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Anthropological Science Fiction (Like No Enemy But Time, The Falling Woman, Homonids)
Experimental novels (like Dhalgren, Stand On Zanzibar, The Sheep Look Up, I'm sure there are others I'm not thinking of)
The roots of modern Steampunk (like Verne, Wells, Stevenson and the father of modern Steampunk James Blaylock)


-Female authors
-I really like the android topic, I'll gladly read anything with androids and AI
-Space Opera!

How about translated sf? (from other languages to English, of course)
Also, you can't go wrong with post-apocalyptic stories.

Like the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy (Richard K. Morgan), K.W. Jeter's "Noir", Lethem's "Gun with Occasional Music", The Audran Sequence by George Alec Effinger, Carlucci (trilogy) by Richard Paul Russo and "The Arabesk Trilogy" by J.C. Grimwood.
From the suggestions made so far, I'd choose SF Masterworks.

some great ideas so far!
We have done SF Masterowrks, and Mistressworks...they are both great lists that we should look at again....(Hint:Dreamsnake) lol
and Periklis-do you mean Hardboiled as in Private detectives? good idea!
We have done SF Masterowrks, and Mistressworks...they are both great lists that we should look at again....(Hint:Dreamsnake) lol
and Periklis-do you mean Hardboiled as in Private detectives? good idea!

We have done SF Masterowrks, and Mistressworks...they are both great lists that we should look at again....(Hint:Dreamsnake) lol
and Periklis-do you mean Hardboiled as in ..."
Yes! Private Detectives, as in P.K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". Glad there is a positive response so far.
I also like the idea of translated SF, but I can't think of many books (translated in English) out there.
I can think of a few Soviet authors (Lem, Strugatsky), but beyond that only this anthology: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72... .

I can think of a few Soviet authors (Lem, Strugatsky), but beyond that only this anthology: "
Well, there's a bunch of foreign SF works translated. Besides the ones you mentioned there's obviously Jules Verne and also Karel Capek, Blindness by Saramago or We by Zamyatin.
Question is if there's interest about those books in the group.
You can check this list of European SF, a lot of what's on the list has been translated to english:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/18...
we've done both Grand Masters and Space Horror, but i would love it if we could do both again in 2013. we've only cracked the surface of those two.

http://www.blackcoatpress.com/#Scienc...
I noticed a lot of the translations are done by Brian Stableford. A lot of the e-books are only $5.99.
One of them, Chronolysis by Michael Jeury, I already have.

Like the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy (Richard K. Morgan), K.W. Jeter's "Noir", Lethem's "Gun with Occasional Music", The Audran Sequence by George Alec Effinger, ..."
Really like this suggestion. There are some great books from this sub-genre to read from.
I also like the idea at taking a shot at a 19th/ early 20th century list as well.
Periklis wrote: "May I suggest Hardboiled SF as a theme?
Like the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy (Richard K. Morgan), K.W. Jeter's "Noir", Lethem's "Gun with Occasional Music", The Audran Sequence by George Alec Effinger, ..."
I really like this as well!
Like the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy (Richard K. Morgan), K.W. Jeter's "Noir", Lethem's "Gun with Occasional Music", The Audran Sequence by George Alec Effinger, ..."
I really like this as well!

I like the idea of SF detectives and also translations.
thanks for all the great suggestions! i will be starting two threads later today for January 2013 nominations.

Dang but this year flew by fast....
and we are in need of a slew of new ideas for themes for upcoming books...
Any ideas on what type of things you want to read?
It can be subgenres, like Space Opera. It can be types, such as dystopian or far future.
It can revolve around a certain science, such as androids or bio-tech
It can be books by a certain author, or books from a certain time frame.
or a first in a series...
or books off a list here on goodreads...
Imagination is key!
Respond with your ideas