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| Episode | Author | Book/Topic | Series | Rating | Length | Date | External Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 597 | The SFBRP Must-Read Science Fiction List Wrap Show | – | 1:23:24 | 20260930 | ||||
| 596 | Iain M Banks | The Player of Games | Culture #2 | 5 | 1:03:56 | 20260916 | W | G |
| 595 | Robert A Heinlein | Double Star | 3.5 | 59:55 | 20260909 | W | G | |
| 594 | Matt Dinniman | Dungeon Crawler Carl | Dungeon Crawler Carl #1 | 1.5 | 1:08:31 | 20260827 | W | G |
| 593 | Douglas Adams | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | H2G2 #1 | 2.5 | 1:05:20 | 20260823 | W | G |
| 592 | qntm | There Is No Antimemetics Division | 4 | 52:32 | 20260729 | W | G | |
| 591 | H G Wells | The War of the Worlds | 4.5 | 47:45 | 20260716 | W | G | |
| 590 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Lives of Bitter Rain and Days of Shattered Faith | Tyrant Philosophers #2.5 & #3 | 4 | 36:34 | 20260621 | W | G |
| 589 | Robert A Heinlein | Have Space Suit – Will Travel | 4 | 1:26:37 | 20260506 | W | G | |
| 588 | Silvia Park | Luminous | 5 | 1:15:40 | 20260501 | W | G | |
| 587 | Barbara Truelove | Of Monsters and Mainframes | 1 | 57:38 | 20260409 | W | G | |
| 586 | Iain M Banks | Inversions | Culture #5 | 5 | 1:13:19 | 20260406 | W | G |
| 585 | Shannon Chakraborty | The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi | Amina al-Sirafi #1 | 0.1/DNF | 35:56 | 20260403 | W | G |
| 584 | Alastair Reynolds | Halcyon Years | 2.5 | 23:17 | 20260330 | W | G | |
| 583 | Claire North | Slow Gods | 2.5 | 47:30 | 20260308 | W | G | |
| 582 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Shroud | 4.5 | 59:44 | 20260221 | W | G | |
| 581 | Neal Stephenson | Anathem | 4.9 | 1:00:04 | 20260215 | W | G | |
| 580 | Alix E Harrow | The Everlasting | 1/DNF | 1:10:40 | 20260128 | W | G | |
| 579 | Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice | Imperial Radch #1 | 4 | 47:04 | 20260106 | W | G |
| 578 | David Brin | Startide Rising | Uplift Saga #2 | 2 | 31:47 | 20251226 | W | G |
| 577 | E J Swift | When There Are Wolves Again | 4.5 | 53:39 | 20251209 | W | G | |
| 576 | Derek Künsken | The Quantum Magician | Quantum Evolution #1 | 4.5 | 35:37 | 20251127 | W | G |
| 575 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | City of Last Chances and House of Open Wounds | Tyrant Philosophers #1 & #2 | 4.5 | 1:18:28 | 20251116 | W | G |
| 574 | Robert Silverberg | A Time of Changes | 2.5 | 32:36 | 20251102 | W | G | |
| 573 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | One Day All This Will Be Yours | 4 | 23:10 | 20251008 | W | G | |
| 572 | Nnedi Okorafor | Death of the Author | 1/DNF | 1:14:42 | 20250913 | W | G | |
| 571 | Becky Chambers | The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet | Wayfarers #1 | 2.5/DNF | 1:16:37 | 20250901 | W | G |
| 570 | Stanisław Lem | Solaris | 4.5 | 46:43 | 20250720 | W | G | |
| 569 | Kaliane Bradley | The Ministry of Time | 3 | 1:14:32 | 20250628 | W | G | |
| 568 | Orson Scott Card | Speaker for the Dead | Ender’s Saga #2 | 4 | 1:09:31 | 20250619 | W | G |
| 567 | Emily Tesh | Some Desperate Glory | 1.5 | 1:14:00 | 20250608 | W | G | |
| 566 | J R R Tolkien | The Return of the King | The Lord of the Rings #3 | 4.5 | 1:22:58 | 20250526 | W | G |
| 565 | J R R Tolkien | The Two Towers | The Lord of the Rings #2 | 4.5 | 1:25:58 | 20250511 | W | G |
| 564 | J R R Tolkien | The Fellowship of the Ring | The Lord of the Rings #1 | 4.5 | 1:19:17 | 20250509 | W | G |
| 563 | Tolkien | The Silmarillion | 5 | 1:19:02 | 20250401 | W | G | |
| 562 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Alien Clay | 4.5 | 1:05:11 | 20250310 | W | G | |
| 561 | Alastair Reynolds | Terminal World | 4 | 59:58 | 20250304 | W | G | |
| 560 | David Zindell | Neverness | A Requiem for Homo Sapiens | 4.5 | 55:35 | 20250216 | W | G |
| 559 | George R Stewart | Earth Abides | 4.5 | 48:25 | 20250120 | W | G | |
| 558 | Micaiah Johnson | Those Beyond the Wall | Space Between Worlds #2 | 0.5/DNF | 44:11 | 20250111 | W | G |
| 557 | Dune: Part Two (2024) | Dune #2 | – | 1:02:38 | 20241225 | W | I | |
| 556 | Frederik Pohl | Gateway | Heechee Saga #1 | 3 | 1:03:35 | 20241215 | W | G |
| 555 | C J Cherryh | Heavy Time | Company Wars #4 | 3.5 | 47:21 | 20241207 | W | G |
| 554 | Arkady and Boris Strugatsky | Roadside Picnic | 4 | 50:20 | 20241109 | W | G | |
| 553 | Robert A Heinlein | Starship Troopers | 3.5 | 1:00:37 | 20241103 | W | G | |
| 552 | Mary Doria Russell | The Sparrow | The Sparrow #1 | 4.5 | 53:14 | 20241026 | W | G |
| 551 | Joe Haldeman | The Forever War | Forever War #1 | 2 | 1:16:02 | 20240909 | W | G |
| 550 | The SFBRP Must-Read Science Fiction List | – | 1:31:00 | 20240902 | ||||
| 549 | Ursula K LeGuin | The Left Hand of Darkness | Hainish Cycle #4 | 4.5 | 35:50 | 20240830 | W | G |
| 548 | Ursula K LeGuin | The Eye of the Heron | 3 | 17:32 | 20240829 | W | G | |
| 547 | David Brin | Sundiver | Uplift Saga #1 | 2.5 | 40:27 | 20240729 | W | G |
| 546 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Service Model | 3.5 | 37:40 | 20240712 | W | G | |
| 545 | Alastair Reynolds | Chasm City | Revelation Space #0.5 | 4.5 | 59:12 | 20240711 | W | G |
| 544 | Emma Törzs | Ink Blood Sister Scribe | 2 | 59:00 | 20240629 | W | G | |
| 543 | Algis Budrys | Rogue Moon | 1.5 | 25:52 | 20240616 | W | G | |
| 542 | Alastair Reynolds | Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days | Revelation Space #1.5 | 3.5 | 18:39 | 20240610 | W | G |
| 541 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | The Expert System’s Brother & Champion | Expert System #1 & 2 | 3.75 | 19:37 | 20240504 | W | G |
| 540 | Karin Tidbeck | Amatka | 2.5 | 1:08:48 | 20240421 | W | G | |
| 539 | Jacqueline Harpman | I Who Have Never Known Men | 4.5 | 37:15 | 20240404 | W | G | |
| 538 | Herman Melville | Moby-Dick | – | 1:09:39 | 20240330 | W | G | |
| 537 | Andrew Krivak | The Bear | 2 | 49:35 | 20240319 | W | G | |
| 536 | Cormac McCarthy | The Road | 0.5/DNF | 48:49 | 20240318 | W | G | |
| 535 | Alexander C Kane | Scum of the Earth | 3.5 | 30:46 | 20240303 | W | G | |
| 534 | Alastair Reynolds | Machine Vendetta | Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #3 | 3.5 | 59:37 | 20240223 | W | G |
| 533 | Virtual Voice Narration in 2024 | – | 1:30:39 | 20240211 | ||||
| 532 | Ursula K LeGuin | Rocannon’s World | Hainish Cycle #1 | 2.5 | 42:55 | 20240204 | W | G |
| 531 | M R Carey | Infinity Gate | Pandominion #1 | 1.5 | 55:48 | 20240114 | W | G |
| 530 | Sandra Newman | Julia | 1984 | 4 | 59:44 | 20231231 | W | G |
| 529 | Martha Wells | System Collapse | Murderbot Diaries #7 | 1 | 50:41 | 20231227 | W | G |
| 528 | Ned Beauman | Venomous Lumpsucker | 4 | 59:13 | 20231210 | W | G | |
| 527 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Lords of Uncreation | Final Architecture #3 | 3 | 39:02 | 20231203 | W | G |
| 526 | R F Kuang | Babel | 3 | 1:21:35 | 20231101 | W | G | |
| 525 | Greg Bear | Eon | The Way #1 | 1 | 44:31 | 20231004 | W | G |
| 524 | Ursula K LeGuin | The Unreal and the Real | 4 | 50:39 | 20231003 | W | G | |
| 523 | Adam Roberts | The This | 3 | 1:11:02 | 20230917 | W | G | |
| 522 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Eyes of the Void | Final Architecture #2 | 3.5 | 47:59 | 20230906 | W | G |
| 521 | Peter F Hamilton | The Naked God | Night’s Dawn #3 | 4 | 1:27:02 | 20230825 | W | G |
| 520 | Lessons Learned from SFBRP Listening | Lessons #1 to #25 | – | 1:25:05 | 20230723 | |||
| 519 | Simon Jimenez | The Spear Cuts Through Water | 3.5 | 57:00 | 20230715 | W | G | |
| 518 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Shards of Earth | Final Architecture #1 | 4 | 58:50 | 20230618 | W | G |
| 517 | K J Parker | A Practical Guide to Conquering the World | Siege #3 | 3.5 | 21:26 | 20230525 | W | G |
| 516 | Ray Nayler | The Mountain in the Sea | 1/DNF | 59:47 | 20230520 | W | G | |
| 515 | Jules Verne | Journey to the Center of the Earth | 2 | 1:06:03 | 20230429 | W | G | |
| 514 | Isaac Asimov | The Naked Sun | Robot #2 | 3.5 | 1:11:23 | 20230422 | W | G |
| 513 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Children of Ruin | Children of Time #2 | 4.5 | 21:21 | 20230411 | W | G |
| 512 | Peter F Hamilton | The Neutronium Alchemist | Night’s Dawn #2 | 4 | 1:06:08 | 20230403 | W | G |
| 511 | Leigh Bardugo | Shadow and Bone | Grishaverse #1 | 2 | 1:04:08 | 20230317 | W | G |
| 510 | Audrey Niffenegger | The Time Traveller’s Wife | 1/DNF | 51:34 | 20230219 | W | G | |
| 509 | Peter F Hamilton | The Reality Dysfunction | Night’s Dawn #1 | 4 | 50:11 | 20230214 | W | G |
| 508 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Children of Memory | Children of Time #3 | 2 | 59:21 | 20230123 | W | G |
| 507 | Ben Bova | Mars | Grand Tour #4 | 0.5 | 49:44 | 20230110 | W | G |
| 506 | K J Parker | How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It | Siege #2 | 4 | 20:02 | 20230109 | W | G |
| 505 | Emily St John Mandel | Sea of Tranquility | 3 | 1:25:05 | 20221231 | W | G | |
| 504 | Ursula K LeGuin | City of Illusions | Hainish Cycle #3 | 2.5 | 43:46 | 20221228 | W | G |
| 503 | Ryka Aoki | Light from Uncommon Stars | 1.5 | 48:34 | 20221219 | W | G | |
| 502 | Alastair Reynolds | Eversion | 4.5 | 13:02 | 20221217 | W | G | |
| 501 | Brandon Sanderson | Rhythm of War | Stormlight Archive #4 | 3.5 | 1:15:33 | 20221118 | W | G |
| 500 | Isaac Asimov | It’s Such a Beautiful Day | – | 1:23:42 | 20221106 | W | G | |
| 499 | Stanislaw Lem | The Invincible | 3 | 47:15 | 20221028 | W | G | |
| 498 | Rebecca Roanhorse | Fevered Star | Between Earth and Sky #2 | 3.5 | 34:55 | 20220915 | W | G |
| 497 | Ursula K LeGuin | Planet of Exile | Hainish Cycle #2 | 4.25 | 13:49 | 20220904 | W | G |
| 496 | Rebecca Roanhorse | Black Sun | Between Earth and Sky #1 | 3.5 | 1:21:13 | 20220803 | W | G |
| 495 | Martha Wells | Network Effect | Murderbot Diaries #5 | 2 | 1:26:05 | 20220730 | W | G |
| 494 | Daniel Rigby | Isaac Steele and the Forever Man | 4 | 47:42 | 20220716 | W | G | |
| 493 | Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone | This Is How You Lose the Time War | 1/DNF | 18:46 | 20220708 | W | G | |
| 492 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Elder Race | 4 | 14:41 | 20220625 | W | G | |
| 491 | George Alec Effinger | A Fire in the Sun | Marid Audran #2 | 4 | 1:09:55 | 20220619 | W | G |
| 490 | Becky Chambers | A Psalm for the Wild-Built | Monk and Robot #1 | 5/DNF | 28:12 | 20220518 | W | G |
| 489 | Theodore Sturgeon | More Than Human | 4 | 44:58 | 20220516 | W | G | |
| 488 | Adam Oyebanji | Braking Day | 4 | 1:07:03 | 20220505 | W | G | |
| 487 | Ben Counter | Galaxy in Flames | Horus Heresy #3 | 2.5 | 15:35 | 20220409 | W | G |
| 486 | Pierre Boulle | Planet of the Apes | 3.5 | 23:59 | 20220402 | W | G | |
| 485 | Emily St John Mandel | Station Eleven | 3 | 35:05 | 20220330 | W | G | |
| 484 | Robert Silverberg | Majipoor Chronicles & Valentine Pontifex | Majipoor #2 & 3 | 3.5 | 1:03:39 | 20220320 | W | G |
| 483 | K J Parker | Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City | Siege #1 | 3.5 | 48:02 | 20220220 | W | G |
| 482 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Mirror Dance | Vorkosigan Saga #8 | 1 | 1:07:23 | 20220207 | W | G |
| 481 | Samuel R Delany | Babel-17 | 3 | 1:11:47 | 20220116 | W | G | |
| 480 | S B Divya | Machinehood | 2.5 | 1:11:35 | 20220109 | W | G | |
| 479 | James White | All Judgment Fled | 3 | 58:48 | 20211231 | W | G | |
| 478 | Yoon Ha Lee | Phoenix Extravagant | 1/DNF | 1:08:16 | 20211224 | W | G | |
| 477 | Janet Kagan | Hellspark | 1.5/DNF | 45:41 | 20211220 | W | G | |
| 476 | Samuel R Delany | The Einstein Intersection | 4.5 | 1:02:17 | 20211219 | W | G | |
| 475 | Rosemary Kirstein | The Lost Steersman | Steerswoman #3 | 3.5 | 43:57 | 20211214 | W | G |
| 474 | Arkady Martine | A Desolation Called Peace | Teixcalaan #2 | 4 | 53:09 | 20211207 | W | G |
| 473 | Derek Künsken | The Quantum War | Quantum Evolution #3 | 2.5 | 48:16 | 20211124 | W | G |
| 472 | Alastair Reynolds | Inhibitor Phase | Revelation Space #4 | 4 | 1:06:32 | 20211121 | W | G |
| 471 | Dune: Part One (2021) | Dune #1 | – | 49:34 | 20211107 | W | I | |
| 470 | Brandon Sanderson | Oathbringer | Stormlight Archive #3 | 3.5 | 1:13:11 | 20211103 | W | G |
| 469 | Alastair Reynolds | Absolution Gap | Revelation Space #3 | 4.75 | 59:59 | 20211012 | W | G |
| 468 | Fritz Leiber | The Big Time | 2 | 35:12 | 20211008 | W | G | |
| 467 | David Brin | The Postman | 3.5 | 56:52 | 20211003 | W | G | |
| 466 | Nathan Lowell | Quarter Share | Golden Age of the Solar Clipper #1 | 3 | 54:28 | 20210921 | W | G |
| 465 | Susanna Clarke | Piranesi | 4 | 1:16:07 | 20210830 | W | G | |
| 464 | Scott Meyer | Grand Theft Astro | 1.5 | 1:10:46 | 20210828 | W | G | |
| 463 | Elizabeth Bear | Ancestral Night | White Space #1 | 3 | 44:57 | 20210819 | W | G |
| 462 | Neal Asher | Polity Agent | Agent Cormac #4 | 3.75 | 1:00:59 | 20210804 | W | G |
| 461 | For All Mankind – Seasons 1 & 2 | – | 1:00:10 | 20210704 | W | I | ||
| 460 | David Wellington | The Last Astronaut | 0.5/DNF | 1:25:42 | 20210625 | W | G | |
| 459 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Pacific Edge | Three Californias Triptych #3 | 4 | 59:34 | 20210622 | W | G |
| 458 | Susanna Clarke | Piranesi | 4 | 49:56 | 20210613 | W | G | |
| 457 | Ben Bova | Venus | Grand Tour #18 | 3.5 | 1:19:04 | 20210606 | W | G |
| 456 | Andy Weir | Project Hail Mary | 2.5 | 1:16:23 | 20210528 | W | G | |
| 455 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | The Doors of Eden | 3 | 1:08:28 | 20210514 | W | G | |
| 454 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Brothers in Arms | Vorkosigan Saga #5 | 3 | 52:56 | 20210421 | W | G |
| 453 | Rosemary Kirstein | The Outskirter’s Secret | Steerswoman #2 | 4 | 59:55 | 20210418 | W | G |
| 452 | Rosemary Kirstein | The Steerswoman | Steerswoman #1 | 4 | 43:37 | 20210406 | W | G |
| 451 | Kate Hope Day | In the Quick | 0.5 | 1:32:48 | 20210405 | W | G | |
| 450 | Subgenres and Expectations | – | 1:40:54 | 20210403 | ||||
| 449 | Samuel R Delany | Nova | 3.5 | 1:20:16 | 20210327 | W | G | |
| 448 | Kim Stanley Robinson | The Wild Shore | Three Californias Triptych #1 | 5 | 59:53 | 20210306 | W | G |
| 447 | Micaiah Johnson | The Space Between Worlds | Space Between Worlds #1 | 4.5 | 1:02:21 | 20210223 | W | G |
| 446 | Ann Leckie | The Raven Tower | 3.75 | 1:03:59 | 20210216 | W | G | |
| 445 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Borders of Infinity | Vorkosigan Saga #5.1 – 5.3 | 3.5 | 55:23 | 20210130 | W | G |
| 444 | Richard Matheson | I Am Legend – The Novel vs The Movie | 4.5 | 1:01:12 | 20210123 | W | G | |
| 443 | Megan E O’Keefe | Velocity Weapon | The Protectorate #1 | 3.25 | 58:17 | 20210117 | W | G |
| 442 | Ben Bova | New Earth | Grand Tour #21 | 3 | 56:12 | 20210108 | W | G |
| 441 | Christopher Brookmyre | Places in the Darkness | 2.5 | 46:07 | 20210103 | W | G | |
| 440 | Graham McNeill | False Gods | Horus Heresy #2 | 3.5 | 53:12 | 20201228 | W | G |
| 439 | Tenet | – | 54:45 | 20201219 | W | I | ||
| 438 | James P Hogan | Inherit the Stars | Giants #1 | 2 | 1:00:45 | 20201210 | W | G |
| 437 | Peter F Hamilton | The Saints of Salvation | Salvation Sequence #3 | 5 | 1:16:45 | 20201120 | W | G |
| 436 | Gareth L Powell | Fleet of Knives | Embers of War #2 | 2 | 1:03:38 | 20201111 | W | G |
| 435 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Ethan of Athos | Vorkosigan Saga #3 | 2 | 48:02 | 20201103 | W | G |
| 434 | Ian Tregillis | The Mechanical | Alchemy Wars #1 | 4 | 57:49 | 20201101 | W | G |
| 433 | Martha Wells | Network Effect | Murderbot Diaries #5 | 3.5 | 51:24 | 20201018 | W | G |
| 432 | Dan Simmons | Hyperion | Hyperion Cantos #1 | 4 | 1:18:10 | 20201010 | W | G |
| 431 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Cetaganda | Vorkosigan Saga #9 | 3 | 37:40 | 20200926 | W | G |
| 430 | Simon Jimenez | The Vanished Birds | 4 | 55:56 | 20200919 | W | G | |
| 429 | Dan Abnett | Horus Rising | Horus Heresy #1 | 4 | 1:13:08 | 20200914 | W | G |
| 428 | How and Why We SFBRP | – | 1:21:05 | 20200825 | ||||
| 427 | Peter F Hamilton | Salvation Lost | Salvation Sequence #2 | 4.25 | 49:05 | 20200822 | W | G |
| 426 | John Scalzi | The Last Emperox | Interdependency #3 | 1 | 1:23:06 | 20200724 | W | G |
| 425 | Peter F Hamilton | Salvation | Salvation Sequence #1 | 5 | 1:14:29 | 20200719 | W | G |
| 424 | Tamsyn Muir | Gideon the Ninth | The Locked Tomb #1 | 3 | 1:05:26 | 20200706 | W | G |
| 423 | Neal Asher | Brass Man | Agent Cormac #3 | 3.75 | 59:58 | 20200608 | W | G |
| 422 | Emma Newman | Atlas Alone | Planetfall #4 | 4.5 | 1:32:50 | 20200510 | W | G |
| 421 | Emma Newman | Before Mars | Planetfall #3 | 4.25 | 1:18:49 | 20200409 | W | G |
| 420 | Homer and Emily Wilson | The Odyssey | – | 1:19:11 | 20200327 | W | G | |
| 419 | Emma Newman | After Atlas | Planetfall #2 | 3.75 | 1:05:58 | 20200302 | W | G |
| 418 | Emma Newman | Planetfall | Planetfall #1 | 3.5 | 52:35 | 20200209 | W | G |
| 417 | Derek Künsken | The Quantum Garden | Quantum Evolution #2 | 4.5 | 40:04 | 20200202 | W | G |
| 416 | Kameron Hurley | The Light Brigade | 5 | 1:08:11 | 20200112 | W | G | |
| 415 | Tade Thompson | The Rosewater Insurrection and The Rosewater Redemption | Wormwood #2 and 3 | 4 | 56:01 | 20191227 | W | G |
| 414 | Sue Burke | Interference | Semiosis Duology #2 | 2.5 | 46:07 | 20191205 | W | G |
| 413 | Arkady Martine | A Memory Called Empire | Teixcalaan #1 | 4 | 29:20 | 20191126 | W | G |
| 412 | Vernor Vinge | A Deepness in the Sky | Zones of Thought #2 | 3 | 1:20:12 | 20191119 | W | G |
| 411 | The Adventure Zone | Amnesty | – | 1:25:19 | 20191110 | W | G | |
| 410 | Blake Crouch | Recursion | 2.5 | 1:17:12 | 20191031 | W | G | |
| 409 | Sue Burke | Semiosis | Semiosis Duology #1 | 4 | 36:38 | 20191004 | W | G |
| 408 | Michel Faber | Under the Skin | 4 | 59:53 | 20190918 | W | G | |
| 407 | Gareth L Powell | Embers of War | Embers of War #1 | 3 | 29:16 | 20190905 | W | G |
| 406 | Martha Wells | Artificial Condition | Murderbot Diaries #2 | 2 | 10:41 | 20190826 | W | G |
| 405 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Children of Ruin | Children of Time #2 | 4.5 | 44:29 | 20190825 | W | G |
| 404 | Neal Asher | The Line of Polity | Agent Cormac #2 | 4 | 52:04 | 20190703 | W | G |
| 403 | John Scalzi | The Consuming Fire | Interdependency #2 | 3 | 1:04:48 | 20190628 | W | G |
| 402 | Sam J Miller | Blackfish City | 3.25 | 49:56 | 20190610 | W | G | |
| 401 | Becky Chambers | Record of a Spaceborn Few | Wayfarers #3 | 2/DNF | 59:39 | 20190526 | W | G |
| 400 | Living Our Best Science Fiction Lives | – | 1:18:21 | 20190519 | ||||
| 399 | Dennis E Taylor | Outland | Quantum Earth #1 | 2.5 | 1:08:53 | 20190516 | W | G |
| 398 | Claire North | The Sudden Appearance of Hope | 4 | 55:13 | 20190514 | W | G | |
| 397 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 3 – Infinity War and Endgame | Marvel Cinematic Universe #3 | – | 1:12:27 | 20190506 | W | I | |
| 396 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 3 – Civil War to Captain Marvel | Marvel Cinematic Universe #3 | – | 1:14:21 | 20190506 | W | I | |
| 395 | Stanislaw Lem | His Master’s Voice | 4 | 49:01 | 20190422 | W | G | |
| 394 | Kameron Hurley | The Light Brigade | 5 | 1:02:12 | 20190413 | W | G | |
| 393 | Julian May | The Many-Colored Land | Saga of the Pliocene Exile #1 | 3 | 51:28 | 20190407 | W | G |
| 392 | Alastair Reynolds | Revenger | Revenger #1 | 3 | 28:48 | 20190328 | W | G |
| 391 | Robert Dickinson | The Tourist | 4.5 | 58:26 | 20190314 | W | G | |
| 390 | Iain M Banks | Against a Dark Background | 2.5 | 50:03 | 20190303 | W | G | |
| 389 | Derek Künsken | The Quantum Magician | Quantum Evolution #1 | 4.5 | 48:43 | 20190214 | W | G |
| 388 | Richard K Morgan | Thin Air | 3.5 | 47:04 | 20190112 | W | G | |
| 387 | The Fast and the Furious Marathon | Fast and Furious #1-8 | – | 1:17:36 | 20181222 | W | I | |
| 386 | Tade Thompson | Rosewater | Wormwood #1 | 4 | 41:10 | 20181215 | W | G |
| 385 | Mary Robinette Kowal | The Calculating Stars | Lady Astronaut #1 | 0.5 | 1:28:22 | 20181129 | W | G |
| 384 | Madeleine L’Engle | A Wrinkle in Time | Time Quintet #1 | 1.5 | 1:18:35 | 20181122 | W | G |
| 383 | C J Cherryh | Cyteen | 3.5 | 1:03:44 | 20181118 | W | G | |
| 382 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Red Mars | Mars Trilogy #1 | 4.5 | 1:28:49 | 20181014 | W | G |
| 381 | Maureen F McHugh | China Mountain Zhang | 4.5 | 39:36 | 20181003 | W | G | |
| 380 | Michael J Sullivan | Rise of Empire | Riyria Revelations #3 & 4 | 3.5 | 21:57 | 20180925 | W | G |
| 379 | Arthur C Clarke | 2001: A Space Odyssey – The Novel vs The Movie | Space Odyssey #1 | 4 | 1:06:57 | 20180906 | W | G |
| 378 | Scott Hawkins | The Library at Mount Char | 4.5 | 33:11 | 20180826 | W | G | |
| 377 | Neal Asher | Gridlinked | Agent Cormac #1 | 3.5 | 29:34 | 20180821 | W | G |
| 376 | Yoon Ha Lee | Revenant Gun | Machineries of Empire #3 | 3 | 56:02 | 20180818 | W | G |
| 375 | Clifford D Simak | City | 3.5 | 22:15 | 20180814 | W | G | |
| 374 | Patricia A McKillip | Harpist in the Wind | Riddle-Master #3 | 4 | 22:39 | 20180810 | W | G |
| 373 | Martha Wells | All Systems Red | Murderbot Diaries #1 | 3.75 | 50:02 | 20180717 | W | G |
| 372 | Neal Asher | Prador Moon | Polity #1 | 3 | 30:18 | 20180716 | W | G |
| 371 | Peter Watts | The Freeze-Frame Revolution | Sunflowers | 4.5 | 1:18:25 | 20180624 | W | G |
| 370 | Greg Egan | Diaspora | 5 | 27:19 | 20180613 | W | G | |
| 369 | Patricia A McKillip | Heir of Sea and Fire | Riddle-Master #2 | 4 | 15:48 | 20180530 | W | G |
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| 365 | Joan D Vinge | The Snow Queen | 2 | 36:56 | 20180430 | W | G | |
| 364 | Vernor Vinge | Marooned in Realtime | Across Realtime #2 | 3 | 31:32 | 20180331 | W | G |
| 363 | Patricia A McKillip | The Riddle-Master of Hed | Riddle-Master #1 | 4 | 27:29 | 20180330 | W | G |
| 362 | Annihilation – The Novel vs The Movie | Southern Reach #1 | – | 53:53 | 20180315 | W | I | |
| 361 | Altered Carbon – The Novel vs The Netflix Show | Takeshi Kovacs #1 | – | 1:23:10 | 20180227 | W | I | |
| 360 | Ada Palmer | The Will to Battle | Terra Ignota #3 | 2 | 20:24 | 20180221 | W | G |
| 359 | Alastair Reynolds | Elysium Fire | Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #2 | 4 | 40:11 | 20180205 | W | G |
| 358 | Andy Weir | Artemis | 3.75 | 1:05:47 | 20180122 | W | G | |
| 357 | Steven Erikson | Memories of Ice | Malazan Book of the Fallen #3 | 4.5 | 35:36 | 20180120 | W | G |
| 356 | Neal Asher | Orbus | Spatterjay #3 | 3.5 | 18:28 | 20180108 | W | G |
| 355 | Peter Clines | Paradox Bound | 1.5/DNF | 25:31 | 20171229 | W | G | |
| 354 | Isaac Asimov | The Caves of Steel | Robot #1 | 4.5 | 55:50 | 20171221 | W | G |
| 353 | N K Jemisin | The Killing Moon | Dreamblood #1 | 3 | 26:52 | 20171217 | W | G |
| 352 | Ann Leckie | Provenance | 1 | 1:03:36 | 20171127 | W | G | |
| 351 | A Lee Martinez | Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain | 3.5 | 20:10 | 20171118 | W | G | |
| 350 | Equal Gender Representation In Science Fiction Reading Habits | – | 59:59 | 20171113 | ||||
| 349 | Carolyn Ives Gilman | Dark Orbit | Twenty Planets | 3.5 | 21:00 | 20171109 | W | G |
| 348 | Annalee Newitz | Autonomous | 2 | 1:10:00 | 20171106 | W | G | |
| 347 | R Scott Bakker | The Unholy Consult | Aspect-Emperor #4 | 2.5 | 28:45 | 20171028 | W | G |
| 346 | Mur Lafferty | Six Wakes | 3.5 | 21:35 | 20171007 | W | G | |
| 345 | M R Carey | The Girl with all the Gifts | The Girl with all the Gifts #1 | 3 | 15:20 | 20170926 | W | G |
| 344 | Ada Palmer | Seven Surrenders | Terra Ignota #2 | 4.5 | 34:35 | 20170921 | W | G |
| 343 | N K Jemisin | The Stone Sky | The Broken Earth #3 | 2 | 53:15 | 20170913 | W | G |
| 342 | Ada Palmer | Too Like the Lightning | Terra Ignota #1 | 4.5 | 40:15 | 20170829 | W | G |
| 341 | The Adventure Zone | The Balance Arc | – | 35:05 | 20170825 | W | G | |
| 340 | Yoon Ha Lee | Raven Stratagem | Machineries of Empire #2 | 2.5 | 45:55 | 20170821 | W | G |
| 339 | Dan Moren | The Caledonian Gambit | 4 | 27:05 | 20170814 | W | G | |
| 338 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Children of Time | Children of Time #1 | 4 | 26:55 | 20170719 | W | G |
| 337 | Kameron Hurley | The Stars Are Legion | 3 | 28:15 | 20170703 | W | G | |
| 336 | Arrival | – | 1:33:40 | 20170615 | W | I | ||
| 335 | Peter Watts | Blindsight | Firefall #1 | 4.25 | 1:32:55 | 20170607 | W | G |
| 334 | Stephen King as Richard Bachman | The Running Man | 4 | 31:04 | 20170601 | W | G | |
| 333 | Yoon Ha Lee | Ninefox Gambit | Machineries of Empire #1 | 4.5 | 1:29:55 | 20170515 | W | G |
| 332 | Sylvain Neuvel | Sleeping Giants | Themis Files #1 | 1.5 | 31:50 | 20170509 | W | G |
| 331 | Neil Gaiman | Anansi Boys | American Gods #2 | 3 | 59:00 | 20170506 | W | G |
| 330 | Mishell Baker | Borderline | Arcadia Project #1 | 2.5 | 25:00 | 20170416 | W | G |
| 329 | Fran Wilde | Updraft | Bone Universe #1 | 2 | 38:35 | 20170410 | W | G |
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| 327 | Ken Grimwood | Replay | 2.5 | 1:30:20 | 20170325 | W | G | |
| 326 | Margaret Atwood | MaddAddam | MaddAddam #3 | 2.5 | 28:50 | 20170318 | W | G |
| 325 | Peter F Hamilton | A Night Without Stars | Commonwealth: Chronicle of the Fallers #2 | 4 | 36:15 | 20170201 | W | G |
| 324 | Charlie Jane Anders | All the Birds in the Sky | 2.5 | 1:12:55 | 20170126 | W | G | |
| 323 | Margaret Atwood | The Year of the Flood | MaddAddam #2 | 4.5 | 41:40 | 20170110 | W | G |
| 322 | Becky Chambers | A Closed and Common Orbit | Wayfarers #2 | 2.5 | 59:05 | 20170101 | W | G |
| 321 | Rogue One | Star Wars #3.5 | – | 30:53 | 20161216 | W | I | |
| 319 | Dennis E Taylor | We Are Legion (We Are Bob) | Bobiverse #1 | 2 | 40:45 | 20161209 | W | G |
| 320 | Yoon Ha Lee | Ninefox Gambit | Machineries of Empire #1 | 5 | 40:35 | 20161209 | W | G |
| 318 | Nnedi Okorafor | The Book of Phoenix | Who Fears Death #0.1 | 4 | 25:25 | 20161202 | W | G |
| 317 | Marvel Cinematic Universe – Phase 2 | Marvel Cinematic Universe | – | 1:40:10 | 20161201 | W | I | |
| 316 | Marvel Cinematic Universe – Phase 1 | Marvel Cinematic Universe | – | 1:01:45 | 20161124 | W | I | |
| 315 | Yevgeny Zamyatin | We | 3.5 | 27:00 | 20161111 | W | G | |
| 314 | Nnedi Okorafor | Who Fears Death | Who Fears Death #1 | 4 | 34:10 | 20161101 | W | G |
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| 312 | Keith Roberts | Pavane | 4.5 | 58:55 | 20160904 | W | G | |
| 311 | N K Jemisin | The Fifth Season | The Broken Earth #1 | 4 | 38:10 | 20160822 | W | G |
| 310 | R Scott Bakker | The Great Ordeal | Aspect-Emperor #3 | 2.5 | 35:20 | 20160809 | W | G |
| 309 | R Scott Bakker | The White-Luck Warrior | Aspect-Emperor #2 | 4.5 | 28:00 | 20160718 | W | G |
| 308 | R Scott Bakker | The Judging Eye | Aspect-Emperor #1 | 3.5 | 16:00 | 20160716 | W | G |
| 307 | Helene Wecker | The Golem and the Jinni | 3.5 | 25:50 | 20160624 | W | G | |
| 306 | Eric James Stone | Unforgettable | 3.5 | 30:05 | 20160610 | W | G | |
| 305 | Becky Chambers | The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet | Wayfarers #1 | 2.5 | 35:55 | 20160505 | W | G |
| 304 | Mary Doria Russell | Children of God | Sparrow #2 | 3 | 31:15 | 20160504 | W | G |
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| 302 | Robert J Sawyer | Quantum Night | 0.5 | 1:54:40 | 20160323 | W | G | |
| 301 | Jack Vance | The Dying Earth | Dying Earth #1 | 4 | 26:00 | 20160314 | W | G |
| 300 | 300 SFBRP Episodes | – | 2:10:50 | 20160228 | ||||
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| 298 | Scott Sigler | The Starter | Galactic Football League #2 | 3.5 | 33:30 | 20160210 | W | G |
| 297 | Mary Doria Russell | The Sparrow | Sparrow #1 | 5 | 50:30 | 20160129 | W | G |
| 296 | Peter V Brett | The Warded Man | Demon Cycle #1 | 2.5 | 40:05 | 20160117 | W | G |
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| 294 | Elizabeth Moon | Trading in Danger | Vatta’s War #1 | 1.75 | 51:05 | 20151231 | W | G |
| 293 | The Mission Impossible Marathon | Mission Impossible #1 – 5 | – | 1:08:15 | 20151224 | W | I | |
| 292 | The Force Awakens | Star Wars #7 | – | 1:49:35 | 20151218 | W | I | |
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| 289 | Ann Leckie | Ancillary Sword | Imperial Radch #2 | 3.5 | 34:55 | 20151112 | W | G |
| 288 | Claire North | The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August | 3.5 | 43:15 | 20151031 | W | G | |
| 287 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Aurora | 4 | 1:17:45 | 20151023 | W | G | |
| 286 | The Martian – The Novel vs The Movie | – | 1:05:40 | 20151015 | W | I | ||
| 285 | Tim Powers | The Anubis Gates | 2.5/DNF | 40:15 | 20151014 | W | G | |
| 284 | Michael Crichton | Jurassic Park | 2 | 54:55 | 20151009 | W | G | |
| 283 | Adam Roberts | Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea | 3.5 | 29:55 | 20151005 | W | G | |
| 282 | Neil Gaiman | The Sandman | 4.5 | 48:10 | 20150916 | W | G | |
| 281 | Tad Williams | City of Golden Shadow | Otherland #1 | 4.25 | 1:03:10 | 20150830 | W | G |
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| 279 | Neal Stephenson | Seveneves | 1.5/DNF | 1:11:35 | 20150813 | W | G | |
| 278 | Jeff VanderMeer | Acceptance | Southern Reach #3 | 4 | 36:40 | 20150730 | W | G |
| 277 | Jeff VanderMeer | Authority | Southern Reach #2 | 4 | 32:10 | 20150721 | W | G |
| 276 | Katherine Addison | The Goblin Emperor | 2 | 1:00:20 | 20150625 | W | G | |
| 275 | Alastair Reynolds | Slow Bullets | 3 | 44:25 | 20150622 | W | G | |
| 274 | James Tiptree Jr | Her Smoke Rose Up Forever | 5 | 1:30:10 | 20150609 | W | G | |
| 273 | Ian McDonald | Desolation Road | -/DNF | 29:50 | 20150608 | W | G | |
| 272 | Greg Egan | Permutation City | Subjective Cosmology #2 | 3 | 29:35 | 20150528 | W | G |
| 271 | Luke Burrage | Minding Tomorrow | Minding Tomorrow #1 | 4.5 | 1:31:30 | 20150510 | W | G |
| 270 | R Scott Bakker | The Thousandfold Thought | Prince of Nothing #3 | 2 | 33:33 | 20150410 | W | G |
| 269 | R Scott Bakker | The Warrior Prophet | Prince of Nothing #2 | 4.5 | 33:05 | 20150401 | W | G |
| 268 | Iain M Banks | Culture series read-through wrap-up | Culture | 5 | 59:50 | 20150328 | W | G |
| 267 | James S A Corey | Leviathan Wakes | Expanse #1 | 2.75 | 1:22:20 | 20150301 | W | G |
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| 265 | William Hertling | Avogadro Corp | Singularity #1 | 2 | 39:15 | 20150222 | W | G |
| 264 | Perry Rhodan | Enterprise Stardust | Perry Rhodan #1 | 2 | 59:55 | 20150218 | W | G |
| 263 | Iain M Banks | Look to Windward | Culture #7 | 4.75 | 1:03:15 | 20150206 | W | G |
| 262 | Liu Cixin | The Three-Body Problem | Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1 | 1.5 | 56:45 | 20150130 | W | G |
| 261 | Neal Asher | The Voyage of the Sable Keech | Spatterjay #2 | 3 | 24:55 | 20150119 | W | G |
| 260 | Iain M Banks | The Hydrogen Sonata | Culture #10 | 4.25 | 1:13:05 | 20141225 | W | G |
| 259 | Brandon Sanderson | Words of Radiance | Stormlight Archive #2 | 3 | 1:03:15 | 20141210 | W | G |
| 258 | Nancy Kress | Beggars in Spain | Sleepless #1 | 2/DNF | 29:55 | 20141129 | W | G |
| 257 | Interstellar | – | 48:55 | 20141126 | W | I | ||
| 256 | Peter F Hamilton | Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained | Commonwealth Saga #1 & 2 | 4 | 53:15 | 20141112 | W | G |
| 255 | Ernest Cline | Ready Player One | 2.25 | 1:19:10 | 20141107 | W | G | |
| 254 | Peter F Hamilton | The Abyss Beyond Dreams | Commonwealth: Chronicle of the Fallers #1 | 3.5 | 39:35 | 20141031 | W | G |
| 253 | Jeff VanderMeer | Annihilation | Southern Reach #1 | 4 | 26:10 | 20141023 | W | G |
| 252 | The Hugulas – Every novel that won both a Hugo and Nebula | – | 46:20 | 20141016 | ||||
| 251 | Tobias S Buckell | Hurricane Fever | Arctic Rising #2 | 2.5 | 25:30 | 20141015 | W | G |
| 250 | Listener Suggestions for the Special 250th Episode | – | 1:42:20 | 20141010 | ||||
| 249 | Connie Willis | Blackout and All Clear | Blackout #1 & 2 | -/DNF | 13:50 | 20141008 | W | G |
| 248 | Michael Chabon | The Yiddish Policemen’s Union | -/DNF | 24:15 | 20141007 | W | G | |
| 247 | Isaac Asimov | The Gods Themselves | 3.5 | 37:15 | 20140921 | W | G | |
| 246 | Connie Willis | Doomsday Book | 0.1/DNF | 56:25 | 20140914 | W | G | |
| 245 | Peter Watts | Echopraxia | Firefall #2 | 4.5 | 39:05 | 20140911 | W | G |
| 244 | Orson Scott Card | Speaker for the Dead | Ender’s Saga #2 | 4 | 1:00:00 | 20140908 | W | G |
| 243 | John Steakley | Armor | 1.5 | 40:55 | 20140903 | W | G | |
| 242 | Iain M Banks | Surface Detail | Culture #9 | 4.25 | 1:10:15 | 20140818 | W | G |
| 241 | Arthur C Clarke | The Fountains of Paradise | 4 | 50:00 | 20140716 | W | G | |
| 240 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Paladin of Souls | World of the Five Gods #3 | 2 | 1:05:50 | 20140708 | W | G |
| 239 | Joe Haldeman | Forever Peace | Forever War #2 | 1.5 | 55:55 | 20140704 | W | G |
| 238 | David Brin | Startide Rising | Uplift Saga #2 | 4 | 39:35 | 20140701 | W | G |
| 237 | Larry Niven | Ringworld | Ringworld #1 | 2 | 1:03:21 | 20140624 | W | G |
| 236 | Guy Gavriel Kay | A Song for Arbonne | 4 | 1:07:35 | 20140606 | W | G | |
| 235 | Neil Gaiman | American Gods | American Gods #1 | 1.5/DNF | 35:45 | 20140604 | W | G |
| 234 | Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons | Watchmen | 4 | 1:21:25 | 20140524 | W | G | |
| 233 | Lois McMaster Bujold | The Curse of Chalion | World of the Five Gods #2 | 1 | 1:18:20 | 20140522 | W | G |
| 232 | Iain M Banks | Matter | Culture #8 | 4 | 1:00:25 | 20140521 | W | G |
| 231 | Orson Scott Card | Ender’s Game Shadow Alive Movie | Ender’s Saga | – | 1:22:50 | 20140430 | W | G |
| 230 | Jo Walton | Among Others | 0.5/DNF | 41:30 | 20140428 | W | G | |
| 229 | Vonda N McIntyre | Dreamsnake | 3.5 | 35:05 | 20140428 | W | G | |
| 228 | Spoilers | – | 59:00 | 20140425 | ||||
| 227 | Rudy Rucker | Software and Wetware | Ware Tetralogy #1 & 2 | 1.5 | 42:05 | 20140409 | W | G |
| 226 | Alexander Peachock | We Have Seen Better Days | 2.75 | 35:15 | 20140401 | W | G | |
| 225 | Hugh Howey | Dust | Silo #3 | 1 | 42:15 | 20140329 | W | G |
| 224 | Iain M Banks | Inversions | Culture #6 | 5 | 1:16:20 | 20140319 | W | G |
| 223 | Robert A Heinlein | Have Space Suit – Will Travel | 4 | 1:18:00 | 20140317 | W | G | |
| 222 | Daniel Keyes | Flowers for Algernon | 4.75 | 1:24:25 | 20140304 | W | G | |
| 221 | Iain M Banks | The State of the Art | Culture #4 | 3.5 | 1:05:35 | 20140227 | W | G |
| 220 | Clifford D Simak | Way Station | 4 | 30:50 | 20140220 | W | G | |
| 219 | Christopher Priest | The Inverted World | 3 | 38:45 | 20140212 | W | G | |
| 218 | Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice | Imperial Radch #1 | 3.5 | 58:15 | 20140201 | W | G |
| 217 | Jason M Hough | The Plague Forge and the Dire Earth Cycle | Dire Earth Cycle #3 | 4 | 55:35 | 20140131 | W | G |
| 216 | Walter M Miller Jr | A Canticle for Leibowitz | 3.5 | 1:17:25 | 20140127 | W | G | |
| 215 | Jason M Hough | The Exodus Towers | Dire Earth Cycle #2 | 3.5 | 25:45 | 20140124 | W | G |
| 214 | Alastair Reynolds | On the Steel Breeze | Poseidon’s Children #2 | 3 | 40:20 | 20140115 | W | G |
| 213 | Iain M Banks | Use of Weapons | Culture #3 | 4.75 | 1:20:25 | 20140113 | W | G |
| 212 | Andy Weir | The Martian | 5 | 1:08:10 | 20140108 | W | G | |
| 211 | David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | 4.5 | 1:29:35 | 20131219 | W | G | |
| 210 | Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples | Saga volume 1 and volume 2 | Saga #1 & 2 | – | 42:10 | 20131202 | W | G |
| 209 | Iain M Banks | Excession | Culture #5 | 3.5 | 1:13:10 | 20131126 | W | G |
| 208 | Jason M Hough | The Darwin Elevator | Dire Earth Cycle #1 | 3.5 | 38:50 | 20131112 | W | G |
| 207 | Scott Lynch | Red Seas Under Red Skies | Gentleman Bastard #2 | 2 | 45:25 | 20131027 | W | G |
| 206 | Neal Asher | The Skinner | Spatterjay #1 | 3.5 | 49:35 | 20131015 | W | G |
| 205 | Alastair Reynolds | The Prefect | Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #1 | 4.75 | 1:01:15 | 20131001 | W | G |
| 204 | Iain M Banks | Consider Phlebas | Culture #1 | 3.25 | 1:04:20 | 20130922 | W | G |
| 203 | Joe Abercrombie | Last Argument of Kings | First Law Trilogy #3 | 3 | 49:05 | 20130918 | W | G |
| 202 | Iain M Banks | The Player of Games | Culture #2 | 5 | 1:13:35 | 20130831 | W | G |
| 201 | Iain M Banks | Culture series introduction | Culture | – | 35:20 | 20130827 | W | G |
| 200 | Top Science Fiction Novels and Series | – | 1:37:15 | 20130824 | ||||
| 199 | Joe Abercrombie | Before They Are Hanged | First Law Trilogy #2 | 3 | 39:25 | 20130821 | W | G |
| 197 | Lois McMaster Bujold | The Vor Game | Vorkosigan Saga #6 | 1.75 | 1:27:55 | 20130813 | W | G |
| 198 | Philip K Dick | Galactic Pot-Healer | 3.5 | 39:25 | 20130723 | W | G | |
| 196 | Hannu Rajaniemi | The Quantum Thief | Jean le Flambeur #1 | 3.5 | 59:59 | 20130711 | W | G |
| 195.5 | Independence Day | – | 27:30 | 20130628 | W | I | ||
| 195 | Lois McMaster Bujold | The Warrior’s Apprentice | Vorkosigan Saga #2 | 2.75 | 1:25:15 | 20130628 | W | G |
| 194 | Alastair Reynolds | Pushing Ice | 3 | 37:55 | 20130618 | W | G | |
| 193 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Barrayar | Vorkosigan Saga #7 | 3 | 48:15 | 20130606 | W | G |
| 192 | Arthur C Clarke | Rendezvous with Rama | Rama #1 | 3.5 | 1:04:05 | 20130529 | W | G |
| 191 | Hugh Howey | Shift Omnibus | Silo #2 | 3 | 48:40 | 20130523 | W | G |
| 190 | Steven Erikson | Gardens of the Moon | Malazan Book of the Fallen #1 | 3 | 52:45 | 20130521 | W | G |
| 189 | Scott Meyer | Off To Be The Wizard | Magic 2.0 #1 | 2 | 48:15 | 20130501 | W | G |
| 188 | Stanislaw Lem | Solaris – The Novel vs The Movies vs The Audio Drama | 4.5 | 1:36:30 | 20130428 | W | G | |
| 187 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Shards of Honor | Vorkosigan Saga #1 | 4 | 51:20 | 20130421 | W | G |
| 186 | Harry Turtledove | Worldwar – In The Balance | Worldwar #1 | 4 | 1:04:10 | 20130420 | W | G |
| 185 | Peter F Hamilton | Manhattan In Reverse | – | 34:10 | 20130419 | W | G | |
| 184 | Yahtzee Croshaw | Mogworld | 3 | 46:45 | 20130415 | W | G | |
| 183 | John Wyndham | The Day of the Triffids | 4.5 | 1:09:03 | 20130403 | W | G | |
| 182 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Falling Free | Vorkosigan Saga #4 | 3.5 | 43:05 | 20130317 | W | G |
| 181 | J R R Tolkien | The Hobbit | 4 | 1:12:10 | 20130303 | W | G | |
| 180 | Philip K Dick | The Man in the High Castle | 5 | 1:40:50 | 20130225 | W | G | |
| 179 | Michael J Sullivan | Theft of Swords | Riyria Revelations #1 & 2 | 3.5 | 30:40 | 20130127 | W | G |
| 178 | Peter F Hamilton | Great North Road | 4.5 | 1:00:55 | 20130111 | W | G | |
| 177 | Christopher Priest | The Prestige | 5 | 1:04:00 | 20121229 | W | G | |
| 176 | David Brin | Kiln People | 3.5 | 44:30 | 20121226 | W | G | |
| 175 | Shlok Vaidya | The Rise of Siri | 3 | 46:30 | 20121218 | W | G | |
| 174 | Frank Herbert | Dune | Dune Saga #1 | 4.5 | 1:39:50 | 20121216 | W | G |
| 173 | Philip K Dick | The Simulacra | 4 | 38:35 | 20121205 | W | G | |
| 172 | Iain M Banks | The Hydrogen Sonata | Culture #10 | 4 | 1:15:20 | 20121121 | W | G |
| 171 | Robert A Heinlein | Space Cadet | 3.5 | 51:55 | 20121018 | W | G | |
| 170 | H Beam Piper | Little Fuzzy | 2.5 | 30:35 | 20121012 | W | G | |
| 169 | Caitlin Sweet | Pattern Scars | 4 | 39:00 | 20120929 | W | G | |
| 168 | Dan Simmons | Hyperion | Hyperion Cantos #1 | 4 | 1:13:20 | 20120928 | W | G |
| 167 | Gene Wolfe | Book of the New Sun series | Book of the New Sun #4 & 5 | 3 | 51:30 | 20120826 | W | G |
| 166 | Hugh Howey | Wool Omnibus | Silo #1 | 4.5 | 39:50 | 20120813 | W | G |
| 165 | Alan Dean Foster | Splinter of the Mind’s Eye | Star Wars | 1.5 | 34:10 | 20120808 | W | G |
| 164 | Brandon Sanderson | The Alloy of Law | Mistborn #4 | 4 | 41:55 | 20120715 | W | G |
| 163 | Andrew Eckhart | Last Mage | 3.5 | 34:55 | 20120712 | W | G | |
| 162 | John Scalzi | Redshirts | 2 | 1:12:20 | 20120628 | W | G | |
| 161 | Sergey and Marina Dyachenko | The Scar | 4.9 | 50:45 | 20120628 | W | G | |
| 160 | Stephen King | The Stand | 3.5 | 51:40 | 20120618 | W | G | |
| 159 | Brandon Sanderson | The Way of Kings | Stormlight Archive #1 | 3.5 | 1:32:20 | 20120507 | W | G |
| 158 | Alastair Reynolds | Chasm City | Revelation Space #0.5 | 4 | 42:45 | 20120425 | W | G |
| 157 | Lauren Beukes | Zoo City | 4 | 43:45 | 20120419 | W | G | |
| 156 | N K Jemisin | The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms | Inheritance Trilogy #1 | 2 | 1:01:25 | 20120419 | W | G |
| 155 | Alastair Reynolds | Blue Remembered Earth | Poseidon’s Children #1 | 3.5 | 47:55 | 20120302 | W | G |
| 154 | Ted Chiang | Stories of Your Life and Others | – | 1:03:00 | 20120222 | W | G | |
| 153 | Tobias S Buckell | Arctic Rising | Arctic Rising #1 | 3.5 | 1:26:10 | 20120212 | W | G |
| 152 | Isaac Asimov | The End of Eternity | 3.5 | 1:05:10 | 20120128 | W | G | |
| 151 | Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | 4 | 53:20 | 20120128 | W | G | |
| 150 | Reading Novels | – | 1:15:55 | 20120125 | ||||
| 149 | Vernor Vinge | The Children of the Sky | Zones of Thought #3 | 2 | 1:07:30 | 20120114 | W | G |
| 148 | Roger Zelazny | Lord of Light | 4.5 | 46:05 | 20120111 | W | G | |
| 147 | David Weber | On Basilisk Station | Honor Harrington #1 | 1 | 1:12:35 | 20111210 | W | G |
| 146 | Larry Niven | Destiny’s Road | 2.5 | 45:15 | 20111201 | W | G | |
| 145 | Peter Watts | Behemoth | Rifters #3 | 3.5 | 25:00 | 20111126 | W | G |
| 144 | Cory Doctorow | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom | 2 | 46:45 | 20111113 | W | G | |
| 143 | Vernor Vinge | A Fire Upon the Deep | Zones of Thought #1 | 4.5 | 50:40 | 20111108 | W | G |
| 142 | Robert Charles Wilson | Spin | Spin #1 | 4 | 44:15 | 20111030 | W | G |
| 141 | Blake Charlton | Spellwright | Spellwright #1 | 3 | 51:05 | 20111025 | W | G |
| 140 | Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle | The Mote in God’s Eye | Moties #1 | 2.5 | 51:40 | 20111023 | W | G |
| 139 | Clifford D Simak | Why Call Them Back From Heaven? | 4 | 39:40 | 20110927 | W | G | |
| 138 | Gene Wolfe | The Sword of the Lictor | Book of the New Sun #3 | 3.5 | 25:25 | 20110921 | W | G |
| 137 | Robert Silverberg | Lord Valentine’s Castle | Majipoor #1 | 3.5 | 51:30 | 20110910 | W | G |
| 136 | R Scott Bakker | The White-Luck Warrior | Aspect-Emperor #2 | 4.5 | 1:05:15 | 20110825 | W | G |
| 135 | Gordon Bell | Total Recall | -/DNF | 39:40 | 20110823 | W | G | |
| 134 | Science Fiction Book Review Podcast Review Podcast | – | 1:03:25 | 20110821 | ||||
| 133 | Alastair Reynolds | Terminal World | 4.5 | 1:03:50 | 20110721 | W | G | |
| 132 | Stanislaw Lem | Solaris | 4 | 48:15 | 20110710 | W | G | |
| 131 | R Scott Bakker | The Judging Eye | Aspect-Emperor #1 | 4 | 20:00 | 20110707 | W | G |
| 130 | P D James | The Children of Men | 3.5 | 53:45 | 20110704 | W | G | |
| 129 | Iain M Banks | Surface Detail | Culture #9 | 4 | 54:40 | 20110619 | W | G |
| 128 | George Alec Effinger | When Gravity Fails | Marid Audran #1 | 4 | 37:35 | 20110604 | W | G |
| 127 | Richard Matheson | I Am Legend | 4.9 | 31:05 | 20110516 | W | G | |
| 126 | Philip K Dick | Ubik | 3 | 38:10 | 20110510 | W | G | |
| 125 | Peter Watts | Maelstrom | Rifters #2 | 4.5 | 35:45 | 20110423 | W | G |
| 124 | Patrick Rothfuss | The Wise Man’s Fear | Kingkiller Chronicle #2 | 3.5 | 43:20 | 20110409 | W | G |
| 123 | Stephen Donaldson | Forbidden Knowledge | Gap #2 | 3 | 38:25 | 20110321 | W | G |
| 122 | Pat Frank | Alas, Babylon | 3.5 | 37:50 | 20110314 | W | G | |
| 121 | Michael Flynn | Eifelheim | 2 | 47:40 | 20110219 | W | G | |
| 120 | Joe Abercrombie | The Blade Itself | First Law Trilogy #1 | 2 | 50:00 | 20110213 | W | G |
| 119 | Arthur C Clarke | The City and The Stars | 2.5 | 57:50 | 20110206 | W | G | |
| 118 | Robert A Heinlein | Starship Troopers | 3.5 | 56:00 | 20110122 | W | G | |
| 117 | Ayn Rand | Atlas Shrugged | -/DNF | 1:07:05 | 20110112 | W | G | |
| 116 | Daniel Keyes | Flowers for Algernon | 5 | 54:45 | 20110102 | W | G | |
| 115 | Elizabeth Moon | The Speed of Dark | 3.5 | 1:02:05 | 20101225 | W | G | |
| 114 | Brandon Sanderson | The Final Empire | Mistborn #1 | 3.5 | 53:50 | 20101219 | W | G |
| 113 | George Orwell | 1984 | 4.9 | 1:14:00 | 20101208 | W | G | |
| 112 | Suzanne Collins | The Hunger Games | Hunger Games #1 | 4 | 1:03:25 | 20101201 | W | G |
| 111 | Stephen Baxter | Flood | Flood #1 | 1.5 | 1:05:00 | 20101114 | W | G |
| 110 | Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse-Five | 5 | 57:00 | 20101109 | W | G | |
| 109 | Gene Wolfe | The Claw of the Conciliator | Book of the New Sun #2 | 2.5 | 22:35 | 20101024 | W | G |
| 108 | Peter F Hamilton | The Evolutionary Void | Void #3 | 3.5 | 54:35 | 20100920 | W | G |
| 107 | Mike Resnick | Starship Mutiny | Starship #1 | 1.5 | 47:35 | 20100906 | W | G |
| 106 | George R Stewart | Earth Abides | 4.5 | 1:53:35 | 20100901 | W | G | |
| 105 | Jack Mcdevitt | Deepsix | Academy #2 | 1.5 | 48:05 | 20100825 | W | G |
| 104 | Alastair Reynolds | House of Suns | 4.5 | 43:55 | 20100806 | W | G | |
| 103 | Scott Lynch | The Lies of Locke Lamora | Gentleman Bastard #1 | 3 | 35:25 | 20100720 | W | G |
| 102 | Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S Buckell | The Alchemist and the Executioness | 4.5 | 41:10 | 20100720 | W | G | |
| 101 | Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle | Lucifer’s Hammer | 3.5 | 39:25 | 20100711 | W | G | |
| 100 | Science Fiction and Personal Philosophy | – | 54:40 | 20100704 | ||||
| 099 | Patrick Rothfuss | The Name of the Wind | Kingkiller Chronicle #1 | 3 | 42:25 | 20100701 | W | G |
| 098 | Alfred Bester | The Stars My Destination | 2.5 | 1:04:45 | 20100628 | W | G | |
| 097 | Robert A Heinlein | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | 4 | 56:20 | 20100608 | W | G | |
| 096 | John Wyndham | The Chrysalids | 4.5 | 42:40 | 20100603 | W | G | |
| 095 | George R R Martin | A Game of Thrones | A Song of Ice and Fire #1 | 2.5 | 50:50 | 20100529 | W | G |
| 094 | Robert J Sawyer | Calculating God | 1 | 1:03:00 | 20100516 | W | G | |
| 093 | Vernor Vinge | Rainbows End | 4.2 | 55:55 | 20100512 | W | G | |
| 092 | Robert Sheckley | The Status Civilization | 3.5 | 35:00 | 20100505 | W | G | |
| 091 | Peter Watts | Starfish | Rifters #1 | 3.5 | 21:30 | 20100424 | W | G |
| 090 | Mike Resnick | Kirinyaga | A Fable of Utopia #1 | 4 | 40:20 | 20100423 | W | G |
| 089 | Dani and Eytan Kollin | The Unincorporated Man | Unincorporated Man #1 | 3 | 45:15 | 20100410 | W | G |
| 088 | Arkady and Boris Strugatsky | Roadside Picnic | 4 | 28:00 | 20100407 | W | G | |
| 087 | Daniel Suarez | Daemon | Daemon #1 | 1 | 51:10 | 20100326 | W | G |
| 086 | Gene Wolfe | The Shadow of the Torturer | Book of the New Sun #1 | 1.5 | 40:45 | 20100318 | W | G |
| 085 | Iain Banks | Transition | 3 | 37:35 | 20100301 | W | G | |
| 084 | R Scott Bakker | The Prince of Nothing series | Prince of Nothing | 3.5 | 49:55 | 20100301 | W | G |
| 083 | China Mieville | The City and The City | 3.5 | 33:00 | 20100301 | W | G | |
| 082 | Paolo Bacigalupi | The Windup Girl | 4 | 41:10 | 20100219 | W | G | |
| 081 | Alastair Reynolds | Revelation Space | Revelation Space #1 | 4.5 | 53:40 | 20100206 | W | G |
| 080 | Peter Watts | Blindsight | Firefall #1 | 4 | 40:15 | 20100127 | W | G |
| 079 | Smoke and more invisible men | – | 57:40 | 20100119 | ||||
| 078 | H G Wells | The Invisible Man | 3.5 | 58:25 | 20100118 | W | G | |
| 077 | Scott Sigler | The Rookie | Galactic Football League #1 | 4.5 | 41:50 | 20100103 | W | G |
| 076 | Luke’s fantasy reads in 2009 | – | 1:16:35 | 20091229 | ||||
| 075 | Neal Stephenson | Anathem | 4.9 | 1:19:05 | 20091217 | W | G | |
| 074 | Cory Doctorow | Makers | 1.5 | 58:20 | 20091203 | W | G | |
| 073 | Douglas Adams | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | H2G2 #1 | 3.5 | 48:30 | 20091123 | W | G |
| 072.5 | Luke and Jesse in Conversation | – | 1:44:05 | 20091120 | ||||
| 072 | Ursula K LeGuin | The Dispossessed | Hainish Cycle #6 | 3.5 | 48:35 | 20091111 | W | G |
| 071 | Richard Morgan | Market Forces | 4 | 53:40 | 20091028 | W | G | |
| 070 | Greg Egan | Schild’s Ladder | 4 | 39:30 | 20091026 | W | G | |
| 069 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | A Princess of Mars | Barsoom #1 | 3.5 | 43:00 | 20091023 | W | G |
| 068 | Ursula K LeGuin | The Left Hand of Darkness | Hainish Cycle #4 | 4.5 | 43:55 | 20091013 | W | G |
| 067 | Aldous Huxley | Brave New World | 2 | 42:55 | 20090928 | W | G | |
| 066 | John Varley | Steel Beach | Eight Worlds #2 | 3.5 | 57:25 | 20090923 | W | G |
| 065 | Olaf Stapledon | Last and First Men | -/DNF | 33:45 | 20090825 | W | G | |
| 064 | Ray Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 | 3.5 | 39:35 | 20090806 | W | G | |
| 063 | Jules Verne | From The Earth To The Moon | 4 | 29:35 | 20090727 | W | G | |
| 062 | Stephen Donaldson | The Real Story | Gap #1 | 2 | 23:30 | 20090724 | W | G |
| 061 | John Barnes | The Sky So Big And Black | Century Next Door #4 | 4.5 | 31:20 | 20090719 | W | G |
| 060 | Luke Burrage | Minding Tomorrow | Minding Tomorrow #1 | 3.5 | 29:55 | 20090714 | W | G |
| 059 | Kim Stanley Robinson | The Gold Coast | Three Californias Triptych #2 | 3.5 | 30:35 | 20090714 | W | G |
| 058 | Orson Scott Card | Ender’s Game | Ender’s Saga #1 | 4.5 | 40:20 | 20090702 | W | G |
| 057 | John Scalzi | Old Man’s War | Old Man’s War #1 | 3 | 44:20 | 20090621 | W | G |
| 056 | A E van Vogt | Slan | Slan #1 | 2.5 | 29:00 | 20090618 | W | G |
| 055 | Dan Simmons | The Fall of Hyperion | Hyperion Cantos #2 | 0.5/DNF | 30:50 | 20090612 | W | G |
| 054 | Cory Doctorow | Little Brother | 4 | 43:55 | 20090518 | W | G | |
| 053 | Tobias S Buckell | Crystal Rain | Xenowealth #1 | 2 | 39:25 | 20090508 | W | G |
| 052 | Charles Stross | Halting State | Halting State #1 | 4 | 40:50 | 20090504 | W | G |
| 051 | Joe Haldeman | The Accidental Time Machine | 2.5 | 33:00 | 20090502 | W | G | |
| 050 | Philip Jose Farmer | To Your Scattered Bodies Go | 3 | 42:40 | 20090425 | W | G | |
| 049.5 | answering questions live from the chatroom | – | 26:40 | 20090418 | ||||
| 049 | Dan Simmons | Hyperion | Hyperion Cantos #1 | 4 | 48:20 | 20090417 | W | G |
| 048 | Charles Stross | Accelerando | 2.5 | 37:50 | 20090413 | W | G | |
| 047 | Karl Schroeder | Ventus | 3.5 | 41:45 | 20090406 | W | G | |
| 046 | many science fiction series | – | 53:15 | 20090328 | ||||
| 045 | H G Wells | The Time Machine | 4.3 | 37:05 | 20090310 | W | G | |
| 044 | Iain M Banks | Matter | Culture #8 | 3 | 46:55 | 20090224 | W | G |
| 043 | Alastair Reynolds | Century Rain | 2 | 45:25 | 20090221 | W | G | |
| 042 | Richard Morgan | Altered Carbon | Takeshi Kovacs #1 | 4 | 40:40 | 20090218 | W | G |
| 041 | Walter M Miller Jr | A Canticle for Leibowitz | 3 | 47:05 | 20090217 | W | G | |
| 040 | Frederik Pohl | Gateway | Heechee Saga #1 | 4.2 | 28:35 | 20090123 | W | G |
| 039 | Peter F Hamilton | The Temporal Void | Void #2 | 3.5 | 27:50 | 20090118 | W | G |
| 038 | Looking back at 2008 | – | 48:55 | 20090112 | ||||
| 037 | Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg | Nightfall | 2 | 36:10 | 20090107 | W | G | |
| 036 | Robert J Sawyer | Hominids | Neanderthal Parallax #1 | 1 | 51:30 | 20081227 | W | G |
| 035 | Robert Reed | The Well of Stars | Marrow #2 | 2.5 | 31:15 | 20081225 | W | G |
| 034 | China Mieville | Perdido Street Station | Bas-Lag #1 | 2.5 | 38:55 | 20081219 | W | G |
| 033 | Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson | Paul of Dune | Heroes of Dune #1 | 0.5 | 36:05 | 20081128 | W | G |
| 032 | John Wyndham | The Day of the Triffids | 4.5 | 28:10 | 20081109 | W | G | |
| 031 | William Gibson | Neuromancer | Sprawl Trilogy #1 | 2.5 | 34:50 | 20081102 | W | G |
| 030 | Peter F Hamilton | The Dreaming Void | Void #1 | 4 | 48:40 | 20081023 | W | G |
| 029.5 | accidental feedback show | – | 19:40 | 20081022 | ||||
| 029 | Neal Stephenson | Snow Crash | 0.9 | 43:40 | 20081010 | W | G | |
| 028 | Robert Reed | Down the Bright Way | 4.2 | 36:15 | 20080927 | W | G | |
| 027 | John Varley | Red Thunder | Thunder and Lightning #1 | 1.5 | 32:20 | 20080922 | W | G |
| 026 | Iain M Banks | Use of Weapons | Culture #3 | 5 | 29:25 | 20080919 | W | G |
| 025 | Richard Morgan | Black Man | 1.5 | 39:30 | 20080906 | W | G | |
| 024 | A A Attanasio | The Last Legends of Earth | Radix #4 | 2 | 26:00 | 20080830 | W | G |
| 023 | Spider Robinson | Callahan’s Secret | Callahan’s #3 | 2.5 | 20:20 | 20080725 | W | G |
| 022 | John Brunner | The Crucible of Time | 4 | 23:00 | 20080715 | W | G | |
| 021 | Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes | Encounter With Tiber | 2 | 25:55 | 20080709 | W | G | |
| 020 | Joe Haldeman | The Forever War | Forever War #1 | 4 | 28:45 | 20080626 | W | G |
| 019 | Alastair Reynolds | The Prefect | Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #1 | 4 | 30:30 | 20080621 | W | G |
| 018 | Greg Bear | Moving Mars | Queen of Angels #3 | 3.5 | 21:00 | 20080608 | W | G |
| 017 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Antarctica | 4 | 21:50 | 20080518 | W | G | |
| 016 | David Evans | Time Station Berlin | Time Station #3 | 0.5 | 21:10 | 20080507 | W | G |
| 015 | Vernor Vinge | The Peace War | Across Realtime #1 | 4.5 | 21:15 | 20080430 | W | G |
| 014 | Robert A Heinlein and Spider Robinson | Variable Star | 4 | 23:30 | 20080425 | W | G | |
| 013 | Charles Stross | Singularity Sky | Eschaton #1 | 2.5 | 16:45 | 20080411 | W | G |
| 012 | Ken MacLeod | Learning the World | 3 | 13:40 | 20080226 | W | G | |
| 011 | Frank Herbert | Dune | Dune Saga #1 | 4.5 | 29:30 | 20080217 | W | G |
| 010 | Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson | Hunters of Dune | Dune Saga #7 | 0.5 | 16:30 | 20080216 | W | G |
| 009 | Carl Sagan | Contact | 1 | 16:40 | 20080215 | W | G | |
| 008 | Robert Reed | Marrow | Marrow #1 | 2.5 | 11:40 | 20080214 | W | G |
| 007 | Peter F Hamilton | Fallen Dragon | 4 | 18:12 | 20080206 | W | G | |
| 006 | Stuart Gordon | Fire in the Abyss | 4 | 13:07 | 20080205 | W | G | |
| 005 | Alastair Reynolds | Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days | Revelation Space #1.5 | 3.5 | 13:54 | 20080105 | W | G |
| 004 | Robert A Heinlein | The Door Into Summer | 4.2 | 12:19 | 20080104 | W | G | |
| 003 | Pamela Sargent | Venus of Dreams | Venus #1 | 2.5 | 10:41 | 20080103 | W | G |
| 002 | Joan D Vinge | The Outcasts of Heaven Belt | Heaven Chronicles #1 | 3.5 | 12:49 | 20080102 | W | G |
| 001 | Introduction to the SFBRP | – | 11:47 | 20080101 | ||||
For episode #550 of the SFBRP, Luke and Juliane compiled their list of 52 “must-read” science fiction novels that had been reviewed on the SFBRP so far. After 2 years and 41 books read or re-read, they settled on the “final” version of the list, with a handful of novels added and a couple removed.
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| Published | Author | Book/Topic | Series | SFBRP Episodes | SFBRP Rating |
Goodreads Rating |
Linked Topic |
External Links |
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| Introduction to the SFBRP Must-Read List | #550 | – | W | G | |||||
| The final version of the SFBRP Must-Read List | #597 | – | W | G | |||||
| 1895 | H G Wells | The Time Machine | #45 | 4.3 | 3.89 | Deep Future | W | G | |
| 1898 | H G Wells | The War of the Worlds | #591 | 4.5 | 3.83 | Alien Invasion | W | G | |
| 1948 | George Orwell | 1984 | #113 | 4.9 | 4.21 | Dystopia | W | G | |
| 1949 | George R Stewart | Earth Abides | #559 #106 | 4.5 | 3.94 | Post-Apocalypse | W | G | |
| 1951 | John Wyndham | The Day of the Triffids | #183 #32 | 4.5 | 4.01 | Plants vs Zombies | W | G | |
| 1953 | Isaac Asimov | The Caves of Steel | Robot #1 | #354 | 4.5 | 4.19 | Detective Science Fiction | W | G |
| 1954 | Richard Matheson | I Am Legend | #127 #444 | 4.9 | 4.00 | Plants vs Zombies | W | G | |
| 1958 | Robert A Heinlein | Have Space Suit – Will Travel | #589 #223 | 4 | 3.92 | Engineering Competence Porn | W | G | |
| 1959 | Robert A Heinlein | Starship Troopers | #553 #118 | 3.5 | 4.00 | Military Science Fiction | W | G | |
| 1961 | Stanisław Lem | Solaris | #570 #132 #188 | 4.5 | 3.98 | Aliens are Very Alien | W | G | |
| 1962 | Philip K Dick | The Man in the High Castle | #180 | 5 | 3.58 | Alternate History/Historical | W | G | |
| 1965 | Frank Herbert | Dune | Dune Saga #1 | #174 #11 | 4.5 | 4.29 | Space Opera | W | G |
| 1966 | Daniel Keyes | Flowers for Algernon | #222 #116 | 4.75 | 4.25 | Unreliable Narrator | W | G | |
| 1966 | Ursula K LeGuin | Planet of Exile | Hainish Cycle #2 | #497 | 4.25 | 3.72 | SciFi POV vs Fantasy POV | W | G |
| 1967 | Samuel R Delany | The Einstein Intersection | #476 | 4.5 | 3.55 | Deep Future | W | G | |
| 1968 | Keith Roberts | Pavane | #312 | 4.5 | 3.71 | Alternate History/Historical | W | G | |
| 1968 | Arthur C Clarke | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Space Odyssey #1 | #379 | 4 | 4.18 | Uplift and Aliens | W | G |
| 1969 | Ursula K LeGuin | The Left Hand of Darkness | Hainish Cycle #4 | #68 #549 | 4.5 | 4.09 | Stranger in a Non-Gendered Land | W | G |
| 1969 | Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse-Five | #110 | 5 | 4.10 | Soldier Unstuck in Time | W | G | |
| 1972 | Arkady and Boris Strugatsky | Roadside Picnic | #554 #88 | 4 | 4.11 | Aliens are Very Alien | W | G | |
| 1984 | Kim Stanley Robinson | The Wild Shore | Three Californias Triptych #1 | #448 | 5 | 3.74 | Post-Apocalypse | W | G |
| 1985 | Orson Scott Card | Ender’s Game | Ender’s Saga #1 | #58 | 4.5 | 4.31 | Military Science Fiction | W | G |
| 1986 | Orson Scott Card | Speaker for the Dead | Ender’s Saga #2 | #568 #244 | 4 | 4.12 | Religious Order on Another Planet | W | G |
| 1988 | David Zindell | Neverness | A Requiem for Homo Sapiens | #560 | 4.5 | 4.03 | Space Opera | W | G |
| 1988 | Iain M Banks | The Player of Games | Culture #2 | #596 #202 | 5 | 4.28 | Board Game Diplomacy | W | G |
| 1989 | Dan Simmons | Hyperion | Hyperion Cantos #1 | #432 #49 #168 | 4 | 4.28 | Canterbury Tales with Portals | W | G |
| 1990 | Iain M Banks | Use of Weapons | Culture #3 | #213 #26 | 4.75 | 4.16 | Military Science Fiction | W | G |
| 1990 | James Tiptree Jr | Her Smoke Rose Up Forever | #274 | 5 | 4.17 | Stranger in a Non-Gendered Land | W | G | |
| 1992 | Vernor Vinge | A Fire Upon the Deep | Zones of Thought #1 | #143 | 4.5 | 4.13 | Uplift and Aliens | W | G |
| 1992 | Maureen F McHugh | China Mountain Zhang | #381 | 4.5 | 3.96 | Slice of Sci-Fi Life | W | G | |
| 1992 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Red Mars | Mars Trilogy #1 | #382 | 4.5 | 3.85 | Mars | W | G |
| 1995 | Christopher Priest | The Prestige | #177 | 5 | 3.92 | Alternate History/Historical | W | G | |
| 1995 | Jacqueline Harpman | I Who Have Never Known Men | #539 | 4.5 | 4.03 | Post-Apocalypse | W | G | |
| 1996 | Tad Williams | City of Golden Shadow | Otherland #1 | #281 | 4.25 | 3.93 | What year is this? | W | G |
| 1996 | Mary Doria Russell | The Sparrow | The Sparrow #1 | #552 #297 | 4.5 | 4.13 | Religious Order on Another Planet | W | G |
| 1997 | Greg Egan | Diaspora | #370 | 5 | 4.10 | Deep Future | W | G | |
| 1998 | Iain M Banks | Inversions | Culture #5 | #586 #224 | 5 | 3.96 | SciFi POV vs Fantasy POV | W | G |
| 2000 | Alastair Reynolds | Revelation Space | Revelation Space #1 | #81 | 4.5 | 3.99 | Space Opera | W | G |
| 2002 | Richard Morgan | Altered Carbon | Takeshi Kovacs #1 | #42 #361 | 4 | 4.03 | Detective Science Fiction | W | G |
| 2004 | David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | #211 | 4.5 | 4.01 | What year is this? | W | G | |
| 2004 | Peter F Hamilton | Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained | Commonwealth Saga #1 & 2 | #256 | 4 | 4.22 | Alien Invasion | W | G |
| 2006 | Peter Watts | Blindsight | Firefall #1 | #335 #80 | 4.25 | 4.00 | Aliens are Very Alien | W | G |
| 2006 | Dan Abnett | Horus Rising | Horus Heresy #1 | #429 | 4 | 4.26 | Military Science Fiction | W | G |
| 2007 | Alastair Reynolds | The Prefect | Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #1 | #205 #19 | 4.75 | 4.17 | Detective Science Fiction | W | G |
| 2008 | Neal Stephenson | Anathem | #581 #75 | 4.9 | 4.17 | Religious Order on Another Planet | W | G | |
| 2011 | Hugh Howey | Wool Omnibus | Silo #1 | #166 | 4.5 | 4.22 | Dystopia | W | G |
| 2011 | Andy Weir | The Martian | #212 #286 | 5 | 4.42 | Engineering Competence Porn | W | G | |
| 2013 | Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice | Imperial Radch #1 | #579 #218 | 4 | 3.99 | Stranger in a Non-Gendered Land | W | G |
| 2015 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Children of Time and Children of Ruin | Children of Time #1 | #338 #405 #513 | 4 | 4.30 | Uplift and Aliens | W | G |
| 2016 | Yoon Ha Lee | Ninefox Gambit | Machineries of Empire #1 | #320 #333 | 5 | 3.79 | Board Game Diplomacy | W | G |
| 2018 | Derek Künsken | The Quantum Magician | Quantum Evolution #1 | #389 #576 | 4.5 | 3.98 | Space Opera | W | G |
| 2018 | Peter F Hamilton | Salvation | Salvation Sequence #1 | #425 | 5 | 4.12 | Canterbury Tales with Portals | W | G |
| 2019 | Kameron Hurley | The Light Brigade | #394 #416 | 5 | 3.88 | Soldier Unstuck in Time | W | G | |
| 2019 | Emma Newman | Atlas Alone | Planetfall #4 | #422 | 4.5 | 4.10 | Unreliable Narrator | W | G |
| 2020 | Micaiah Johnson | The Space Between Worlds | Space Between Worlds #1 | #447 | 4.5 | 3.92 | Dystopia | W | G |
| 2021 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Elder Race | #492 | 4 | 4.08 | SciFi POV vs Fantasy POV | W | G | |
| 2022 | Alastair Reynolds | Eversion | #502 | 4.5 | 3.95 | What year is this? | W | G | |
| 2025 | Silvia Park | Luminous | #588 | 5 | 3.62 | Robot or Not | W | G | |
In 2014 Luke made sure he’d read and reviewed every novel that had won both a Hugo and a Nebula Award. Since then a few more novels have become “Hugula Winners” and those have episodes too. This list includes all the Hugo/Nebula winners that have been reviewed on the podcast. Due to the Hugo and Nebula awards using different timeline and eligibility windows, the books are listed with publication years not award years.
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| Award | Published | Author | Book/Topic | Series | SFBRP Episodes | SFBRP Rating |
Goodreads Rating |
External Links |
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| Hugo+Nebula | The Hugulas – Every novel that won both a Hugo and Nebula | #252 | – | W | G | ||||
| Hugo | 1940 | A E van Vogt | Slan | Slan #1 | #56 | 2.5 | 3.69 | W | G |
| Hugo | 1956 | Robert A Heinlein | Double Star | #595 | 3.5 | 3.92 | W | G | |
| Hugo | 1958 | Fritz Leiber | The Big Time | #468 | 2 | 3.25 | W | G | |
| Hugo | 1959 | Walter M Miller Jr | A Canticle for Leibowitz | #216 #41 | 3.5 | 3.99 | W | G | |
| Hugo | 1959 | Robert A Heinlein | Starship Troopers | #553 #118 | 3.5 | 4.00 | W | G | |
| Hugo | 1962 | Philip K Dick | The Man in the High Castle | #180 | 5 | 3.58 | W | G | |
| Hugo | 1963 | Ray Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 | #64 | 3.5 | 3.97 | W | G | |
| Hugo | 1963 | Clifford D Simak | Way Station | #220 | 4 | 4.03 | W | G | |
| Hugo+Nebula | 1965 | Frank Herbert | Dune | Dune Saga #1 | #174 #11 | 4.5 | 4.29 | W | G |
| Hugo | 1966 | Robert A Heinlein | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | #97 | 4 | 4.15 | W | G | |
| Nebula | 1966 | Daniel Keyes | Flowers for Algernon | #222 #116 | 4.75 | 4.25 | W | G | |
| Nebula | 1966 | Samuel R Delany | Babel-17 | #481 | 3 | 3.72 | W | G | |
| Hugo | 1967 | Roger Zelazny | Lord of Light | #148 | 4.5 | 4.05 | W | G | |
| Nebula | 1967 | Samuel R Delany | The Einstein Intersection | #476 | 4.5 | 3.55 | W | G | |
| Hugo+Nebula | 1969 | Ursula K LeGuin | The Left Hand of Darkness | Hainish Cycle #4 | #549 #68 | 4.5 | 4.09 | W | G |
| Hugo+Nebula | 1970 | Larry Niven | Ringworld | Ringworld #1 | #237 | 2 | 3.93 | W | G |
| Hugo | 1971 | Philip Jose Farmer | To Your Scattered Bodies Go | #50 | 3 | 3.93 | W | G | |
| Nebula | 1971 | Robert Silverberg | A Time of Changes | #574 | 2.5 | 3.68 | W | G | |
| Hugo+Nebula | 1972 | Isaac Asimov | The Gods Themselves | #247 | 3.5 | 4.08 | W | G | |
| Hugo+Nebula | 1973 | Arthur C Clarke | Rendezvous with Rama | Rama #1 | #192 | 3.5 | 4.12 | W | G |
| Hugo+Nebula | 1974 | Ursula K LeGuin | The Dispossessed | Hainish Cycle #6 | #72 | 3.5 | 4.26 | W | G |
| Hugo+Nebula | 1974 | Joe Haldeman | The Forever War | Forever War #1 | #551 #20 | 2 | 4.14 | W | G |
| Hugo+Nebula | 1977 | Frederik Pohl | Gateway | Heechee Saga #1 | #556 #40 | 3 | 4.05 | W | G |
| Hugo+Nebula | 1978 | Vonda N McIntyre | Dreamsnake | #229 | 3.5 | 3.88 | W | G | |
| Hugo+Nebula | 1979 | Arthur C Clarke | The Fountains of Paradise | #241 | 4 | 3.95 | W | G | |
| Hugo | 1980 | Joan D Vinge | The Snow Queen | #365 | 2 | 3.94 | W | G | |
| Nebula | 1981 | Gene Wolfe | The Claw of the Conciliator | Book of the New Sun #2 | #109 | 2.5 | 4.00 | W | G |
| Hugo | 1981 | C J Cherryh | Downbelow Station | Company Wars #1 | #366 | 2.5 | 3.90 | W | G |
| Hugo+Nebula | 1983 | David Brin | Startide Rising | Uplift Saga #2 | #578 #238 | 2 | 4.04 | W | G |
| Hugo+Nebula | 1984 | William Gibson | Neuromancer | Sprawl Trilogy #1 | #31 | 2.5 | 3.89 | W | G |
| Hugo+Nebula | 1985 | Orson Scott Card | Ender’s Game | Ender’s Saga | #231 #58 | 4.5 | 4.31 | W | G |
| Hugo+Nebula | 1986 | Orson Scott Card | Speaker for the Dead | Ender’s Saga #2 | #568 #244 | 4 | 4.12 | W | G |
| Nebula | 1988 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Falling Free | Vorkosigan Saga #4 | #182 | 3.5 | 3.84 | W | G |
| Hugo | 1988 | C J Cherryh | Cyteen | #383 | 3.5 | 4.00 | W | G | |
| Hugo | 1989 | Dan Simmons | Hyperion | Hyperion Cantos #1 | #432 #168 #49 | 4 | 4.28 | W | G |
| Hugo | 1990 | Lois McMaster Bujold | The Vor Game | Vorkosigan Saga #6 | #197 | 1.75 | 4.27 | W | G |
| Hugo | 1991 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Barrayar | Vorkosigan Saga #7 | #193 | 3 | 4.30 | W | G |
| Hugo | 1992 | Vernor Vinge | A Fire Upon the Deep | Zones of Thought #1 | #143 | 4.5 | 4.13 | W | G |
| Hugo+Nebula | 1992 | Connie Willis | Doomsday Book | #246 | 0.1 | 4.03 | W | G | |
| Nebula | 1992 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Red Mars | Mars Trilogy #1 | #382 | 4.5 | 3.85 | W | G |
| Nebula | 1993 | Greg Bear | Moving Mars | Queen of Angels #3 | #18 | 3.5 | 3.85 | W | G |
| Hugo | 1994 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Mirror Dance | Vorkosigan Saga #8 | #482 | 1 | 4.32 | W | G |
| Hugo+Nebula | 1997 | Joe Haldeman | Forever Peace | Forever War #2 | #239 | 1.5 | 3.75 | W | G |
| Hugo | 1999 | Vernor Vinge | A Deepness in the Sky | Zones of Thought #2 | #412 | 3 | 4.32 | W | G |
| Hugo+Nebula | 2001 | Neil Gaiman | American Gods | American Gods #1 | #235 | 1.5 | 4.10 | W | G |
| Hugo | 2002 | Robert J Sawyer | Hominids | Neanderthal Parallax #1 | #36 | 1 | 3.81 | W | G |
| Nebula | 2002 | Elizabeth Moon | The Speed of Dark | #115 | 3.5 | 3.99 | W | G | |
| Hugo+Nebula | 2003 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Paladin of Souls | World of the Five Gods #3 | #240 | 2 | 4.19 | W | G |
| Hugo | 2005 | Robert Charles Wilson | Spin | Spin #1 | #142 | 4 | 4.04 | W | G |
| Hugo | 2006 | Vernor Vinge | Rainbows End | #93 | 4.2 | 3.77 | W | G | |
| Hugo | 2006 | Liu Cixin | The Three-Body Problem | Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1 | #262 | 1.5 | 4.08 | W | G |
| Hugo+Nebula | 2007 | Michael Chabon | The Yiddish Policemen’s Union | #248 | – | 3.72 | W | G | |
| Hugo+Nebula | 2009 | Paolo Bacigalupi | The Windup Girl | #82 | 4 | 3.75 | W | G | |
| Hugo+Nebula | 2010 | Connie Willis | Blackout and All Clear | Blackout #1 & 2 | #249 | – | 3.86 | W | G |
| Hugo+Nebula | 2011 | Jo Walton | Among Others | #230 | 0.5 | 3.72 | W | G | |
| Hugo | 2012 | John Scalzi | Redshirts | #162 | 2 | 3.87 | W | G | |
| Hugo+Nebula | 2013 | Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice | Imperial Radch #1 | #579 #218 | 4 | 3.99 | W | G |
| Nebula | 2014 | Jeff VanderMeer | Annihilation | Southern Reach #1 | #253 | 4 | 3.80 | W | G |
| Hugo | 2015 | N K Jemisin | The Fifth Season | The Broken Earth #1 | #311 | 4 | 4.28 | W | G |
| Hugo | 2016 | N K Jemisin | The Obelisk Gate | The Broken Earth #2 | #313 | 2 | 4.28 | W | G |
| Nebula | 2016 | Charlie Jane Anders | All the Birds in the Sky | #324 | 2.5 | 3.59 | W | G | |
| Hugo+Nebula | 2017 | N K Jemisin | The Stone Sky | The Broken Earth #3 | #343 | 2 | 4.32 | W | G |
| Hugo+Nebula | 2018 | Mary Robinette Kowal | The Calculating Stars | Lady Astronaut #1 | #385 | 0.5 | 3.95 | W | G |
| Hugo | 2019 | Arkady Martine | A Memory Called Empire | Teixcalaan #1 | #413 | 4 | 4.10 | W | G |
| Hugo+Nebula | 2020 | Martha Wells | Network Effect | Murderbot Diaries #5 | #495 #433 | 2 | 4.46 | W | G |
| Hugo | 2021 | Arkady Martine | A Desolation Called Peace | Teixcalaan #2 | #474 | 4 | 4.29 | W | G |
| Nebula | 2022 | R F Kuang | Babel | #526 | 3 | 4.12 | W | G | |
| Hugo | 2023 | Emily Tesh | Some Desperate Glory | #567 | 1.5 | 4.05 | W | G | |
| Hugo | 2025 | Alix E Harrow | The Everlasting | #580 | 1 | 4.14 | W | G | |
In what order should one read the Iain M. Banks Culture series? Check out our SFBRP Recommended Reading Order of the Culture Series! Scroll down to see how we came up with this reading order, and additional notes on each book.
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| Recommended Order |
Published | Author | Book/Topic | SFBRP Episodes | SFBRP Rating |
Goodreads Rating |
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| Culture series introduction | #201 | – | W | G | ||||
| 1 | 1988 | Iain M Banks | The Player of Games | #202 #596 | 5 | 4.28 | W | G |
| 2 | 1987 | Iain M Banks | Consider Phlebas | #204 | 3.25 | 3.84 | W | G |
| 3 | 1996 | Iain M Banks | Excession | #209 | 3.5 | 4.19 | W | G |
| 4 | 1990 | Iain M Banks | Use of Weapons | #213 #26 | 4.75 | 4.16 | W | G |
| 5 | 1989 | Iain M Banks | The State of the Art | #221 | 3.5 | 3.82 | W | G |
| 6 | 1998 | Iain M Banks | Inversions | #224 #586 | 5 | 3.96 | W | G |
| 7 | 2008 | Iain M Banks | Matter | #232 #44 | 4 | 4.11 | W | G |
| 8 | 2010 | Iain M Banks | Surface Detail | #242 #129 | 4.25 | 4.27 | W | G |
| 9 | 2012 | Iain M Banks | The Hydrogen Sonata | #260 #172 | 4.25 | 4.21 | W | G |
| 10 | 2000 | Iain M Banks | Look to Windward | #263 | 4.75 | 4.23 | W | G |
| Culture series read-through wrap-up | #268 | 5 | W | G | ||||
How did we get here?
The obvious reading order is publication order, which is also almost identical to the internal chronological order.
But the problem with this order is that Consider Phlebas, the first novel, is by far the weakest book, and isn’t a good representation of the overall series due to the viewpoint character being an enemy of the Culture and an outsider. I’ve heard from a lot of people who say something similar to “Oh, the Culture series? I tried that but the first book didn’t really grab me so I didn’t continue.”
The other problem is that Bank planned to end the series once, with Look to Windward, but then later picked the series up again… and then died suddenly without writing another natural ending point.
I’ve seen some people suggest the short story collection and novella The State of the Art as a good starting point. However, this frames the Culture in relation to the planet Earth in the 20th century which, while fun, is a limiting perspective to approach the rest of the series. It’s best to get to know the Culture from the inside first, and then see it from a 20th century Earth point of view.
The SFBRP Recommended Reading Order
So when re-reading the entire series for us to review on the podcast, I put together an order that starts with the strongest early book, then moves mostly chronologically. However, it separates a few books by tone (putting some fun books between the heavy books) and groups a few books by theme, like putting The State of the Art with Inversions. It also moves Look to Windward to the end of the series, to its natural place as an ending to the Culture series, and also to go with the “death and afterlife” group.
1. Player of Games. Probably the best introduction to the Culture, laying out the Contact and Special Circumstances factions and what they get up to, which makes up the bulk of the series. It’s also one of the best novels in terms of writing, and it’s not too “heavy”. Viewpoint: normal culture citizen.
2. Consider Phlebas. The war in this book is the main threat threat the Culture experiences at its own level, and not massively overpowered or underpowered compared to their opponents. It’s also the first book chronologically, so it makes sense to go near the start. Warning: almost universally considered the weakest book in the series, so once you get through this it’s trending up in the future! Viewpoint: outside enemy of the Culture.
3. Excession. The best introductions to the Culture ships, one of the most memorable and fun aspects of the series. While there are human-level characters, it’s really all about the ships. It’s also super fun! You need a break after some of the heavier books.
4. Use of Weapons. Really heavy stuff, showing how war isn’t all about ship minds having fun. It has an internal story structure that some readers might find challenging, but it’s worth it. Viewpoint: outsider being used by the Contact and Special Circumstances elements of the Culture.
5. The State of the Art. Once the Culture has been established, it’s good to see where the Earth fits in with it. We also get to see more of Diziet Sma, a character from Use of Weapons. Viewpoint: Culture insider looking at Earth.
6. Inversions. A Culture novel without any viewpoint characters knowing about the Culture. This fits well with State of the Art, as you can imagine what it would be like for someone on Earth to be in the same situation. Warning: this will make ZERO sense if you’ve not read the previous books.
7. Matter. This is probably the most “minor” Culture book in the series, in my opinion. It’s okay, and that’s about it. At least after Inversions it’ll get you back into the swing of spending time with ships and drones.
8. Surface Detail. The first on the list of three “death and afterlife” Culture novels. This shows “man’s” attempt at creating an afterlife.
9. The Hydrogen Sonata. This shows the “science” of a true kind of afterlife on a civilization level, with much talk of subliming, or not subliming, and what life actually means when faced with something better after death.
10. Look to Windward. This is quite out of sequence chronologically and by publishing date, but should be the best way to finish off the series. Most of the action takes place within the Culture, rather than, like most of the novels, outside of it. It completes the “death and afterlife” series in the most satisfying way. It also pairs well with Consider Phlebas, so it’s good to have these two topping (almost) and tailing this list. Viewpoint: an alien visiting the Culture.