November book study, pre-poll. SF.

Fenika · Oct 3, 2009

Alright folks, we need SF rec's and we need a loose theme. Again, the idea is popular fiction we can study and learn from.

Since Fantasy had a good run of foreign books with or without international awards, I'd suggest that for our Sci Fi choices.

Or strong female leads.

Anyone?

K_Woods · Oct 3, 2009

Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold. It didn't win an award, as far as I know, but the sequel did.

They're both available together in an omnibus edition (as Cordelia's Honor), though that might be a bit much book for one month's book study...

EDIT: Apparently the cheapest way to get it is the mass market omnibus: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0671578286/?tag=absolutewritedm-20

ELMontague · Oct 3, 2009

I just bought Iain Banks' Consider Phlebas.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/031600538X/?tag=absolutewritedm-20

It's a bit of a monster, but excellent reputation.

Fenika · Oct 3, 2009

Oh, and as ELM reminded me, Amazon links please!

I've read the first half of Cordelia's Honor. I think I still have the book around here...

K_Woods · Oct 3, 2009

I've only read the first half, too -- partly because I was trying to get my husband to read it, partly because I already had a TBR stack up to my knees and wanted to vary things. And in the event of anything too dreadful, I should have a guaranteed good read down the line

As for that TBR pile, it's, uh, up to my hip now...I'm rather bad about that....

eyeblink · Oct 4, 2009

I think my TBR pile is taller than me - and I'm six feet tall.

I failed abysmally to join in the September read, partly because Hampshire library have still not turned up a copy of Neuromancer. Still, I will read it eventually.

How about Patrick Ness's The Knife of Never Letting Go? It's SF (older YA range) and it has won awards - the Tiptree and the Guardian Children's Fiction award. And it has a female co-lead (who becomes a joint narrator in the sequel).

Amazon links: UK and US.

ELMontague · Oct 11, 2009

Bump

Did I miss the poll?

Fenika · Oct 11, 2009

Nope, I did. Too many night shifts and packing for Delaware scattered my brain.

I'm working on it. Link coming.

November book study, pre-poll. SF.

Fenika

K_Woods

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ELMontague

Fenika

K_Woods

9 of 10 Overlords prefer Evil Pie!

eyeblink

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