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I'm doing 3 other 2016 challenges but am adding this one as a thematic challenge. My plan is to read a Sci-Fi book published in each year since I was born, starting in 1963. I am shooting for 10 books this year. My thought is to observe how the Sci-Fi genre has changed over the years.

1800s:
1869: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Read: 2017
1895: The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

1900s:
1924 - We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Read: 2017

1950s:
1951 The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
1954 The Crystal Crypt: A Short Science Fiction Novel by Philip K. Dick
1958 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

1963- Present:
1963 - The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis - Started but DNF
1964 - Nova Express by William S. Burroughs
1965 - Dune by Frank Herbert Read: 2017
1966 -Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
1967 - The Einstein Intersection
1968 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
1969 - Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert Read: 2017
1970 - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
1971 - The Lathe of Heaven
1972 - To Your Scattered Bodies Go
1973
1974
1975
1976 Children of Dune by Frank Herbert Read; 2017
1977
1978
1979 Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

1980s:

1990s:
1996 Johnny and the Bomb by Terry Pratchett Read: 2017

2000s:
2003- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Read: 2017
2012- Any Day Now by Terry Bisson Read: 2017
2013 The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
2014 The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey
2015 Golden Son by Pierce Brown
2016 The Last Star by Rick Yancey
2017:

Ooh interesting!! I look forward to hearing about your books Pam :)

The Left Hand of Darkness is one of my favorite books. I want to read some Delany too next year, probably Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia. I read Lord of Light a few years ago and liked it, especially for the writing. I recommend The Just City which came out this summer. I haven't read the sequels yet, but they are The Philosopher Kings andNecessity.

Other sf authors on my tbr are Poul Anderson, Jules Verne, Vernor Vinge, Connie Willis, and Joanna Russ.

edit: sorry, i don't know the years when most of these books were published, but you could use The Just City for 2015.

Beth wrote: "The Left Hand of Darkness is one of my favorite books. I want to read some Delany too next year, probably Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia. I read Lord of Light a few years ..."

Thanks for the suggestions! I'm going to continue this challenge in 2017.

I forgot where I created this challenge and just found it today, with 2 weeks in the year to go! But, now that I found it, I am going to expand it to 2017. Most of the sci-fi I read this year was published in 2015 and later. I didn't list all of the titles; just one from each year. I will have read books from 6 years. Maybe I can squeeze in one more!

I also read 3 books from the 1950s - The Day of the Triffids (1951), Flowers for Algernon (1958), and The Crystal Crypt: A Short Science Fiction Novel (1954) and one from 1895 The Time Machine.

I am really enjoying Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the basis for the movie Bladerunner. It's funny, though, that it's set in the near future (2020) yet there is still a Leningrad and the Soviet Union! There are some things you can't predict!

Pam wrote: "I am really enjoying Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the basis for the movie Bladerunner. It's funny, though, that it's set in the near future (2020) yet there is still a Leningra..."

I read it this spring; I was disappointed only under one aspect, but I'll wait till you finish it and then I tell you why. Let's see...

Tee hee - when I saw this I thought "didn't create this one did I?"

Most of the books in my normal challenge are SF/fantasy - when they're not crime novels!

Perhaps I should rename my challenges slightly to avoid confusion - just had that thought.

LauraT wrote: "Pam wrote: "I am really enjoying Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the basis for the movie Bladerunner. It's funny, though, that it's set in the near future (2020) yet there is stil..."

Laura - I really enjoyed it. What were you disappointed with? Something to do with the goat? You can private message me or do a spoiler alert, if you want.

Pam wrote: "Perhaps I should rename my challenges slightly to avoid confusion - just had that thought."

You don't need to, unless you really want to. I changed my 2017 to Bluegrass Pam, which I use as a reader name for a different group. I've pulled up your posts before accidentally! Glad to see another Sci-fi fan!

It's OK, Pam, already done - just added my first initial.

Pam wrote: "LauraT wrote: "Pam wrote: "I am really enjoying Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the basis for the movie Bladerunner. It's funny, though, that it's set in the near future (2020) ye..."

I loved it! Laura can answer for herself but I know that she isn't much of a sci-fi fan so that might be why she didn't enjoy as much as we did.

Added my sci-fi books read so far in 2017. To continue with my ORIGINAL 2016 challenge, I read the first 3 Dune books, which is an awesome series!

I decided to track a book from every year, just for fun. My plan is to get back to reading books I own, since I've acquired too many books this year, thanks to cheap or free sources such as Goodwill and the Multi-generational Center! Most likely, I will read Dune #4 this summer. Those darn series...