#147 What should we read in November 2025?

November picks courtesy of Dave!

Poll is HERE

1. The Icarus Document, Timothy Zahn. 2022, 340 p
Planetary trailblazer Gregory Roarke is approached by two men to track down a mysterious woman named Tera, and-through her-locate a secret project named Icarus. Roarke accepts, for the money ... and for the chance to get payback for a long-secret hidden injury he's nursed for many years.

The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells. 1898, 220 p.
One of the key foundation stones of science fiction, the first-and still best-alien-invasion novel. Martians attack Earth in the late Victorian era, and one man witnesses it all as civilization is on the verge of collapsing. You probably know the story, but the novel itself is a surprise-fresh, always inventive, and never losing narrative thrust.

3. The Space Between, Sherrilyn Kenyon. 2017, 389 p.
Devyl Bane is a dark warlord, returned to the human race as a pirate. He makes a pact with Thorn, an immortal charged with returning demons to the nether regions. But Thorn's ship is also a woman, Marcelina, whose race is an enemy of Bane's ... and the sister of bane's target. Marcelina, the Sea Witch, must choose between her sister-and watch humanity fall-or trust an enemy who has betrayed her once.