[nesfa-reading-group] book club recommendations

[Liz P]

Book club recommendations

The unincorporated man
By dani kollin and eytan kollin

The Unincorporated Man is a provocative social/political/economic novel
that takes place in the future, after civilization has fallen into complete
economic collapse. This reborn civilization is one in which every
individual is incorporated at birth, and spends many years trying to attain
control over his or her own life by getting a majority of his or her own
shares. Life extension has made life very long indeed.

Now the incredible has happened: a billionaire businessman from our time,
frozen in secret in the early twenty-first century, is discovered and
resurrected, given health and a vigorous younger body. Justin Cord is the
only unincorporated man in the world, a true stranger in this strange land.
Justin survived because he is tough and smart. He cannot accept only part
ownership of himself, even if that places him in conflict with a
civilization that extends outside the solar system to the Oort Cloud.
People will be arguing about this novel and this world for decades.

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This is how you lose the time war by Max gladstone and amal elmohtar

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a
letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely
correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best
possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a
battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something
romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them.
There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.
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Willful child by Steven Erikson

These are the voyages of the starship, A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing
mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag,
to subjugate and if necessary obliterate new life life-forms, to boldly
blow the...

And so we join the not-terribly-bright but exceedingly cock-sure Captain
Hadrian Sawback - a kind of James T Kirk crossed with 'American Dad' - and
his motley crew on board the Starship Willful Child for a series of
devil-may-care, near-calamitous and downright chaotic adventures through
'the infinite vastness of interstellar space'...

The bestselling author of the acclaimed Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence
has taken his life-long passion for 'Star Trek' and transformed it into a
smart, inventive and hugely entertaining spoof on the whole
mankind-exploring-space-for-the-good-of-all-species-but-trashing-stuff-with-a-lot-of-hi-tech-kit-along-the-way
type over-blown adventure. The result is this smart. inventive,
occasionally wildly OTT and often very funny novel that deftly parodies the
genre while also paying fond homage to it.
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