RANKING every SCI FI book I read in 2024

the second half was on earth a bit later on and just didn't hold my interest at all in fact if I remember rightly I bailed didn't even finish the book

I enjoyed that more than record of a space born few I'll give it planetary pleasure I like that there's a circular plot

I really enjoyed this I think somewhere between let's go with Stella Splender so it was really good see to actually prequel to a Faron the Deep

this year and it was pretty good it suffered from being read very shortly after cage of Souls which I think is a much better book by him and I felt that it borrowed some elements from that

Stella Splender I as we'll talk about probably preferred Dogs of War but bearhead was good I liked honey as the character

Before it was it was pretty good but not my favorite I think my favorite was probably somewhere between after Atlas and the original Planet fall

I did enjoy I've enjoyed exploring some of Chris becket's books this year I like this one it didn't really go very far light on plot and heavy on atmosphere and that's was fine

Stella Splendor this is the most fun I've had with the Ken McLoud book so far this is the first of the light speed Trilogy and I really enjoyed it

it's a bit of a track story it's a slender book less than you know 150 200 Pages tops pretty good nothing to write home about

Stella Splender I really enjoyed that's a recentish space oper pretty good there's a bit of a Chase across the solar system I enjoyed it

I think I'm going to put that on Galactic gem I really enjoyed it I'm fond of an alternative history and this is an interesting one

I think that's burning Chrome planetary pleasure short stories not 100% my bag but it was a good introduction to the new romancer world

I really really enjoyed this I listened to it on audio book I thought the narrator did a fantastic job of bringing the characters to life

I think I have to put this in nebulous Nar I felt like it was a chore to read which is not what you want

I'm going to put on Stella Splendor I read that quite recently actually I really enjoyed the World building aspects of it so I was good with that

let's go with planetary pleasure uh not my favorite Windom and it was pretty good the elements of sort of Parental angst almost Panic about the what's happening to their child

I quite enjoyed it I didn't like blow my socks off or anything so it's kind of mid-tier but I enjoyed the writing

that's a galactic gem I found particularly good the World building in this was fantastic I really enjoyed it

was a confection an airport Thriller dressed up as a science fiction book it was pretty good I enjoyed it while I was there completely forgettable

I'm going to move him up to I enjoyed this one yeah not as much as dark Eden but probably a bit more I really enjoyed her as the as the main character

I actually read a few so I'm going to have to call it planetary pleasure because I can't remember anything about it

actually it technically shouldn't be in here cuz I dnfed it but it I'll keep it but certainly it's a cosmic catastrophe pretty poor

I think I rated this at like a 9 and a half along with demon in white and then Empire silence was a nine had a whale of a time reading them

I think is really good that might be one of my favorite chovsky CH easy for me to say one of my favorite chovsky books along with probably children of time and cage of souls I really liked it

is a cosmic catastrophe it's the second of the books in the you know multi-million best-selling Dragon Riders of per series I just didn't get on with it at all even the dragons weren't cool in this book

it's the first just before book that I read I really really enjoyed the World building he does have like a machine gun wit I really enjoyed it

do you know what on reflection it was all right nothing special top end of nebulous narrative

I really enjoyed it I thought that the World building was as a theme actually World building was really good and the I like the plot I like the characters

I loved it I'm I'm all here for a bit of space but I don't mind being challenged quite often I just want to be entertained and this was entertaining

this is a postapocalyptic book very akin to the road it's a female protagonist I really enjoyed it

Cosmic catastrophe so I sort of enjoyed to sleep in the sea of stars the biggest crime for this book was it was just really boring

I'm going to call a planetary pleasure some elements of it I quite enjoyed it's sort of an it's not an alternative telling of the Frankenstein story

there a theme developing here is another end of the world Tale this one based on human migration it's a very unlikable protagonist but again the description of things going to I quite enjoyed

nebulous narrative another really boring book there's a lot of sitting around Naval gazing on a space station it just didn't work for me

plantry pleasure that's a story of a generation sh on which things don't go to pot which is quite unusual I quite liked

planetary pleasure it was pretty good the part's really fun it's set Newcastle in the future pretty cool

it's the first of I think it's six books in the hooded Swan series and this one the pieces of this that I enjoyed are the sort of Interlink between the pilot and the ship the hooded Swan itself I thought that was pretty good

so that's the sequel to shelter this one written by Adam Roberts I really enjoyed it mainly for the buzz I get from the fact that it's set locally

don't remember thing about it's hexar Kate stories it short stories nebulous narrative don't remember thing about it

Galactic gem for sure when I do a top 10 of my Year's reading that's going to feature large that ter was among my favorite reads of the Year

this is a fix up of I think five elements and two of them are top-notch awesome two of the stories are awesome and then two or three of them I didn't think worked as well

I want to give that uh Stella Splendor House of suns by Anison Reynolds standalone spaceoperates really good that's a reread for me but I didn't remember a thing about it

so this is book two of the soner and I actually enjoyed this even more than Empire silence I had a great time reading it's right up my alley

that's not there that goes on the top as a galactic gem what I most appreciated in this book was the writing

planetary pleasure it was good it's bit a bit dry I was engaged enough

I think is going to be a stellar Splender for me it's a Multiverse tale there's a core group of characters that I think worked really well I really liked it

I think planetry pleasure as well oh inherit the stars is a planetry pleasure it a fun Story puzzle a mystery solving exercise pretty good

which is which is Bruce Sterling's first book um yeah I think that's cool U planetary pleasure slender book quick read I really enjoyed the descriptions of the wildlife

the first half of it was really dull redeemed entirely by absolute Carnage in the second half the second half was was insane

is a Stella Splendor Adam Roberts has become an automatic buy for me it was fun there's a really mad section in the middle

I think I would also give that why can't I go up that's a bit annoying a Stella Splendor the imagery is the is the thing that stayed with me the most

one of my um preferred in Banks books I'm probably going to have to put that as stalblender a tale of Revenge with some pretty cool aliens

I want to put him up the top galactic gem a surprise hit for me I thought it was really good majored on the World building

hated it I read it as a grumpy old man and it didn't gel with me at all I didn't enjoy it at all

it's the third of the prefect series I enjoyed it while I was there I honestly don't remember a great deal about it so I'm going to go with planetry pleasure it didn't it didn't do a lot for me in terms of being memorable but I but I enjoyed it

is a cautionary tale about population growth uncontrolled population growth it's a setting a jam patch in New York City I quite enjoyed it

yeah planetry pleasure I might have put it on the nebulous narrative just because it's a bit slow pretty good you know I enjoyed it

was an unexpected hit for me this year I think it's better from a plot point of view the descriptions of the of the car battles and the sort of office politics behind it I thought we're really good

planetry pleasure that's another story of an alien Relic a massive kind of plane siiz spaceship there's some pretty weird going onthere that I really enjoyed

I like Mata one of my favorites in Banks books I really enjoyed it

tells a story of a sort of telepathic link provided by an alien I'll give it a planetary pleasure inevitably

I enjoyed I did enjoy it but less than dark Eden so I'm going to put it on Stella Splender pretty good continues the story

which I enjoyed similarly I'm going to try to put that up here the story basically continues from where we left off I enjoyed those aspects of it

is the first of hers that I've read and how best to describe this is almost a little bit weird fiction I thought it's a really novel idea I really enjoyed it

that's going to have to go up here somewhere I think yeah we'll call it a galactic gemm partly I think probably it's got is carrying some Freight just with its status but I did enjoy my time there

that was disappointing nebulous narrative um I just didn't get on with the characters I didn't feel invested in them

planetary pleasure I think I would have given it more than that maybe a Stell spender just on the just on the basis of the premise but I thought it ended really abruptly

I think is a planetary pleasure pretty good I liked the character on Harrington I don't know that I like it enough to read like The Million that there are in that Series right now

planetary pleasure it's a big dumb object story effectively a Dyson Sphere and the exploration of the interior of it pretty good it's a short book

I think I'm going to have to give this nebulous narrative there were some parts of it that I really enjoyed it was fun um but silly you know

which I'm going to put top rank Galactic gem so this is another story of the Fall the breakdown of society set in what was the future for toia Butler when she wrote it I read this last month actually

yeah nebulous narrative okay so this is a short story collection dressed up as a novel The Little vignettes of life and all out of sequence I just felt like a bit sick afterwards

I really enjoyed I think I'm going to put that at Stella Spender it's about their friendship there's a lot of love there I really like that aspect of it

I think I'm going to have to put that on nebulous narrative record of SP record of a space born few I thought was just a bit boring in comparison

I listened to an audio book it was fun very quite ya I think I enjoyed myself perfectly well while I was there but it's like Hunger Games on Mars basically

Stella Splender I it's a reread for me it's got a clever structure with three threads which are operating at different points in time I enjoyed

fun kind of popcorn book was as the name suggests Humanity's been killed off mostly by by the robots I had fun it was fine

a pretty good debut novel I think I enjoyed that at least as much as land of the Headless it really well done I enjoyed it

is the third book in that series with up here with Haven this one written by Dave Hutchinson again I really enjoyed it mainly for the buzz I get from the fact that it's set locally

it was okay nothings special serviceable as the as the as the perhaps the name suggest I enjoyed my time there no more than that

shards of Honor um pleasure that's the first of the sort of a prequel to The vosic and Saga it was a little bit too lovey doy for me

I liked it because I like the end of the world but also because I like their writing and the cherry on the top for me is it is set literally up the road for me loved it

Pantry pleasure I think that's fair I enjoyed it less than is it no okay enjoyed it I was hopeful that Neuromancer would be better and I think it is

controversially not the first time I'm going to call this a nebulous narrative there were long sections of academic Exposition which I just found deeply tedious

the Hugo winner from last year planetary pleasure I liked what you did with it there were some things which kind of subverted my expectations

let's put that up that is I think a yeah I enjoyed it more than on it's a really interesting take on Interstellar travel

too complicated to many parallel plot threads some of it I thought he could have B without affecting the story at all but I did enjoy one or two of the protagonists

that's an audiobook I thought for decades that was a fantasy novel but it's not very much kind of lightend of Science Fiction haven't read it was all right

is a Space Opera and thisum was an attempt to put the fun back in Space Opera in the 1990s I really enjoyed my time there

planetary pleasure there were elements of it that I actually I don't think that's fair C spender so this is a story of a space a spaceship which can't slow down I enjoyed

it's a story of I think a Native American I think Navajo guy who's committed some kind of um shameful deed in his past and is starting a new life on a another planet it's a thinly disguised Western essentially on another planet

I think I'll put that on Stellspender as well so that's the Cassini division of the three of those that I've read so far this is the one that I like the best

planetary pleasure pretty good uh who done it set written way back in the in the 50s so was a reread for me enjoyed it

another one of my favorite John WAMS that's going up here is it Galactic gem I think it probably is cracking book

I hated it I read a lot of Ary Clark when I was in my teens and enjoyed it a lot and I've been really disappointed by what I read by him recently City in the Stars nothing really happens there's no plot no characters Big Ideas

it's my favorite John Windam it's a reread for me really good really stands out pretty well considering it was written in the early 50s

really enjoyed it's a quick read about 150 pages and it is the very fast fall of society and civilization set in England

is an old favorite of mine one of the first science fiction books that I read so this was a rad for me I think it's really good I really enjoyed it

by Ursula leuin is really good I enjoyed it it's a story of two societies told through one protagonist a nice contrast between the styles of society

planetary pleasure I think yeah pretty good jeta does a pretty good job I think

did some interesting things but was a bit slow

yet another end of the world tale there's a theme developing here I'm going to put that up here as a stellar Splendor I really enjoyed

I think that's going to have to go up there as well it's kind of sticky and nasty aliens seed the world with their own plants it's a story of a small group of people that try to survive in this world and largely fail

is a cosmic catastrophe in every sense it promised a lot and delivered very little it was just boring again cardinal sin for me boring

I think I enjoyed that quite a lot more than the engines of God it is pretty good

I enjoyed this less than the first one um it was it was okay not as not as interesting as the first one and I couldn't tell you what happened there really it didn't stick in my mind at all

planetary pleasure not one of my favites it was the last book that he wrote in the culture series some aspects of it I really enjoyed I did enjoy it

is a noela by Adam Roberts nothing special pretty short read and slightly I enjoyed it maybe less than I should have done because I hadn't realized that the title was the man who would be cling not King

it was all right not one of my favorite silverberg bit slow didn't really go anywhere or do anything it's mid-tier silverberg for me

there is a sequel to that as well I read that quite recently and it's okay um I like benford's writing generally speaking

I liked it more than some I don't think it quite is worthy of a of a Stella Splender so we'll leave it down here in planetary pleasure but I think it did a serviceable job of tearing up the trilogy

planetary pleasure for me not my favorite Windom kind of mid tier I enjoyed some aspects of it but it for many people that's their topnotch Winden it didn't work for me in that way

some typically Big Ideas the plot didn't flow that well for me but it's essentially a recipe book for how we might handle the effects of climate change

it's the fifth of the earth sea books she wrote in the early 2000s but much more than that I don't remember but you know it was fun at the time

my least favorite of the John Windam post-war novels it's kind of a fix up offive short stories it was nothing special

was a recent read and I think that's a Stella Splenderum it's a story of two sisters one of whom disappears it's an extremely compelling story and very realistic

I liked this less than the demolished man but you know a classic all the same

it was okay it's a noela the premise of this story is an elephant expert is downloaded it's an interesting imprs I quite enjoyed it

the best thing about it is the cover art with the perky cat lady it's it's over long it was 100 150 Pages too long

yeah plantry pleasure a loose sequel or actually arguably prequel to The Girl With all the gifts set in that same sort of fungal Zombie World I enjoyed it

this was a game of several parts a couple of them I really liked and then two or three of them I thought were pretty dull so I think overall probably it's a nebulous narrative

it was all right I enjoyed it while I was there but nothing memorable it wasn't very good and it wasn't great it was good

I enjoyed myself Stella Splender one of them is telling the truth and one of them isn't and there a story of how Humanity deals with that dichotomy

I think is a Stella Splendor barely really science fiction I did enjoy my time

sort of similar sort of yeah I probably enjoyed it a little bit more than the man in the Maze but still it was not my favorite silverberg mid tier for me

that's ashort story collection I read quite recently I think planetry pleasure I actually enjoyed nearly everything in this book

I think that probably belongs in planetary pleasure as well Mid tier it's intriguing premise everyone has died and has reincarnated on riverworld I did quite enjoy it

is another book that I really enjoyed bit difficult to explain what goes on there it's a mosaic of a novel and it's all out of sequence I did enjoy my time there

I did enjoy that I probably enjoyed that more than thorns and more than man and Ma but again another mid-tier silverberg

I'm going to put this on Stella SP it's probably somewhere in between yeah I enjoyed it more than on basilisk station I enjoyed the protagonist

I will give that a Stella Splender not my fave but pretty close to it I really like the female protagonist and I like the premise

this is the third book in what was a duology of semiosis and interference it was okay but I think I'm going to reread it

I think it's a planetary pleasure there was enough interesting in it to I think to justify that

which is a tale of promised immortality I think I'm going to leave that on planetary pleasure cool premise