Summer Reading

[Mel]

I'm looking for a some SF books to read this summer (I'm not into fantasy.) So far, I've come up with the list below. Anyone care to comment or add or this list?  Thanks.

- A Fire Upon the Deep, and the prequel, A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge.

- On Basilisk Station, by David Weber.

- Red Mars, followed by Green Mars and Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson

- Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson

- Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis

- Beggars in Spain, by Nancy Kress

[Mel]

Someone a "hard SF" book to me, Blindsight by Peter Watts. I got excited thinking I'd love it, then read a brief summary. Vampires! OMG. How can vampires and/or zombies exist in hard SF books??

[captainbasil]

On Basilisk Station is great and so is the Mars Trilogy.
You're going to have a nice Summer !

[Mel]

Thanks for the feedback, Basil.