Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson

Summary: A multi-generational starship is attempting to build a human colony on another world. One of the reasons that science fiction has been historically popular is that it in general a hopeful genre. Science fiction dreams of new worlds being discovered, the expansion of humanity across the galaxy, technological progress. Or at least that has … Read more

Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor

Summary: After spending a year at college, Binti goes home to face her family. Science Fiction is the perfect genre to explore so many different ideas. Binti and its follow-up book Binti: Home are both mostly about what it means to grow up, leave home, and be changed by the process so that you are … Read more

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Summary: An African teen in the future leaves her (traditional) home to attend a university on another planet. A couple of days ago, I was describing Octavia Butler as the only female African American science fiction author that I could think of. The next day, I received an email from Amazon about a book they … Read more

The Dispossessed: A Novel by Ursula Le Guin

Summary: A brilliant physicist leaves his insular utopian community to study in the world that his world rebelled against. And he learns the weaknesses of both political systems.  Anarres is a desert moon to Urras. Several hundred years ago, miners rebelled against their home world and created their own anarchist utopia, a ‘non-authoritarian communism’ where … Read more

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

Summary: Told over a 60 year period as the world descends into dystopia, there is something more than what it initially seems. The Bone Clocks has been highly recommended by a number of people that I trust. It is well written literary fiction with elements of science fiction and fantasy. I think I should have loved it, … Read more