[nesfa-reading-group] NRG July 2021 Reading Group Book Choice Results

[Louis Galvez III]

Glad to hear it! I’m looking forward to it too, this will be the first story by Alastair Reynolds that I’ll read.

On a different note, this is the second book selection in a row that we’ve chosen a science fiction novel by a writer not know for writing science fiction (to be fair, everything I know about Lao She is what I just read on wikipedia). It’ll be interesting to see how Lau She’s 1930’s novel, Cat’s Country, compares to Dorris Lessing’s Shikasta. Below is the “Critical Reception” section from the Cat Country wikipedia article below:
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> Lao She declared his attempt at satire a failure, lamenting its lack of humour, and critics have described the book as not a great novel. Cyril Birch describes it as sound in structure and fun, but very uneven. Koon-Ki Tommy Ho argues that many critics evaluated Cat Country by standards not applicable to utopian fiction, and states the book "placed [Lao She] among the successful modern writers of dystopia in world literature."

I’ll read all the books we’ll discuss this time around. I feel a little bad giving up on Shikasta. I may adopt Robert’s 'read 10 pages a day’ strategy and ‘get er done'. ...‘er' being Shikasta.

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On Jul 10, 2021, 2:30 PM -0400, Richard Schwartz via reading-group <reading-group at lists.nesfa.org>, wrote:
> Thanks Lou.
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> Looking forward to reading the Alistair Reynolds.
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> Rich
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> On July 10, 2021 at 2:02 PM, Louis Galvez III <nesfalou at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Please see the attached Anonymized poll results.
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> > The order in which we’ll discuss these books is based on the book's availability.
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