Science Fiction Challenge: COMPLETE
This challenge started Nov. 1st 2009 and runs through Oct. 31, 2010. To take part, you must read one book (that you haven't read before) in each of the following 40 categories:
Subgenre Challenges
1. Hard SF: The Risen Empire, by Scott Westerfeld. Completed 4/6/10. ( Review)
2. Soft or Social SF: Inheritor, by C.J. Cherryh. Completed 9/7/10.
3. Cyberpunk: Neuromancer, by Philip K. Dick. Completed 8/17/10.
4. Time Travel: Sky Coyote, by Kage Baker. Completed 12/24/09. ( Review)
5. Alternate History: Farthing, by Jo Walton. Completed 11/21/09. ( Review)
6. Military SF: Broken Angels, by Richard K. Morgan. Completed 9/18/10.
7. Superhuman: Mendoza in Hollywood, by Kage Baker. Completed 1/4/10. ( Review)
8. Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic: Earthling, by Tony Daniel. Completed 2/16/10. ( Review)
9. Space Opera: Absolution Gap, by Alastair Reynolds. Completed 9/28/10.
10. Steampunk: Not Less Than Gods, by Kage Baker. Completed 4/1/10. ( Review)
11. Feminist SF: Six Moon Dance, by Sheri S. Tepper. Completed 6/26/10.
12. First Contact: Invader, by C.J. Cherryh. Completed 8/25/10.
13. Science Fiction masquerading as Fantasy: Inversions, by Iain M. Banks. Completed 1/24/10. ( Review)
14. Young Adult: The Silver Metal Lover, by Tanith Lee. Completed 2/3/10.
Authorial Challenges
15. Work written by a Grand Master: Terraforming Earth, by Jack Williamson. Completed 10/4/10. ( Review)
16. Work written pre-1950: The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells. Completed 10/18/10.
17. Work originally written in a language other than English: The Carpet Makers, by Andreas Eschbach. Completed 9/13/10. ( Review)
18. Work written the year you were born: Moon-Flash, by Patricia McKillip. Completed 1/20/10. ( Review)
19. Work written by a non-Caucasian author: Wild Seed, by Octavia E. Butler. Completed 7/10/10.
20. Work written by a female author: Bright of the Sky, by Kay Kenyon. Completed 6/21/10. ( Review)
21. Anthology: Vanishing Acts, ed. Ellen Datlow. Completed 11/12/09. ( Review)
22. Work by an author you haven't read before: The Speed of Dark, by Elizabeth Moon. Completed 4/30/10.
Character Challenges
23. Work with a male first-person narrator: Broken Angels, by Richard K. Morgan. Completed 9/18/10.
24. Work with a female first-person narrator: In the Garden of Iden, by Kage Baker. Completed 12/7/09. ( Review)
25. Work with a non-human viewpoint character for at least 50% of the text: Earthling, by Tony Daniel. Completed 2/16/10. ( Review)
26. Work with a third person omniscient narrator: The Graveyard Game, by Kage Baker. Completed 1/29/10. ( Review)
27. Work with a third-person limited, multi-perspective viewpoint: Cryoburn, by Lois McMaster Bujold. ( Review)
Setting Challenges
28. Work set on Earth with no space travel: Ha'penny, by Jo Walton. Completed 12/30/09. ( Review)
29. Work set in a human interstellar empire: The Killing of Worlds, by Scott Westerfeld. Completed 4/10/10. ( Review)
30. Work set on a single human planet that is not Earth (may or may not have contact with Earth): Carnival, by Elizabeth Bear. Completed 4/3/10.
31. Work set in a galaxy with multiple non-human intelligences in contact with humans: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. Completed 3/13/10.
32. Work set on a space ship (non-generation ship): The Risen Empire, by Scott Westerfeld. Completed 4/6/10. ( Review)
33. Work set on a generation ship (may take place at any point in voyage, including beginning and ending): Dust, by Elizabeth Bear. Completed 10/6/10. ( Review)
34. Work set on a permanent man-made habitat in space: The Prefect, by Alastair Reynolds. Completed 11/29/09. ( Review)
Award Challenges
35. Work that has won the Hugo Award: Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny. Completed 3/2/10.
36. Work that has won the Nebula Award: Slow River, by Nicola Griffith. Completed 10/31/10. ( Review)
37. Work that has won the Locus Award: Hyperion, by Dan Simmons. Completed 9/12/10.
38. Work that has won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award: Light, by M. John Harrison. Completed 7/7/10. ( Review)
39. Work that has won the John W. Campbell Award: Terraforming Earth, by Jack Williamson. Completed 10/4/10. ( Review)
40. Work that has won the Philip K. Dick Award: Neuromancer, by Philip K. Dick. Completed 8/17/10.
Note: A maximum of five books can double-qualify, none may triple qualify, so if you complete the challenge you will have read 35-40 books.
Bonus Challenges
These must be read prior to December 31, 2010. None may double-qualify.
41. Work set in a multiverse
42. Work involving humans on Mars: The Empress of Mars, by Kage Baker. Completed 10/16/10. ( Review)
43. Science Fiction Mystery: Half a Crown, by Jo Walton. Completed 6/23/10.
44. Work on the final ballot for the Nebula Award in 2009
45. Science Fiction with vampires
46. Work featuring an alien invasion: The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells. Completed 12/1/10.
47. Work on the final ballot for the Hugo Award in 2010: Palimpsest, by Catherynne M. Valente. Completed 8/31/10. ( Review)
48. Work on the Locus Recommended Reading List for 2009
49. Work that has won the Aurora Award
50. Work that has won the British Science Fiction Award: The City & the City, by China Mieville. Completed 9/20/10.
51. Science Fiction Comedy