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 [*].

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

Orson Scott Card:
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 *