide, children of the mind, ender in exile). loved every book in the shadow series, but all of the speaker ones were meh, too heavy on the morality stuff.

• dark matter, recursion, upgrade (blake crouch, the lot of them). i'm very fond of his style, it feels accessible and non-jargony, yet somehow believable enough to have me not questioning the science behind it too much.

• children of time. recently recommended to me by joao, as was hyperion!!! one of the best analogies and writing i have seen

• old man's war. loved john scalzi he was hilarious

• a wrinkle in time - read this for the first time in, like, third grade, never got the concept of a tesseract out of my mind since

ones that i read and liked but don't really think count as sci-fi (but appear as such on goodreads):

all the orwell books, fahrenheit 451, severance, the hunger games, etc