The Sword and Laser discussion

After listening to Veronica be distraught over no one sharing their holiday reads, and the discussion over the publication, or lack thereof, of stories from people of color, I thought I would share what I'm going to be reading this holiday season and into the new year. I have my own little book club where some friends and I, of course, pick and read a book every month to discuss. We're more than a little nerdy, so the books tend to be science fiction heavy. This month, we are reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. She is an author I've been wanting to read for some time, but I can never seem to thin my backlog of reads fast enough to get to her. However, finally, I'm getting the chance, and I'm looking forward to it.

P.S. My book club already read the Three-Body Problem, and I was the only one of the group to like it.

I think we kind of do share our holiday reads in the month-specific threads Rob puts up. That's probably draining the verve for a separate thread.

As I mentioned there I started (and am no roughly enjoying) the first of the Mageworlds books by Debra Doyle and James Macdonald, The Price of the Stars. It's a lot like Mass Effect in that it is clearly Star Wars-inspired, but it can stand on its own.

Trike wrote: "I think we kind of do share our holiday reads in the month-specific threads Rob puts up. That's probably draining the verve for a separate thread.

As I mentioned there I started (and am no roughly..."

I just expect Rob to close/merge all threads which are remotely similar.

Just noticed my ipad corrected "thoroughly" to "no roughly". That's so weird. I wonder which letter I missed to make it do that?

I also wonder if any author considered the prosaic dangers of autocorrect. That seems like one of those little things no one would have predicted.