It’s time to select a book for November! I’ll collect nominations for the next couple of days.
These are the nominations from October that didn’t a chance to be voted on proper:
- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- Godspeed by Charles Sheffield
- Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
- A memory called Empire
- Hyperion
- Revelation Space
- Empire of Silence (Suneater series 1)
Please add more or throw your support down for one of these! For me this month I will nominate:
Omega Rising (book 1 of Omega Force) by Joshua Dalzelle
UPDATE: We have some winners!
Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald.
Generally characterized as A Game of Thrones in space, which isn't a bad way to put it. I think in a lot of ways it's better understood as a modern counterpoint to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress that carefully examines and dissects Heinlein's libertarian rhetoric, while also adopting and pushing even further forward his imaginative considerations on what future social dynamics and sexual politics might look like.
It's also, just, an absolute hell of a political thriller. Assassinations, arranged marriages, coups and counter-coups, and court cases that can turn into trial by combat. It's fun, it's brilliantly written, every character is well developed, and no one comes off as a villain or a hero (apart from Bryce. Fuck Bryce.)