Sci Fi/Futural/Techno/Horror Reading List (Cycle 2, 2023-2024)

A Reading Project

As you all know, I’m writing a theory-fiction novel/blog The Helios Archive. It is quite challenging to write without actually reading a sampler of sci-fi / futural / techno / horror / post-modern literature. Reading related literature can expand my imagination as a writer, to further explore what has been unexplored. This reading project has been long overdue. I started last 2022, continuing this

Cycle 2



No. of Titles To Read for Cycle 2:
55 of 60 books
No. of Titles Read for Cycle 2:
5 books
No. of Remaining Titles to Read from Cycle 1:
9 books

Scope: 2023-2024


Progress Report: 2023

  1. Dec 25: The Tears of Eros (Bataille)
  2. Jan 14: Double Fantasy Special (Cielo)
  3. Jan 21: Now Will Machines Hollow the Beast (Sriduangkaew)
  4. Feb 2: Rocannon’s World (LeGuin)
  5. Feb 19: Planet of Exile (Le Guin)
  6. Feb 25: Heart of Darkness (Conrad)


Updated as of Feb 25, 2023

233 pp.
244 pp.
250 pp.
259 pp.
288 pp.
290 pp.
297 pp.
308 pp.
308 pp.
309 pp.
320 pp.
341 pp.
354 pp.
386 pp.
387 pp.
393 pp.
406 pp.
464 pp.
464 pp.
467 pp.
520 pp.
577 pp.
677 pp.
1085 pp.

DONE READING

DONE
82 pp.
DONE
86 pp.
DONE
126 pp.
DONE
133 pp.
DONE
136 pp.
DONE
137 pp.
DONE
144 pp.
DONE
145 pp.
DONE
160 pp.
DONE
184 pp.
DONE
194 pp.
204 pp.
DONE
208 pp.
213 pp.
217 pp.
218 pp.
208 pp.
219 pp.
244 pp.
325 pp.
337 pp.
288 pp.
334 pp.
1152 pp.
272 pp.
348 pp.
624 pp.
328 pp.
289 pp.
402 pp.
277 pp.
440 pp.
236 pp.
304 pp.
258 pp.
128 pp.

Cycle 1

As you all know, I’m writing a theory-fiction novel/blog The Helios Archive. It is quite challenging to write without actually reading a sampler of sci-fi / futural / techno / horror / post-modern literature. Reading related literature can expand my imagination as a writer, to further explore what has been unexplored. This reading project has been long overdue. But I’m willing to start this year 2022.

No. of Titles To Read from Cycle 1:
33 36 39 books
No. of Titles Read from Cycle 1:
28 of 33 36 39 books
No. of Remaining Titles to Read from Cycle 1:
11 books

Scope: 2023-2024


Progress Report: 2022

  1. Jan 15-16: Uzumaki
  2. Jan 19-21: The Future
  3. Jan 19-21: Chronosis
  4. Feb 5: Added 3 more books (The Man Who Folded Himself, Blood Meridian, and #Accelerate)
  5. Feb 5-12: Desert Screen
  6. Feb 11-15: And Shall Machines Surrender
  7. Feb 20: Added three books by Catherine Malabou: The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality and Dialectic, The Ontology of Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity, and Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction
  8. Feb 28: The Future of Hegel
  9. Mar 5: The Man Who Folded Himself
  10. Mar 26: The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
  11. Mar 28: Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity
  12. Mar 30: Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction
  13. April 14: Annihilation
  14. April 15: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
  15. April 19: In the Miso Soup
  16. April 30: Foundation
  17. May 6: Neuromancer
  18. May 8: Negative Horizon
  19. May 12: Ccru: Writings 1997-2003
  20. June 4: Dhalgren
  21. Aug 12: City
  22. Aug 13: Cyclonopedia
  23. Aug 17: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
  24. Aug 21: Dawn
  25. Oct 30: Wittgenstein’s Mistress
  26. Oct 30: The Demon
  27. Nov 27: Parasite Eve
  28. Nov 28: Spinal Catastrophism
  29. Dec 06: On Necrocapitalism
  30. Dec 11: Blood Meridian


Updated as of Dec 24, 2022

500 pp.
536 pp.
666 pp.
791 pp.
1,079 pp.
1,168 pp.

DONE READING

DONE
600 pp.
DONE
688 pp.
736 pp.
399 pp.
592 pp.