Wizard
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Te Riu-a-Māui
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Goal: At least one-third of fiction reading outside SF/Fantasy genres.
Current status: Science Fiction: 50%; Fantasy: 16%; Other fiction: 34%.
Science Fiction: 70
Stephen Baxter, Titan. ****
Stephen Baxter, Moonseed. ****
Julian May, The Many-Coloured Land. ***
Julian May, The Golden Torc. ***
Julian May, The Nonborn King. ***
Julian May, The Adversary. ***
David Brin, The River of Time. ****
Robert L. Forward, Dragon's Egg. *****
Gregory Benford, The Stars in Shroud. ***
C. J. Cherryh, Brothers of Earth. ****
C. J. Cherryh, Hunter of Worlds. ****
William Gibson, Neuromancer. *****
William Gibson, Count Zero. *****
William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive. ****
David Brin, Otherness. ****
Paul McAuley, Something Coming Through. ***
Hal Clement, Mission of Gravity. ****
Hal Clement, Star Light. ***
Connie Willis, Bellwether. ****
Connie Willis, Inside Job. ***
Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice, Light Raid. **
Walter M. Miller Jr, Dark Benediction. ****
Walter M. Miller Jr, A Canticle for Leibowitz. *****
Sheri S. Tepper, The Gate to Women's Country. ****
John Scalzi, Old Man's War. ****
John Scalzi, The Ghost Brigades. ***
John Scalzi, The Last Colony. ***
John Scalzi, Zoe's Tale. **
Chris Beckett, The Holy Machine. *****
Walter Mosley, Merge. ****
Walter Mosley, Disciple. ****
Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem. ****
Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund, If the Stars are Gods. ****
Robert Charles Wilson, A Bridge of Years. ****
Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars. ***
Sheri S. Tepper, Grass. ****
Sheri S. Tepper, Raising the Stones. ***
Sheri S. Tepper, Sideshow. ***
Walter Mosley, The Gift of Fire. ***
Walter Mosley, On the Head of a Pin. ****
Peter F. Hamilton, Pandora's Star. *****
Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained. *****
Charles Sheffield, Vectors. ***
Charles Sheffield, Hidden Variables. ****
C. J. Cherryh, Port Eternity. ****
C. J. Cherryh, Voyager in Night. ****
C. J. Cherryh, Wave Without a Shore. *****
Robert L. Forward, Rocheworld. ***
Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild. ****
Jack Vance, The Chasch. ****
Jack Vance, The Wannek. ****
Jack Vance, The Dirdir. ****
Jack Vance, The Pnume. ****
Ursula K. Le Guin, Rocannon's World. ****
Ursula K. Le Guin, Planet of Exile. ****
Ursula K. Le Guin, City of Illusions. *****
Phillip Mann, The Disestablishment of Paradise. ***
C. J. Cherryh, The Faded Sun: Kesrith. *****
C. J. Cherryh, The Faded Sun: Shon'jir. *****
C. J. Cherryh, The Faded Sun: Kutath. *****
Jack McDevitt, Eternity Road. ***
Gregory Benford, Worlds Vast and Various. ****
Gregory Benford, Artifact. ****
Gregory Benford, Chiller. ***
Gregory Benford, Timescape. ****
Chris Beckett, Dark Eden. ****
Chris Beckett, Mother of Eden. ***
Judith Moffett, Penterra. ****
Jack L. Chalker, Melchior's Fire. **
C. S. Friedman, Black Sun Rising. ***
Fantasy: 23
P. C. Hodgell, To Ride a Rathorn. ***
Gene Wolfe, The Knight. *****
Gene Wolfe, The Wizard. *****
Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself. ****
Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged. ****
Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings. ****
Michael Moorcock, Gloriana; or, The Unfulfill'd Queen. ****
Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood. *****
Robert Holdstock, Lavondyss. ****
Robert Holdstock, The Bone Forest. ****
Guy Gavriel Kay, The Last Light of the Sun. ***
China Miéville, Perdido Street Station. ****
China Miéville, The Scar. ****
China Miéville, Iron Council. ***
Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate. ****
Michael Moorcock, Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories. ****
Michael Moorcock, Elric: The Fortress of the Pearl. *****
Michael Moorcock, Elric: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate. ****
Michael Moorcock, Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress and Other Stories. ***
Robert Holdstock, The Hollowing. ***
Robert Holdstock, Merlin's Wood. ***
Robert Holdstock, Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn. **
Robert Holdstock, Avilion. ***
Other fiction: 47
Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories. **
Arthur Hailey, The Final Diagnosis. ****
Alistair MacLean, The Dark Crusader. ***
Alistair MacLean, The Satan Bug. ***
Alistair MacLean, Ice Station Zebra. ****
Alistair MacLean, When Eight Bells Toll. ***
Val McDermid, The Grave Tattoo. ***
Koji Suzuki, Dark Water. **
Arthur Hailey, In High Places. ****
Arthur Hailey, Hotel. ****
Andrea Camilleri, The Shape of Water. ****
Andrea Camilleri, The Terracotta Dog. ****
Andrea Camilleri, The Snack Thief. ****
Andrea Camilleri, The Voice of the Violin. ****
Leif G. W. Persson, Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End. *****
Leif G. W. Persson, Another Time, Another Life. *****
Leif G. W. Persson, Falling Freely, As If in a Dream. *****
Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal. ****
Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File. ***
Arnaldur Indriğason, Jar City. ***
Arnaldur Indriğason, Silence of the Grave. ****
Arnaldur Indriğason, Voices. ****
Arnaldur Indriğason, The Draining Lake. ***
Arnaldur Indriğason, Arctic Chill. ****
Leif G. W. Persson, Linda, As in the Linda Murder. ****
Leif G. W. Persson, He Who Kills the Dragon. ****
Henning Mankell, An Event in Autumn. ***
Henning Mankell, The Return of the Dancing Master. ****
Eric Ambler, Doctor Frigo. **
Eric Ambler, Send No More Roses. **
Kjell Eriksson, The Princess of Burundi. ***
Kjell Eriksson, The Cruel Stars of the Night. ***
Kjell Eriksson, The Demon of Dakar. ***
Per Wahlöö, Murder on the Thirty-first Floor. ****
Per Wahlöö, The Steel Spring. ****
Kerstin Ekman, Blackwater. **
Arthur Hailey, Airport. ****
Arthur Hailey, Wheels. ****
Arnaldur Indriğason, Hypothermia. ****
Arnaldur Indriğason, Outrage. ***
Arnaldur Indriğason, Black Skies. ***
Arnaldur Indriğason, Strange Shores. ****
Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström, Cell 8. ****
Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström, Three Seconds. ***
Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström, Two Soldiers. ***
Wilbur Smith, The Dark of the Sun. ***
Wilbur Smith, Gold Mine. ***
Last edited by GeoffR; 12-31-2015 at 05:53 AM.
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