Up Against It' by M. J. Locke. I meant to read this back in 2011 when it came out but forgot about it until I was recently reminded that this book exists when I read a piece by Jo Walton over at Tor: http://www.tor.com/blogs/
Also, how does 'Reply' by Ken Grimwood sound? http://www.tor.com/
1) The Outback Stars by Sandra McDonald (military SF, a genre I don't read much of honestly) <---https://www.amazon.com/
2) Replay by en Grimwood (own a copy, haven't read it yet) <---http://www.amazon.com/
3) Thunderbird by Jack McDevitt (own a copy, haven't read it yet) <----https://www.amazon.com/
4) The Bohr Maker by Linda Nagata (own a copy, haven't read it yet) <----https://www.amazon.com/
5) Fallen Free by Lois McMaster Bujold (own a copy, haven't read it yet) <----https://www.amazon.com/
6) Half the Day is Night by Maureen F. McHugh (own a copy, haven't read it yet) <------https://www.amazon.com/
7) The Android's Dream by John Scalzi (have a copy, starting reading it over a year ago but had to put it off for other books) <------https://www.amazon.com/
8) Freedom's Landing by Anne McCaffery (own a copy, haven't read it yet) <------https://www.amazon.com/
'American War' by Omar El Akkad. It's about a 2nd American Civil War in the near future and probably falls under the 'post-apocalyptic' genre or, at the very least, speculative fiction
'Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America' by Brian Francis Slattery, which is also about a 2nd American Civil War. Just something to ponder on for possible future reads.)
The Long Tomorrow, by Leigh Brackett, 1955
Post-nuclear apocalypse, but . . . "at first glance a pleasant pastoral scene." It is described as "very pro-science," and "strangely prophetic" re: conservative born-again social leanings. Brackett did a lot of screen-writing; she's best known for The Big Sleep.
Nova, by Samuel R. Delany, 1968
I know, Delany, but I like the guy's stuff, and this is relatively early. Pringle describes it as "an updating of the pulp-magazine space opera," and it describes a "vast, complex, teeming, and fundamentally hopeful future society." I read it a LONG time ago, and would like the excuse to re-read it.
Tau Zero, by Poul Anderson, 1970
Anderson does have a reputation as being rather right-wing, which could be a good reason to give his work a try. This one is about an inter-stellar journey and the relativity effects on the travellers. It sounds very different.
Beggars in Spain, by Nancy Kress
Genetic editing, cold fusion, humans who have been modified to not need sleep—and that’s just for starters. Kress’ 1993 novel is set in a future where the emergence of the Sleepless, people who prove to be almost superhuman in their capabilities and lifespan, at first sparks violence against them, and then transforms the world in unexpected ways. Over the course of decades, Kress traces how America reorganizes itself into a tiered society, with Sleepless on top and the “Livers” on the bottom, as a philosophy known as Yagaiism (named after the scientists responsible for the Sleepless) argues that only the productive matter, and only contractual relationships work. Kress packs an incredible number of thought bombs into this engaging story.
- Salt, by Adam Roberts, 2000 (See, I am not confining myself to all things female these days.)
Described as a "startlingly original voice." involves two starships, one populated by a strict heirarchical culture, the other by anarchists. The Creative Fire by Brenda Cooper
Maximum Light, Nancy Kress
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card (before the movie comes out)
Sheep Look Up--John Brunner
The Mote in God's Eye (Niven and Pournelle) found here
Hawksbill Station (Silverberg)
The Genocides (Disch)
Cat Country (Chinese novel from 1932), She Lao
China Mountain Zhang (Maureen F. McHugh)
Use of Weapons (Iain M. Banks)
Useless Hands (Claude Farrère)
The Red Star: A Utopia (Alexander Bogdanov)
Freedom & Necessity (Emma Bull & Steven Brust)
Hospital of the Transformation (Lem)
Animals: A Novel (Don LePan)found here
City of Truth (James Morrow)found here
or Towering Jehovah found here
Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America (Brian Francis Slattery) found here
The Orphan's Son (Adam Johnson)
As for non-North American writers, i would suggest Shengshi Zhongguo 2013 (which roughly translates to "The Gilded Age: China 2013") by Chan Koon-Chung, a novel that has been banned in China. (You can read about the novel here: http://www.thechinabeat.org/?
The Red Star: A Utopia by Alexander Bogdanov, written in 1904, which is basically a Bolshevik SF about sending a revolutionary to socialist Mars (criticized for being proto-stalinist and for good reason),
Freedom & Necessity by Emma Bull & Steven Brust (Bull is a left-liberal and Brust is a Trotskyist fantasy writer.F&N is set in the 19th Century of the Chartists and class turmoil. It’s been described as “the first Marxist steampunk” or “a fantasy for Young Hegelians.”),
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks (Socialist SF discussing a post-scarcity society)
Useless Hands by Claude Farrère (Bleak Social Darwinism, and a prototype of “farewell to the working class” arguments. The “useless hands”—workers—revolt is seen as pathetic before inexorable technology. A cold, reactionary, interesting book.) That is all.
Hawksbill Station (Silverberg)
The Watch (?)
The Genocides (Disch)
The Absolute at Large (1922) (Capek)]
China Mieville [suggestions include Perdido Street Station (2000), The Scar (2002)
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