#724: Summer Science & SciFi Reads
Update: 2024-06-24
Description
It’s almost time for our summer hiatus. A time to catch up on all that reading. We’ll give you some book recommendations, and what we’re hoping to read during the summer.
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Show Notes
The following books were discussed (These are Amazon Assoc links and we may make money off any purchases)
Fiction
- Alex White’s Salvager’s Series
- Alastair Reynold’s Revelation Space Series, House of Suns
- Ian Banks Culture Series
- Becky Chambers Wayfarer Series, Monk and Robot Series
- Danial Suarez Daemon and Freedom Series
- Read anything by Cory Doctorow (but be warned, they are painfully too close to reality)
- Star Wars Books! Claudia Gray’s Master & Apprentice and also Mike Chen’s Brotherhood
- Yoon Ha Lee Machineries of Empire Series
- John Scalzi The Interdependency Series
Non-Fiction
- Adam Higginbottom Challenger
- Phil Plait Under Alien Skies
- Zach & Kelly Weinersmith A City on Mars
- Laura Tretheway The Deepest Map: The High-stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans
- Adam Frank Little book of Aliens
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