[nesfa-reading-group] Book suggestion
David G. Grubbs
dggrubbs at gmail.com
Sat Nov 7 11:22:19 EST 2020
It was first brought up in Sepember 2018 and has been on our voting list
several times.
But it didn't win the survey. Next nomination and vote will be four months
from now.
On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 10:47 AM John Donovan <jdonov1975 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not seeing "Red Rising" by Pierce Brown so would like to put that up
> for future consideration.
>
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2020, 8:10 AM David G. Grubbs <dggrubbs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Year # [Short] Long Description
>> ==== - [NRG-Read] Was chosen by the NESFA Reading Group
>> 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 1994 The Memory Police
>> =========================================================
>> [76] Authors, [77] Works selected.
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 12:18 AM John Donovan <jdonov1975 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a complete list of all books that have been read?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2020, 1:15 PM Wesley Brodsky via reading-group <
>>> reading-group at lists.nesfa.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello;
>>>>
>>>> I still suggest The House of Styx by Derek Künsken; especially since it
>>>> concerns Venus, where the possibility of life has been discovered. Sort of
>>>> like reading Rendezvous with Rama while that long asteroid was around. Tony
>>>> says it is "quite good".
>>>>
>>>> Wes Brodsky
>>>> "It’s of the utmost importance that Shadows not trouble you with
>>>> silliness or complications, unless you are searching for really difficult
>>>> work."; Giordano Bruno (1582)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On August 25, 2020 at 5:58 PM, Anthony LEWIS <pussywillows at comcast.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've read it; it's quite good. Be aware that it feels like the first
>>>> book of a series.
>>>>
>>>> Tony
>>>>
>>>> On 08/25/2020 4:10 PM Wesley Brodsky via reading-group <
>>>> reading-group at lists.nesfa.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In case I forget; a suggestion for one of our next series of books to
>>>> read:
>>>>
>>>> *The House of Styx* by Derek Künsken
>>>>
>>>> Although this was serialized in *Analog*, I have not read it. It just
>>>> seems interesting from the description:
>>>> “In the swirling clouds of Venus, the families of *la colonie* live
>>>> on floating plant-like trawlers, salvaging what they can in the fierce acid
>>>> rain and crackling storms. Outside is dangerous, but humankind’s hold on
>>>> the planet is fragile and they spend most of their days simply surviving.
>>>> But Venus carries its own secrets, too. In the depths, there is a wind
>>>> that shouldn’t exist.
>>>> And the House of Styx wants to harness it. ”
>>>>
>>>> -Wes
>>>> “Ornithology is not a bird.”
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