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.
Previously: SoylentNews Book Club is Alive
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Wednesday October 03 2018, @06:46PM (1 child)
In addition to this, I find classic Sci Fi to be an interesting illustration of the past: what questions authors felt needed asking back then, what aspects of contemporary culture needed changing, and what was so natural that it would surely be part of everyday life in the future (e.g. smoking).
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman was a bit like that. It's probably time for me to look at it again and see what still holds up. Certainly there was no faster than light travel by the late 1990s. On the other hand TV, and its online replacement, has become quite fake rather like in the book. There have been quite a few major outlets presenting doctored videos as bona fide during the last year. Some were as simple as skipping a few seconds at a time. Others have been completely synthetic.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @10:07AM
Thank you so much. I've been meaning to go back over that again.
I'm halfway through the Wheel of Time right now. Perhaps after.