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About us:Some of us are active, and we’re growing:
- 130 members on Apr 18, 2024
- 140 members on Jun 30, 2024
- 150 members on Aug 30, 2024
- 160 members on Nov 8, 2024
- 170 members on Dec 20, 2024
- 180 members on Jan 28, 2025
- 190 members on Feb 23, 2025
- 200 members on Apr 9, 2025
- 210 members on May 25, 2025
- 220 members on Jun 25, 2025
- 230 members on Jul 16, 2025
- 240 members on Aug 23, 2025
- 250 members on Sep 16, 2025
- 260 members on Oct 17, 2025
- 270 members on Nov 6, 2025
- 280 members on Dec 3, 2025
- 290 members on Dec 29, 2025
- 300 members on Jan 8, 2025
We were 130 members when I joined. The group was 11 years old and seemed to be essentially dormant. I don’t get a lot of feedback, but it is nice to see that the group has doubled in the year and a half since I started moderating. I’ve certainly enjoyed the discussion we get and have found good reads I wouldn’t have without you.
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Updated October 11, 2025
Locations: (Sovereign States, Countries, States/Regions/Provinces)
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England: East Midlands, London, North West, South East, South West, Yorkshire and the Humber, West Midlands-
Scotland: Edinburgh, Perth & Kinross-
Northern Ireland -
Bailiwick of Jersey 
Ukraine
US: AL, AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, LA, MD, MO, MA, NE, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY (34 of 51 including DC)Ages: 23 - 81
Men (mostly) & a couple dozen women
Readers, many writers, & a publisher
Let us know if we need to add more countries.
If you are in the UK ... I'm merely trying to reflect some more granular regions, and probably just upsetting everyone in the process. Does anyone use "regions"? Perhaps not. Counties? Seems like a hot mess. Probably cannot make anyone "happy" with a Northern Ireland flag of any kind. The St. Patrick saltire flag is just a decomposition of the Union Jack. If any of you have a preference for something else, let me know.
Tell us a little about you:• Name
• Location: city, province/state, country
• Flavor: something about your location
• Favorites in the technothriller genre:
- Book(s)
- Author(s)
- Quote(s)/Scene
• Role: note if author, publisher, promoter
We tend to greet you, but I’ll delete “welcome” messages after about a month, leaving just your bio for the longer term. You can always edit, format, or delete your own posts.
Name: SteveLocation: Tucson, Arizona, USA
Local Flavor: Tucson is arguably the best place to see a saguaro cactus or eat a carne seca chimichanga (Mexican food, Sonoran style).
Favorite techno-thriller book(s):
Project Hail Mary
Favorite techno-thriller authors:
Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy, Andy Weir
Favorite scene: In Project Hail Mary, where … (view spoiler).
Hi there,I just finished Artificial Wisdom and clicking through the links led me to this group. I'm only a little late :) Here's my tombstone data and then some thoughts / asking-for-a-friend about the book.
Name: Harry
Location: Governor's Harbour, Eleuthera, Bahamas
Flavour: Paradise six months of the year, paradise + hurricanes the other six. It's like living at the end of a bowling alley. Sooner or later, someone is gonna throw a strike.
Fav Book: Does Station Eleven count in the genre? Otherwise Hail Mary
Fav Author: Andy Weir
Role: Reader, Author
I loved Artificial Wisdom until about the 50% point then got into the mystery rhythm of clue-nextChapter-clue-... but that passed quickly enough and I got back to loving it. Then the ending ... hmmm. From reading the acknowledgments, it sounds like his daughter demanded more, which might explain why it felt rushed/tacked-on.
I'm all for leaving the door open to a sequel, but I think the questions he left open to build that door were important to close off. Like ... in a whodunnit, don't you have to say whodunnit?
Anyway, I still really liked it, but it went from a 5 to a 4 for me with the finish.
I'm new to Goodreads and have been slowly adding the books I've read. I stumbled across this group and got an alert, so figured I'd offer up a reply. • Name: Michael J. Lalonde
• Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
• Flavor: Very heavy traffic :(
• Favorites in the technothriller genre:
The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy
There's more but I would be here all day trying to list them all. Needless to say, like many others, Clancy is what got me into the genre.
• Role: Author
The Quiet War: Canadian Front
Hello to all. I'm Victor and I'm writing from Armenia, Colombia. I'm new to GoodReads and I'm very happy to be part of this group where I hope to learn more about this wonderful genre.
I just finished reading ‘The Fear Index’ by Robert Harris and it left me with a lot of ideas in my head, reminding me of some Michael Crichton and Preston & Child stories :)
Love the idea for this group. Interesting place to come for sci-fi that could be reality.
I joined Goodreads mainly because I am a new writer and published my first book.The Hunt for the Red October and Tom Clancy in overall are big influencers for me.
I haven't gotten to filling out my list of books yet, but I will!
Thanks for hosting this group!
Hello there, I'm S. A. Black. Nice to meet you all!• Location: USA
• Favorites in the technothriller genre:
- Ready Player One
- Stephen King
• Role: I'm a newly published indie author and enjoy reading.
Name: RomainLocation: Lausanne, Switzerland
Local Flavor: One of the big wine region of Switzerland with vineyards looking over the Leman Lake
Favorite techno-thriller book(s):
The Dervish House
Glasshouse
Neuromancer
No list will be complete, no list will be perfect.
Roles: avid reader, author
Name: ChrisLocation: West Yorkshire, northern England
Flavour: Also known as the Heavy Woollen District, the area is rich with industrial heritage
Favourites:
Books - Cryptonomicon (Stephenson), Daemon (Suarez)
Authors - Clancy, Crichton, Stephenson, Forsyth
Quotes - “Didn’t they know that the only unhackable computer is one that’s running a secure operating system, welded inside a steel safe, buried under a ton of concrete at the bottom of a coal mine guarded by the SAS and a couple of armoured divisions, and switched off?”
(Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives)
Role: reader and inchoate author
Name: RyanLocation: Northern Virginia
Flavor: It's the Swamp - half the people around me work for "the government" - IYKYK
Favorites: Too many to count - this is my favorite genre to read. Can't believe it took me this long to find this group.
Huge fan of:
Tom Clancy
Clive Cussler
Michael Crichton
James Rollins
Matthew Reilly
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Stephen Coonts
Dale Brown
A.G. Riddle
Steve Berry
Robert Ludlum
Role: I'm an indie author, but here mostly as a reader - would love to get more recs! Especially of the James Rollins/Matt Reilly type technothrillers, I feel like there's not enough well-researched ones out there.
Hello everyone! 👋My name is Cody Alaniz, I’m from Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA.
One thing I love about my area is the mix of Cajun culture, food, and the resilience of the community—it’s a place full of stories and energy that always inspires me.
As for technothrillers, some of my favorites are:
Books: Daemon by Daniel Suarez, Neuromancer by William Gibson, and The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton.
Authors: Michael Crichton, Daniel Suarez, and William Gibson always keep me hooked.
Quotes/Scenes: One that really sticks with me is from Neuromancer — “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” The imagery captures exactly why I love the genre.
My role here: I’m an author. My book The Edge of Control dives into AI, power, and the human struggle to control the very technology we create. I’m looking forward to connecting with other readers and writers who share this passion, and I’d love to hear your thoughts on favorite technothrillers, too.
Excited to be here and join the conversation! 🚀
Welcome Rich!Lockhart, TX?
I had some BBQ there, and would swear I heard angels singing in harmony. It was singular. Vastly superior to any other BBQ I ever had in my life.
Welcome Marcin!
Greetings fellow earthlings.My name is Simon Mortimer. I was told a family myth that 'Mortimer' is French for 'Dead Sea' (Mort + Mer), and I was descended from knights upon whom that name was bestowed for valour during the Crusades of a thousand years ago... 'wow' I thought - my young heart swelling with pride and ancestry... Except it turns out, the name is French, but it refers to 'black waters' rather than 'Dead Seas' - and more specifically an area of France famous for pungent peat bogs and nothing to do with knights, castles, or honour gained in battle. So I went from a descendent of knights to someone whom emerged from a peat bog.
As for my location, my current location is Sydney Australia, but I have worked in many parts of the globe in my career as a civil engineer (or civilisation engineer is the forgotten full terminology). I was born and grew up in West Yorkshire on a remote property on the same moors of Wuthering Heights fame. Sydney is a beautiful city with iconic architecture, but it leans a little too heavily on that I'm afraid and has less genuine heart than Melbourne (for example) - Sydney is more show than substance, to a certain extent anyway, it has an awful lot going for it too, don't get me wrong.
My all time favourite techno-thriller is the War of the Worlds, and perhaps more specifically the LP that was released in the 1970s narrated by Richard Burton's voice of gravelly gravitas and with a soaring orchestral backdrop. I was transported to another world. I must have listened to that record over a hundred times as a kid and read the book too. I love the story of what happened when Orson Wells convinced a chunk of America Mars was invading as well via that famous radio broadcast based on the novel. It is such a good story, which has generated its own story in the real world - beat that for a techno thriller!
As for my role, well - yep - I am an author and - full disclosure - of course I am here to reach out to those interested in the genre I have chosen to write in. I am not going to push it on anyone though. You can find my author page and take a look - or not - all good. I do intend to contribute here as well. Techno-thrillers seem to be an under-represented genre, and I reckon the world would be a better and a more fun place if that changes, so anything I can do to help there - I'm all in.
Keep well earthlings.
Simon M
Welcome Shlisa!
Simon wrote: "Greetings fellow earthlings.My name is Simon Mortimer ... My all time favourite techno-thriller is the War of the Worlds …"
Hope you like our Book of the Month. I read the book and also listened to a cast including Leonard Nemoy doing a 1 hour recreation of the radio broadcast. That was interesting. They are different in overall effect. Thanks for your recommendation on the older version. I suppose if they did it today, it would have to be a series of real-time videos posted online. Someone will eventually use AI and make an effort to create such a thing.
Welcome Agustina!You are the first from Argentina. I’ll have to update our list of countries, flags, and the map.
Steve wrote: "Simon wrote: "Greetings fellow earthlings.My name is Simon Mortimer ... My all time favourite techno-thriller is the War of the Worlds …"
Hope you like our Book of the Month. I read the book and..."
Hi Steve,
I voted for the Feb read. Too much on in Jan to commit, and if I say I will do something - I do it. Bizarrely I have already read 3/5 of the Feb options. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series is a personal favourite. I re-read them recently and its annoying now, being an author myself, I can't help but see all the flaws in them (they were written in a hurry of the back of a wildly successful radio show), rather than just being taken along for the delightfully zany profound ride.
There was a radio show for Hitchhikers?
Welcome Chidananda!Welcome Ignacio!
Steve wrote: "There was a radio show for Hitchhikers?"Yes it started off as a 1978 BBC radio play that became very popular, so books and TV series quickly followed - in time honoured fashion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hit...
You can still get hold of the original recordings. Someone has uploaded them to You Tube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjMqo...
I just listened to a little of it, its like an echo from a lost world. A better world in many ways...
Join us for:
Book of the Month (BOTM):
We vote on a book of the month to read together as a group. Honestly, it is usually just me and maybe 2 or 3 people each month, but sometimes we get more participants, like when we read Jurassic Park. In 2025, we read two books each month. In 2026, I plan to have a monthly book, and more of quarterly book, so we can take a few months to read some of the books that are too hard to read in one month, like The Stand, which is about 1200 pages.
Lists:
See our rank-ordered lists of favorites:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
This is a great resource to pick the next best book to read. Feel free to vote on the various lists. For example, I think Project Hail Mary is the best techno-thriller of the 2020s, followed by some books from the Aggressor series. Whether you agree or not, add your vote or a book to the list. You’ll need to use a browser in Desktop mode to do that. Can’t see or do such things from the app.
Group Watch:
Share whenever a technothriller is being made into a movie or show. We can all watch it and comment. We watched Day of the Jackal in 2025. That prompted me to read what turns out to be an outstanding thriller book. The series is modernized, so two different plots, only similar at a very high level. Looking forward to Project Hail Mary in 2026.
Buddy Read (BR): It's more fun to read together.
Post in the Buddy Read folder any time you want to read a technothriller book. Maybe one or more members will join you, and you can discuss it there. This way, I found a buddy to read Delta-V and Ice Station with me … both good reads.
Challenges Share a list of books you've read.
We have threads for some favorite authors or topics there, like Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton. Will probably add Blake Crouch for 2026.
Bookshelf: See the books the group has read. These are general book of the month, group watch, or buddy read books. This is not for just any new author to promote their book. These were chosen by the group … even if that’s only a handful of us some months.
Author Self-Promotion: Post about your book:
- Do not add your own book to the Bookshelf.
- Do not nominate your own book for reads.
- Post about your book in the AUTHOR folder only.
- Watch for member-author BOTM opportunity.
- We had 3 member-author reads in 2025.
- A few of us read: The Yamanaka Factors
- It was good—better than several BOTM selections.
Posts
Yes, … please! This is what it is all about. Please post and share your comments on the books!