- VOTING NOW OPEN to pick a SCI-FI BOOK for this July 7 event!Baladi Mediterranean Cafe, Virginia Beach, VA
Voting is now open to pick a SCI-FI book for our July 7 event! You can vote here: https://forms.gle/rqxtK5FXWc2Rym2D7
Voting will end this coming Sunday, June 2, at 1pm and we'll announce the winner at that time.
We have two new nominees this go around and four renominated books:
👩🚀 RENOMINATED (Mars): Red Mars (Mars trilogy #1) (1992) by Kim Stanley Robinson - 572 pages
👩🚀 RENOMINATED (Finland): The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur #1) (2010) by Hannu Rajaniemi - 336 pages
👩🚀 RENOMINATED (Space Opera): Escaping Exodus (Escaping Exodus #1) (2019) by Nicky Drayden - 336 pages
👩🚀 RENOMINATED (Cyberpunk): Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson -559 pages
👩🚀 AROUND THE WORLD (Japan): Scattered All Over the Earth (2022) by Yoko Tawada - 256 pages
👩🚀 SUBGENRE SPOTLIGHT (Military Science Fiction): The Forever War (1974) by Joe Haldeman - 278 pages
- Book Discussion - Murderbot Diaries #3-4 (Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy)Mudita Cafe & Coffeehouse, Norfolk, VA
The next two books of The Murderbot Diaries (Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy) 2017-2018) by Martha Wells is the pick for our August 18 meeting (by popular acclamation.)
Winner: 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novella, 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and 2021 Hugo Award for Best Series
Soon to be a TV series on Apple TV+From Tordotcom:
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot.
Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable A.I. you’ll read this century. -- The Murderbot Diaries, by bestselling author Martha Wells, is an action-packed, cerebral science fiction series about a self-hacking robot searching for the meaning of life.
The first book in the series, All Systems Red, swept the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards, and was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller.
“We are all a little bit Murderbot.” – NPR
“Anyone who enjoys humor-infused space operas won’t want to miss this.”—Publishers Weekly Starred Review