I read a lot of fiction and try to keep learning interesting things. I also listen to a load of music, mainly on the darker end of the spectrum. Inspired by various blogs I decided to track what I’ve been consuming in 2025, mainly in case I find it interesting later.

Also see my projects page, which is a giant jumble of projects I’ve either done or started.

March 2026

Fiction

• Reading: Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi
• Read: A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
• Read: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

February 2026

Fiction

• Read: The Man Who Saw Seconds by Alexander Boldizar
• Read: Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
• Read: The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi
• Read: The Archimedes Engine by Peter F. Hamilton

Music

• The Broken Oar - WEFT
• Normal Isn’t - Puscifer
• CONFLICT DLC - HEALTH

Learning

• Amp Agent Skills

January 2026

• Reading: Exodus by Peter F. Hamilton
• Listened: There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
• Listening: The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane

December 2025

• Read: This Brutal Moon by Bethany Jacobs
• Read: Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Read: Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson

November 2025

• Read: Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Read: Halcyon Years by Alistair Reynolds
• Listened: What stalks the deep by T. Kingfisher

October 2025

• Read: On Vicious Worlds by Bethany Jacobs
• Read: Children of Eve by John Connolly
• Read: Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Listened: Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky

September 2025

• Read: These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs
• Read: The two lies of Faven Sythe by Megan E. O’Keefe

August 2025

• Read: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
• Read: Hungry Gods by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Read: Rapport by Martha Wells

July 2025

Fiction

• Read: Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Read: Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
• Read: Extremophile by Ian Green

Podcasts

• Mac Power Users
• 404 Media

June 2025

Fiction

• Read: The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear
• Read: Sleeper Beach by Nick Harkaway

Podcasts

• Coretex Podcast (various episodes)
• The Omni Show

Watching

• Watched: Building Secure Code in the Age of Vibe Coding: Steve Wilson Live with Tim O’Reilly, presented by Tim O’Reilly, Steve Wilson
• Watched: Chelsea Troy Live with Tim O’Reilly

April/May 2025

Fiction

• Read: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
• Read: Human Resources by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Read: Katalyst Gate by Megan E O’Keefe
• Read: Beyond the Hallowed Sky by Ken Macleod
• Listened: What moves the dead by T. Kingfisher
• Listened: What Feeds in the Night by T. Kingfisher
• Listened: Edgar Allan Poe complete works

Non-fiction

• Listened: Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane

Watching

• Watched: Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It - O’Reilly online conference
• AWS Summit (in person)

Learning

• General background learning on MCPs
• MacSparky Alfred Field Guide

March 2025

Speaking

• Presented: Ham Radio: Not just (for) old men

Fiction

• Read: Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse
• Read: Beyond the Light Horizon by Ken Macleod.
• Read: Saturation Point by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
• Read: Future’s Edge by Gareth L Powell.
• Read: The Instruments of Darkness by John Connolly.

Non-fiction

• Listened: When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
• Listened: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Learning

• Learning about self-hosting audiobooks with Plex and Prologue.

February 2025

Fiction

• Read: A Conventional Boy by Charles Stross
• Reading: BRZRKR Deluxe Edition by Keanu Reeves et al.
• Listened: Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer

Non-fiction

• Reading: How To Measure Anything in Cyber Security Risk by Hubbard and Seiersen
• Still Reading: The Business-Minded CISO by Bryan C. Kissinger
• Still Reading: CISSP Official Study Guide

Learning

• MacSparky Productivity Field Guide

Music

• Dream Theater - Parasomnia
• Antimatter - Parallel Matter
• Pothamus - Abur
• Wyatt E. - Zamzaru ultu qereb…
• Saor - Amidst the Ruins
• Anciients - Beyond the Reach of the Sun

Late 2024 - January 2025

I can’t actually remember how far back this goes, probably from Autumn 2024. I’ve tried to list them in reverse chronological order.

Fiction

• Read: Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
• Read: Usurpation by Sue Burke
• Read: Polostan by Neal Stephenson
• Read: Tidal Creatures by Seanan McGuire
• Read: Glass Houses by Madeline Ashby
• Read: Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Read: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Reading: Lake of Souls by Ann Leckie
• Listened: The Gold Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Listened: The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Listened: The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville
• Listened: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Non-fiction

• Read: How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
• Reading: The Business-Minded CISO by Bryan C. Kissinger
• Still Reading: CISSP Official Study Guide

Learning

• MacSparky OmniFocus Field Guide

September 2024

• Read: The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey
• Read: Glass Houses by Madeline Ashby
• Read: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

August 2024

• Read: Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Read: Family Matters by Peter F. Hamilton
• Read: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

July 2024

• Read: The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
• Read: Chaos Vector by Megan E. O’Keefe

June 2024

• Read: Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds

May 2024

• Read: Machine Vendetta by Alastair Reynolds

April 2024

• Read: Blade by Linda Nagata

March 2024

• Read: Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O’Keefe

February 2024

• Read: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
• Read: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

January 2024

• Read: System Collapse by Martha Wells

December 2023

Fiction

• Read: Salvation Lost by Peter F. Hamilton
• Read: The Saints of Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton

Non-fiction

• Read: Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane

October 2023

• Read: Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton
• Read: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

September 2023

• Read: Translation State by Ann Leckie
• Read: Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
• Read: Provenance by Ann Leckie

August 2023

• Read: Beyond the Hallowed Sky by Ken MacLeod
• Read: Beyond the Reach of Earth by Ken MacLeod
• Read: How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
• Read: Falling Bodies by Rebecca Roanhorse
• Read: How It Unfolds by James S. A. Corey
• Read: The Long Game by Ann Leckie
• Read: Void by Veronica Roth
• Read: Just Out of Jupiter’s Reach by Nnedi Okorafor

July 2023

• Read: Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky

June 2023

• Read: Season of Skulls by Charles Stross

May 2023

• Read: Descendant Machine by Gareth L. Powell
• Read: Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds

April 2023

• Read: Deception Well by Linda Nagata
• Read: Vast by Linda Nagata

March 2023

• Read: Needle by Linda Nagata
• Read: The Bohr Maker by Linda Nagata

February 2023

• Read: Silver by Linda Nagata

January 2023

• Read: Edges by Linda Nagata
• Read: Anathem by Neal Stephenson
• Read: Reamde by Neal Stephenson

December 2022

• Read: The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin

November 2022

• Read: The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal

October 2022

• Read: The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
• Read: The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
• Read: Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton

September 2022

• Read: Eversion by Alastair Reynolds
• Read: Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky

August 2022

• Read: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
• Read: The Furies by John Connolly

July 2022

• Read: Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Read: Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire
• Read: Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

April 2022

• Read: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
• Read: Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

March 2022

• Read: Quantum of Nightmares by Charles Stross
• Read: World Engines: Creator by Stephen Baxter
• Read: Escape from Yokai Land by Charles Stross
• Read: Stars and Bones by Gareth L. Powell

January 2022

• Read: Invisible Sun by Charles Stross
• Read: Leviathan Falls by James S. A. Corey

October 2021

• Read: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
• Read: Inhibitor Phase by Alastair Reynolds

September 2021

• Read: The Nameless Ones by John Connolly
• Read: World Engines: Destroyer by Stephen Baxter

August 2021

• Read: A Book of Bones by John Connolly
• Read: The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Read: The Dirty South by John Connolly

July 2021

• Read: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Read: The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

June 2021

• Read: Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
• Read: The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Read: Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson

May 2021

• Read: The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
• Read: Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
• Read: Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky

April 2021

• Read: A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

March 2021

• Read: Machine by Elizabeth Bear

February 2021

• Read: Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
• Read: The Expert System’s Champion by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Read: Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor
• Read: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

January 2021

• Read: Semiosis by Sue Burke
• Read: Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
• Read: All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

December 2020

• Read: Dead Lies Dreaming by Charles Stross

November 2020

• Read: Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee

September 2020

• Read: A Game of Ghosts by John Connolly
• Read: The Woman in the Woods by John Connolly

August 2020

• Read: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

July 2020

• Read: Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
• Read: Network Effect by Martha Wells

May 2020

• Read: Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
• Read: Aurora Rising by Alastair Reynolds
• Read: A Time of Torment by John Connolly

April 2020

• Read: The Last Emperox by John Scalzi

March 2020

• Read: Bone Silence by Alastair Reynolds

February 2020

• Read: Interference by Sue Burke
• Read: Light of Impossible Stars by Gareth L. Powell

January 2020

• Read: Tiamat’s Wrath by James S. A. Corey
• Read: Babylon’s Ashes by James S. A. Corey

December 2019

• Read: The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Read: Emergency Skin by N. K. Jemisin
• Read: Ark by Veronica Roth
• Read: Randomize by Andy Weir
• Read: You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles
• Read: The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay
• Read: Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

November 2019

• Read: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Read: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
• Read: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

September 2019

• Read: Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Read: Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
• Read: Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds
• Read: Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds
• Read: Revenger by Alastair Reynolds

June 2019

• Read: Fleet of Knives by Gareth L. Powell

May 2019

• Read: Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
• Read: Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Read: The Expert System’s Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky

April 2019

• Read: Dust by Hugh Howey

March 2019

• Read: Shift by Hugh Howey

February 2019

• Read: The Labyrinth Index by Charles Stross
• Read: Persepolis Rising by James S. A. Corey

January 2019

• Read: Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
• Read: The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson

November 2018

• Read: The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi

October 2018

• Read: Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
• Read: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
• Read: Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

September 2018

• Read: Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

August 2018

• Read: Head On by John Scalzi

Favourites

• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
• The Algebraist by Iain M Banks
• The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey
• Revelation Space series
• Aurora Rising series
• Laundry Files series by Charles Stross
• Embers of War series by Gareth L Powell
• Murderbot series by Martha Wells
• Monk and Robot and other work by Becky Chambers
• New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
• Children of Eden series by Chris Beckett
• Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
• Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovich
• Bas-Lag series by China Miéville, plus Embassytown and the City and the City