Five Bubble Book Club discussion

No concrete list yet, but there are so many directions we can go!
Jurassic Park is on an island.
Shutter island? (the movie was shot on a Boston harbor island, btw)
I hope we don't need to turn to Tom Hanks and Wilson but I don't mind revisiting Robinson Crusoe. or Mysterious Island.

The best I've got at the moment are:

The Trove -- based on Treasure Island by Tobias S. Buckell, who was born on Grenada, so he knows islands. (His Xenowealth series, starting with Crystal Rain, involve island cultures, but they are not in print, except for audiobooks.)

On Stranger Tides -- another wonderful fill-in-the-blanks-of-history-with-some-fantasy book by Tim Powers, this one covering pirates in the Caribbean. Not set on an island, but involves them.

The Last Light of the Sun -- if you consider England and Wales as an island, this might do; it's a great story, regardless.

While we could do Islands in the Sky, it is very dated YA, so I can't recommend it.

Just remembered, Circe is mainly set on an island too.

Against a Dark Background also gives the feeling of isolation that an island has.

And if anyone else wonders why Tobias Bucknell wrote a Treasure Island reboot, here's his answer: https://tobiasbuckell.com/how-i-came-.... I found it moving.

As it turns out, another well-respected SF author, Charles Sheffield, also wrote a reboot of Treasure Island: Godspeed. And the contrast between that and Tobias S. Buckell's The Trove could not be more stark. I found it fascinating to read both of them (and may well now go back for a full reread of Robert Louis Stevenson's original).

Bucknell's work is a passionate, very fast-paced adventure giving us an excellent view of one potential space-faring post-humanity.

Sheffield, on the other hand, nails Stevenson's slower pacing with deeply nuanced bits of science and a richly-described, space-faring colony. But, in my opinion, he doesn't manage to make the same kind of rip-roaring yarn as the original.

Both of them brilliantly handle the villainous ambiguity of Long John Silver, his kindness and ruthlessness, but in different ways.

I'd love to have the group read both and discuss them: I'm deeply curious what you all would think of the differences. But if I were to pick one, it would be The Trove. (Both books exist on Kindle, but (sadly) not as audiobooks.)