Convenience Store Clerk of Dune (A Summer Reading List)
Host Jason Snell with Dan Moren, Glenn Fleishman, Lex Friedman, Scott McNulty, and Serenity Caldwell
Summer’s here and it’s time to get to the beach with a good sci-fi novel. Our panelists are well read and of exquisite taste, so we’ve got a boatload of suggestions for you. From funny to serious, there’s a book in our list that will hit the spot the next time you’re looking for something to read.
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Links
- "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov
- "The Caves of Steel" by Isaac Asimov
- "Dune" by Frank Herbert
- "The Time Traveller's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
- "A Wrinkle In Time" by Madeline L'Engle
- "When Gravity Fails" by George Alec Effinger
- "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis
- "The Stars My Destinaton" by Alfred Bester
- "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons
- "The Long Walk" by Stephen King (Richard Bachman)
- "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
- "Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson
- "Galactic Pot Healer" by Philip K. Dick
- "The Devil You Know" by Mike Carey
- "Contact" by Carl Sagan
- "My Teacher is An Alien" by Bruce Coville
- "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman
- "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell
- "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson
- "A Million Open Doors" by John Barnes
- "Old Man's War" by John Scalzi
- "The Gone-Away World" by Nick Harkaway
- "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula K. LeGuin
- "The Uplift War" by David Brin
- "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson
- "Red Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson
- "Shadow of the Torturer" by Gene Wolfe
- "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem
- "The Sirens of Titan" by Kurt Vonnegut
- "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline
- "S is for Space" by Ray Bradbury
- "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
- "Jurassic Park" by Michael Crichton
- "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
- The books mentioned in Jo Walton's "Among Others"
- "Among Others" by Jo Walton
- "How Much for Just the Planet" by John M. Ford (Klingon pie fight)
- "Spock's World" by Diane Duane
- "The Wounded Sky" by Diane Duane
- "Consider Phlebas" (Culture series) by Iain M. Banks
- "The Algebraist" by Iain M. Banks
- "The Middle Kingdom: Chung Kuo" by David Wingrove
- "The Risen Empire" by Scott Westerfeld
