SFF Readalongs led by Kitty G discussion

Hi everyone! It's the start of a new year and so I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and have a marvellous new year. As a part of that we do need to decide on the books we would like to read in February alongside Orb Sceptre Throne by Esslemont (the continued Malazan book).

February is a SCI-FI month so please only nominate sci-fi books. Feel free to suggest as many as you like and if you see any which have been suggested by others and which you enjoy then please express your interest in reading that below by 'seconding' it! Please only nominate a sequel if the group has already read the fist book together, otherwise make sure it's a standalone or the first in a series.

Thank you all so much for making this group so much fun for me to manage! Happy reading and I look forward to all the suggestions!!

How about Armada

I nominate Anathem by Neal Stephenson !

Armada was not good, although it would be cool to see everyone's thoughts! Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

I nominate The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord.

I second Anathem.

I still haven't read The Mechanical and the second book in the series just came out, so I'll second that one.

Sorry, I meant nominate The Mechanical! Can't edit from my phone.

I nominate The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury . It sounds really interesting and its kind of a classic in SciFy

I nominate Fortunes Pawn by Rachel Bach and second The Mechanical by Ian Tregillis

I'd like to nominate the mote in gods eye by Larry Niven!

Second The Mote in God's Eye or, alternatively, The Man in the High Castle.

graphic novel The Sandman Omnibus, Vol. 1
OR the utterly whimsical fantasy with one of the most interesting world building i have seen so far The City of Dreaming Books

Please remember it's a SCI-FI month so only Sci-Fi books will be added to the poll :)

Another option Monday Begins on Saturday
Maybe too much on the fantasy side?

Kind of a blurry line between Fantasy and Sci-fi, but what about:
(note I edited this comment to remove the nomination of retribution falls since this is more fantasy than sci-fi)

For a more traditional nomination, what about:

I think I'd personally class Retribution Falls more as fantasy as it has echoes of sword and sorcery in my mind, but I will say it's a fabulous choice had it been a fantasy month (maybe save it for the next nomination thread)

Maryam wrote: "I nominate Anathem by Neal Stephenson !"

I will second Anathem

Kaitlin wrote: "I think I'd personally class Retribution Falls more as fantasy as it has echoes of sword and sorcery in my mind, but I will say it's a fabulous choice had it been a fantasy month (maybe save it for..."

Fair enough, I knew it was a fine line kind of thing - I will throw it out for March.

I'll second Old Man's War and Fortune's Pawn

hmmm. Old Man's War seems a rather good choice.

my bad with the fantasy suggestions. Old man's war and anathem both sgtm. In addition I can suggest The World at the End of Time

Caliban's War by james s.a. corey

I second Mote in God's Eye and Fortune's Pawn.

I second Old Man`s war

Anathem by Neal Stephenson.

I second Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Hi everyone! Thank you all for the nominations. The top #3 were:

The Mote In God's Eye
Anathem
Old Man's War

So I shall be making a poll to choose between those three now. Please don't nominate anything else in this thread as it won't be counted!