Book of the Month Vote Here

Hello /c/sciencefiction, it is that time of the month. Time to vote for the book of the month. The options are loosely collected from the most voted and discussed books in the “What are you Reading” thread for August.

At the end of the month the poll will be closed and the winner will be the book of the month for August 2023. Myself and hopefully some others will read this book over the following month and then near the end of the month a discussion post will be made to talk about it. Feel free to participate or not at your leisure.

Once the book is chosen it will be set to “Reading” status on the community BookWyrm account here. https://bookwyrm.social/user/ScienceFiction Feel free to follow this account with your own BookWyrm account so other members can find you. This can help people find book recommendations of like minded science fiction readers.

Here are this months selection

  • TheBest@midwest.social
    13·
    3 years ago

    Neat! First time seeing this community. Going to check it out, commenting so hopefully others do to :)

    • positiveWHAT@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 years ago

      Currently reading. It is quite good indeed, but I haven’t read the other ones so I don’t feel I should vote.
      E: Oh, I got the intent of the vote wrong.

      • Izzy@lemmy.worldBannedOP
        4·
        3 years ago

        Right, you would probably want to pick the one you are most interested in reading, but it doesn’t really matter if you pick your favorite that you have read and want others to read.

      • positiveWHAT@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 years ago

        “Consider Phlebas” is the ultimate 80’s Space Adventure. I say I’m a fantasy guy, but that’s my favorite book currently.

          • positiveWHAT@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 years ago

            The only other one I’ve read [Use of Weapons] felt overly goofy. I dig the bits it added, but “Consider Phlebas” had some special feel.

            • Cruxifux@lemmy.world
              2·
              3 years ago

              I liked use of weapons personally, but it’s one of the ones I liked the least. I enjoyed the character of Charedenine Zakalwe or however the fuck you spell it. But stuff like The Hydrogen Sonata and Player of Games and Surface Detail and Excession really rocked.

        • shua_too@midwest.socialEnglish
          1·
          3 years ago

          Have you read the rest of the Culture series? I’ve got them all on my Kobo but haven’t started.

    • Gutless2615@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      12·
      3 years ago

      Bold. To me it seems like Andy Weir telling the exact same engineer survivorporn story over again. It’s The Martian, but in an only slightly different locale.

      • Nutteman@lemmy.world
        31·
        3 years ago

        This may be a hot take cause I know most people don’t like the latter 2 books but I’d argue you need to read them too to get the full picture. Also fuck em cause those books were awesome too.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 years ago

    I’ve read five on the list (Martine, Tchaikovsky, Corey, Howey, and Weir) and I’d put them all on the same (excellent) tier. But if I had to rank them, that’s the order I’d put them in.

    • essteeyou@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 years ago

      I’ve read 4, and I would probably order them: Weir, Howey, Tchaikovsky, King.

      It’s a very close call though. If asked to rank them again next week I’d probably have a different answer.

  • TheShitAbyss@lemmy.ca
    4·
    3 years ago

    Not enough sci fi fans seem to read neuromancer, it’s what got me into it and I recommend to anyone who likes fast paced cyberpunk. Such a vivid book to me.

  • _thebrain_@lemmy.world
    41·
    3 years ago

    I vote necromancer.

    I’ll have to read children of time next tho as I haven’t read it yet. Currently reading through anathem.

  • clockwork_octopus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 years ago

    Voting for Leviathan Wakes as it’s the only one I’ve read so far. That being said, the majority of these titles are on my list of books to read, and the ones that aren’t, I’m looking into now!

    • essteeyou@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 years ago

      Apple’s series is very enjoyable. I loved the books, and it does a good job of translating them to screen. Howey is an executive producer on the show.

      • tiny_parking@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 years ago

        Sounds good, still not forgiven them for foundation, although if you forget the books it is quite an enjoyable story in its own right

        • essteeyou@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 years ago

          I read Foundation quite a while back, so I just enjoyed the TV show. There weren’t that many bits that sounded familiar, but I wasn’t sure if I’d just forgotten parts of it.

  • essteeyou@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 years ago

    I vote for Leviathan Wakes because it’s the only one I haven’t read but have heard of the author.

  • tusliw@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    Thx you for the poll, I just read Simmons’s in this list, I will have a look at the rest of it :)

  • ShranTheWaterPoloFan@startrek.website
    1·
    3 years ago

    I have to vote for Martine.

    This is a very good selection of books, but I would like for “classic” sci-fi to have it’s own category. I love Hyperion, necromancer and the expanse series, but I think they start to choke out newer/fringe books. Especially if the the plan is to vote on what book is next.