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Title    SoylentNews Book Club is Alive
Date    Sunday September 02 2018, @09:09AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the In-just-over-three-months-it-would-be...-Mars-Ho-Ho-Ho! dept.
https://soylentnews.org/communityreviews/article.pl?sid=18/09/01/2233219

takyon writes:

Want to read some books? Many of our users have shown interest in having a book club. Now it's finally time to kick it off.

Your soytyrant has pre-selected the first three books so that you have more time to read them, should you choose to do so:

September: Mars, Ho! by Stephen McGrew
October: Foundation by Isaac Asimov
November: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin.

The plan is to read a book, and discuss it on the 1st of the following month. Suggestions for new books (of any genres, not just "science fiction") will also be collected at the same time. You can start listing some of your suggestions right now in this comment section. We'll pick up to eight of them and run a poll on September 15th to decide the book for December. And so on.

The first book is Mars, Ho! by Stephen McGrew, one of our more literary users (not to be confused with Mars Ho! by Jennifer Willis). The book is available for free on McGrew's website, although there are some purchasing options available if you want to support him. From the description:

Captain John Knolls thinks he's just been given the best assignment of his career -- ferrying two hundred prostitutes to Mars. He doesn't know that they're all addicted to a drug that causes them to commit extreme, deadly violence when they are experiencing withdrawal or that he'll face more pirates than anyone had ever seen before. Or that he'd fall in love. A humorous science fiction space novel, a horror story, a love story, a pirate story, a tale of corporate bureaucracy and incompetence.

All book club posts will be in the Community Reviews nexus, which is linked to on the site's sidebar. You'll likely want to click on that link once the posts fall off the main page.


Original Submission

Links

  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "interest" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/08/23/1842201
  3. "our more literary users" - https://soylentnews.org/~mcgrew/
  4. "available for free on McGrew's website" - https://www.mcgrewbooks.com/Mars,%20Ho!/index.html
  5. "Community Reviews" - https://soylentnews.org/communityreviews/
  6. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=28768

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