Space Opera Fans discussion

Greetings Space Opera Fans!

I hope those of you in the US had a lovely Thanksgiving, and for everybody else, a wonderful November so far. It's time for us to nominate which books we'd like to read as a group in December.

Up this month we have the following categories:

READER PICK: Dead trees is where it's at for the Reader Pick, which should be widely available in both paperback and ebook at most chain bookstores and public libraries. Books can't be exclusive to Kindle Unlimited since we're a global community.

INDIE PICK: This is for those newer, edgier books where the author has to do it all. Books that have been published by a micropress that helps you upload the thing, but YOU otherwise do the work and marking are okay, or if you got your backlist back, still qualify.

YOUNG ADULT FRIENDLY PICK: This is where YOU guys help me indoctrinate set a good example for my teenagers and hook them up with good books that won't make them roll their eyes. That means: Must be written FOR a young adult and STAR a young adult protagonist (age 17 or less) and not have been published any later than the year 2000 AD. Since it's hard to find purely space opera YA books, any sci-fi book that has a strong space or space-yearning element will probably be acceptable. Gotta still have spaceships and aliens.

Drop your nomination into the thread below and, on December 1st, we'll spin it through Random.org to pick three brand new group reads.

Be epic!

Anna Erishkigal
SOF Borg Queen

P.S. - as of late we've had some people we've never heard of before popping by to spam this thread with nominations for the same book and then disappearing, never to be seen again. While we welcome new members, that's kinda a crappy thing to do to our author-members who hang out here organically to chit-chat about cool science stuff, so just so you know, if it's fishy, I just disqualify any nomination that is not made by an active community member.

Indie Pick: by Patty Jansen (I know, I've nominated it nearly every month, but it's so worth reading, and I'm sure that one day it will pop up on the randomiser!)

YA Friendly pick: by Amie Kaufman which I've just read and is super awesome, and totally different.

Reader Pick: by Elizabeth Moon because it's on my to-read list.

This might have been proposed already, if so I apologize, new here, but for Indie Pick:

Date Night on Union Station

So I've never nominated before but here goes:

Indie Pick: The Thorne Legacy by J.D. Brink

YA-friendly Pick: The Truth Beyond the Sky by Andrew M. Crusoe

since I'm the new kid, it sounds good and I can get it in audio I will agree with Leonie
Reader Pick: Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon

Indie Pick: Date Night on Union Station by E.M. Foner. I've red it, it's an excellent and very original addition to the space opera pantheon, with some very appealing characters.

Indie Pick: Hero at Large

Okay ... peeking my nose out of my NaNoWriMo deadline to post a bit of pretty book cover bling :-)


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Keep 'em coming! I'll try to make time to come back and post the new covers over the weekend (just keep in mind I'm in that self-inflicted purgatory known as NaNoWriMo :-)

I got derailed by Fallout 4. That's why I have been gone for over a week.

Games. So many games.

It got in the way of book nerding. Then of course december star wars IIIIeeeeeeeeee!

But I digress.

Lets see....this time:

Indie:
Pursue the Past: Samair in Argos: Book 1
by Michael Kotcher

Reader:
A Soldier's Duty (Theirs Not to Reason Why #1)
by Jean Johnson

Those two got picked because I am a biased fangirl of both.

Young adult:
Ill give Illuminae a shot. I saw it pop up on my amazon feed about 1 month ago anyways. Between that and this site I shall be broke for life. Oh my.

For Indie Pick

Quarter Share by Nathan Lowell Quarter Share.

Oh dang I'd forgotten Lost Stars won a couple months ago. I finally got around to reading it and just finished it last night :P

Anyway...

For Reader pick, how about The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet . I didn't see it on the group shelf after a very quick perusal but I could have missed it.

For Indie pick, The Heretic by Lucas Bale. It's the only one of this series I've read so far but I thought it was well-done. Kind of Firefly-meets-Star-Wars.

For YA pick, I'll throw in my vote for Illuminae . The level of #TeenAngst in the blurb is over 9000 but the structure sounds intriguing.

I should be writing!!! I still have 10,200 words to write by midnight on Monday for NaNoWriMo ... but I'm taking a nerd-break to post more book cover bling :-)


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Keep 'em coming!

for reader:

for indie:

for YA. If we've done that I have nothing for YA.

I'd like to nominate Brave New Girls: Tales of Girls and Gadgets again for the YA pick. Of the other categories, I'm struggling to better what's already been suggested.

Hmm for various reasons I still haven't caught up with last months books, where does the time (to read) go ??
But my nominations for this month are

Reader Pick : - War against the Rull by A E van Vogt

And Indie Pick :- Pursue the Past, Samair in Argos by Michael Kotcher

I also Love Date Night on Union Station (for spaceships and aliens). For YA, if you don't mind Dark, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
is a great read - and would make Your Rules appear in a good light by comparison! It just won YA Book of the Year

BTW How do I get the book cover and title to appear, I could only get the link to show?

Missy wrote: "BTW How do I get the book cover and title to appear, I could only get the link to show?"

When you are typing in the comment box, just above the box is a grey link that says "add book/author". Click that, search for the book you want, then at the bottom of the selection box, there's a setting to tell it whether to display the title or the cover. If you want both to show, you have to do it twice.

Reader:

Indie:

Reader pick: Remnant Population

Okay ... grabbed the last of the nominations :-)

This thread is now officially closed. I'll go dump them into the randomizer and post them in a few!