A list of the books we’ve read in the seven years or so the Edinburgh SF Book Group has been running, from classic science fiction to fantasy to young adult, mainstream fiction with SF elements, horror and graphic novels:
2010
0810: “Makers” by Cory Doctorow
0710: “Neuromancer” by William Gibson
0610: “Flashforward” by Robert J Sawyer
0510: “In Great Waters” by Kit Whitfield
0410: “Replay” by Ken Grimwood
0310: “The Little Stranger” by Sarah Waters
0210: “Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Graphic Novel” by Tim Hamilton
0110: “House of Leaves” – Mark Z. Danielewski
2009
1209: “Hexwood” – Diana Wynne Jones
1109: “Nights at the Circus” – Angela Carter
1009: “Interface” – Neal Stephenson & Frederick George
0909: “The Night Sessions” – Ken Macleod
0809: “Stamping Butterflies” – Jon Courtenay Grimwood
0709: “The Holy Machine” – Chris Beckett
0609: “Y The Last Man: Unmanned” – Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra
0509: “Unlimited Dream Company” – JG Ballard
0409: “Galapagos” – Kurt Vonnegut
0309: “The Physiognomy” – Jeffrey Ford
0209: “Survivors” – Terry Nation
0109: “Harm” – Brian Aldiss
2008
1208: “The Fall of the House of Usher” – Edgar Allan Poe
1108: “A Fire Upon the Deep” – Vernor Vinge
1008: “Watchmen” – Alan Moore
0908: “The Chrysalids” – John Wyndham
0808: “The Road” – Cormac McCarthy
0708: “The Prefect” – Alastair Reynolds
0608: “Diaspora” – Greg Egan
0508: “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” – Michael Chabon
0408: “Light” – M. John Harrison
0308: “The Stolen Child” – Keith Donohue
0208: “Mobius Dick” – Andrew Crumey
0108: “Lives of the Monster Dogs” – Kirsten Bakis
2007
1207: “The Anubis Gates” – Tim Powers
1107: “Vellum: The Book of All Hours” – Hal Duncan
1007: “Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World” – Haruki Murakami
0907: “Glasshouse” – Charles Stross
0807: “Cat’s Cradle” – Kurt Vonnegut
0707: “Neverwhere” – Neil Gaiman
0607: “Riddley Walker” – Russell Hoban
0507: “I, Robot” – Isaac Asimov
0407: “The Lies of Locke Lamora” – Scott Lynch
0307: “Black Hole” – Charles Burns
0207: “Brave New World” – Aldous Huxley
0107: “Starship Troopers” – Robert A. Heinlein
2006
1206: “The Island of Dr Moreau” – H.G. Wells
1106: “Provender Gleed” – James Lovegrove
1006: “Under The Skin” – Michel Faber
0906: “Jennifer Government” – Max Barry
0806: “The Lathe Of Heaven” – Ursula Le Guin
0706: n/a
0606: “Fifth Head of Cerberus” – Gene Wolfe
0506: “Polystom” – Adam Roberts
0406: “Never Let Me Go” – Kazuo Ishiguro
0306: n/a
0206: “Babel 17” – Samuel R Delany
0106: “Cloud Atlas” – David Mitchell
2005
1205: “City of Saints and Madmen” – Jeff VanderMeer
1105: “The Demolished Man” – Alfred Bester
1005: “V For Vendetta” – Alan Moore
0905: “Cryptonomicon” – Neal Stephenson
0805: ?
0705: “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” – Cory Doctorow
0605: ?
0505: ?
0405: ?
0305: “Grass” – Sheri S Tepper
0205: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” – Lewis Carol
0105: “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell” – Susanna Clarke
2004
1204: n/a
1104: “Oryx and Crake” – Margaret Atwood
1004: “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” – Robert Louis Stevenson
0904: “The Doll’s House (Sandman book 2)” – Neil Gaiman
0804: “Fire and Hemlock” – Diana Wynne Jones
0704: “The Left Hand of Darkness” – Ursula le Guin
0604: “Spares” – Michael Marshall Smith
0504: “The Rats” – James Herbert
0404: “Salt” – Adam Roberts
0304: “The Stars My Destination” – Alfred Bester
0204: “The Sky Road” – Ken MacLeod
0104: “Interview With the Vampire” – Anne Rice
2003
1203: n/a
1103: “Perdido Street Station” – China Mieville
1003: “I Am Legend” – Richard Mattheson
0903: “Altered Carbon” – Richard Morgan
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