Hobbies

What I get up to in my spare time

  • I have been playing field hockey since I was 6 years old.
  • I used to play regularly but now I casually play cricket and football.
  • I love watching football, cricket, rugby, hockey, tennis, and almost any sport!
  • Long distance running. I am trying my best but it's hard and takes up so much time, although sometimes it worth it, both for the places I go running, and of course for "runner's high".
  • Reading - I absolutely love science fiction and have an ordered list of all the books I've read in case I ever need to point people towards my favourites (see below).
  • I have been practsing my sientific writing by wrting news articles for the Popular Astronomy magazine. More of this to come in the future.
  • I have been attempting to write a novel! Even though I have no idea what I'm doing, I have written 90,000 words, so it's too late to back out now.
  • Photography - I have an Instagram account where I post all my favourite photos. Most of them are just from my phone, but... many many years in the future when I save up enough money I hope to buy a proper camera and learn how to do photography for real.

Sci-fi book rankings

  1. The Left Hand of Darkness
  2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
  3. Ender’s Game
  4. The Forever War
  5. Hyperion
  6. Speaker for the Dead
  7. Dune
  8. A Scanner Darkly
  9. Farenheit 451
  10. The Word for World is Forrest
  11. Stranger in a Strange Land
  12. The City and the Stars
  13. Rendezvous with Rama
  14. Brave New World
  15. 1984
  16. The Martian
  17. Ubiq
  18. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  19. Ringworld
  20. The Fall of Hyperion
  21. The Penultimate Truth
  22. Way Station
  23. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
  24. Slaughterhouse Five
  25. Hard to be a God
  26. Foundation
  27. Rosewater
  28. Children of Time
  29. The Man in the High Castle
  30. Ilium
  31. Foundation and Empire
  32. Children of the Mind
  33. Second Foundation
  34. Sea of Rust
  35. Xenocide
  36. Starship Troopers
  37. The Lathe of Heaven
  38. Childhood’s End
  39. Dreams Before the Start of Time
  40. Flowers for Algernon
  41. Cat's Cradle
  42. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
  43. Emphyrion
  44. Martian Time Slip
  45. Mission of Gravity
  46. The Dispossessed
  47. The Reality Dysfunction
  48. The Neutronium Alchemist
  49. The Departure
  50. Flatland
  51. The Naked God
  52. Zero Point
  53. Jupiter War
  54. The Stars my Destination
  55. Earth Unaware
  56. Earth Afire
  57. The Gods Themselves
  58. Neuromancer
  59. Tau Zero
  60. VALIS

Other fiction books I recommend

  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • Animal Farm
  • The Great Gatsby

    • Non-fiction books I recommend

  • Empireland
  • Invisible Women