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posted by martyb on Wednesday October 03 2018, @03:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the hit-the-hit-books dept.

October: Foundation by Isaac Asimov
November: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin.
December: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

October's book is Foundation by Isaac Asimov, meaning the collection of 5 short stories first published in 1951. It is the first published entry in the Foundation series.

Please discuss last month's book, Mars, Ho! below if you haven't done so already. You can also suggest books for January 2019. I can include titles that were already suggested, such as in the comments on the poll. We may be able to increase the maximum number of poll options to accommodate more books.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday October 03 2018, @02:34PM

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday October 03 2018, @02:34PM (#743396)

    You can also suggest books for January 2019

    Plenty of sci fi. Not a problem, necessarily. If you want even more sci fi how about Ringo's complete "Troy Rising" series? He is not a verbose author, the complete series of novels is shorter than some other authors individual novels.

    Of if four sci fi in a row are too much, how about some alternative history with Eric Flint's 1632, not the bazillion sequels and fanfic but just plain old 1632? I checked and its still available for free reading on baen.com. They hope you'll get hooked and pay for a bunch of sequels and fanfic. Worked on me, I guess.

    How about "Last Centurion" which is military action and a lot of political commentary (maybe too much?) Or the Aldenata Posleen series, I believe the fourth book in the series is the "I love giant tanks" book? Or if you're tired of my suggesting almost everything Ringo has ever written, how about almost everything Frankowski ever wrote?

    In a previous discussion about book selection I mentioned the criteria for a book DISCUSSION should be its interesting to discuss, not necessarily its the best book evar. The books above are not quite the level of Shakespeare but the authors clearly wanted the readers to think and debate and react. So they are not exactly hugbox safespaces, but they would be interesting to read, anyway.

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