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Science Fiction

A list of science fiction books mentioned on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast

Dune
by Frank Herbert
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
by L. Ron Hubbard
Mission Earth series
by L. Ron Hubbard
Contact
by Carl Sagan
Annihilation (Book 1 of the Southern Reach Trilogy)
by Jeff Vandermeer
Sekret Machines Book 1: Chasing Shadows
by Tom DeLonge & AJ Hartley
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
The Expanse book series
by James S. A. Corey
Foundation book series
by Isaac Asimov
Aurora
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
The Martian
by Andy Weir
Island
by Aldous Huxley

literature
Solaris
by Stanislaw Lem
A Fire Upon The Deep
by Vernor Vinge
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
I, Robot
by Isaac Asimov
Genesis Code: A Thriller of the Near Future
by Jamie Metzl
Eternal Sonata: A Thriller of the Near Future
by Jamie Metzl
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
Altered Carbon
by Richard K. Morgan
2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke
Spin (series)
by Robert Charles Wilson
Ready Player Two
by Ernest Cline
The Three-Body Problem (series)
by Cixin Liu
The Wheel of Time
by Robert Jordan
Alas, Babylon
by Pat Frank
Stories of Your Life and Others
by Ted Chiang
Blindsight
by Peter Watts
The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
Termination Shock: A Novel
by Neal Stephenson
Last And First Men
by Olaf Stapledon

science fiction
We Can Remember It for you Wholesale
by Philip K. Dick
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
by Philip K. Dick
Restaurant at the End of the Universe
by Douglas Adams
Childhood’s End
by Arthur C. Clarke
Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine
by Ray Kurzweil
Rendezvous with Rama
by Arthur C. Clarke
Exhalation: Stories (The Lifecycle of Software Objects)
by Ted Chiang
The Garin Death Ray
by Alexei Tolstoi
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
Sphere
by Michael Crichton
The Uplift Storm Trilogy
by David Brin
Starship Troopers
by Robert A. Heinlein
Culture Series
by Iain M. Banks
Consider Phlebas
by Iain M. Banks