September 3, 2020 | Tick Tock (滴答), by Xia Jia (夏笳) |
August 27, 2020 | On Venus, Have We Got A Rabbi!, by William Tenn |
August 20, 2020 | A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Robot Walk Into a Bar, by Andrew Dana Hudson |
August 13, 2020 | Quarantine, by Greg Egan (Excerpt) |
August 6, 2020 | The Moon Moth, by Jack Vance |
July 30, 2020 | All That Glisters, by David Massey, Inevitable Consequences, by Moira Sheehan, and When A Plan Works Well, by David Massey |
July 23, 2020 | Snow Crash (Chapters 37-38), by Neal Stephenson |
July 16, 2020 | Tenure Track, by Kenneth Schneyer |
July 9, 2020 | Zima Blue, by Alastair Reynolds |
July 2, 2020 | Levels of Observation, by Kenneth Schneyer |
June 25, 2020 | Fandom for Robots, by Vina Jie-Min Prasad, and Cat Pictures Please, by Naomi Kritzer |
June 18, 2020 | The Giving Plague, by David Brin |
June 11, 2020 | Joy, by Kevin Aslan |
June 4, 2020 | Articulated Restraint, by Mary Robinette Kowal |
May 28, 2020 | The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model, by Charlie Jane Anders, and Rescue Party, by Arthur C. Clarke |
May 21, 2020 | The Language Sheath, by Regina Kanyu Wang (with the author) |
May 14, 2020 | Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (Because I Just Made Them Up) (Parts 6-7), by Scott Alexander |
May 7 | Three Worlds Collide, by Eliezer Yudkowsky |
April 30, 2020 | Invisible Planets, by Hao Jingfang |
April 23, 2020 | Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (Because I Just Made Them Up) (Parts 4-5), by Scott Alexander |
April 16, 2020 | Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (Because I Just Made Them Up) (Parts 1-3), by Scott Alexander |
April 9, 2020 | The Matter of Seggri, by Ursula K Le Guin |
April 4, 2020 | Fade to Black, by Catherynne M Valente |
March 25, 2018 | Book report evening (continued) - choose a book you enjoyed |
March 22, 2018 | Book report evening - choose a book you enjoyed |
March 19, 2020 | The Feeling of Power, by Isaac Asimov, and the Nine Billion Names of God, by Arthur C. Clarke |
March 12, 2020 | For A Breath I Tarry, by Roger Zelazny |
March 8, 2020 | Tideline, by Elizabeth Bear |
March 5, 2020 | Firstborn, by Brandon Sanderson |
February 27, 2020 | The Electric Ant, by Philip K Dick |
February 23, 2020 | The Bard of Ambrose, SCP 2897, and SCP 2820, by SCP Foundation |
February 20, 2020 | The Machine Stops, by E. M. Forster |
February 13, 2020 | Failworlds, by Greg Stolze |
February 6, 2020 | The Shadow from Beyond Time (Atomic Robo Volume 3) (comic), by Sam Hughes |
February 4, 2020 | I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility, by Sam Hughes |
February 2, 2020 | As the Last I May Know, by S L Huang |
January 16, 2020 | Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy, by Xia Jia |
January 9, 2020 | Satisfaction Guaranteed, The Immortal Bard, Victory Unintentional, and Jokester, by Isaac Asimov, and Mika Model, by Paolo Bacigalupi |
January 2, 2020 | In the Clutches of Life, SCP 3984, and SCP 3448, by SCP Foundation |
December 26, 2019 | Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes |
December 19, 2019 | Just Like The Ones We Used to Know, by Connie Willis |
December 12, 2019 | Fantasy world problems, featuring Whatever the Price, by Matthew Bailey, The Supervisor of Accountants and the Great Grey Wolf, by Donald Crankshaw, and An Evil Opportunity Employer, by Lawrence Watt-Evans, plus The Masculine Mongoose, by Eliezer Yudkowsky, and The Sith of Datawork, by Ken Liu |
December 5, 2019 | Steve Fever, by Greg Egan |
November 28, 2019 | Jon, by George Saunders |
November 21, 2019 | Omnilingual, by H Beam Piper |
November 14, 2019 | The Lady Astronaut of Mars, by Mary Robinette Kowal (continued from previous week), plus We Interrupt This Broadcast , by Mary Robinette Kowal, and The Promise of Space, by James Patrick Kelly |
November 7, 2019 | The Lady Astronaut of Mars, by Mary Robinette Kowal |
October 31, 2019 | SCP 3008 and SCP 2000, by SCP Foundation |
October 24, 2019 | Zeitgeber, by Greg Egan |
October 17, 2019 | The Minority Report, by Philip K Dick |
October 10, 2019 | Crystal Society (long read), by Max Harms |
October 3, 2019 | The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections, by Tina Connolly |
September 26, 2019 | Hinterlands and Johnny Mnemonic, by William Gibson |
September 19, 2019 | The Woman Who Destroyed Us, by S L Huang, and Axiomatic, by Greg Egan |
September 12, 2019 | Carnival Nine, by Caroline M Yoachim, and Exhalation, by Ted Chiang |
September 5, 2019 | Truth Plus, by Jamie Wahls |
August 29, 2019 | Surface Tension, by James Blish |
August 22, 2019 | Poems and Distant Lands, by Gu Shi |
August 15, 2019 | Crystal Society, by Max Harms (Prologue and Chapters 1-2) |
August 8, 2019 | Omphalos, by Ted Chiang |
August 1, 2019 | Foundation, by Isaac Asimov (Section 1, "The Psychohistorians", and Section 2, "The Encyclopedists") |
July 25, 2019 | Space Leek, by Stanley Chen |
July 18, 2019 | Nightfall and The Last Question, by Isaac Asimov |
July 11, 2019 | Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom, by Ted Chiang |
July 4, 2019 | Monster Hunter International (Chapter 1), by Larry Correia, and Why I Left Harry's All Night Hamburgers, by Lawrence Watt-Evans |
June 27, 2019 | Placebo and Subtext, by Charles Yu, and Baby, You Were Great, by Kate Wilhelm |
June 20, 2019 | Bridesicle, by Will McIntosh, and Non-Zero Probabilities , by N K Jemisin |
June 13, 2019 | Ship's Brother and Two Sisters in Exile, by Aliette de Bodard |
June 6, 2019 | The Extra, by Greg Egan |
May 30, 2019 | A Song for Lya, by George R R Martin |
May 23, 2019 | Tav, by Dustin Kennedy |
May 16, 2019 | The Men of Greywater Station, by George R R Martin |
May 9, 2019 | Time Exposures, by Wilson Tucker, and The Dead Past, by Isaac Asimov |
April 25, 2019 | Think Like a Dinosaur, by James Patrick Kelly |
April 18, 2019 | The Great Silence, by Ted Chiang, This Book is Full of Spiders: The Molly Chapter, by David Wong, and Octo-Heist in Progress, by Rich Larson |
April 11, 2019 | Mika Model, by Paolo Bacigalupi, and Meat and Salt and Sparks, by Rich Larson |
April 4, 2019 | The Sith of Datawork, by Ken Liu, Mazer in Prison, by Orson Scott Card, and Snow Crash (Chapters 37-38), by Neal Stephenson |
March 28, 2019 | Three Worlds Collide, by Eliezer Yudkowsky |
March 21, 2019 | Swarm, by Bruce Sterling, and Sentry, by Frederick Brown |
March 14, 2019 | SCP night: We need to talk about fifty-five, SCP-055, Introductory Antimemetics, SCP-2845, and SCP-1762 |
March 7, 2019 | Thoughts and Prayers, by Ken Liu, and When Crow and Robot Saved East St. Louis, by Annalee Newitz |
February 28, 2019 | The Wandering Earth, by Liu Cixin |
February 21, 2019 | The Reunion, by Chen Qiufan (Stanley Chen) |
January 31, 2019 | Overvalued, by Mark Stasenko |
January 24, 2019 | Fahrenheit 451 (Parts 2-3 of 3), by Ray Bradbury |
January 17, 2019 | The Road Not Taken, by Harry Turtledove, and The High Crusade (Chapters 1-5), by Poul Anderson |
January 10, 2019 | Eve and Eve (夏娃与夏娃), by Xiu Xinyu (with the author) |
January 3, 2019 | Fahrenheit 451 (Part 1 of 3), by Ray Bradbury |
December 27, 2018 | All Seated On the Ground, by Connie Willis |
December 20, 2018 | Blessed by an Angel, by Peter F Hamilton |
December 13, 2018 | Farewell Adam (告别亚当), by Xiu Xinyu (修新羽), and Veil of Ignorance, by David Barr Kirtley |
December 6, 2018 | Fandom for Robots, by Vina Jie-Min Prasad |
November 29, 2018 | Far Rainbow, by Boris & Arkady Strugatsky |
November 22, 2018 | Houston, Houston, do you read?, by James Tiptree, Jr |
November 15, 2018 | Solution Unsatisfactory, by Robert A Heinlein |
November 8, 2018 | Sort by Controversial, by Scott Alexander |
November 1, 2018 | My Little Pony: Friendship is Optimal |
October 25, 2018 | Facecrafter (捏脸人), by Anna Wu (吴霜) |
October 18, 2018 | The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling, by Ted Chiang |
October 11, 2018 | Story of Your Life, by Ted Chiang |
October 4, 2018 | Byzantine Empathy, by Ken Liu |
September 27, 2018 | Down and Out, by Ken Wharton |
September 20, 2018 | Beneath the Sunlit Shadows and The God Thieves, by Derek Künsken |
September 13, 2018 | The Ungoverned, by Vernor Vinge |
September 6, 2018 | Three Body Problem Trilogy (long read), by Liu Cixin |
August 30, 2018 | Floaters Can't Float, by Pip Coen |
August 23, 2018 | Inside of Body Experience, by Pip Coen |
August 16, 2018 | Paradises Lost, by Ursula K Le Guin |
August 9, 2018 | Utopia, Lol?, by Jamie Wahls |
August 2, 2018 | The Ink Readers of Doi Saket and The Boy Who Cast No Shadow, by Thomas Olde Heuvelt |
July 26, 2018 | Mobius Continuum and Chimera, by Gu Shi |
July 19, 2018 | Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by A. Square |
July 12, 2018 | That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made, by Eric James Stone |
July 5, 2018 | Book report evening - choose a book you enjoyed |
June 28, 2018 | Book report evening - choose a book you enjoyed |
June 14, 2018 | Bloodchild, by Octavia Butler |
June 7, 2018 | Welcome To Your Authentic Indian Experience, by Rebecca Roanhorse |
May 31, 2018 | Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies, by Greg Egan |
May 24, 2018 | Melancholy Elephants, by Spider Robinson, and The Green Ship, by Francesco Verso |
May 17, 2018 | The Island, by Peter Watts, and They're Made Out of Meat, by Terry Bisson |
May 10, 2018 | The New Mother, by Eugene Fisher |
May 3, 2018 | Wind Will Rove, by Sarah Pinsker |
April 26, 2018 | The Peddler’s Apprentice, by Vernor Vinge |
April 19, 2018 | Glory, by Greg Egan |
April 12, 2018 | Brave New World (long read), by Aldous Huxley |
April 5, 2018 | The Psychology Game, by Xia Jia (with the author) |
March 29, 2018 | Robot AL-76 Goes Astray and Victory Unintentional, by Isaac Asimov |
March 22, 2018 | The Robot Who Liked to Tell Tall Tales and War of the God, by Fei Dao |
March 8, 2018 | When It Changed, by Joanna Russ, and Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies, by Brooke Bolander |
March 1, 2018 | And Then There Were N-One, by Sarah Pinsker |
February 22, 2018 | Fast Times at Fairmont High, by Vernor Vinge |
February 1, 2018 | Remembrance (& other stories) by Ursula K Le Guin |
January 25, 2018 | Colosseum, by Blake Stone-Banks (with the author) |
January 18, 2018 | Roy, by Kevin Aslan |
January 11, 2018 | The Cookie Monster, by Vernor Vinge |
December 28, 2017 | Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88, by Kevin J. Anderson |
December 21, 2017 | The Star, by Arthur C Clarke, and In the Late December, by Greg van Eekhout |
December 14, 2017 | Crystal Society, by Max Harms |
December 7, 2017 | Cocoon, by Greg Egan |
November 30, 2017 | Standard Loneliness Package, by Charles Yu |
November 23, 2017 | Limited Edition, by Tim Maughan |
November 16, 2017 | The Way of Cross and Dragon, by George R. R. Martin |
November 9, 2017 | Border Guards, by Greg Egan |
November 2, 2017 | The Day Before the Revolution and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, by Urusla LeGuin |
October 26, 2017 | Manna From Heaven, Loaves and Fishes and Second Helping, by George R R Martin (from Tuf Voyaging) |
October 19, 2017 | Ball and Chain, by Maggie Shen King |
October 12, 2017 | Spider the Artist, by Nnedi Okorafor |
October 5, 2017 | Incorruptible, by Peter Watts |
September 28, 2017 | Hello Moto, by Nnedi Okorafor |
September 21, 2017 | The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees, by E Lily Yu |
September 14, 2017 | The Rope is the World, by China Mieville |
September 7, 2017 | Seventy-Two Letters, by Ted Chiang, and The Bridge Between Truth/Death and Power/Knowledge: Ted Chiang's "Seventy-Two Letters", by Greg Beatty |
August 31, 2017 | How to Write Science Fiction, by Orson Scott Card |
August 24, 2017 | Point of View, Think! and Sally, by Isaac Asimov |
August 17, 2017 | The Three Body Problem, by Liu Cixin |
August 10, 2017 | Invisible Planets, by Hao Jingfang |
August 3, 2017 | Book report evening - choose a book you enjoyed |
July 27, 2017 | Accelerando (Chapter 9), by Charles Stross |
July 13, 2017 | A Visit to Weizenbaum, by Jamie Metzl |
July 6, 2017 | The Gardens of Babylon, by Hassan Blasim |
June 29, 2017 | Immersion, by Aliette de Bodard |
June 22, 2017 | The Matter of Seggri, by Ursula K Le Guin |
June 15, 2017 | Accelerando (Chapter 8), by Charles Stross |
June 8, 2017 | Liking What You See: A Documentary, by Ted Chiang |
June 1, 2017 | Stream of Consciousness, You See But You Do Not Observe, and The Stanley Cup Caper, by Robert J. Sawyer |
May 25, 2017 | My Little Pony: Friendship is Optimal (Chapters 5-11) |
May 18, 2017 | My Little Pony: Friendship is Optimal (Chapters 0-4) |
May 11, 2017 | Everyone is Todd |
May 4, 2017 | Kenneth: a Users' Manual, by Sam J. Miller |
April 27, 2017 | The Planck Dive, by Greg Egan |
April 20, 2017 | The Tactful Saboteur, by Frank Herbert |
April 13, 2017 | Crystal Mentality, by Max Harms (long read) |
April 6, 2017 | Crystal Nights, by Greg Egan |
March 30, 2017 | The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling, by Ted Chiang |
March 23, 2017 | The Island, by Peter Watts |
March 16, 2017 | Our Lady of Chernobyl, by Greg Egan |
March 2, 2017 | Yuanyuan's Bubbles, by Liu Cixin |
February 23, 2017 | Reasons to be Cheerful, by Greg Egan |
February 16, 2017 | Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapters 78 to end), by Eliezer Yudkowsky |
February 9, 2017 | Hell is the Absence of God, by Ted Chiang, and Single Bit Error, by Ken Liu |
January 26, 2017 | The Hunger Tower, by Pan Haitian |
January 19, 2017 | Divided by Infinity, by Robert Charles Wilson |
January 12, 2017 | Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapters 38-77), by Eliezer Yudkowsky |
December 29, 2016 | Year in review discussion |
December 22, 2016 | ‘Tis the Season, by China Mieville |
December 15, 2016 | Accelerando (Chapter 7), by Charles Stross |
December 8, 2016 | Learning To Be Me and Closer, by Greg Egan (from Axiomatic) |
December 1, 2016 | Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapters 1-37), by Eliezer Yudkowsky |
November 24, 2016 | The Walk, by Greg Egan (from Axiomatic) |
November 17, 2016 | The Call of Cthulu, by H.P. Lovecraft |
November 10, 2016 | Understand and The Evolution of Human Science, by Ted Chiang |
November 3, 2016 | Accelerando (Chapter 6), by Charles Stross, and The Great Silence, by Ted Chiang |
October 27, 2016 | Who Goes There, by John W. Campbell, and The Things, by Peter Watts |
October 20, 2016 | A Song for Lya, by George R. R. Martin |
October 13, 2016 | Accelerando (Chapter 5), by Charles Stross |
October 6, 2016 | Story of Your Life, by Ted Chiang |
September 29, 2016 | Hundred Light Year Diary, by Greg Egan (from Axiomatic), and What’s Expected of Us, by Ted Chiang |
September 22, 2016 | Three Worlds Collide, by Eliezer Yudkowsky |
September 15, 2016 | The Algorithms for Love, by Ken Liu, and They're Made Out of Meat, by Terry Bisson |
September 8, 2016 | Accelerando (Chapter 4), by Charles Stross |
September 1, 2016 | Crystal Society, by Max Harms (long read) |
August 4, 2016 | How To Create A Mind, by Ray Kurzweil (Chapters 3 & 9) |
July 28, 2016 | Accelerando (Chapter 3), by Charles Stross |
July 21, 2016 | Accelerando (Chapters 1-2), by Charles Stross |
July 14, 2016 | All You Zombies, by Robert A Heinlein |
July 7, 2016 | Liking What You See: A Documentary, by Ted Chiang |
June 30, 2016 | The Last Question, by Isaac Asimov |
June 30, 2016 | The Immortal Bard, by Isaac Asimov |
June 23, 2016 | A Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury |
June 16, 2016 | The Concentration City, by J G Ballard |
June 16, 2016 | The Garden of Time, by J G Ballard |
June 9, 2016 | Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (part 1), by A Square |
June 2, 2016 | Creator, by David Lake |
May 26, 2016 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K Dick |
May 19, 2016 | Discussion on the definition of science fiction |
May 12, 2016 | We See Things Differently, by Bruce Sterling |
May 5, 2016 | Folding Beijing, by Hao Jingfang |
April 28, 2016 | Teacher’s Pest, by Orson Scott Card |
April 21, 2016 | Zima Blue, by Alastair Reynolds |
April 14, 2016 | The Truth of Fact the Truth of Feeling, by Ted Chiang
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April 7, 2016 | Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson (long read) |
March 31, 2016 | Exhalation, by Ted Chiang |
October 29, 2015 | The Things, by Peter Watts |
September 28, 2015 | Through Other Eyes, by R A Lafferty |
September 7, 2015 | The Fish of Lijiang, by Chen Qiufan (Stanley Chen) |
August 31, 2015 | Ball Lightning, by Liu Cixin (long read) |
August 3, 2015 | Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie (long read) |
July 20, 2015 | The Future: 'Wrapped in That Mysterious Japanese Way', by Joshua La Bare |
July 13, 2015 | Induction, by Greg Egan |
July 6, 2015 | Stars my Destination, by Alfred Bester (long read) |
June 29, 2015 | Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky |
June 22, 2015 | Bernie the Faust, by William Tenn |
June 15, 2015 | Player of Games, by Iain M Banks (long read) |
June 8, 2015 | …And I Show You How Deep The Rabbit Hole Goes, by Scott Alexander |
June 1, 2015 | Mind of my Mind, by Octavia Butler |
June 1, 2015 | Talk on space law, by Chris |
May 25, 2015 | Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut |
May 18, 2015 | The Three Body Problem, by Liu Cixin (long read) |
May 11, 2015 | Immersion, by Aliette de Bodard |
May 4, 2015 | The City of Silence, by Ma Boyong |
April 27, 2015 | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow (long read) |
April 20, 2015 | Bordered in Black, by Larry Niven |
April 13, 2015 | The Bones of the Earth, by Ursula K Le Guin |
April 6, 2015 | Houston, Houston, do you read?, by James Tiptree, Jr. |
March 16, 2015 | The Martian, by Andy Weir (long read) |
March 9, 2015 | Second Variety, by Philip K Dick |
February 2, 2015 | Equinoctal, by John Varley |
January 19, 2015 | Swarm, by Bruce Sterling |
December 29, 2014 | Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, by Holley Cantine |
December 15, 2014 | Guest Law, by John C Wright |
November 24, 2014 | Divided by Infinity, by Robert Charles Wilson |
November 24, 2014 | Crystal Nights, by Greg Egan |