The Evolution of Science Fiction discussion

For June 2016's group read we are looking for nominations for sci-fi written between 2010 and today. The books here are excluded as we read them previously. One nomination per person please.

Current Nominations:
The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto
Lock In by John Scalzi
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Cthulhu Fhtagn! by Ross E. Lockhart
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Echopraxia by Peter Watts
Wool by Hugh Howey
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

The Stories of Ibis, by Hiroshi Yamamoto (Translator: Takami Nieda)

I'll nominate Lock In by John Scalzi. It has a couple of very interesting themes, one that people often don't get until after they've read it or have heard about it.

2312, by Kim Stanley Robinson

I nominate Cthulhu Fhtagn!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

an anthology of original Cthulhu Mythos stories published in 2015. It's average goodreads rating is over 4 stars.

I have a few new books on my TBR list. All are the first book in a series. It seems as if that's all that gets written nowadays - series. Lock In by John Scalzi, nominated above; Blindsight by Peter Watts; Luna: New Moon by Ian Mcdonald; and the one with the highest Goodreads rating and my nominee - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, her debut novel.

Echopraxia by Peter Watts

I was going to nominate The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, but I see Buck already has. Great! Another novel I've been wanting to read for a while now but haven't yet got round to is The Wool Trilogy by Hugh Howey (not the full trilogy, by the way - just the first Wool novel - couldn't find the right link).

2312 is great, but I would nominate KSRs latest Aurora.

I might be the only one, but I really hated Redshirts by Scalzi, and don't think I can ever read another of his books. Yes. I really did think it was that bad.

For something different I would like to nominate Annihilation the first book in the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer.

Surface Detail by the great late Iain M. Banks is great, and one of my favorite Culture books. There is also his last book The Hydrogen Sonata, but I am not sure it's as good as Surface Detail.

I have read really good things about Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, but don't know much about it.

I wouldn't judge Scalzi by "Redshirts". Humor is hard to do for everyone. I thought it was OK, but Old Man's War was far better & so is Lock In. Completely different.

Since we're nominating fairly new books, that would be true. IMO, 'Lock In' has signs of the future of SF in it, especially the 'hidden' theme.

I'm nominating Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman. I got the title off a list. Don't know anything about it, but the publisher's blurb and GR reviews intrigue me.

I'm withdrawing my nomination of Dark Orbit. I borrowed the book from my public library and quit halfway through. Definitely some interesting ideas in world-building, but also inadequate plot and character development, and a turgid writing style. Not a book for a group read here.