SF book club picks
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boxofdelightsTime to vote!
Our leader chooses six books. Her choices this year are:
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, pub 2021, 372 pg.
Unity by Elly Bangs, pub. 2021,304 pg.
Artifact Space by Miles Cameron, pub 2021, 400 pg.
Swamp Thing Book 1 by Alan Moore, Stephen R. Bissette, John Totleben, pub 1983 (orig.), approx. 180 pg.
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan, pub. 2021, 416 pg.
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo, pub. 2021, 288 pg.
Then she offers us six groups to choose from. The first category is climate change-themed novellas. Choose two:
The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade, pub. 2021, 82 pg.
With the collapse of ecosystems and the extinction of species comes the Grief: an unstoppable melancholia that ends in suicide. When Ruby’s friend, mourning the loss of the Great Barrier Reef, succumbs to the Grief, the letters she leaves behind reveal the hidden world of the resurrected dead.
Depart! Depart! By Sim Kern, pub. 2020, 82 pg.
When an unprecedented hurricane devastates the city of Houston, Noah Mishner finds shelter in the Dallas Mavericks' basketball arena. Though he finds community among other queer refugees, Noah fears his trans and Jewish identities put him at risk with certain capital-T Texans. His fears take form when he starts seeing visions of his great-grandfather Abe, who fled Nazi Germany as a boy.
The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay, pub. 2020, 288pg.
This book won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Aurealis Award. As disturbing news arrives of a pandemic sweeping the country, Jean realizes this is no ordinary flu: its chief symptom is that its victims begin to understand the language of animals — first mammals, then birds and insects, too. As the flu progresses, the unstoppable voices become overwhelming, and many people begin to lose their minds.
The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed, pub. 2021, 168 pg.
In post-climate disaster Alberta, a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community.
Cradle and Grave by Anya Ow, pub. 2020, 115 pg.
In the distant dystopian irradiated future, Dar Lien is a professional scout for scavenger runs into the Scab, a ruined urban-zone badly infected by heavily mutagenic phenomena called the Change. When Yusuf and the mysterious Servertu employ her for an unorthodox run into the Scab, she finds herself embroiled in a conflict she didn’t expect.
After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang, pub. 2021, 160 pg.
Jaded college student Xiang Kaifei scours Beijing streets for abandoned dragons, distracting himself from his diagnosis. Elijah Ahmed, a biracial American medical researcher, is drawn to Beijing by the memory of his grandmother and her death by shaolong. With the resources of Kai’s dragon rescue and Eli’s immunology research, can the pair find a cure for shaolong and safety for the dragons?
The Animals in That Country and The Annual Migration of Clouds were already on my to-read list, so I will probably vote for those, but the rest sound really good too. Have you read any of them?
Our leader chooses six books. Her choices this year are:
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, pub 2021, 372 pg.
Unity by Elly Bangs, pub. 2021,304 pg.
Artifact Space by Miles Cameron, pub 2021, 400 pg.
Swamp Thing Book 1 by Alan Moore, Stephen R. Bissette, John Totleben, pub 1983 (orig.), approx. 180 pg.
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan, pub. 2021, 416 pg.
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo, pub. 2021, 288 pg.
Then she offers us six groups to choose from. The first category is climate change-themed novellas. Choose two:
The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade, pub. 2021, 82 pg.
With the collapse of ecosystems and the extinction of species comes the Grief: an unstoppable melancholia that ends in suicide. When Ruby’s friend, mourning the loss of the Great Barrier Reef, succumbs to the Grief, the letters she leaves behind reveal the hidden world of the resurrected dead.
Depart! Depart! By Sim Kern, pub. 2020, 82 pg.
When an unprecedented hurricane devastates the city of Houston, Noah Mishner finds shelter in the Dallas Mavericks' basketball arena. Though he finds community among other queer refugees, Noah fears his trans and Jewish identities put him at risk with certain capital-T Texans. His fears take form when he starts seeing visions of his great-grandfather Abe, who fled Nazi Germany as a boy.
The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay, pub. 2020, 288pg.
This book won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Aurealis Award. As disturbing news arrives of a pandemic sweeping the country, Jean realizes this is no ordinary flu: its chief symptom is that its victims begin to understand the language of animals — first mammals, then birds and insects, too. As the flu progresses, the unstoppable voices become overwhelming, and many people begin to lose their minds.
The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed, pub. 2021, 168 pg.
In post-climate disaster Alberta, a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community.
Cradle and Grave by Anya Ow, pub. 2020, 115 pg.
In the distant dystopian irradiated future, Dar Lien is a professional scout for scavenger runs into the Scab, a ruined urban-zone badly infected by heavily mutagenic phenomena called the Change. When Yusuf and the mysterious Servertu employ her for an unorthodox run into the Scab, she finds herself embroiled in a conflict she didn’t expect.
After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang, pub. 2021, 160 pg.
Jaded college student Xiang Kaifei scours Beijing streets for abandoned dragons, distracting himself from his diagnosis. Elijah Ahmed, a biracial American medical researcher, is drawn to Beijing by the memory of his grandmother and her death by shaolong. With the resources of Kai’s dragon rescue and Eli’s immunology research, can the pair find a cure for shaolong and safety for the dragons?
The Animals in That Country and The Annual Migration of Clouds were already on my to-read list, so I will probably vote for those, but the rest sound really good too. Have you read any of them?