| Cover | Title | Authors | Rating | Date Read | Notes |
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 | Forever Free | Joe Haldeman | 3 | 10/1/2001 | Returns to the characters of the first book, Forever Free. William Mandella, his wife and friends rebel against the group-mind that humanity on Earth has evolved into. Not as good as the first two books, but still a worthy read. |
 | Shadow of the Hegemon | Orson Scott Card | 5 | 10/1/2001 | The sequel to Enders Shadow, this is a continuation of Bean’s story - following the events of Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow. Set on Earth, this story explains the rise to power of Ender’s brother, Peter, and the role Bean plays in it. Another excellent book. |
 | Darwin's Radio | Greg Bear | 5 | 10/1/2001 | Scientists find a virus who’s origens are our own DNA. Now the virus is active, but it’s not the first time. Evidence suggests the virus became active in neanderthals, right around the time that modern man appeared on the scene. A very good book. |
 | Rainbow Mars | Larry Niven | 3 | 9/1/2001 | Time travelers go to Mars’ past, and find life. |
 | Calculating God | Robert J. Sawyer | 4 | 8/1/2001 | An alien makes first contact, and asks “take me to your paleontologist.” It turns out that several planets that were the home to intelegent life have similar events in thier history, which seem to be more than coincidence. |
 | Venus | Ben Bova | 5 | 8/1/2001 | A man, tormented all of his life by his father, takes up the challenge of going to Venus to learn about the demise of his beloved brother - and his father’s favorite son. |
 | The Kinsman Saga | Ben Bova | 5 | 8/1/2001 | The story of a reluctant soldier who just wants to fly in space, and his constant attempts to get there. Set in a context of impending world war, the threat of nuclear holocaust, and the desire to stop it. |
 | CITIZEN SOLDIERS : THE U S ARMY FROM THE NORMANDY BEACHES TO THE BULGE TO THE SURRENDER OF GERMANY | Stephen E. Ambrose | 3 | 7/1/2001 | |
 | The Fall of Hyperion | DAN SIMMONS | 4 | 6/1/2001 | |
 | The Terminal Experiment | Robert J. Sawyer | 4 | 6/1/2001 | A PhD discovers empirical evidence of the soul. This leads him to creat three simulations of himself, one of which has gotten lose and killed someone. A pretty good book. Not as hokey as it may sound. |
 | Hyperion | DAN SIMMONS | 4 | 5/1/2001 | Seven people are picked to go on a likely fatal pilgramage to the mysterious world of Hyperion, and its time crypts which hold mysteries traveling backwards through time from the future. The first book in the series. Winner of the Hugo award. |
 | Forever Peace (Remembering Tomorrow) | Joe Haldeman | 5 | 5/1/2001 | Not a sequel to the Forever War, but a story on wars of the future which take place on Earth itself, and fought nearly without casualty by remote control. All until a group makes a discovery that could change human nature itself, and with it man’s destiny. |
 | Ender's Shadow | Orson Scott Card | 5 | 5/1/2001 | Tells almost the same tale as Ender’s Game, but from the perspective of Ender’s right hand man - Bean. A very good book, and a good companion to Ender’s Game. |
 | Rogue Planet | Greg Bear | 4 | 5/1/2001 | Story picks up where Phantom Menace leaves off. A good story which elaborates on Anakin and Obi-Wan’s relationship as teacher/student. |
 | The Forever War | Joe Haldeman | 5 | 4/1/2001 | A book about the prolonged war with an alien species, and a man who lives through it all - due to the passage of time at speeds near the speed of light. A very good book - winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards. |
 | Distraction | BRUCE STERLING | 4 | 4/1/2001 | A man lives with the stigma of not quite being human, while exeding at the behind the scenes job of political consultant; and hopes to lead the US out of a period in the near future of the political system gone bad. Just misses being an ‘A’ book. Just a couple of times in the book when I could put it down. |
 | Children of the Mind | Orson Scott Card | 4 | 3/2/2001 | 4th book of 4 in the series. Picks up right where Xenocide left off, but a better book. Still not as good as the first two books though. |
 | Xenocide | Orson Scott Card | 3 | 3/1/2001 | |
 | Salem's Lot | Stephen King | 5 | 2/1/2001 | A man comes back to his old town, a rural town in southern Maine, to confront his demons. Upon his return, he finds his demons are real. |
 | Independence Day | RICHARD FORD | 4 | 2/1/2001 | The sequel to The Sportswriter. I would have liked this book better if it didn’t seem so much like the same book, covering a lot of the same things swirling around in the lead character’s mind as the first book. |
 | Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card | 5 | 1/1/2001 | The sequel to Ender’s Game. An excellent story about where life takes Ender after the Xenocide of the “Buggers” - a small backwater colony on a planet where a second sentient alien species is found. Fresh from reading this book, I’m tempted to call it better than the first, but then the first one was really good. A great book, easily one of my favorites of all time. |
 | Rise to Rebellion : A Novel of the American Revolution | JEFF SHAARA | 5 | 1/1/2001 | Follows the individuals who lead the colonies in america into rebellion against England, up to July 1776. |
 | The Brethren | JOHN GRISHAM | 5 | 1/1/2001 | Three ex-judges in a Florida federal prison decide to run the perfect scam from thier cells. Thier plan works out better than expected, when it ensnares an unexpected victim. My favorite Grisham book since the Runaway Jury. |
 | Havana Bay: A Novel | Martin Cruz Smith | 5 | 1/1/2001 | Arkady Renko travels to Cuba, following the untimely death of his beloved wife, to identify the body of his dead friend - and intending to commit suicide. He becomes distracted from suicide by odd circumstances surrounding the death of his friend; and a personal quest for the truth is begun. |
 | White Smoke: A Novel About the Next Papal Conclave | Andrew M. Greeley | 5 | 1/1/2001 | Primarily, its the story about the selection of a new pope, with a love story thrown in the mix. The ex-husband - the print journalist; and the wiffe - TV journalist; find that they still love each other while covering the historic event in Rome. |