The Evolution of Science Fiction discussion

This month you can make two nominations one for a sci-fi book from 2000-2009 and a second from 2010-2014. Note there is currently a poll open for the 2000's and you may wish to consult this before nominating by clicking here Nominations will close at the end of the January and the poll will open in February 2015.

Current Nominations

2000's
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts
Look to Windward by Iain M Banks
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi


2010-2014
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Redshirts by John Scalzi
Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee
The Martian by David Weir
Surface Detail by Iain M Banks
The Blood of Angels by Johanna Sinisalo

For the SF book from 2010 to 2014 I nominate
Ready Player One. Perhaps THE SF novel for Gen Xers
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...

For the SF book from 2000-2009 I'll nominate the Steampunk novel Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

I nominate
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (2008)
and
Redshirts by John Scalzi (2012)

I nominate Blindsight by Peter Watts for 2000s.

I'm going to renominate (again) Yellow Blue Tibia for the 2000's as it's clearly not going to win the poll this monht!

For 2010-2014 i'm going to nominate Conservation of Shadows which is a selection of short stories by Yoon Ha Lee.

I'm going to nominate The Martian by Andy Weir for 2010's

Sascha wrote: "I'm going to nominate The Martian by Andy Weir for 2010's"

Cool. I've been wanting to read that. I'd also like to read Yellow Blue Tibia.

The late great Ian M. Banks has yet to win a slot, so I'm going to nominate Look to Windward from 2000 and Surface Detail from 2010, both of which offer pretty dark views on his utopian Culture.

Radiantflux wrote: "The late great Ian M. Banks has yet to win a slot, so I'm going to nominate Look to Windward from 2000 and Surface Detail from 2010, both of which offer pretty dark view..."

Good ones Radiantflux!

I've been on hiatus from group reads recently, but I wanted to add a couple of book suggestions here. My selections are based on near future SF and what are we dealing with today that's important to that near future. For the 2000 decade I'm nominating The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. For 20010-2014 I'm nominating The Blood of Angels by Joanne Sinisalo. This book is new and won an English translation award. I just read it. It's about colony collapse disorder and is written from a perspective of someone who is very much immersed in social media and the isolated behavior it can produce. There's very little dialog and we live within the head of the main character as he reads his son's anarchist political blog. Chapters start off with the narrative and end with entries in his son's blog and a few reader responses. I doubt this would have been written in this way even for most of the previous decade.