Ep. 647: Best Sci-Fi Beach Reading

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Summer is here and that means finally tackling your huge list of books piled up on your bedside table and filling up your Kindle. What books do we recommend for some fun reads?

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Harlan Ellison Webderland

The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Goodreads)

Neil Gaiman

Whatever (John Scalzi)

The Kaiju Preservation Society (Macmillan)

Old Man’s War (Macmillan)

Love, Death + Robots (Netflix)

Agent to the Stars (Whatever)

The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi (Goodreads)

Space Opera | Book by Catherynne M. Valente (Simon & Schuster)

Watch Rick and Morty on Adult Swim (Adult Swim)

Culture Series by Iain M. Banks (Goodreads)

Here’s SpaceX’s new Drone Ship: “A Shortfall of Gravitas” (Universe Today)

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty (Goodreads)

Marco and the Red Granny by Mur Lafferty (Goodreads)

Neal Stephenson

Reamde by Neal Stephenson (Bookshop.org)

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (Neal Stephenson)

Seveneves (Neil Stephenson)

Windupstories.com – Fiction by Paolo Bacigalupi

Bobiverse Series by Dennis E. Taylor (Goodreads)

The Martian by Andy Weir (Goodreads)

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Penguin Random House)

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Isaac Asimov (Author of Foundation) (Goodreads)

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke (Goodreads)

Watch Detectorists (BBC Series) (Prime Video)

Lagoon (Nnedi Okorafor)

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Mary Roach)

The Mission: A True Story by David W. Brown (Harper Collins)

Europa Clipper (NASA JPL)

Galaxy: The Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod (DC Comics)

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