Hello /c/sciencefiction, it is that time of the month. Time to vote for the book of the month. The options are loosely collected from the most voted and discussed books in the "What are you Reading" thread for August.
At the end of the month the poll will be closed and the winner will be the book of the month for August 2023. Myself and hopefully some others will read this book over the following month and then near the end of the month a discussion post will be made to talk about it. Feel free to participate or not at your leisure.
Once the book is chosen it will be set to "Reading" status on the community BookWyrm account here. https://bookwyrm.social/user/ScienceFiction Feel free to follow this account with your own BookWyrm account so other members can find you. This can help people find book recommendations of like minded science fiction readers.
Here are this months selection
- Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
- 22/11/63 - Stephen King
- Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey
- Hyperion - Dan Simmons
- Wool (Silo Series Book 1) - Hugh Howey
- Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Red Rising - Pierce Brown
- Neuromancer - William Gibson
- A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
Project hail Mary is probably the best book on that list
Currently reading. It is quite good indeed, but I haven't read the other ones so I don't feel I should vote.
E: Oh, I got the intent of the vote wrong.
Right, you would probably want to pick the one you are most interested in reading, but it doesn't really matter if you pick your favorite that you have read and want others to read.
Thats why I said probably because other than leviathan wakes I haven't gotten to the other ones yet
Project Hail Mary is probably the best book I've ever read, lol.
"Consider Phlebas" is the ultimate 80's Space Adventure. I say I'm a fantasy guy, but that's my favorite book currently.
Great story, you've reminded me how much I enjoyed it. Thanks!
Really? Because that’s like, the worst one of the entire series.
The only other one I've read [Use of Weapons] felt overly goofy. I dig the bits it added, but "Consider Phlebas" had some special feel.
I liked use of weapons personally, but it’s one of the ones I liked the least. I enjoyed the character of Charedenine Zakalwe or however the fuck you spell it. But stuff like The Hydrogen Sonata and Player of Games and Surface Detail and Excession really rocked.
Have you read the rest of the Culture series? I’ve got them all on my Kobo but haven’t started.
Only "The Use of Weapons" which is hard to follow because of the unconventional structure.
Weir's characters are always so 'alive' somehow!
It was a revelation when I found out he wrote "the egg". That was my favorite internet story. He's my favorite living author (RIP Adams and Pratchett)
Same! Haven't stayed up late reading like that in ages, if ever.
Bold. To me it seems like Andy Weir telling the exact same engineer survivorporn story over again. It’s The Martian, but in an only slightly different locale.