Poll

Wow it really is random!
Nice with some titles I haven't heard about before. (well apart from one that i didn't think was sci-fi)

One of those polls where I'd be happy no matter what book wins. :-) I ended up voting based more on what's available at my library than on any other criteria.

That's great to hear :)

I'll be the dissenting voice to say that The Underground Railroad is not sci-fi.

Kim wrote: "The Underground Railroad is not sci-fi."

Agreed.

Dudes,the Clarke award is good enough for me.

Kinda want Banner of Souls, but Woman On the Edge of Time also sounds neat and actually has a chance as of now. Someone have a better blurb for Edge of Dark? The one on GR sounds like an AI wrote it.

I don't have another blurb but here's a link to a friend's review. He usually does a good job.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Sarah Anne wrote: "I don't have another blurb but here's a link to a friend's review. He usually does a good job.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

That IS more coherent, thanks!

Tough decision this time around. They all look interesting!

Sarah Anne wrote: "I don't have another blurb but here's a link to a friend's review. He usually does a good job.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

This is much better than the blurb. Now I’m struggling with what to pick.

Underground Railroad is Historical Fiction, not Sci-Fi and, based on the numbers looks to be May's read. That's unfortunate because I am looking for Sci-Fi reads.

Sonja, it won the Arthur C. Clarke award and was on the 2017 Locus reading list. It may be primarily historical fiction, but unless the major awards don't know what they're doing, it is indeed sci-fi.

Sarah Anne wrote: "Sonja, it won the Arthur C. Clarke award and was on the 2017 Locus reading list. It may be primarily historical fiction, but unless the major awards don't know what they're doing, it is indeed sci-fi."

I suppose since the main character visits "other worlds" similar to Gulliver's Travels it could be considered sci-fi. But, like you said, it is primarily historical fiction with a few sci-fi elements. Most libraries, at least here, file it under historical fiction so that threw me for a bit.

Sonja wrote: "Most libraries, at least here, file it under historical fiction so that threw me for a bit."

*shrugs* My local library shelves Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell as general fiction rather than SFF. Broadly speaking, the more "literary" a book is considered to be, the less likely it is to be shelved as SFF, regardless of its content.

The Underground Railroad is absolutely science fiction. It's not historical fiction, or hard sf, it's alternate history. Is it for everyone? No. Is anything? It was one of my favorite books that I read in 2016. And yeah, it won a Pulitzer Prize.

I read Woman on the Edge of Time soon after it came out, in we were told, the first university course on Women's SF/F. I'd like to re-read it.

Nigerians in Space looks like a book I'd like to read.