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Priority 3: Alternate books between "Fallen Off Shelves" shelf and other priorities. Codename: FOS-1:1 (FAWZZ ONE FOR ONE)
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Here's the 40 items on my "Fallen-Off-Shelves" list, as of 12 April 2020:
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1 Player Piano⁽⁷ᴮ⁺⁺⁾ ₕ⁰ᵉ
2 E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation *
3 The Savage Sword of Conan, Volume 2 *
4 Journey to Ixtlan (y,ol) *
5 Spanish Demystified, Second Edition (D) *
6 The Everything Kids' Learning Spanish Book
7 Irrelationship: How we use Dysfunctional Relationships to Hide from Intimacy
8 The Boy Camper: 160 Outdoor Projects and Activities
9 The Vengekeep Prophecies *
10 Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders (D)
11 Fab Lab - Revolution Field Manual
12 Dragons in the Waters (O'Keefe Family, #2) *
14 The Family Kitchen Garden: How to Plant, Grow & Cook Together *
16 Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven't Touched Since High School
17 Designed to Move...
18 The Hugo Winners, Volume 4: Thirteen Prizewinning Stories 1976 - 1979
19 This Alien Shore
20 Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?
21 Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1 (1907-1948): Learning Curve
22 Winter Tide
23 A Lot Like Christmas: Stories
24 Pale Fire
Read from FOS 2020:
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Currently Reading:
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20 Handbook for Learning to Read Braille by Sight
22 The Hugo Winners, Volume Two
1 La máquina del tiempo (novela gráfica)
Priority 4: 2020 Short Fiction Challenge15 October (Day 320): 366 items; 46 stories (13%) ahead of "Grumpy" schedule; 19 stories (5%) ahead of the "Baker's Grumpy" (366+31 books) schedule.
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Feb 01/msg-137 | Feb 08/msg-150 | Mar 01/msg-184 | Mar 15/msg-207
Apr 01/msg-225 | Apr 15/msg-234 | May 02/msg-255 | May 31/msg-273
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Sleepy: Read 1 piece of short fiction (any length)
Bashful: Read 12 pieces of short fiction (any length)
Happy: Read 12 novellas or short fiction collections/anthologies
Sneezy: Read 52 pieces of short fiction (any length)
Doc: Read 52 novellas or short fiction collections/anthologies
Grumpy: Read 365* pieces of short fiction (no poems or flash fiction)
Dopey: Read 365* novellas or short fiction collections/anthologies
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Priority 5: Comics Clean-up (New 52 run;
cull titles; Rebirth run; at least 4/mo) (COMIX)
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New 52 Titles: read in collected form, to start of "Rebirth" story-line:
Batman⑥, Detective Comics.⑥, Batwoman.⑤,
Batman and Robin⑥, Batgirl.⑤,
Arkham Manor₉₍₊₆₎, Gotham Academy₉₍₊₆₎, Gotham By Midnight₉₍₊₆₎
Red Hood and the Outlaws⑥, Harley Quinn₆₍₊₃₎②, Poison Ivy
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The Flash.⑤, Green Arrow.⑤, Justice League⑥
Earth 2₂₍₊₁₎⑤, Earth 2: Society₉₍₊₆₎
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Justice League Dark⑤,
Lobo₉₍₊₆₎, Secret Six₉₍₊₆₎,
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Action Comics⑥, Superman⁺⑤, Supergirl⑥,
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Priority 6: Finish Ultimate Reading Challenge 50, year 3 (URC-50)====================================================================
36 Read a book set in high school -- The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot
37 Read a book with a color in the title -- Sea of Rust
38 Read a book that makes me cry -- Old Man's War
39 Read a book with magic -- Power & Light
40 Read a graphic novel -- Snow, Glass, Apples
41 Read a book by an author I have never read before -- The Calculating Stars
42 Read a book I own but have never read: Superman: A Celebration of 75 Years
43 ...takes place in your hometown How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky
44 ...originally written in a different language: Five Weeks in a Balloon
45 Read a book set during Christmas Doomsday Book
46 Read a book written by an author with my same initials Undead and Unemployed
47 Read a play R.U.R.
48 Read a banned book We
49 Based on/turned into a TV show Woken Furies (Altered Carbon, season 2)
50 Read a book I started but never finished Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction
COMPLETED!!!
Priority 7A: At least 4 items annually off "Best Of" lists ("A"WARD)====================================================================
Selected "Classics of Science Fiction" (CoSF)
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2020: Sixteen books yearly. Four Verne, 4x pre-1951, 4x 1951-1970, & 4x 1971+.
Verne 2020: (2) The Adventures of Captain Hatteras; (5) In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant; (6) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; (8) A Floating City
Pre-1951 in 2020: Looking Backwards, We (oa!) (ha) (he), The Last Man, Mary Shelley (TYS) (lv), T--BD
1951-1970 in 2020: The Day of the Triffids; The Illustrated Man; Astounding Science Fiction Anthology (1952); Player Piano
1971 and on, in 2020: Chronopolis and Other Stories;
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Priority 7B: Read all the top SF&F authors ("B"WARD, or "Grandmasters")
From www.sfadb.com, read listed works of authors with lifetime achievement awards.
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COVID-19 Update (sort of): Using each year's author as a yardstick for items to read, but until caught up, I can use any "Grandmaster" author's qualifying work. (Estimate 7 stories make a "book")
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Don't need to list awards, just one link to author on sfadb.com
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2020 authors (carryover from 2019)
Ray Bradbury, for the 1966 Forry (and 8 more)
Frederik Pohl, for the 1966 Skylark (and 8 more)
Ursula K. Le Guin, in Memorium
2020, the 1967 authors...
Fritz Leiber, for the 1967 Forry (and 6 more)
Isaac Asimov, for the 1967 Skylark (and __ more)
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Priority 7B: Read all the top SF&F authors ("B"WARD, or "Grandmasters")Part 2: 2020
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2020, the 1967 authors...
Fritz Leiber, for the 1967 Forry (and 5 more)
Isaac Asimov, for the 1967 Skylark (and 5 more)
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Priority 7C: Read all the SF&F award winning stories ("C"WARD, or "chronological")
1951-1970, new this year: [5,⁴⁄₇] Conjure Wife [4,⁴⁄₇] A Mirror for Observers [3,⁴⁄₇] “The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth” [3,³⁄₇] “Call Him Lord” [3,²⁄₇] “'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman” [3,¹⁄₇] "...And Call Me Conrad” [2,¹⁄₇] “The Dragon Masters” [2,⁰⁄₇] Flowers for Algernon [1,⁰⁄₇] The Big Time
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Goals 7A,7B,7C will be changing up in 2021!
A lot has changed in the eleven years since I joined Goodreads, in the seven or so that I have been taking reading challenges. Life changes, age changes, goal changes, mind changes... My reading time is decreasing, yet I still want to reinvigorate the long-range goals that I've allowed myself to set aside.
First Priority in 2021: Great Sci-Fi and Fantasy
[1] Formerly 7-B, now "A"WARDS ("A" for "Authors"): read all the top SF&F authors.
Authors have been winning some sort of "Grandmaster" or "Lifetime Achievement"
award since 1966. Since it would be nearly impossible to read ALL of the works of
ALL of these authors, I am choosing here only to read GM/LA author's works also
winning or nominated for their own awards:
⋆ See GM/LA authors on www.sfadb.com.
⋆ Read all the works NOT marked "winner".
⋆ Skip "winner" works (eventually read in B-WARDS).
⋆ For stories contained in anthologies, yep, finish the anthology.
⋆ For works part of a 'tightly bound' series or 'ilogy', read the complete series.
Each year will have authors from 55, 50, 30, 10, and 1* year(s) ago, (*when
announced). In 2021, consider awardees from ('66), '71, '91, '11, '21.
[2] formerly 7-C, now "B"WARDS ("B" for "Books & Stories"): award-winning SF&F.
Further readings from www.sfadb.com, with winners from years 70, 50, 30, and
10 years ago. Polls (Locus, Analog, etc.) arbitrarily restricted to greater of top 3 or
top 10% in category.
[3] Formerly 7-A, now "C"WARDS ("C" for " Classics of Science Fiction "):
(COSF: the "most remembered" SF&F books and short stories.)
Sixteen books yearly.
⋆ Four Verne
⋆ Four from pre-1951 items
⋆ Four from 1951-1970
⋆ Four from 1971 forward
[4] Sliding 3 points from #1 in 2020, Read All The Books
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Priority 8: Finish 2017 SFFBC Monopoly! (with a 'blackout' board)
[E] Steampunk; New Weird [S] Multiverse; Time Travel, Alt-History;
[V] Low Fantasy; High…, Epic…; [O] Post-Apoc/Dystopia; Sci-Fantasy; Soft/Social SF;
[R] Mythology; Paranormal; Urban Fantasy; [Y] A.I.; Aliens; Space Opera
[G] Literary; Mag.Real; YA; {B} Cyberpunk, Hard SF
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Dice Randomizer
Chance Card pile:
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Current (Books:65/Round:47): "Post-Apoc/Dystopia"; O/🏨; The Memory Police
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Rolled/Read in 2021:
[1] A.I. [Y/🏨]; Catfishing on CatNet [2] Science Fantasy [O/🏨]: Kindred
Rolled in 2020:
[1] Epic Fant. [V/🏨]: The Goblin Emperor [2] Time Trav. [S/🏠]: The Guns of the South
[3] Low Fantasy [V/🏨]: The Blade Itself [4] Mythology [R/ ]: The Song of Achilles
[5] Literary [G/🏠]: Flowers for Algernon [6] Hard SF [B/🏠]: Falling Free
[7] Space Opera [Y/🏠]: The Stars My Destination [8] Hard SF [B/🏨]: Leviathan Wakes
[9] Alt-History [S/🏠]: The Calculating Stars
[10] Space Opera [Y/🏨]: The World at the End of Time
[11] New Weird [E/🏠]: Midnight Riot [12] Multiverse [S/🏨]: Black Science, Vol. 9: …
[13] Mag. Real [G/🏠]: The Prestige [14] Alt-H [S/🏨]: The Coming of the Quantum Cats
[15] Mythology [R/🏠]: Lavinia [16] Aliens [Y/🏨]: A Mirror for Observers
[17] YA [G/🏨]: Gifts [18] Magical Real [G/🏨]: How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky
[19] High Fantasy [√V/🏨]: The Briar King [20] Paranormal [R/🏠]: Conjure Wife
[21] Steampunk [E/🏨]: Karen Memory [22] New Weird [√E/🏨]: Three Parts Dead
[23] Science Fantasy [O/🏨]: The Stone Sky [24] Time Travel [√S/🏨]: Blackout
[25] Group Shelf [Tax]: The Girl With All the Gifts [26] Cyberpunk [√B/🏨], Blood Music
[27] Urban Fantasy [R/🏠]; Weaveworld [28] Literary [√G/🏨], The House of the Spirits
[29] Post-Apoc/Dystopia [√O/🏠]; World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
[30] Paranormal [R/🏨]; Night Watch
Priority 9: [17DUX] TBR-17 'stretch goal': repeat against my other bookshelves. (This round: 1b: second FOS roound, and bonuses)
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IN WORK:
Bonus Challenges:
21.
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Lost my non-GR notes on my reading goals, so adding a few tracking notes here.
6/28/20: Pulling first from FOS shelf, on [3] (Grass) and restarting bonus (21) TBD
⛔ Placeholder. ⛔ (Unlisted) Priority 10: SPR-20 Seasonal Reading Challenge
We'll have to see about this. Considering SUM-20 Seasonal Reading Challenge that starts in June, but that is going to be contingent on getting a lot of other non-reading things done (the SRC can be time-consuming, even just to plan and score!)
20A25S 0+15: Reread ⅓ the rules
20609 0+06 plan 15.1 (2x7.5):
15.1A: female author, 1st pub 1938-1964/5 Witch World
15.1B: male author, 1st pub 1934-1965 Hothouse
June/July/Aug Short Story Progress:(31 May, tallied 182)
02 Jun: "He Who Shapes", Roger Zelazny, 1963 (Threshold)
02 Jun: "Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby's Is a Friend of Mine", Ray Bradbury, 1966
04 Jun: "Studies in Saviory", Roger Zelazny, previously unpublished (Threshold)
07 Jun: "Brothers and Sisters" [Orsinia], Ursula K. Le Guin, 1976
09 Jun: "The Visitor", Ray Bradbury, 1948 (Bradbury Stories)
10 Jun: "The Man", Ray Bradbury, 1949 (Bradbury Stories)
11 Jun: "Henry the Ninth", Ray Bradbury, 1969 (Bradbury Stories)
13 Jun: "The Messiah", Ray Bradbury, 1973 (Bradbury Stories)
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15 Jun: "Bang! You're Dead!" (1944), "The Beautiful Shave" (1979) & "Colonel
Stonesteel's Genuine Home-Made Truly Egyptian Mummy" (1981), Bradbury
16 Jun: "A Week in the Country" [Orsinia], Ursula K. Le Guin, 1976
17 Jun: " Darling Adolf", Ray Bradbury, 1976 (Bradbury Stories)
19 Jun: "At Midnight, in the Month of June", Ray Bradbury, 1954 (Bradbury Stories)
20 Jun: "The Witch Door", Ray Bradbury, 1995 (Bradbury Stories)
21 Jun: "The Watchers", Ray Bradbury, 1945 (Bradbury Stories)
23 Jun: "Hopscotch", Ray Bradbury, 1996 (Bradbury Stories)
24 Jun: "The Illustrated Man", Ray Bradbury, 1950 (Bradbury Stories)
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26 Jun: "The Dead Man", Ray Bradbury, 1945 (Bradbury Stories)
27 Jun: "The Burning Man", Ray Bradbury, 1975 (Bradbury Stories)
29 Jun: "G.B.S. - Mark V", Ray Bradbury, 1976 (Bradbury Stories)
30 Jun: "A Blade of Grass", Ray Bradbury, 1949 (Bradbury Stories)
02 Jul: "And the Sailor, Home from the Sea", Ray Bradbury, 1960 (Bradbury Stories)
03 Jul: "The Lonely Ones", Ray Bradbury, 1949 (Bradbury Stories)
05 Jul: "The Finnegan", Ray Bradbury, 1996 (Bradbury Stories
06 Jul: "On the Orient, North", Ray Bradbury, 1988 (Bradbury Stories)
08 Jul: "The Smiling People", Ray Bradbury, 1946 (Bradbury Stories)
11 Jul: "Miracle", Connie Willis, 1991
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...20 Jul: Robert Silverberg, Majipoor Chronicles: "Thesme and the Ghayrog" (1982),
"The Time of the Burning" (1982), "In the Fifth Year of the Voyage" (1981),
"Calintane Explains" (1982), "The Desert of Stolen Dreams" (1981), "The
Soul-Painter and the Shapeshifter" (1981), "Crime and Punishment" (1982),
"Among the Dream Speakers" (1982), "A Thief in Ni-moya" (1981),
"Voriax and Valentine" (1982)
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...24 Jul: Eight by Ray Bradbury, Bradbury Stories: "Downwind from Gettysburg" (1969),
"Bug" (1996), "Time in Thy Flight" (1953), "Changeling" (1949), "Let's Play
"Poison"" (1946), "The Cold Wind and the Warm" (1964), "The Kilimanjaro
Device" (1965), "The Man in the Rorschach Shirt" (1966)
...31 Jul: Two by Ray Bradbury, Bradbury Stories: "Trapdoor" (1985), "Bless Me, Father,
for I Have Sinned" (1984)
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02 Aug: "The Swan" [Green Town / Dandelion Wine], Ray Bradbury, 1954 (...Stories)
03 Aug: "The Sea Shell", Ray Bradbury, 1944 (Bradbury Stories)
04 Aug: "Once More, Legato", Ray Bradbury, 1995 (Bradbury Stories)
05 Aug: "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone", Ray Bradbury, 1954 (Bradbury Stories)
06 Aug: "Sita Dulip's Method", Ursula K. Le Guin, 2003 (Changing Planes)
07 Aug: "Porridge on Islac", Ursula K. Le Guin, 2003 (Changing Planes)
08 Aug: "The Silence of the Asonu", Ursula K. Le Guin, 1998 (Changing Planes)
08 Aug: "Feeling At Home With the Hennebet", Ursula K. Le Guin, 2003 (Ch. Planes)
08 Aug: "The Ire of the Veksi", Ursula K. Le Guin, 2003 (Changing Planes)
~ 9Aug: "By the Numbers!", Ray Bradbury, 1984 (Bradbury Stories)
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19 Aug: 11 by Ursula K. Le Guin, 2003, Changing Planes: "Seasons of the Ansarac",
"Social Dreaming of the Frin" (2002), "The Royals of Hegn" (2000),
"Woeful Tales from Mahigul", "Great Joy", "Wake Island"
"The Nna Mmoy Language", "The Building" (2001), "Wake Island"
"The The Island of the Immortals" (1998) [250] "Confusions of Uñi"
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26 Aug: Six by Ray Bradbury, from Bradbury Stories: "The Square Pegs" 1948;
"The Trolley", 1955; "The Smile", 1952; "The Miracles of Jamie", 1946;
"A Far-Away Guitar" (aka Miss Bidwell), 1950; "The Poems", 1945;
28 Aug: "This Mortal Mountain", Roger Zelazny, 1967 (online)
28 Aug: "Heaven's Devils", Joe. R. Lansdale and Bruce Tim, 2011,
Rocketeer Adventures, Vol. 1
05 Sep: "The Cistern", Ray Bradbury, 1947 (Bradbury Stories)
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----- 260 -----12 Sep: "Unlocking the Air" [Orsinia], Ursula K. Le Guin, 1990
15 Sep: "Imaginary Countries" [Orsinia], Ursula K. Le Guin, 1973
26 Sep: "All About Emily", Connie Willis, 2011
30 Sep: "The Diary of the Rose" (1976), "Direction of the Road" (1973),
"Gwilan's Harp" (1977), Ursula K. Le Guin
02 Oct: "Corrida", Roger Zelazny, 1968 (The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth
and Other Stories)
03 Oct: "Winterfair Gifts", Lois McMaster Bujold, 2002
04 Oct: "The White Donkey" (1980), "May's Lion" (1983), Ursula K. Le Guin
(The Unreal and the Real, v.1)
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04 Oct: "The Man Who Loved the Faioli", Roger Zelazny, 1967 (TDoHF,tLoHM&OS)
05 Oct: "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" (1987), "Horse Camp" (1986);
Ursula K. Le Guin (The Unreal and the Real, v.1)
07 Oct: "Inn", Connie Willis, 1993 (A Lot Like Christmas)
08 Oct: "The Water Is Wide" (1976), "The Lost Children" (1996), "Texts" (1990),
"Sleepwalkers" (1991), "Hand, Cup, Shell" (1989), "Ether, OR" (1995);
Ursula K. Le Guin (The Unreal and the Real, v.1)
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09 Oct: "A Time to Scatter Stones: A Matthew Scudder Novella", Lawrence Block, 2019
09 Oct: "Half Past Four", Ursula K. Le Guin, 1987 (The Unreal and the Real, v.1)
11 Oct: "The Machineries of Joy", Ray Bradbury, 1962 (Bradbury Stories)
12 Oct: "Bright Phoenix", Ray Bradbury, 1963 (Bradbury Stories)
12 Oct: "The Professor's Houses" (1982), "A Child Bride" (1988); Ursula K. Le Guin
(Unlocking the Air and Other Stories)
12 Oct: "Time and the Gods", "The Coming of the Sea", "A Legend of the Dawn",
"The Vengeance of Men", "When the Gods Slept", "The King That Was Not",
"The Cave of Kai", "The Sorrow of Search", "The Men of Yarnith";
(Pegāna stories of Lord Dunsany, Time and the Gods, 1906)
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13 Oct: "The Wish", Ray Bradbury, 1973 (Bradbury Stories)
13 Oct: "For the Honour of the Gods", "Night and Morning", "Usury", "Mlideen" ³⁰⁰,
"The Secret of the Gods", "The South Wind", "In the Land of Time",
"The Relenting of Sarnidac"; (Pegāna stories of Lord Dunsany, Time and
the Gods, 1906)
13 Oct: "Ruby on the 67" (1996), "Climbing to the Moon" (1992), Ursula K. Le Guin
(Unlocking the Air and Other Stories)
14 Oct: "The Journey of the King" [Pegāna], Lord Dunsany, 1906; (Time and the Gods)
14 Oct: "Icarus Montgolfier Wright", Ray Bradbury, 1956 (Bradbury Stories)
15 Oct: "The Lifework of Juan Díaz", Ray Bradbury, 1963 (Bradbury Stories)
15 Oct: "Daddy's Big Girl" (1987), "Limberlost" (1989), Ursula K. Le Guin
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18 Oct: "The Creatures on My Mind" (1990), "Standing Ground" (1992), "The Spoons
in the Basement" (1982), "Sunday in Summer in Seatown" (1995),
"In the Drought" (1994); Ursula K. Le Guin (Unlocking the Air and Other Stories)
19 Oct: "Findings" (1992), "Olders" (1995), "The Wise Woman" (1996); Ursula K.
Le Guin (Unlocking the Air and Other Stories)
20 Oct: "All Seated on the Ground", Connie Willis, 2007 (A Lot Like Christmas [ALLC])
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21 Oct: "In Coppelius' Toyshop" (1996), "Newsletter" (1997); Connie Willis (ALLC)
22 Oct: "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" (2018), "The City Born Great" (2016),
"Red Dirt Witch" (2016); N. K. Jemisin (How Long 'til Black Future Month?)
23 Oct: "L'Alchimista" (2004), "The Effluent Engine" (20118), "Cloud Dragon Skies"
(2005), "The Trojan Girl" (2011), "Valedictorian" (2012); N. K. Jemisin (How
Long 'til Black Future Month?)
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24 Oct: "The Storyteller's Replacement" (2018), "The Brides of Heaven" (2007), "The
Elevator Dancer" (2018), "The Evaluators" (2017), "Cuisine des Mémoires"
(2018), "Stone Hunger" [The Broken Earth] (2014), "On the Banks of the
River Lex" (2010), "The Narcomancer" [The Dreamblood] (2007), "Henosis"
(2017), "Too Many Yesterdays, Not Enough Tomorrows" (2004);
N. K. Jemisin (How Long 'til Black Future Month?)
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25 Oct: "The You Train" (2007), "Non-Zero Probabilities" (2009), "Sinners, Saints,
Dragons, and Haints, in the City Beneath the Still Waters" (2010);
N. K. Jemisin (How Long 'til Black Future Month?)
28 Oct: "Adaptation", Connie Willis, 1994 (A Lot Like Christmas)
29 Oct: "The Poacher", Ursula K. Le Guin, 1992 (Unlocking the Air)
31 Oct: "Time Intervening/Interim" (1947), "Almost the End of the World" (1957),
"The Great Collision of Monday Last" [The Irish Stories] (1958), "Death and
the Maiden" (1960), "Zero Hour" (1947), [#]"The Toynbee Convector" (1984),
"Forever and the Earth" (1950), "The Handler" (1947), "Getting Through
Sunday Somehow" [The Irish Stories] (1962), "The Pumpernickel” [Green
Town] (1951), "Last Rites” (1994); Ray Bradbury, Bradbury Stories
03 Nov: "No Truce with Kings", Poul Anderson, 1963
05 Nov: "Epiphany", Connie Willis, 1999 (#358)
08 Nov: "The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse" (1954), "All on a Summer's Night"
[Green Town] (1950); Ray Bradbury, Bradbury Stories
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09 Nov: "Soldier, Ask Not" [Childe Cycle], Gordon R. Dickson, 1964
10 Nov: "Null-P", William Tenn, 1951
11 Nov: "The Sentinel" [A Space Odyssey], Arthur C. Clarke, 1951
12 Nov: "The Marching Morons", C. M. Kornbluth, 1951
13 Nov: "The Weapon", Fredric Brown, 1951
15 Nov: "The Last Castle", Jack Vance, 1966
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That's 46 stories (13%) ahead of "Grumpy" schedule
One option is to continue general stories and and go for a "Baker's Grumpy" (366+31 books) schedule.
Rough 2021 scorecard and contents; FFT RATB 2021
2021 TBR Cleanup:
1. Take a gamble
2. Red or black
3. Behind the eight ball
4. Charade
5. Agreeable alliteration
6. Jackpot
7. Pawns
8. An 8 or 21
9. Dealer's choice
10. X marks the spot
11. Murrderrrrr
12. Back from the dead
13. Features a game or puzzle
14. I have no gift for strategy
15. Features best friends
16. Queen of hearts
17. Role-play
18. Amazing race
19. Taboo
20. Critical hit
Amazin' Eights
Alphabet Book Challenge
(Not on my 2021 priorities, but...) SPR-20 Seasonal Reading Challenge
We'll have to see about this. Considering SUM-20 Seasonal Reading Challenge that starts in June, but that is going to be contingent on getting a lot of other non-reading things done (the SRC can be time-consuming, even just to plan and score!)
20A25S 0+15: Reread ⅓ the rules
20609 0+06 plan 15.1 (2x7.5):
15.1A: female author, 1st pub 1938-1964/5 Witch World
15.1B: male author, 1st pub 1934-1965 Hothouse
I guess my 2020 challenges are as organized as they are ever going to be... and since I am starting my 2021 plans, I shall now open this topic for comment!
Mod
3 of Spades - book with nonwhite characters by an ownvoices author
K of Clubs - book with characters who are neurodiverse by a non US/UK author
7 of Clubs - book with African or Caribbean mythology by a non US/UK author
9 of Diamonds - book with southeast Asian mythology by a woman or NB author
8 of Clubs - WILD / MULLIGAN
6 of Clubs - book with characters with mobility issues by a non US/UK author
9 of Clubs - book with southeast Asian mythology by a non US/UK author
4 of Hearts - book with mental health as a focus by an author of color
2 of Hearts - book with at least 2 women or NB protagonists by an author of color
A of Hearts - book with LGBTQIA character(s) by an author of color
Q of Clubs - book with Middle-Eastern/Indian mythology by a non US/UK author
10 of Clubs - book with Indigenous characters by a non US/UK author
Regrouped by suit:4 of Hearts - book with mental health as a focus by an author of color
8 of Clubs - WILD / MULLIGAN
9 of Clubs - book with southeast Asian mythology by a non US/UK author
Abridged rules:
== Each month, you must select a card that matches EITHER the suit or the value of the "card" that dealer reveals, and then find a book that would satisfy those criteria. You then state the "card" you're playing and your nomination.
== People who cannot nominate because they can't play a card draw a card. If they can play it, good! Do that! If you can't, you skip this time, but can still vote on what to buddy read.
== If you have an 8, that card is "wild" meaning it can be played at any time for any book you'd like to nominate, OR it can be used to cash in your hand for a new one.
== Mulligans are taken in lieu of playing a card/nominating a book. You would exchange your hand for the same number of cards you have at that time.
Need to find where I was passed rules for rejoining the game after not playing Mar/Apr/May cards (prob Jun too; think I got Feb).
Okay, wherever I got the original of the following (amended but still not right) it was not friendly to game play. I'll have to review, update, and pass it forward for club benefit...
Start message 'End' msg:
VVV Month Led Winning Book Its Category VVV [that should be sufficient info...
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[37] JAN: When Fox is a Thousand: 9♠ - SE Asian mythology, ownvoices author [252]
[330] FEB: In the Vanishers’ Palace: 9♢ - SE Asian mythology, woman/NB author [542]
[581?] MAR: The Salvage Crew: 3♣ - nonwhite characters, non US/UK author [699/700]
[755] APR: A Spark of White Fire: Q♣ - _______ characters, _____ _____ _____ author [928]
[969] MAY: Elatsoe: K♠ - _____ character by a _____ ___ author [1101]
JUN: Eartheater: 10♡ - Indigenous characters, author of color
JUL CARD: 6♠
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
http://www.theillustratedpage.net/div...
>>>12/31/2020 STATUS:
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000 (CFNA) & 00 (L-13): Gradually restrict myself three active books among Comics, Fiction, Non-fiction, and Audio, and minimize library footprint.
0 (L-1K): Library's electronic "Reading History"--recycle and reduce weekly, to 600 then by 50.
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2021
11 messages to follow, each a goal explanation, progress
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Comics Niche #1, reading ___ for goal(s) __|just for fun
Fiction Niche #1, reading ___ for goal(s) __|just for fun
Nonfiction Niche #1, reading ___ for goal(s) __|just for fun
Audio Niche #1, listening to ___ for goal(s) __|just for fun
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Queue:
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Current Status by Goal:
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[Part One] Twenty Years a Slave (to SFF)
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6/17: Having completed 12 2021 RATB-8 books, switch June priorities to (1) Returning library books, and (B) awards...
❶ [ℓAWARDℓ] Active: none; Queued: ex: R is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury (1966 Forry)
[ℓAWARDℓ] (&.#x3000;&.#x2005;)
❷ [ℓBWARDℓ] ex: queued The Vor Game, 1991 Hugo
❸ [ℓCWARDℓ] ex: queued 1-of-4, Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon
❹ [ℓCOMIXℓ] ex: Batman: vol. MMXXI; Archie #1
[Part B] Playing Dice with the Universe
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❺ [ℓRATB7ℓ] % behind, current book
❻ [ℓTBR-21ℓ] book X, meeting item #21, "book with ___"
❼ [ℓEIGHTℓ] Team: round 5 Me: book X in round 1
❽ [ℓALPHAℓ] ex: A is for Alibi for Title(@M) "A" & Author "M"
❾ [ℓGRUMPℓ] p.xx (links to isfdb TOC) of book _____
❿ [ℓSERIESℓ] book X for col N row # "Name of square" (# of ## in series) and bonus (cute emoji here
[Part D] Back to The Future, Part II
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⓫ ℓ[FOS-1:1]: From __(24)? to ___ in __ months; reading/queued ____
⓬ [ℓ17DUXℓ]
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Some "stamps" to mark stuff: old...
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Bradbury Frederik Pohl Ursula K. Le Guin
🏆 SF&F@⁵⁰′³⁰′¹⁰
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Finish Watership Down series for Debut Author and animal on the cover. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
Series Project (Progress/Finish Your Series in 2021) (personal rules -- only if series -in-progress before 2021 OR stems from a RATB item, and no comics).A2 B2 C2
A3 B3
B1: New-To-You Author: Alison Goodman (Eon/🐉, 1 to go), Daniel O'Malley (1 to go)
A2: Fantasy: https://www.goodreads.com/series/2005... (1 to go)
B2: Science Fiction: Adrian Tchaikovsky (1 to go) or Pohl, Heechee saga, (5 to go) as it is due this year...
C2: Genre Bender: Chaos on CatNet (¡1!); Haggard, Zulu (1); New Crobuzon (2); Oregon (__ to go)
A3: Trilogy: https://www.goodreads.com/series/2022... (2 to go)
B:3 Quartet: https://www.goodreads.com/series/1708... (2 to go)
Each filled-in bingo row earns you one ninja-cat: 🐱👤
Each filled-in column earns you one astro-cat: 🐱🚀
Single-book bonuses:
1) has a dragon (or the word dragon) on the cover: you get the dragon 🐉
2) has a weapon (or the name of a weapon) on the cover: you collect the knife 🔪√
3) has a person on the cover: you collect the dancer 💃√
4) has a landscape on the cover: you collect the flower 🌺
5) has stars or planets on the cover: you collect the star ✨√
6) has an fantastical/not real creature or the name of one on the cover: you collect the unicorn 🦄√
7) has a real animal/name of one on the cover: you collect that animal's emoji 🐰🐒🐅🦅🦚🐟 etc. (repeatable) 🐦√
8) features a murder investigation: you collect the detective 🕵️♂️
9) features an alien/vampire/zombie/ghost: you collect the 👽√ or 🧛♂️ or 🧟♀️ or 👻 (repeatable)
10) features a love story/couple/some romantic elements: you collect the hearts 💕√
11) features space travel: you collect the UFO 🛸√
12) features a very cold, icy environment or a very hot one: you collect ice ❄ or fire 🔥 (repeatable)
Goals 7A,7B,7C will be changing up in 2021!A lot has changed in the eleven years since I joined Goodreads, in the seven or so that I have been taking reading challenges. Life changes, age changes, goal changes, mind changes... My reading time is decreasing, yet I still want to reinvigorate the long-range goals that I've allowed myself to set aside.
First Priority in 2021: Great Sci-Fi and Fantasy
[1] Formerly 7-B, now "A"WARDS ("A" for "Authors"): read all the top SF&F authors.
Authors have been winning some sort of "Grandmaster" or "Lifetime Achievement"
award since 1966. Since it would be nearly impossible to read ALL of the works of
ALL of these authors, I am choosing here only to read GM/LA author's works also
winning or nominated for their own awards:
⋆ See GM/LA authors on www.sfadb.com.
⋆ Read all the works NOT marked "winner".
⋆ Skip "winner" works (eventually read in B-WARDS).
⋆ For stories contained in anthologies, yep, finish the anthology.
⋆ For works part of a 'tightly bound' series or 'ilogy', read the complete series.
Each year will have authors from 55, 50, 30, 10, and 1* year(s) ago, (*when
announced). In 2021, consider awardees from ('66), '71, '91, '11, '21.
[2] formerly 7-C, now "B"WARDS ("B" for "Books & Stories"): award-winning SF&F.
Further readings from www.sfadb.com, with winners from years 70, 50, 30, and
10 years ago. Polls (Locus, Analog, etc.) arbitrarily restricted to greater of top 3 or
top 10% in category.
[3] Formerly 7-A, now "C"WARDS ("C" for " Classics of Science Fiction "):
(COSF: the "most remembered" SF&F books and short stories.)
Sixteen books yearly.
⋆ Four Verne
⋆ Four from pre-1951 items
⋆ Four from 1951-1970
⋆ Four from 1971 forward
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❶ [AWARD] Read all the top SF&F authors
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Ray Bradbury (Forry 1966)
4 of 8 stories, 6 collections, 1 of 3 novels
☐ 2020 RH75 “I, Rocket” short story winner
☐ 1977 WFA Long After Midnight coll/anth nom
☐ 1972 Seiun “The Blue Bottle” foreign short story winner
☒ 1981 Locus The Stories of Ray Bradbury single author coll 6th
☐ 1973 Seiun “The Black Ferris” foreign short story winner
☐ 1989 Stoker The Toynbee Convector coll nom
| 1989 Locus The Toynbee Convector coll 11th
☐ 1989 Stoker “The Thing at the Top of the Stairs” short story nom
☐ 1997 Locus Quicker Than the Eye coll 3rd
☐ 1998 WFA Driving Blind coll nom
| 1999: BFA Driving Blind coll nom
☐ 2002 WFA* From the Dust Returned novel nom
| 2002 Stoker From the Dust Returned novel nom
| 2002 Locus From the Dust Returned fantasy novel 8th
☐ 2003 Stoker One More for the Road fiction coll winner
2021 Weekly Status of Goals, Challenges, and Games: Friday 8/10/20218/4 #1: GM Authors: 2021 initial goals--not set.
Rough 2021 goals: 99 stories (9/mo.); 150 books (12.5/mo.), unreachable!
Selected works of Bradbury, Pohl (1966); Sturgeon, Lafferty (1971); Siodmak,
Cherry (David), Grant, Kyle (David), Merril (Judith) (1991); Bujold,
Rosen (Selina), Beagle, Gorodischer, Vallejo, Grossman Ketchum, Dozois (2011)
8/4 #7: Alphabet book challenge:
2021 Philosophy: reduce emphasis on reading, and on challenges; streamline everything
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Comics New Suicide Squad, Volume 1: Pure Insanity for New 52; The Dog Is Not a Toy: House Rule #4 for nostalgia rereading (& completing!) the Get Fuzzy Series; The Joker: Endgame for Modern Batman [4] ᴄᴏᴍɪx ;
Fiction: China Mountain Zhang for RATB-8 (#14) & the last 2017 Monopoly entry. ; Long After Midnight for ① ᴀ∗ᴡᴀʀᴅ, & for ⑥ ɢʀᴜᴍᴘʏ;
Nonfiction Niche #1, reading ___ for goal(s) __|just for fun
Audio Niche #1, listening to ___ for goal(s) __|just for fun
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Queue:
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Current Status by Goal:
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[Part One] Twenty Years a Slave (to SFF)
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❶ [AWARD] Read all the top SF&F authors
❷ [BWARD] Award-winning SF&F works (50, 30 & 10 years ago)
❸ [CWARD] At least 4 items annually off "CoSF" list(s)
❹ [COMIX] Comics Clean-Up: 'all' Batman; New 52: cull & Rebirth (4/mo)
[Part B] Playing Dice with the Universe
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❺ [RATB7] 42 books, SFFBC bookshelf (~3.5 /mo), 'earliest soonest'
❻ TBR-21 challenge
❼ Amazin' Eights
❽ Alphabet Book Challenge
❾ [GRUMP] 2020 Short Fiction Challenge, 365 stories (joint with 9- GM et. al.)
❿ Series finishing
[Part D] Back to The Future, Part II
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⓫ Clean the FOS shelf
⓬ [17DUX] TBR-17 'stretch goal': repeat against my other bookshelves.
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2021
11 messages to follow, each a goal explanation, progress
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Comics Niche #1, reading ___ for goal(s) __|just for fun
Fiction Niche #1, reading ___ for goal(s) __|just for fun
Nonfiction Niche #1, reading ___ for goal(s) __|just for fun
Audio Niche #1, listening to ___ for goal(s) __|just for fun
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Queue:
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Current Status by Goal:
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[Part One] Twenty Years a Slave (to SFF)
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6/17: Having completed 12 2021 RATB-8 books, switch June priorities to (1) Returning library books, and (B) awards...
❶ [ℓAWARDℓ] Active: none; Queued: ex: R is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury (1966 Forry)
[ℓAWARDℓ] (&.#x3000;&.#x2005;)
❷ [ℓBWARDℓ] ex: queued The Vor Game, 1991 Hugo
❸ [ℓCWARDℓ] ex: queued 1-of-4, Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon
❹ [ℓCOMIXℓ] ex: Batman: vol. MMXXI; Archie #1
[Part B] Playing Dice with the Universe
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❺ [ℓRATB7ℓ] % behind, current book
❻ [ℓTBR-21ℓ] book X, meeting item #21, "book with ___"
❼ [ℓEIGHTℓ] Team: round 5 Me: book X in round 1
❽ [ℓALPHAℓ] ex: A is for Alibi for Title(@M) "A" & Author "M"
❾ [ℓGRUMPℓ] p.xx (links to isfdb TOC) of book _____
❿ [ℓSERIESℓ] book X for col N row # "Name of square" (# of ## in series) and bonus (cute emoji here
[Part D] Back to The Future, Part II
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⓫ ℓ[FOS-1:1]: From __(24)? to ___ in __ months; reading/queued ____
⓬ [ℓ17DUXℓ]
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Some "stamps" to mark stuff: old...
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Bradbury Frederik Pohl Ursula K. Le Guin
🏆 SF&F@⁵⁰′³⁰′¹⁰
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2021 GOALS
2021 ONGOING (MEDIUM) STATUS
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'Stretch' goal: keep my 2021 list to the top page of the club bookshelf.
The following (20 unread) books
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(111) Regarding Ducks and Universes Maslakovic, N.
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In 2020: [Dec] 47 Shadow's Son 46 Too Like the Lightning 45 The Warded Man 44 Caliban's War [Nov] 43 World War Z 42 John Dies at the End 41 The House of the Spirits [Oct] 40 The Power 39 Ninefox Gambit 38 Red Rising 37 Weaveworld 36 The Girl With All the Gifts [Sep] 35 Blackout 34 Promise of Blood 33 Three Parts Dead [Aug] 32 City of Bones 31 Homeland 30 The Sword-Edged Blonde 29 Karen Memory [Jul] 28 Touch 27 Doomsday Book 26 Grass [Jun] 25 The Player of Games 24 The Briar King [May] 23 The Well of Ascension 22 Arcadia 21 The Black Prism 20 Foreigner [Apr] 19 Spinning Silver 18 Midnight Riot 17 Ship of Magic 16 The Calculating Stars 15 The Aeronaut's Windlass [Mar] 14 Old Man's War 13 Sea of Rust 12 Leviathan Wakes 11 Wizard's First Rule 10 The Stars My Destination 09 The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer [Feb] 08 The Native Star 07 Flowers for Algernon 06 The Collapsing Empire 05 The Song of Achilles 04 The Blade Itself 03 Uprooted [Jan] 02 The Summer Tree 01 The Goblin Emperor
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1. Inspired by a meme David Crockett: The Lion of the West (Written to refute the Disneyfication of "♪ ♫♪ Da-a-avy, Davy Crockett...♪ ♫"
2. Nominated for 2+ awards (didn't win): The Blade Itself was Locus Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2007), Compton Crook Award Nominee (2008), Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2010)
3. Small publisher William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Quark Press
4. Relationship between humans/animals -- Flowers for Algernon
5. Recommended by a public figure -- Andrew Luck, Leviathan Wakes
6. Steal from someone else: Volume 9 conclusion of the Black Science graphic novel saga (Black Science, Vol. 9: No Authority But Yourself)
7. Makes you wonder -- haha, any Seven Wonders RATB (The Native Star)
8. Fits a past SFFBC nomination theme: The Goblin Emperor (November 2015 Debut novel)
9. #ownvoices How Long 'til Black Future Month?
10. Won a smaller or regional award -- The Guns of the South
11. What a title?! -- Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction
12. Published in a memorable year -- Changewar, 1983
13. #relatable -- Old Man's War
14. Seven or Twenty -- the seventh Tarzan book, Tarzan the Untamed
16. Pushing the boundaries The Calculating Stars
17. The next [insert popular series here]...Thomas Covenant: The Summer Tree
18. LOLed IRL Midnight Riot
19. Seen in an ad or on social media The Collapsing Empire
20. Hindsight is 20/20 Lavinia
Still within reach, as I have it on audio @7h 45m:
15. Dialect, slang, or pidgin languages Brown Girl in the Ring
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365 plus 52 novellas
Gregory Beneford, TimescapeFrederik Pohl, JEM
Joanna Russ, The Female Man
Robert Silverberg, Dying Inside
Cordwainer Smith, Norstrilia
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic
Jack Vance, Night Lamp
Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence (HarperCollins, 1993)
SciFi and Fantasy Book Club
Books mentioned in this topic
In the Vanishers’ Palace (other topics)Chaos on CatNet (other topics)
Long After Midnight (other topics)
China Mountain Zhang (other topics)
The Dog Is Not a Toy: House Rule #4 (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
Ray Bradbury (other topics)Frederik Pohl (other topics)
Ursula K. Le Guin (other topics)
Larry Niven (other topics)
Ernest Cline (other topics)
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Priority 1:
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Read
4249 books from the SFFBC bookshelf.(that's 3.5/month)'Stretch' goal: keep my 2021 list to the top page of the club bookshelf.
The following (20 unread) books
arewere off the bottom:------------------------------------------------------------
2020 Priority 1: Read All The Books: 2020: Seven Wonders (RATB)
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Read
4249 books from the SFFBC bookshelf.(that's 3.5/month)'Stretch' goal: keep my 2021 list to the top page of the club bookshelf.
The following (20 unread) books
arewere off the bottom:------------------------------------------------------------
(123) Midnight Riot (Peter Grant, #1) Aaronovitch, Ben(117) Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1) Scalzi, John(112) Deathless (Leningrad Diptych, #1) Valente, C.M.(111) Regarding Ducks and Universes Maslakovic, N.
(108) Weaveworld Barker, Clive(107) The Native Star (Veneficas Americana 1) Hobson, M.K.(106) The Sword-Edged Blonde (LaCrosse, #1) Bledsoe, Alex(104) Blackout (All Clear, #1) Willis, Connie(102) John Dies at the End (#1) Wong, David(093) World War Z Brooks, Max(088) The Player of Gamesᴬ (Culture #2) Banks, Iain M.(087) Shadow's Sonₕ₀ (Shadow Saga, #1) Sprunk, Jon(085) Leviathan Wakes (Expanse #1) Corey,James S.A(081) Homeland (Dark Elf 1, Drizzt 1) Salvatore, R.A.(078) The Summer Tree (Fionavar #1) Kay, Guy G.(077) The Blade Itself (First Law #1) Abercrombie, J.(074) Doomsday Bookᵁ ⁷ᴮ⁺ (OTT #1) Willis, Connie(068) Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders #1) Hobb, Robin(035) The Briar Kingᴬ ⁷ᴮ⁻ (KoT&B #1) Keyes, Greg(020) Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth #1) Goodkind, Terry====================================================================
In 2020: [Dec] 47 Shadow's Son 46 Too Like the Lightning 45 The Warded Man 44 Caliban's War [Nov] 43 World War Z 42 John Dies at the End 41 The House of the Spirits [Oct] 40 The Power 39 Ninefox Gambit 38 Red Rising 37 Weaveworld 36 The Girl With All the Gifts [Sep] 35 Blackout 34 Promise of Blood 33 Three Parts Dead [Aug] 32 City of Bones 31 Homeland 30 The Sword-Edged Blonde 29 Karen Memory [Jul] 28 Touch 27 Doomsday Book 26 Grass [Jun] 25 The Player of Games 24 The Briar King [May] 23 The Well of Ascension 22 Arcadia 21 The Black Prism 20 Foreigner [Apr] 19 Spinning Silver 18 Midnight Riot 17 Ship of Magic 16 The Calculating Stars 15 The Aeronaut's Windlass [Mar] 14 Old Man's War 13 Sea of Rust 12 Leviathan Wakes 11 Wizard's First Rule 10 The Stars My Destination 09 The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer [Feb] 08 The Native Star 07 Flowers for Algernon 06 The Collapsing Empire 05 The Song of Achilles 04 The Blade Itself 03 Uprooted [Jan] 02 The Summer Tree 01 The Goblin Emperor
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1. Inspired by a meme David Crockett: The Lion of the West (Written to refute the Disneyfication of "♪ ♫♪ Da-a-avy, Davy Crockett...♪ ♫"
2. Nominated for 2+ awards (didn't win): The Blade Itself was Locus Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2007), Compton Crook Award Nominee (2008), Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2010)
3. Small publisher William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Quark Press
4. Relationship between humans/animals -- Flowers for Algernon
5. Recommended by a public figure -- Andrew Luck, Leviathan Wakes
6. Steal from someone else: Volume 9 conclusion of the Black Science graphic novel saga (Black Science, Vol. 9: No Authority But Yourself)
7. Makes you wonder -- haha, any Seven Wonders RATB (The Native Star)
8. Fits a past SFFBC nomination theme: The Goblin Emperor (November 2015 Debut novel)
9. #ownvoices How Long 'til Black Future Month?
10. Won a smaller or regional award -- The Guns of the South
11. What a title?! -- Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction
12. Published in a memorable year -- Changewar, 1983
13. #relatable -- Old Man's War
14. Seven or Twenty -- the seventh Tarzan book, Tarzan the Untamed
16. Pushing the boundaries The Calculating Stars
17. The next [insert popular series here]...Thomas Covenant: The Summer Tree
18. LOLed IRL Midnight Riot
19. Seen in an ad or on social media The Collapsing Empire
20. Hindsight is 20/20 Lavinia
Still within reach, as I have it on audio @7h 45m:
15. Dialect, slang, or pidgin languages Brown Girl in the Ring
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