Science Fiction Aficionados discussion

hi everyone. this thread is for Random nominations for the September group read.

the September Themed Read is Moderator Pick. Maggie has chosen the short story collection Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang. i think this may be the group's first short story read.

and back to the nominations... feel free to nominate anything that can be considered science fiction. please include a link by using the handy 'add book/author' shortcut.

Footfall

yeah Kevin! you're the best!

Thanks!

If it continues not to win, I recommand we make it a side read one of these month coming up.

that's a great idea.

I'd like to nominate The Gods Themselves.

How's about Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard.

In honour of his death, what about a Ray Bradbury? The Illustrated Man, maybe?

Megan wrote: "In honour of his death, what about a Ray Bradbury? The Illustrated Man, maybe?"

Ooh there's so much good stuff by him it could be a theme by itself. How about the Ray Bradbury Memorial Month theme some time soon?

great idea Richard. i think we should try to do that for October.

I agree with Kevin about Footfall.

And the other option might be Lucifer's Hammer

I'll wait and go with Footfall. It's a good book and has been nominated before.

Footfall awesome read if there ever is one. Alien invasion of the earth set in the 80's.

I'll suggest The Stars My Destination

How about something written in this century? Perhaps something by Kristine Rusch or Kristine Smith? Specifically: Code of Conduct

If you guys keep nominating both of those Nivens, the vote will keep splitting!

I have been wanting to read Life During Wartime so great nom!

mark wrote: "great idea Richard. i think we should try to do that for October."

We read the The October Country, The Halloween Tree, or Something Wicked This Way Comes, which would also fit the month of October into the theme.

Veeral wrote: "I agree with Kevin about Footfall.

And the other option might be Lucifer's Hammer"

Yeah, I second Lucifer's Hammer since I just got a copy last month.

If the vote splits over the two Niven/Pournelle books we may not pick either. That kind of thing happens a lot.

IMO just about anything by Lucius Shepard is worth a read. He's one of the writers who back in the early 80s revived my interest in the whole sf/fantasy/fantastique reading realm after a very long fallow period.
Joseph Conrad meets Michael Herr with telepaths and angry socio-political polemics? LIFE DURING WARTIME
A trippy brain-frying take on Haitian zombis? GREEN EYES
The ultimate (IMO) vampire novel? THE GOLDEN And so many of his novellas and short stories are fantastic! He's a criminally overlooked author.

i love Lucius Shephard. The Golden is excellent.

My vote is with Something Wicked This Way Comes - good time of the year for it. :)

Every year my husband and I watch The Thing at Halloween so I'd also be up for Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell. I don't think my husband has ever actually read the novella at all. You can actually find it online:

http://nzr.mvnu.edu/faculty/trearick/...

Two thumbs up for both Footfall in September and a Ray Bradbury themed October!

I second that!

Sérgio wrote: "I'll suggest The Stars My Destination"

"To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis

I read To Say Nothing of the Dog. It was okay. More of a time travel Brit comedy with a little musing about time travel effects. Nothing a SF addict would find special, I think. And the hard SFers might hate it.

Anyone up for some Ray Bradbury in memoriam? Oh ... I see it's been suggested for October - okie dokie, either way!

I'm all for a Bradbury, whenever we do it. Footfall also sounds interesting.

Read it years ago. I'd read it again.

Maggie wrote: "If you guys keep nominating both of those Nivens, the vote will keep splitting!

I have been wanting to read Life During Wartime so great nom!"

I second
Life During Wartime

Any more suggestions???? Remember-we dont need 2nds here, we will have a run off of the top two vote-getters.

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so we will take take nominations through the end of this weekend. if we subtract Bradbury (and save him for the October Theme Read) and if we follow the suggestion around Niven and split the suggestions (one for this month, the other for next month), i think we currently have about a dozen nominations.

ooops...the weekend ended a bit ago! So sorry...putting this up now....

Nominations closed!

So-I put up the poll and sent out a message to the group, but something is glitching-I know I never got the message---and it wont let me send another one...lol

so anyway-go ahead and vote! Look under polls, it really is there!

it has been a long time but this is a fantastic book.