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Coxwell's Digital Bookshelf

Recent Reading from My Favorite Science Fiction Authors,
Books and Short Stories


     The following is a fairly comprehensive list of science fiction novels and short stories I've read over the past few years.  My family gave me a Kindle Fire HD for Christmas several years ago, and I started downloading and reading one story after another.  Like a chain smoker, I was "lighting one off the other."  Reading once again became my new hobby, one that I had unfortunately neglected in recent years.  So, with all that time spent reading, I've had considerably less time to pursue writing of my own.  It's a miracle I was able to manage the preps for my teaching load.  Got to "keep the day job" for now -- my students need me more than I need to write.  Plenty of time for that when I retire in a few more years.

     But now, since my imagination has been pumped full of fresh inspiration from all these stories, I'll try to remedy that situation with some stories of my own.  Weekends, holidays, summers.  Watch for news on this website and postings on Facebook.

     Don't be surprised when you fail to see represented in the list below such science fiction greats as Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov.  I read both of them extensively as I was growing up, and they shaped my fascination with science fiction in a major way.  I have a bookshelf loaded with "antique" print copies of Clarke, Asimov and others.  But as I made the effort to bring
The Epsilon Wish to print, I made a deliberate effort to read stories by new writers that were in the market today.  I wanted to see what was current in science fiction, with an eye toward edging my work in that direction.

     Some of the authors and titles you may easily recognize, especially if you are a regular reader of science fiction and fantasy, but a great deal of those listed here are independently published writers brand new to the field.  Their work is often exceptional, yet they have been overlooked by the mainstream publishers, shut out of the typical routes to major publicity and distribution.  That's one reason I wanted to provide a list of authors and titles on my site, in order to give a shout-out to the many other "indie" writers who, like me, are trying to make it in the publishing world.

     I enjoyed every title in the list below, some much more than others, but all to some extent, or I wouldn't have taken the time to compile them here.  Consider all titles presented in the accompanying list as being a "Coxwell-Three-Star" or higher.  Many of these would most certainly be a "Five-Star" by my reckoning.



245 Recommended books and short stories as of April 7, 2019
Bobby Akart
36 Hours
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Poul Anderson
Fragile Distant Suns 
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Rachel Aukes
​Fringe Runner
​Fringe Station
Fringe Campaign
Fringe War
​Fringe Legacy

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Drew Avera
Haven: A Post-Apocalyptic Short Story
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Scott Baird
Magellan
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Stephen Baxter
Landfall: Tales from the Flood/Ark Universe
Moonseed
Voyage
​Titan

Proxima

Ultima
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Greg Bear
The Forge of God
​The Anvil of Stars 
Eon
Eternity 

Blood Music 
Moving Mars 

Darwin's Radio 
Hardfought
​Just Over the Horizon

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Gregory Benford
Matter's End
Timescape
Eater
​Backscatter
The Best of Gregory Benford
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Samuel Best
Mission One
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Alan Black
​Chewing Rocks
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Ben Bova
The Towers of Titan
The Kinsman Saga
Powersat
Moonrise
​Venus

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Gerald Brennan
​Zero Phase: Apollo 13 on the Moon
​Public Loneliness: Yuri Gagarin's Circumlunar Flight
​Island of Clouds: The Great 1972 Venus Flyby

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David Brin
Heart of the Comet (with Gregory Benford)
The Crystal Spheres
The River of Time
The Giving Plague
Tank Farm Dynamo
Dr. Pak's Preschool
Reality Check
Stones of Significance
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Ryk Brown
​Arrival
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Jeff Carlson
Long Eyes
Interrupt
The Frozen Sky
The Frozen Sky 2: Betrayed
The Frozen Sky 3: Blindsided
​The Frozen Sky 4: Battlefront

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Jeffrey A. Carver
Neptune Crossing
Strange Attractors
The Infinite Sea
Sunborn
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Jack Castle
Europa Journal
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Peter Cawdron
Anomaly
My Sweet Satan
Revolution
Hello World
​Free Fall​
Collision (Colliding Worlds Trilogy)
​Impact (Colliding Worlds Trilogy)
​Maelstrom (Colliding Worlds Trilogy)
​Shadows​
Little Green Men
Space Alien Tentacle Porn
​Trixie and Me
Retrograde (previously published as Mars Endeavour)
​Losing Mars

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Ann Christy
Silo 49: Going Dark
Silo 49: Deep Dark
Silo 49: Dawn Till Dark
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Joe T. Coxwell
The Epsilon Wish
Third Contact: A Short Story
​The Fermi Diet: A Science Fiction Short Story

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Please forgive the shameless self-promotion.
It helps motivate me to write when I see my work in such great company.
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Joshua Dalzelle
Blueshift
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John Dreese
Red Hope
Blue Hope

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Matt Eaton
Sleeping Gods
​Apollo 8.1
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Ava Felsenstein
Connor's Light
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Allan Ferrenberg
300 Suns
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Daniel Guiteras
Launch on Need
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Jason Gurley
The Settlers
The Colonists
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Ray Hammond
The Cloud
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James P. Hogan
Code of the Lifemaker
The Immortality Option
Worlds in Chaos
Prisoners of Tomorrow
The Two Moons
The Two Worlds
​Mission to Minerva
Endgame Enigma
Realtime Interrupt
The Genesis Machine
The Proteus Operation
Voyage from Yesteryear
Thrice Upon a Time
​Cradle of Saturn


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Hugh Howey
Wool
Shift
Dust
Half Way Home
The Box
Glitch
Promises of London
Second Suicide
The Walk Up Nameless Ridge
Beacon 23
​Machine Learning (Short Story Compilation)

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Dennis Ingram
Foothold
The Seasoning
​Serendipity
​Revolution

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Mike Jenne
Blue Gemini
Blue Darker Than Black
Pale Blue

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Ralph Kern
Steel Eye
Endeavour
​Erebus

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Gerald M. Kilby

Colony One Mars
​Colony Two Mars
​Colony Three Mars
​Jezero City: Colony Four Mars
Entanglement: Book One -- The Belt
Entropy: Book Two -- The Belt
​Evolution: Book Three -- The Belt


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William Massa
Crossing the Darkness
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Alastair Mayer
Alpha Centauri: First Landing, vol. 1
Alpha Centauri: Sawyer's World, vol. 2
Alpha Centauri: The Return, vol. 3

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Scott McElhaney
Beyond the Event Horizon
Dominion
Erinyes
Alastair
Ghosts of Ophidian
Vestige​
Colonization: Kepler Moon Alpha (Book 1)
Colonization: Black Hole (Book 2)
Colonization: Gateway (Book 3)
Colonization: Valhalla (Book 4)
Colonization: Fossil (Book 5)
Endeavor
Maelstrom
​Terraformer



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John McWilliams
Landfall
​176 Milliseconds
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Andrew J. Morgan
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Vessel
​New Dawn
New York Deep

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Brandon Q. Morris
The Enceladus Mission 
The Titan Probe
The Io Encounter
​Return to Enceladus
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Larry Niven
Ringworld
The Ringworld Engineers
Neutron Star
​A World Out of Time
Limits
​N-Space
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Larry Niven &
Matthew Joseph Harrington

The Goliath Stone
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Andre Norton
Visions of Distant Shores
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Thomas Norwood
Conception
(previously published as
Perfectible Animals)
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Samuel Peralta
HereAfter
Humanity
Liberty: Seeking Support for a
​Writ of Habeas Corpus for a Non-Human Being
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Phillip P Peterson
Paradox
Paradox2
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Douglas E. Richards
Split Second
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Jeremy Robinson
Beneath
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Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Mars
Green Mars
Blue Mars
2312
Icehenge
​Aurora
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Felix R. Savage
Freefall (Earth's Last Gambit, Book 1)
Lifeboat (Earth's Last Gambit, Book 2)
Shiplord (Earth's Last Gambit, Book 3)
Killshot (Earth's Last Gambit, Book 4)
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Nicholas Sansbury Smith

The Biomass Revolution
A Royal Knight
Squad 19
Orbs
Orbs II: Stranded
Orbs III: Redemption
​Orbs IV: Exodus (with Anthony Melchiorri)
Solar Storm
White Sands
Red Sands
Extinction Horizon
Extinction Edge
Extinction Age
Extinction Evolution
​Extinction End
​Extinction Aftermath
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 T. J. Sedgwick
Home Planet: Part 1 -- Awakening
Home Planet: Part 2 -- Apocalypse
Home Planet: Part 3 -- Arcadia
The First Exoplanet
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Logan T. Snyder
This Mortal Coil
Being Violet
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Allen Steele
Angel of Europa
​Labyrinth of Night
Lunar Descent
Sex and Violence in Zero-G
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Will Swardstrom
Contact Window
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Richard Tongue
One False Step
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Brad R. Torgersen
Gemini 17
Outbound
​Ray of Light
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John Varley
The Ophiuchi Hotline
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James David Victor
Zenith: ESS Space Marines, Book 1
Daikon: ESS Space Marines, Book 2
Star Chaser: ESS Space Marines, Book 3
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Andy Weir
The Martian
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Jennifer Foehner Wells
Fluency
​Remanence
Inheritance
​Valence
​Vengeance
The Grove: A Short Story
​Symbiont Seeking Symbiont: A Short Story
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Collections and Anthologies
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At the Helm: 2017 Sci-Fi Bridge Anthology, Vol. 1 
Foreword by Samuel Peralta
At the Helm: 2017 Sci-Fi Bridge Anthology, Vol. 2 
Foreword by Jay Allan
At the Helm: 2017 Sci-Fi Bridge Anthology, Vol. 3 
Foreword by Chris Fox
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Wool Gathering: Stories from the Silo 
Foreword by Hugh Howey
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Deep Breath Hold Tight: 
Stories About the End of Everything 

Edited by Jason Gurley
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Dangerous Visions 
Edited by Harlan Ellison
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The End: Visions of Apocalypse 
Edited by N.E. White
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Paradox 
Edited by Ian Whates
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The Future Chronicles Anthologies
The AI Chronicles 
Edited by Ellen Campbell,
Foreword by Samuel Peralta
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The Alien Chronicles 
Edited by David Gatewood,
Foreword by Stefan Bolz
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The Cyborg Chronicles 
Edited by Crystal Watanabe,
Foreword by Samuel Peralta
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The Doomsday Chronicles
Edited by Crystal Watanabe
Foreword by Samuel Peralta
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The Galaxy Chronicles 
Edited by Jeff Seymour,
Foreword by Samuel Peralta
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The Robot Chronicles 
Edited by David Gatewood,
Foreword by David Simpson
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The Time Travel Chronicles
Edited by Crystal Watanabe
Foreword by Samuel Peralta
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Chronicle Worlds: No Way Home
Samuel Peralta, Series Editor
Alex Roddie & Lucas Bale, Guest Editors
Foreword by Jennifer Foehner Wells

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