SFF Book Study pre-poll for May

Fenika · Mar 27, 2010

SF is up to bat for May. What popular/well known book shall we read and discuss?

Does anyone have any theme suggestions? Gender equality (as an issue, rather than just happily existing)? Consequences of technology? Deep space exploration? YA?

As always, please provide a link to amazon.com or similar.

(I hope everyone has been tearing through Tigana. I'm almost done and I've been reading steadily all month.)

Lydia Sharp · Mar 29, 2010

Is there a place that lists the previous books? I'm new, so I'd rather not suggest something that's already been done.

But I guess I'll go ahead and suggest it anyway.

I'm getting ready to read this soon, but I can wait if we do it here. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein. Most writers live by Heinlein's Rules (or claim to), but how many have actually read his work? Just some food for thought. And I've heard the book is much better than the movie, which is one of the reasons I put it on my reading list. It includes a strong father/son theme that they didn't even touch upon in the film version.

Amazon link to the newest edition here. I got my copy from the library.

Pthom · Mar 29, 2010

Starship Troopers is one Heinlein I've not read. That'd be an interesting one.

Also interesting:
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

GreenRoom · Mar 29, 2010

I'd like to suggest Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh. It launched a long running series (or sets of trilogies all set in the same world) the 11th of which is coming out in this May.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0756402514/?tag=absolutewritedm-20

I think I've read every Heinlein book out there. The Starship Troopers book is much better than the movie.

Fenika · Mar 29, 2010

Awesome.

Previous book studies are listed in the current book study, which is a sticky at the top of this forum. If you want to find old suggestions you have to search this forum for 'book study' and weed through the posts (if you were to do this, I'd suggest looking at the old polls). We don't have an issue with repeating a suggestion that didn't make the final selection.

I'll put the poll for May up either soon or on the weekend.

ELMontague · Mar 29, 2010

Starship Troopers is a great novel. I loved it. I'd be up for an Ian Banks. I've suggested Considering Phlebas in the past, but I've read it now. How about Matter.

http://www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?sku=0316005371

ELMontague · Mar 29, 2010

Or if we wanted to go mass market, Michael Crichton has always had a good touch on light science fiction. Next is current.

http://www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?sku=0060873167

His work is very accessible and makes for a cheap book to pick up.

Lydia Sharp · Mar 30, 2010

ELMontague said:
Starship Troopers is a great novel. I loved it. I'd be up for an Ian Banks. I've suggested Considering Phlebas in the past, but I've read it now. How about Matter.

http://www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?sku=0316005371

I read Matter about six months ago, and loved it so much that I bought the book (most of my reads come from the library, a select few make it to ownership status). I'd totally be up for reading it again. Or anything by Banks, to be honest.

Fenika · Apr 2, 2010

Bump. Poll hopefully going up tonight. Anyone wanna second a book they like?

SFF Book Study pre-poll for May

Fenika

Lydia Sharp

for the love of love

Pthom

Word butcher

GreenRoom

brain in a vat

Fenika

ELMontague

ELMontague

Lydia Sharp

for the love of love

Fenika