My Sci-Fi list after 1990s (Updated)

The Legends...

Any Sci-fi list cannot begin without a tribute to the legendary Issac Asimov and Arthur Clarke. I am a great fan of the Foundation, Robo Series, Rama series and the 2001: Space odyssey. I grew up getting inspired by these books. I have also read Larry Niven of the Ring World fame, Frank Herbert's Dune series and Phillip K Dick the author with maximum film adaptations. I read very less of Phillip K Dick but have seen all the movies, Minority Report being the best. 

But here is what I have discovered after 1990s...

The 1990s

Being a die-hard Sci-fi fan, I keep searching for new content. So here is a list of books that I have read by authors active after 1990s.
  • Orson Scott Card: The Ender Series... About 4 degrees of Strangeness. It talks about havoc created by lack of communication and mutual mistrust. 
    • Ender's Game    1977 
    • Speaker for the Dead    1986   
    • Xenocide 1991
    • Children of the Mind 1996

  • Stephen Baxter:
    Xeelee Sequence ...a universe spanning saga complete with time travel, different timelines, time scales of 5 billion years: This is if you are ready to do some heavy lift reading in hard-sci-fi 
    • Raft 1991
    • Time like Infinity 1992
    • Flux 1993
    • Ring 1994

  • John Scalzi:
    • Old Man's War Series ... Fun soap opera with lot of aliens, space wars and charming central character, who is a 60+ old man who is given a new cloned body and he joins the space force.
      • Old Man's War 2005
      • Ghost Brigade 2006
      • Last Colony 2007
    • Lock In (2014) & Head on (2018) ... Augmented reality
    • Interdependency series
      • The Collapsing Empire (2017)
      • The Consuming Fire (2018)
      • The Last Emperox (2020)

  • Daniel Suarez: Augmented/ Virtual Reality, Gamification of Business, 3D Printing, Global Economics controlled by AI, Bio-Tech, Gene editing, Product Farms, Autonomous drone swarms, etc.... the near-future sci-fi.
    • Daemon (2006) and Freedom (2010)
    • Change Agent (2017) 
    • Kill Decision (2012)
    • Delta-V (2019)
      ... and more

  • Tal M. Klein: "The Punch Escrow" (2017) ... No series yet, A thriller with 3D Printing and Teleportation. How about a 3D printed burger?

  • Blake Crouch: Quantum Physics, Space-time, Multiverse, Digital Memory, Gene editing, Clones...
    • Dark Matter (2016)
    • Recursion (2019) 
    • Upgrade (2022) 

  • Cixin Liu: A mind boggling space odyssey that covers the big ideas including Purpose of Life, Social Engineering, Space travel, Alien invasion and human response!
    • Three Body Problem (2014... english transalition)
    • The Dark Forest (2015)
    • Death's End (2016)
    • Redemption of Time (2019) ... a follow up Fourth Book, a Fan Fiction by Baoshu. This is a philosophical take on Birth, Death and Re-birth of Universes!

  • Ian M. Banks: Culture Series ... Not a easy read
    I have read only "Player of Games" (1988)

  • Dan Simmons: Hyperion (1989) & Fall of Hyperion (1990). The series continues as "Endmyion", but I have not read.

  • Robert J Sawyer: Quantum Night (2016)
    ... The author of fantastic TV Show: Flashforward has written many books including the famous WWW series. But I have read only Quantum Night.

  • Douglas Phillips: Quantum physics explained for lay persons through fantastic mind-bending thrillers:
    • Quantum Space (2017)
    • Quantum Void (2018)
    • Quantum Time (2019)
    • Quantum Entanglement (2021)

  • A G Riddle:
    ... Multiverse and Gene-editing
    • Departure (2014)
    • Extinction Files: "Pandemic" & "Genome" (2017)
    • Lost in Time (2022)
    • Quantum Radio (2023) ... expected to continue as a series.

  • William Ledbetter: 
    ... The evolution of Artificial Intelligence
    • Level Five (2019)
    • Level Six (2021)
    • Level Seven (coming in December 2023)

  • Douglas E. Richards: (Fantastic new author of near future sci-fi)
    ... Can AI be the stimuli for the next level of human evolution?
    • The Breakthrough Effect (2023) ... The epilogue amazingly proposes a theory on birth of universe(s).   
    • Wired (2005)
    • Amped (2012)

  • Nathan Hystad
    • Rift, Resistance, Return - Resistance Trilogy (2019)

  • Alastair Reynolds 
    ... Big hardcore sci-fi space opera dealing with Fermi Paradox
    • Revelation Space (2000)
    • Pushing Ice (2005)

  • Adrian Tchaikovsky
    ... Evolution of Intelligence in non-humanoid life forms  
    • Children of Time Trilogy (2015)

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