The theme for this year is
- SPACE! -
This will apply to fiction and non-fiction.
On the non-fiction front I have dozens of books to satisfy my needs. I have been a giant NASA geek for my whole life so I will dedicate this upcoming year to reading about the agency. I also hope to read a bit of speculation on where space exploration, both government and commercial, will go in the near future.
I really loved my 100 short stories in 2015 challenge and I will try to read 150 shorts this year. I will primarily accomplish this by following a secondary goal; to read each issue of Analog Magazine with a 2016 publication date.
I cannot control what is published in Analog but they tend to stick to Hard Science Fiction which will satisfy a reading focus I'd like to attempt on the fiction side; that is to read fiction without FTL travel. The massive best seller, The Martian by Andy Weir, has re-awakened a market for "plausible" SF. Let's face it, without a breakthrough in propulsion, humans will not see another star system in anything resembling the near future. I want to concentrate on fiction within our own solar system.
Kim Stanley Robinson, Ben Bova, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert J Sawyer and Michael Flynn are authors that immediately come to mind that have written novels in our home solar system so my focus should not be difficult.
Just to keep things symmetrical I will set a goal of 15 books (fiction or non-fiction) and 150 short stories.
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