Some time ago I decided to join a group of bloggers, led by Caitlin at Realms of My Mind, for the Great Series Read Project. That group includes Jason at Off the TBR, Lisa at Dear Geek Place, Imyril at There’s Always Room for One More, Susy at Susy’s Cozy World, among other brave souls. So I am posting the series I have been working on, completed or hope to read and review at some point.
Since I regularly miss self-imposed deadlines, I won’t give a schedule for my own Great Series Read but instead offer a list of must-reads and in some cases, must re-reads. Since I’ve started blogging about science fiction, I have realized that the important series bear much deeper attention than I may have given them in the past. And some are just so great that they demand a second, even a third look.
Below is my revised personal Great Series Read list, which is itself a work in progress since so many amazing new works are coming out all the time. Who can keep up with it all? Please let me know what your list looks like and if there are any you would like to see reviewed on this blog. If you look back at my earlier posts in this series, you’ll see that the more recent parts of the list keep changing. So here is a page with a list that will only change when I add new series and links to new reviews. The first part contains the series I have been reading and reviewing since starting this blog in late 2019. The second lists the series I read (mostly) prior to starting SciFi Mind. These are books I keep going back to and hope to review here at some point. Please note that I include some books set in the same universe but not formally connected as a series (e.g. Le Guin’s Hainish Novels).
Series Reviewed for SciFi Mind
- Adrian Tchaikovsky: The Final Architecture (Shards of Earth, Eyes of the Void) and Children of Time (Children of Time, Children of Ruin, Children of Memory)
- Rebecca Roanhorse: The Sixth World (Trail of Lightning and Storm of Locusts) and Between Earth and Sky (Black Sun and Fevered Star)
- Derek Kunsken: Quantum Evolution (Quantum Magician, Quantum Gardner, Quantum War)
- Tade Thompson: The Wormwood Trilogy (Rosewater, Rosewater Insurrection, Rosewater Redemption)
- Linda Nagata: Inverted Frontier (Edges, Silver, Needle)
- Essa Hansen: The Graven series (Nophek Gloss, Azura Ghost)
- Christopher Brown: Dystopian Lawyer series (Rule of Capture and Failed State)
- Gautam Bhatia: The Chronicles of Sumer (The Wall and The Horizon)
- Kate Elliott: The Sun Chronicles (Unconquerable Sun)
- Liz Williams: Comet Weather (Comet Weather, Blackthorn Winter, Embertide)
- Ada Hoffman: The Outside (The Outside, The Fallen)
- Tasha Suri: The Burning Kingdoms (The Jasmine Throne, The Oleander Sword)
- Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli: Red Desert series (Point of No Return, The People of Mars, Invisible Enemy, Back Home)
- Karl Drinkwater: Lost Solace (Lost Solace, Chasing Solace, Hidden Solace)
- Arkady Martine: Teixcalaan (A Memory Called Empire, A Desolation Called Peace)
- William Gibson: The Jackpot Trilogy (The Peripheral, Agency, )
- Becky Chambers: Wayfarer (The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, A Closed and Common Orbit,Record of a Spaceborn Few, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within)
- Octavia Butler: Xenogenesis Trilogy (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago)
- Marlon James: Dark Star Trilogy (Black Leopard Red Wolf, Moon Witch Spider King)
- M. John Harrison: Viriconium (The Pastel City, Storm of Wings, In Viriconium and Short Stories)
- Doris Lessing: Canopus in Argos – Archives (Shikasta, The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, The Sirian Experiments, The Making of the Representative of Planet 8, and The Sentimental Agents)
- Nino Cipri: Litenverse (Finna and Defekt)
- Francesca Forrest: Tales of the Polity (An Inconvenient God and Lagoonfire)
- Kacen Callender: Islands of Blood and Storm (Queen of the Conquered, King of the Rising)
Series Read (Mostly) Before SciFi Mind
- Linda Nagata: Nanotech Succession (Tech-Heaven, The Bohr Maker, Deception Well, Vast)
- James S.A. Corey: The Expanse (Leviathan Wakes, Caliban’s War, Abaddon’s Gate, Cibola Burn, Nemesis Games, Babylon’s Ashes, Persepolis Rising, Tiamat’s Wrath, Leviathan Falls)
- Iain M. Banks: Culture Novels (Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, Use of Weapons, The State of the Art, Excession, Inversions, Look to Windward, Matter, Surface Detail, The Hydrogen Sonata)
- NK Jemison: The Broken Earth (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky)
- Ian McDonald: Luna trilogy (Luna: New Moon, Luna: Moon Rising, Luna: Wolf Moon)
- Alastair Reynolds – Revelation Space (Revelation Space, Chasm City, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap, Galactic North, Diamond Dogs and Turquoise Days)
- Willliam Gibson – The Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive)
- Jeff VanderMeer – Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance)
- Ann Leckie: Imperial Radch (Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy)
- Liu Cixin: Remembrance of Earth’s Past (The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death’s End)
- Malka Older: The Centenal Cycle (Infomacracy, Null States, State Tectonics)
- Stephen Baxter: Xeelee (Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, Ring)
- Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish novels (Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Word for World is Forest, The Dispossessed, The Telling)
- David Brin: The Uplift trilogy (Sundiver, Startide Rising and The Uplift War)
- Dan Simmons: Hyperion Cantos (Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion)
- Isaac Asimov: Foundation trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation)
- Frank Herbert: The Dune Chronicles (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, Chapterhouse: Dune)
- Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Trilogy (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, The Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish)
