[nesfa-reading-group] The Great Transition book recommendation

Mon Apr 8 06:56:44 EDT 2024

Here's a chronological list Dave sent me recently, renamed as a .txt file since it needs to be read in a monospace font.

/CHip
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Hi, David,

Is there a list of the books that have been chosen for past meetings? So i don’t suggest numerous new books all of which have been done already?

Thanks

Stan.
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On Apr 7, 2024, at 1:26 PM, David G. Grubbs <dggrubbs at gmail.com> wrote:

Tracy,

You weren't at the April 5th meeting where we discussed the management of Meetup, which Louis was doing on his own. Others may take it over, but Meetup is *not* in any way official.

Meetup was and is an "extra". The only official reading group calendar is on the nesfa.org<http://nesfa.org> site. All future events are in the calendar (labeled "Upcoming Events" on the lower left).

I just updated the "Latest News" on the lower right to note our *next* reading group meeting.

On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 5:56 PM Tracy Marks <tracy at windweaver.com<mailto:tracy at windweaver.com>> wrote:

I recommend The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins. High ratings.
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Transition-Nick-Fuller-Googins/dp/1668010755/
(I think one of the other sci fi groups read it recently but I missed out on that)

It's post-dystopian. The Antarctica ice shelf collapsed a few decades earlier, and the coasts were destroyed (one can boat across Central Park by boat but all Manhattan is a disaster area). The main characters live in a thriving new metropolis in Greenland. Groups of people are involved in putting the world back together, and everyone is supposed to do one or two weesk of public service each year, physical work in the areas of the world that are nearly destroyed. One of the characters is a vigilante, actively involved in killing the "Climate Criminals" who contributed to the environmental disasters. Excellent world-building. Very satisfying to read a futuristic book that is beyond dystopian but not quite utopian.

FROM THE NY TIMES
Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being told how lucky she is to have been born after the climate crisis. But following the public assassination of a dozen climate criminals, Emi’s mother, Kristina, disappears as a possible suspect, and Emi’s illusions of utopia are shattered. A determined Emi and her father, Larch, journey from their home in Nuuk, Greenland to New York City, now a lightly populated storm-surge outpost built from the ruins of the former metropolis. But they aren’t the only ones looking for Kristina.

Thirty years earlier, Larch first came to New York with a team of volunteers to save the city from rising waters and torrential storms. Kristina was on the frontlines of a different battle, fighting massive wildfires that ravaged the western United States. They became part of a movement that changed the world—The Great Transition—forging a new society and finding each other in process.

Alternating between Emi’s desperate search for her mother and a meticulously rendered, heart-stopping account of her parents’ experiences during The Great Transition, this novel beautifully shows how our actions today determine our fate tomorrow. A triumphant debut, The Great Transition is “a book for the present and the future—read this and you will be changed” (Michelle Min Sterling, New York Times bestselling author).:

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On another note, I always check meetup for book club meetings and don't see any listing for April or May or beyond........It would be helpful for book club meetings to be posted for at least three months in advance.

Tracy

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Year # [Short] Long Description
==== - [NRG-Read] Was chosen by the NRG
201412 Williams,Walter Jon    1995 Metropolitan
2015 1 Stross,Charles         2013 Neptune's Brood
     2 !(********)               0 Boskone 52
     3 Leckie,Ann             2013 Ancillary Justice
     4 Pratchett,Terry        2013 Raising Steam
     5 Bujold,Lois McMaster   1991 Barrayar
     6 Scalzi,John            2005 Old Man's War
     7 Bear,Elizabeth^Lynch,S 2014 Karen Memory
     8 !(********)               0 Worldcon 73 - Spokane, WA [Sasquan]
     9 Stephenson,Neal        2015 Seveneves
    10 Weir,Andy              2011 The Martian
    11 Nix,Garth              2003 Mister Monday
    12 Martinez,A. Lee        2012 Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain
2016 1 Scalzi,John            2005 Agent to the Stars
     2 !(********)               0 Boskone 53
     3 Chu,Wesley             2015 Time Salvager
     4 Valente,Catherynne M.  2015 Radiance
     5 Stross,Charles         2004 The Atrocity Archives
     6 Silverberg,Robert      1969 Up the Line
     7 Novik,Naomi            2015 Uprooted
     8 !(********)               0 Worldcon 74 - Kansas City, MO [MidAmeriCon II]
     9 Asimov,Isaac           1950 I, Robot
     9 Ellison,Harlan+Asimov, 1994 I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay
    10 Zelazny,Roger          1993 A Night in the Lonesome October
    11 Baxter,Stephen+Reynold 2016 The Medusa Chronicles
    12 Addison,Katherine^Mone 2014 The Goblin Emperor
2017 1 Heinlein,Robert A.     1957 Citizen of the Galaxy
     2 !(********)               0 Boskone 54
     3 Scalzi,John            2012 Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas
     4 Norton,Andre           1960 Storm Over Warlock
     4 Norton,Andre           1958 The Time Traders
     5 Steele,Allen           2016 Arkwright
     6 Liu,Cixin              2006 The Three-Body Problem
     7 Kowal,Mary Robinette   2016 Ghost Talkers
     8 !(********)               0 Worldcon 75 - Helsinki, FI
     9 Clarke,Susanna         2004 Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
    10 Kowal,Mary Robinette   2010 For Want of a Nail
    10 Zelazny,Roger          1971 Jack of Shadows
    11 Naam,Ramez             2013 Nexus
    12 Gaiman,Neil            2017 Norse Mythology
2018 1 Clarke,Arthur C.       1973 Rendezvous With Rama
     2 Brust,Steven+White,Sky 2013 The Incrementalists
     3 Ellsworth,Spencer      2017 Starfire: A Red Peace
     3 L'Engle,Madeleine      1962 A Wrinkle in Time
     4 Taylor,Dennis          2016 We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
     5 Stapledon,Olaf         1930 Last and First Men
     6 Crichton,Michael       1990 Jurassic Park
     7 Le Guin,Ursula K.      1969 The Left Hand of Darkness
     8 Scalzi,John            2018 Head On
     9 Morgan,Richard K.      2002 Altered Carbon
    10 Pohl,Frederik          1977 Gateway
    11 Shelley,Mary Wollstone 1818 Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
    12 Asimov,Isaac           1951 Foundation
2019 1 Vinge,Vernor           1992 A Fire Upon the Deep
     2 Mastai,Elan            2017 All Our Wrong Todays
     3 Kowal,Mary Robinette   2018 The Calculating Stars
     4 Goss,Theodora          2017 The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
     5 Priest,Cherie          2009 Boneshaker
     6 de Bodard,Aliette      2010 Servant of the Underworld
     7 Bacigalupi,Paolo       2009 The Windup Girl
     8 Leiber,Fritz           1943 Conjure Wife
     9 Gladstone,Max          2019 Empress of Forever
    10 Robinson,Kim Stanley   2018 Red Moon
    11 Banks,Iain M.          1988 The Player of Games
    12 Cherryh,C. J.          1982 The Pride of Chanur
2020 1 Dick,Philip K.         1969 Ubik
     2 Chakraborty,S. A.      2017 The City of Brass
     3 Heinlein,Robert A.     1956 Double Star
     4 !(********)               0 Meeting Canceled due to Corona virus
     5 Hurley,Kameron         2019 The Light Brigade
     6 Vonnegut Jr.,Kurt      1963 Cat's Cradle
     7 Khaw,Cassandra         2016 Hammers on Bone
     8 Martine,Arkady         2019 A Memory Called Empire
     9 Pratchett,Terry        1976 The Dark Side of the Sun
    10 Bear,Elizabeth^Lynch,S 2019 Ancestral Night
    11 Frame,Janet            1963 Scented Gardens for the Blind
    12 Ogawa,Yoko             2019 The Memory Police
2021 1 Novik,Naomi            2020 A Deadly Education
     2 Abercrombie,Joe        2019 A Little Hatred
     3 Clarke,Susanna         2020 Piranesi
     4 Brunner,John           1975 The Shockwave Rider
     4 Brunner,John           1973 The Stone That Never Came Down
     5 Corey,James S. A.^Abra 2011 Leviathan Wakes
     6 Tchaikovsky,Adrian     2019 Children of Ruin
     7 Lessing,Doris          1979 Shikasta
     8 de Bodard,Aliette      2020 Seven of Infinities
     9 Reynolds,Alastair      2009 House of Suns
    10 Leicht,Stina           2021 Persephone Station
    11 Fitzwater,A. J.        2020 The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper
    12 She,Lao                1932 Cat Country
2022 1 Dukaj,Jacek            2015 The Old Axolotl
     2 Divya,S. B.            2021 Machinehood
     3 Willis,Connie          1992 Doomsday Book
     4 Varley,John            1986 Blue Champagne
     5 Cambias,James L.       2021 The Godel Operation
     6 Hur,Angela Mi-Young    2021 Folklorn
     7 Vint,Sherryl           2021 Science Fiction
     8 Green,Hank             2018 An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
     9 Howard,Jonathan        2015 Carter & Lovecraft
    10 Ford,John M.           1993 Growing Up Weightless
    11 Burroughs,William S.   1981 Cities of the Red Night
    12 Lethem,Jonathan        1994 Gun, with Occasional Music
2023 1 Oyebanji,Adam          2022 Braking Day
     2 Crowley,John           1979 Engine Summer
     3 Dick,Philip K.         1965 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
     4 Gibson,William         2014 The Peripheral
     5 Lem,Stanislaw+Johnston 2017 Solaris
     6 Mandel,Emily St. John  2022 Sea of Tranquility: A Novel
     7 El-Mohtar,Amal+Gladsto 2019 This Is How You Lose the Time War
     8 Bellairs,John          1969 The Face in the Frost
     9 Moon,Elizabeth         1996 Remnant Population
    10 Ravn,Olga              2021 The Employees
    11 Kuang,R. F.            2022 Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History
    12 Sloan,Robin            2017 Sourdough
2024 1 Van Lhin,Eric^del Rey, 1956 Police Your Planet
     2 Dunsany,Lord           1924 The King of Elfland's Daughter
     3 Flynn,Michael F.       2006 Eifelheim
     4 Varley,John            1983 Millennium
     5 Silverberg,Robert      1971 The World Inside
     6 Kowal,Mary Robinette   2022 The Spare Man
     7 Suarez,Daniel          2023 Critical Mass
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