Starter Villain
John Scalzi
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch Book 2)
Ann Leckie
Imperial Radch (2)
Surface Detail (The Culture 9)
Iain M. Banks
The Culture (9)
The Last Emperox (Book 3)
The Interdependency (3)
The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark
Carl Sagan