Peter Watts, Blindsight and Echopraxia. Some of the most thought-provoking hard science fiction I’ve read since The Quantum Thief. Almost worth it for the citation-packed afterwards alone, where the author lays out the case for his wild ideas being plausible.

Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. Time travel novel, of a sort, with a literary bent. Reminded me a bit of The Time-Traveler’s Wife.

John Scalzi, Redshirts. You almost don’t need to hear anything else, right? Hilarious spoof of bad sci fi tropes.

John Scalzi, Lock In. An inventive sci fi police procedural, in a future where robotics and VR improve fast, because millions of people are left paralyzed by a disease.

Laline Paull, The Bees. The story of a bee hive, from a bee’s perspective. Except sort of not, in a magical realist kind of way.