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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This Is Not a Game - Walter Jon Williams seems good to me.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>However, I have no objection to The Incrementalists - Steven Brust & Skyler White<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Wes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> reading-group [mailto:reading-group-bounces@lists.nesfa.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>David G. Grubbs<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, October 01, 2017 9:51 PM<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> NESFA Reading Group<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [nesfa-reading-group] January 2018 book choices<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Some ideas:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><div><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>2312 - Kim Stanley Robinson<br><br>This is a Nebula Award winner and it is big and complex. The reviews are mostly positive, though the positive reviews are of the "Masterpiece" or "magnificient achievement" variety and the negative reviews are of the "too difficult to finish" and "bewildering" variety.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This Is Not a Game - Walter Jon Williams<br><br>I have liked everything I've ever read (quite a bit) by Williams. This one seems to be getting good reviews as a novel, though it is described as like a Michael Crichton techno-thriller with a dash of cyberpunk.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Incrementalists - Steven Brust & Skyler White<br><br>John Scalzi says he loves this. There's a sequel out already.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Clockwork Rocket - Greg Egan<br><br>Really hard SF. First of a trilogy<o:p></o:p></span></font></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>From Here to Timbuktu - Milton J. Davis<br><br>One of our GOHs from last year. Genre: Steamfunk, something I hadn't heard of before.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Blue Remembered Earth - Alastair Reynolds<br><br>I really like Reynolds' ideas and writing. This is the first of a sort-of trilogy.(That is, they follow on, but are each stand-alone.) The reviews I read are all positive.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li></ul><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I have another bunch of books on my "read next" list, but I looked up the reviews on all of them and the above were deemed the best of the lot.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 3:18 PM, M M via reading-group <<a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div id="m_-7128183930347283345yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506884343567_2765"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><div id="m_-7128183930347283345yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506884343567_2746"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>it's that time again, to pick another book to read for January. So, let's see some proposals, and we'll vote on them at the next Reading Group meeting on October 6th. See you soon!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div id="m_-7128183930347283345yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506884343567_2851"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Michael S. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>reading-group mailing list<br><a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a><br><a href="http://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group" target="_blank">http://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div></div></body></html>