Simak's way station is worth it for the aliens passing through, but the plot around them never quite arrives, and the ending asks a peace-bringing artefact and a deaf-mute girl to carry more than they can.

Retelling of the founding and the decline of the german industry

Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe. Great worldbuilding, great prose, and it still doesn't quite get me. It reads as SF wearing a fantasy disguise

Post-apocalyptic Kent, told in a language two thousand years of illiteracy has worn down. The long silence never convinced me — knowledge isn't the bottleneck, tools and surplus are. It grew on me anyway.

Three part novel, post-nuclear, monks in Utah abbey perserving fragments they can't understand, scraps of notes and diagrams, spannig roughly 1200 years

A book about the end of the world by ice, told by a narrator who set out to write about the day the first bomb dropped and ended up somewhere else entirely. Spoilers from here.

A book about rational anarchism carried entirely by two characters: Mike, an AI written in 1966 that reads like something from last year, and a Professor who wants the Moon free of Earth. He has the moral high ground and, conveniently, the literal one at the top of the gravity well.

One of my favorite books. A very humoristic Idea about the future that somehow Zuckerberg took literally.

A loose sequel to snowcrash. Other than snowcrash its more fantasy and at times confusing. I liked it very much

A book about how Meth drove the second world war. Shed new light on how some feats in the war could have been acomplished

The magus! this book is very strange and it has more turns than an alpine path. I can not begin to describe it but it is fascinating and I am still not sure if the magic in the book is real or if its just a great illusion

Tom Ripley is asked to get his aquintance Dickie Greenfield back to Europe; and if you don't want to be spoilered, don't read further

An envoy gets sent to a winter planet to talk its people into joining a commonwealth of worlds. The catch is the people: Gethenians have no fixed sex. They're neutral most of the month and only become male or female during kemmer, and it isn't the same one every time.