[nesfa-reading-group] My choices for November or December book

Shelly Thomas yellerdoggy at gmail.com
Tue Aug 16 20:04:18 EDT 2022


Here are my 3 picks for voting on:
Morris, Brandon Q        The Disturbance Hard Science Fiction
Burroughs, William S.   The Ticket that Exploded:  The Restored Text
Brunner, John                The Jagged Orbit

On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 6:21 PM David G. Grubbs <dggrubbs at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the NESFA Reading Group, we have *Carter & Lovecraft* coming up for
> September and *Growing Up Weightless* coming up for October.  I was asked
> to select three books you all can vote on to pick for either November or
> December.
>
> Here are three:  (They all have around 3.8 averages on Goodreads.)
> Gibson,William             2003 Pattern Recognition  (356 pages)
> Lethem,Jonathan            1994 Gun, with Occasional Music  (262 pages)
> Moorcock,Michael           1972 An Alien Heat   (147 pages)
>
> I have not read the Gibson. It is the first in a series, but I don't get
> the feeling that it is the first in a "trilogy". It should stand alone. It
> looks like it is typical Gibson with Tech, Web activity and Spies.
>
> The other two are on my "reread" list of books I rated highly in the past.
> I read the Lethem almost 30 years ago (it is a mixture of Fantasy and Noir
> mystery) and the Moorcock almost 50 years ago (it is an odd mix of
> Victorian fantasy, multi-universes, and humor). I would like to read them
> again.
>
>
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