Following up last week’s 2014 book list, this is the official list of books I read in 2015. I read more books that contained more ideas I’d never even considered possible than I ever thought existed. On that confusing note: the list.

There were some incredible series’ that I read in 2015. Each seemed to have more crazy ideas and crazy detail than the last. The overarching theme of the year was trans-humanism, edging into post-humanism.

The conclusion to the Takeshi Kovacs novels had the single best zero-gee combat sequence I’ve ever read, while Stross’s Saturn’s Children explores the shadows hanging over a post-human Solar system. Hannu Rajaniemi created the single most incredible and unprecedented world I’ve ever seen in the Jean le Flambeur novels.

 

Broken Angels – Richard K. Morgan

Woken Furies  – Richard K. Morgan

Contact – Carl Sagan

Saturn’s Children – Charles Stross

Neptune’s Brood – Charles Stross

Iron Sunrise – Charles Stross

Proxima – Stephen Baxter

Ultima – Stephen Baxter

It Can’t Happen Here – Sinclair Lewis

The Quantum Thief – Hannu Rajaniemi

The Causal Angel – Hannu Rajaniemi

The Fractal Prince – Hannu Rajaniemi

Halting State – Charles Stross

The Martian – Andy Weir

The Forever War – Joe Haldeman

Rule 34 – Charles Stross

Sleep Over – Alastair Reynolds

Zero Echo Shadow Prime – Peter Samet