Pick-a-Shelf discussion

September's Genre is Science Fiction

The above link will direct you to the Genre thread for the Shelf Bender challenge and in the first post, you will find all related Shelves from which you can pick your books to read for May.

Please do recommend as well! Both Shelves and books and, if you like, share any particular reason you like that Shelf or would recommend that Shelf.

Note: you don't have to be participating in Shelf Bender to read for this Monthly Genre

I have four books yet to read of the Science Fiction Shelf Bender game. I will try to read one of them during September.

Parable of the Talents for Dystopia

Related books:
Sea of Tranquility - Readers Also Enjoyed
The Windup Girl - Cover Object (airship)
Children of the Mind - Similar Authors

I've completed all ten books for the Shelf Bender challenge for this shelf, which is one of my favorites. So nothing from there.

But sitting on my dresser right now are books from two authors who came to this year's Smithsonian Book Festival this past weekend: Autonomous by Annalee Newitz and Time's Mouth by Edan Lupucku.

Transcendental by James Gunn was on my list to read for BTM in August, but didn't make the cut, so I have that ready to go as well.

I've also been meaning to start the Children of Time series, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (I've read and enjoyed several of his works) and Winter World by A.G. Riddle (comes highly recommended by my son-in-law).

It's hard for me to choose a small number of favorites to recommend, so browse the 643 books on my personal science-fiction shelf for the ones with high ratings if you'd like. But if you haven't read the book or seen the movie, I'd strongly recommend considering the Ender's Game series, by Orson Scott Card. It's a classic, but it doesn't seem as dated as older science fiction works sometimes can, because the science here simply sets the background, while the real story is about the characters and their physical, emotional, and moral challenges.

I, too, enjoy the Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card. One of my books listed above (Children of the Mind) is book #4 of the series.

Moved my comment to the READ thread.

Bea wrote: "I haven't managed to read any of the books that I listed above yet...but I did read Storm of Locusts, which is a continuation of a dystopian series written by [author:Rebecca Roanho..."

Bea, did you mean to post this in the "What Did You Read" thread? Or, at least, re-post it there so it gets added to our PAS bookshelf.

Susan wrote: "Bea wrote: "I haven't managed to read any of the books that I listed above yet...but I did read Storm of Locusts, which is a continuation of a dystopian series written by [author:Re..."

Thanks, Susan. Moved it.

Children of time is amazing, Susan!
I am planning to read Ancillary Justice

Meg wrote: "Children of time is amazing, Susan!
I am planning to read Ancillary Justice"

Thanks for the encouragement, Meg. My son-in-law loved it, and its entire series. I sometimes get bogged down in huge space operas, which is why I''m hoping the audiobook may work better for me than reading it did.

And I loved Ancillary Justice and the entire Imperial Radch series. Enjoy!

Susan wrote: "I''m hoping the audiobook may work better for me than reading it did"

I read it on audio book, hopefully that works for you too