Broken Angels
Source series/sequence notation: (2)
January 10, 2022Sean O'Leary's Reading Archive // 2022
Signals From Other Worlds.
Sean O'Leary's 2022 reading year moves like a transmission across distant systems: cyberpunk bodies, sentient machines, fractured kingdoms, impossible planets, dragons, zombies, witches, artificial intelligence and civilizations balanced on the edge of change.
The year moves across science fiction, fantasy, speculative worlds, classics and a wider shelf devoted to history, civil rights and the human record.
2022
Deep-Space Relay
33
Completed reads
28
Future-read entries
27
Civil-rights entries
Received Transmissions
Thirty-three completed stories.
The 2022 reading archive remains in Sean's recorded order. Completion dates are preserved from the surviving list.
I
Transmission Band I // January–March
9 completed
First Contact
Cytonic
Source series/sequence notation: (3.0)
January 21, 2022Sunreach
Source series/sequence notation: (2.1)
January 27, 2022ReDawn
Source series/sequence notation: (2.2)
February 1, 2022Evershore
Source series/sequence notation: (3.1)
February 4, 2022Stardust
February 25, 2022Tears of the Sun
Source series/sequence notation: (8)
March 18, 2022All Systems Red
Source series/sequence notation: (1)
March 20, 2022City of Bones
March 29, 2022
II
Transmission Band II // April–June
13 completed
Machines, Memory & Distant Futures
Artificial Condition
Source series/sequence notation: (2)
April 2, 2022Rogue Protocol
Source series/sequence notation: (3)
April 5, 2022Exit Strategy
Source series/sequence notation: (4)
April 6, 2022Network Effect
Source series/sequence notation: (5)
April 11, 2022Fugitive Telemetry
Source series/sequence notation: (6)
April 12, 2022Woken Furies
Source series/sequence notation: (3)
April 27, 2022Thirteen
Source series/sequence notation: (1)
May 12, 2022Thin Air
Source series/sequence notation: (2)
May 18, 2022Sandworms of Dune
Source series/sequence notation: (14)
May 31, 2022Farwell Summer
June 1, 2022Urban Enemies
June 10, 2022Spider-Man
June 14, 2022Legion
June 28, 2022
III
Transmission Band III // July–September
6 completed
Weapons, Ringworlds & Dark Magic
Velocity Weapon
July 16, 2022The Law
July 14, 2022The Ringworld Throne
Source series/sequence notation: (3)
July 30, 2022A Darker Shade of Magic
August 8, 2022Zero
Source series/sequence notation: (0.5)
August 11, 2022The Last Wish
Source series/sequence notation: (1)
August 25, 2022
IV
Transmission Band IV // October–December
5 completed
Storms, Shadows & Warbreaker
The Way of Kings
Source series/sequence notation: (1)
October 12, 2022Words of Radiance
Source series/sequence notation: (2)
November 15, 2022The Adventures of a Bike and his Boy
November 20, 2022A Gathering of Shadows
Source series/sequence notation: (2)
December 1, 2022War Breaker
December 31, 2022Signals Not Yet Decoded
The books waiting beyond the 2022 horizon.
The surviving 2022 source contains 28 future-read entries. One title appears twice, so the queue contains 27 distinct titles. Both entries remain in the archive.
Edgedancer
Brandon Sanderson
Source series/sequence notation: (3)
A Conjuring of Light
V E Schwab
Source series/sequence notation: (3)
Oathbringer
Brandon Sanderson
Source series/sequence notation: (4)
The Sword of Destiny
Andrzej Sapkowski
Source series/sequence notation: (2)
The Expert System’s Brother
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Source series/sequence notation: (1)
Faust
Geothe
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie
The Lost Years of Merlin
T. A. Barron
Source series/sequence notation: (1)
Grimoire of the Lamb
Kevin Hearne
Source series/sequence notation: (0.4)
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle
Source series/sequence notation: (1)
Theft of Swords
Michael J. Sullivan
Source series/sequence notation: (1)
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorn
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
The Book of Hope
Jane Goodall
Half a King
Joe Abercrombie
Source series/sequence notation: (1)
Skin Deep
Brandon Sanderson
Source series/sequence notation: (2)
Paul of Dune
Frank Herbert
Source series/sequence notation: (15)
LaVar Burton, Aftermath
Source entry preserved as written; title/author order is not resolved in the source.
Zombie Fallout
Mark Tufo
Source series/sequence notation: (1)
City of Golden Shadow
Tad Williams
Source series/sequence notation: (1)
The Long War
Terry Pratchett
Source series/sequence notation: (2)
Ringworld’s Children
Source series/sequence notation: (4)
The Good Neighbor
Maxwell King
The Ocean at the end of the lane
Neil Gaiman
Duplicate title entry preserved from the source list.
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan
Source series/sequence notation: (1)
The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall
Anne McCaffrey
Source series/sequence notation: (1)
The Human Record
Civil rights, memory, history and witness.
The companion list contains 27 recorded entries. One title appears twice, leaving 26 distinct titles. The duplicate remains here because the page preserves the surviving 2022 list.
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the US
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown
Capital and Ideology
Thomas Piketty
Four Hundred Souls
Ibrram X Kendi
Geronimo, His own Story
Geronimo
Go Set a Watchman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Go Tell it on the mountain
James Baldwin
Duplicate title entry preserved from the source list.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Nobody Knows My Name
James Baldwin
Racial Formation in America
Omi & Winant
So, you want to talk about race
Ijeoman Oluo
Stamped for the Beginning
Ibram X Kendi
Stamped
Jason Reynolds
Stamped (For Kids)
Jayson Reynolds
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone
James Baldwin
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK Jr.
The Bitter Water of Medicine Creek
Richard Kluger
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
The Journey of Crazy Horse
Joseph M. Marshall
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenmore Cooper
The Life of Black Hawk
Black Hawk
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington
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