Hugo & Nebula Awards: Best Novels discussion

Group Read #17

I'm nearly finished with this book and it's just depressing. It's pretty good, though I could do without so much racism. Of course, that is a product of that time and it would be foolish to believe that kind of racism isn't happening anymore.

The way the world is described with all the health problems, wars, famine, super bugs and super diseases it is not so difficult to see happening in the near future. Honestly, this is probably one of the scarier books I've read in a while.

I read it or at least started it years ago and remember that I didn't like it. I think I will put it last

Started it. Wow! It is bleak! 😱

Been extremely busy and besides that also had a streak of being too lazy and/or distracted to read. Started on this novel, trying to catch up. So far so good, the writing is not too bad but I am not a big fan of characters switching in and out at random.

I've decided to skip this one, as I prefer to read the Club of Rome quartet in order. I know they're not continuous, but I want the perspective of the writer as he wrote them. Instead, I'm covering Six Wakes and just finished The Dispossessed, both of which I think the group read before I joined.

Allan, please add to our discussion of both the novels. I felt rather strongly against one of them (not saying which) and the other one didn't get as much discussion as it deserved, so it'd be fantastic to refresh my memory on both accounts.

I started it yesterday, so far roughly 25%. I cannot say I enjoy it, the language is hard and the setting is depressing, but in a few days I hope to join you people in spoilers section

Not nearly done, but I liked the book so far. Pretty amazing what people already expected in the 70s regarding the impact of environmental pollution, and that nobody acted on that knowledge.
I am also positively surprised that this male author addressed sexual harassment at the time.

But it's definitely not an uplifting read.