Denver Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club |
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Reading List from August 2000 to present Our book club meets twice a month, except in November and December, to discuss books. We alternate between reading science fiction and fantasy. We individually rate the books we've read. You're welcome to see which books we'd each recommend. The ratings and opinions of group members often differ. Web pages for our book selections feature cover art, blurbs, author bibliographies, and web links. Many pages include book summaries, commentaries, or critiques. |
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| Date | Book Title | Author | Genre | |
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| 2007 Dec. | Eon | Greg Bear | science fiction | |
| 2007 Nov. | A Shadow in Summer | Daniel Abraham | fantasy | |
| 2007 Oct. | Hidden Empire | Kevin J. Anderson | science fiction | |
| 2007 Oct. | A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | classic play | |
| 2007 Sep. | On Basilisk Station | David Weber | science fiction | |
| 2007 Sep. | Lady of Mazes | Karl Schroeder | science fiction | |
| 2007 Aug. | Sunshine | Robin McKinley | dark fantasy | |
| 2007 Aug. | The Once and Future King | T.H. White | classic fantasy | |
| 2007 July | Timescape | Gregory Benford | science fiction | |
| 2007 June | Rainbows End | Vernor Vinge | science fiction | |
| 2007 June | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | J.K. Rowling | fantasy | |
| 2007 May | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | mainstream science fiction | |
| 2007 May | The Atrocity Archives | Charles Stross | fantasy / spy / horror | |
| 2007 Apr. | Dead Until Dark | Charlaine Harris | vampire fantasy | |
| 2007 Apr. | Naked in Death | J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts) | SF romantic suspense | |
| 2007 Mar. | The Wee Free Men | Terry Pratchett | YA fantasy | |
| 2007 Mar. | Old Man's War | John Scalzi | science fiction | |
| 2007 Feb. | The Prestige | Christopher Priest | fantasy | |
| 2007 Feb. | A Civil Campaign | Lois McMaster Bujold | science fiction | |
| 2007 Jan. | Forbidden Cargo | Rebecca K. Rowe | science fiction | |
| 2007 Jan. | Anansi Boys | Neil Gaiman | fantasy | |
| 2006 Dec. | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | science fiction | |
| 2006 Nov. | His Majesty's Dragon | Naomi Novik | fantasy | |
| 2006 Oct. | Citizen of the Galaxy | Robert Heinlein | science fiction | |
| 2006 Oct. | The Hero and the Crown | Robin McKinley | YA fantasy | |
| 2006 Sep. | Valis | Philip K. Dick | science fiction | |
| 2006 Sep. | The Last Light of the Sun | Guy Gavriel Kay | fantasy | |
| 2006 Aug. | Elantris | Brandon Sanderson | fantasy | |
| 2006 Aug. | Spin | Robert Charles Wilson | science fiction | |
| 2006 July | By the Sword | Mercedes Lackey | fantasy | |
| 2006 July | Interview with the Vampire | Anne Rice | horror / dark fantasy | |
| 2006 June | The Cyberiad | Stanislaw Lem | science fiction | |
| 2006 June | Kindred | Octavia E. Butler | fantasy / fiction | |
| 2006 May | To Reign in Hell | Steven Brust | fantasy | |
| 2006 May | When Gravity Fails | George Alec Effinger | science fiction | |
| 2006 Apr. | The Year of Our War | Steph Swainston | science fiction | |
| 2006 Apr. | Ilium | Dan Simmons | science fiction | |
| 2006 Mar. | 1984 | George Orwell | science fiction | |
| 2006 Mar. | Polgara the Sorceress | David & Leigh Eddings | fantasy | |
| 2006 Feb. | Holes | Louis Sachar | young adult | |
| 2006 Feb. | Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | science fiction | |
| 2006 Jan. | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | science fiction | |
| 2006 Jan. | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke | fantasy | |
| 2005 Dec. | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J.K. Rowling | fantasy | |
| 2005 Nov. | The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis | fantasy | |
| 2005 Oct. | Lord Foul's Bane | Stephen R. Donaldson | fantasy | |
| 2005 Oct. | The Tar-Aiym Krang | Alan Dean Foster | science fiction | |
| 2005 Sep. | Phule's Company | Robert Asprin | science fiction | |
| 2005 Sep. | Chasm City | Alastair Reynolds | science fiction | |
| 2005 Aug. | Eragon | Christopher Paolini | fantasy | |
| 2005 Aug. | Gideon's Wall | Greg Kurzawa | fantasy | |
| 2005 July | Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers | Grant Naylor | science fiction | |
| 2005 July | This Alien Shore | C.S. Friedman | science fiction | |
| 2005 June | Paladin of Souls | Lois McMaster Bujold | fantasy | |
| 2005 June | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West | Gregory Maguire | fiction | |
| 2005 May | Fuzzy Dice | Paul Di Filippo | science fiction | |
| 2005 May | Pattern Recognition | William Gibson | science fiction | |
| 2005 Apr. | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | science fiction | |
| 2005 Apr. | Ringworld | Larry Niven | science fiction | |
| 2005 Mar. | Dragonsong / Dragonsinger | Anne McCaffrey | fantasy | |
| 2005 Mar. | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke | science fiction | |
| 2005 Feb. | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | fiction | |
| 2005 Feb. | Archangel | Sharon Shinn | science fiction | |
| 2005 Jan. | Dying of the Light | George R.R. Martin | science fiction | |
| 2005 Jan. | The Scar | China Miéville | fantasy | |
| 2004 Dec. | The War of the Flowers | Tad Williams | fantasy | |
| 2004 Nov. | Shadrach in the Furnace | Robert Silverberg | science fiction | |
| 2004 Oct. | Blind Lake | Robert Charles Wilson | science fiction | |
| 2004 Oct. | The Neverending Story | Michael Ende | fantasy | |
| 2004 Sep. | Nova | Samuel R. Delany | science fiction | |
| 2004 Sep. | Replay | Ken Grimwood | fantasy | |
| 2004 Aug. | Singularity Sky | Charles Stross | science fiction | |
| 2004 Aug. | Mythago Wood | Robert Holdstock | fantasy | |
| 2004 July | The Stepford Wives | Ira Levin | science fiction horror | |
| 2004 July | Cities | Peter Crowther, ed. | four novellas | |
| 2004 June | The War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells | classic science fiction | |
| 2004 June | The Truth | Terry Pratchett | fantasy | |
| 2004 May | The Telling | Ursula K. Le Guin | science fiction | |
| 2004 May | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J.K. Rowling | fantasy | |
| 2004 May | A Wizard Alone | Diane Duane | fantasy | |
| 2004 Apr. | The Gunslinger (Dark Tower 1) | Stephen King | dark fantasy | |
| 2004 Apr. | A Scattering of Jades | Alexander C. Irvine | science fantasy | |
| 2004 Mar. | Screwtape Letters | C.S. Lewis | literary fantasy | |
| 2004 Mar. | Catspaw | Joan D. Vinge | science fiction | |
| 2004 Feb. | The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde | bestseller fantasy | |
| 2004 Feb. | Lord of Light | Roger Zelazny | science fiction | |
| 2004 Jan. | Coraline | Neil Gaiman | YA dark fantasy | |
| 2004 Jan. | Look to Windward | Iain M. Banks | science fiction | |
| 2003 Dec. | The Return of the King | J.R.R. Tolkien | fantasy | |
| 2003 Nov. | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | horror / SF | |
| 2003 Oct. | The Holy Land | Robert Zubrin | satire science fiction | |
| 2003 Oct. | Lullaby | Chuck Palahniuk | horror / dark fantasy | |
| 2003 Sep. | Dragons of Autumn Twilight | Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman | fantasy | |
| 2003 Sep. | The Warrior's Apprentice | Lois McMaster Bujold | science fiction | |
| 2003 Aug. | Fata Morgana | William Kotzwinkle | fantasy mystery | |
| 2003 Aug. | The Years of Rice and Salt | Kim Stanley Robinson | science fiction | |
| 2003 July | Big Planet | Jack Vance | science fantasy | |
| 2003 July | The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents | Terry Pratchett | fantasy | |
| 2003 June | Kiln People | David Brin | science fiction | |
| 2003 June | The Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum | classic fantasy | |
| 2003 May | The Gods Themselves | Isaac Asimov | science fiction | |
| 2003 May | Perdido Street Station | China Miéville | fantasy | |
| 2003 Apr. | Kirinyaga | Mike Resnick | science fiction | |
| 2003 Apr. | The Wooden Sea | Jonathan Carroll | fantasy | |
| 2003 Mar. | Sky Coyote | Kage Baker | science fiction | |
| 2003 Mar. | A Kiss of Shadows | Laurell K. Hamilton | erotic fantasy | |
| 2003 Feb. | Wasp | Eric Frank Russell | science fiction | |
| 2003 Feb. | The Curse of Chalion | Lois McMaster Bujold | fantasy | |
| 2003 Jan. | The Shadow of the Torturer | Gene Wolfe | science fantasy | |
| 2003 Jan. | Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang | Kate Wilhelm | science fiction | |
| 2002 Dec. | The Two Towers | J. R. R. Tolkien | fantasy | |
| 2002 Nov. | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J. K. Rowling | fantasy | |
| 2002 Oct. | Ubik | Philip K. Dick | science fiction | |
| 2002 Oct. | She | H. Rider Haggard | fantasy adventure | |
| 2002 Sep. | Shadow of the Hegemon | Orson Scott Card | science fiction | |
| 2002 Sep. | The Amber Spyglass | Philip Pullman | fantasy | |
| 2002 Aug. | Brightness Reef | David Brin | science fiction | |
| 2002 Aug. | A Voyage to Arcturus | David Lindsay | fantasy | |
| 2002 July | Quantum Rose | Catherine Asaro | science fiction romance | |
| 2002 July | Only Begotten Daughter | James Morrow | satiric fantasy | |
| 2002 June | Cosmonaut Keep | Ken MacLeod | science fiction | |
| 2002 June | American Gods | Neil Gaiman | fiction / fantasy | |
| 2002 May | The Lions of Al-Rassan | Guy Gavriel Kay | fantasy | |
| 2002 May | Dying Inside | Robert Silverberg | science fiction | |
| 2002 Apr. | The Riddle-Master of Hed | Patricia McKillip | fantasy | |
| 2002 Apr. | Downbelow Station | C.J. Cherryh | science fiction | |
| 2002 Mar. | A Red Heart of Memories | Nina Kiriki Hoffman | fantasy | |
| 2002 Mar. | The Fresco | Sheri S. Tepper | science fiction | |
| 2002 Feb. | Eye in the Pyramid: Illuminatus! Part 1 | Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson | weird science fiction | |
| 2002 Feb. | Passage | Connie Willis | science fiction | |
| 2002 Jan. | The Fifth Elephant | Terry Pratchett | fantasy | |
| 2002 Jan. | Friday | Robert A. Heinlein | science fiction | |
| 2001 Dec. | Fellowship of the Ring | J.R.R Tolkien | fantasy classic | |
| 2001 Nov. | Titan | John Varley | science fiction | |
| 2001 Oct. | The King Must Die | Mary Renault | historical fiction | |
| 2001 Oct. | Venus | Ben Bova | science fiction | |
| 2001 Sep. | War for the Oaks | Emma Bull | urban fantasy | |
| 2001 Aug. | Pavane | Keith Roberts | SF / alternate history | |
| 2001 Aug. | The Last Unicorn | Peter S. Beagle | fantasy | |
| 2001 Jul. | The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin | science fiction | |
| 2001 Jul. | Lankhmar-Tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser | Fritz Leiber | fantasy | |
| 2001 Jun. | Blind Waves | Steven Gould | science fiction | |
| 2001 Jun. | Ship of Magic | Robin Hobb | fantasy | |
| 2001 May | Software | Rudy Rucker | science fiction | |
| 2001 May | Moonheart | Charles de Lint | fantasy | |
| 2001 Apr. | The Time Machine | H. G. Wells | science fiction | |
| 2001 Apr. | A Secret History, Book of Ash #1 | Mary Gentle | fantasy | |
| 2001 Mar. | A Case of Conscience | James Blish | science fiction | |
| 2001 Mar. | They Fly at Ciron | Samuel R. Delany | fantasy | |
| 2001 Feb. | The Caves of Steel | Isaac Asimov | science fiction mystery | |
| 2001 Feb. | Romance books with SF elements | Various authors | romance! | |
| 2001 Jan. | Callahan's Crosstime Saloon | Spider Robinson | science fiction | |
| 2001 Jan. | The Eye of The World | Robert Jordan | epic fantasy | |
| 2000 Dec. | Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson | science fiction | |
| 2000 Nov. | Enchantment | Orson Scott Card | fantasy | |
| 2000 Oct. | The Falling Woman | Pat Murphy | fantasy | |
| 2000 Oct. | To Your Scattered Bodies Go | Philip Jose Farmer | science fiction | |
| 2000 Sep. | The Adept | Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris |
fantasy | |
| 2000 Sep. | Parable of the Talents | Octavia Butler | science fiction | |
| 2000 Aug. | The Heart of Myrial | Maggie Furey | fantasy | |
| 2000 Aug. | Darwin's Radio | Greg Bear | science fiction |
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Additional pages for Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time fantasy series Cover art for all Wheel of Time books Wheel of Time Collectible Card Game (WoT CCG) Cover art for From the Two Rivers & To The Blight |
Pages for George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series featuring large
cover art scans
A Game of Thrones, book one
A Clash of Kings, book two
A Storm of Swords, book three
Path of the Dragon, artwork for story
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Page for a group selection that turned out to be surprisingly
unavailable Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz |