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The final project for my astrobiology class (aimed at non-science students) is to read a scifi book with well-developed aliens and rate the aliens/exoplanets/space travel/human-alien interactions based on what students learned in class. I'm always looking for new books to add to the list (and more good scifi books to read!)
My list for this year:
Contact (Sagan)
The 3 Body Problem (Liu)
Old Man’s War (Scalzi)
Rendezvous with Rama (Clarke)
The Andromeda Strain (Crichton)
Project Hail Mary (Weir)
The Sparrow (Russel)
Leviathan Wakes (Corey)
Starship Troopers (Heinlein)
Dune (Herbert)
The Left Hand of Darkness (Le Guin)
To Be Taught if Fortunate (Chambers)
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Chambers)
Semiosis (Burke)
Childhood’s End (Clarke)
Ammonite (Griffith)
All Systems Red (Wells)
Fuzzy Nation (Scalzi)
Ender’s Game (Card)
Binti (Okarafor)
Translation State (Leckie)
A Half-Built Garden (Emrys)
Aurora (Robinson)
The Algebraist (Banks)
Blindsight (Watts)
Of course this list is skewed by what *I* enjoy reading. But I'm always looking to expand. Any good ones I've forgotten?
@sundogplanets A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge, with the Tines and the Skroderiders.
@wdenton @sundogplanets Check out "The Humans" by Matt Haig (even tho it takes place on Earth). Funny and insightful.
@wdenton @sundogplanets This but even more so the related novel “Deepness in the Sky” by Vernor Vinge
@wdenton @sundogplanets I'd also add Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky.