07-19-2013, 04:55 PM | #1 |
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August 2013 Book Club Nominations
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August 2013 Nominations Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for August, 2013. The nominations will run through midnight EST July 30 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days. Book selection category for August is: Science Fiction In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third). How Does This Work? The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome. How Does a Book Get Selected? Each book that is nominated will be listed in a poll at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection. How Many Nominations Can I Make? Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person. How Do I Nominate a Book? Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest. How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated? Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP. When is the Poll? The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the initial poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed. The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area. Official choices with three nominations each: (1) Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo / Sony Spoiler:
(2) A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle / Scott Dutton Design & Illustration: ePub Spoiler:
(3) Lost Horizon by James Hilton Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle Spoiler:
(4) Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks Amazon UK / Amazon US Spoiler:
(5) Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Amazon US / Barnes & Noble Spoiler:
(6) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Amazon US / Kobo Spoiler:
(7) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Amazon Canada / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble US / Bookworld Australia Spoiler:
(8) Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds Amazon Canada / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo / Sony Reader Store Spoiler:
(9) Solaris by Lem Stanislaw Amazon UK / Amazon US / B&N (US) / Diesel / Google Play (AUS) Spoiler:
(10) Doomsday Book by Connie Willis Amazon Canada / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble US / Bookworld Australia Spoiler:
The nominations are now closed. Last edited by WT Sharpe; 07-23-2013 at 07:59 AM. Reason: Thru post 59 |
07-20-2013, 12:03 AM | #2 |
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Wondering if a particular book is available in your country? The following spoiler contains a list of bookstores outside the United States you can search. If you don't see a bookstore on this list for your country, find one that is, send me the link via PM, and I'll add it to the list. In addition, if members let me know that an ebook is unavailable in a particular geographic location, I'll note it in this post, right beside the Inkmesh search for that particular book.
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*** A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs [issybird, fantasyfan, Hamlet53] Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle / Scott Dutton Design & Illustration Spoiler:
*** Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky [Gabriel Morcan, caleb72, Dazrin] Amazon US Barnes & Noble Spoiler:
*** Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke [John F, Gabriel Morcan, Dazrin] Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo / Sony Spoiler:
*** Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds [John F, WT Sharpe, jmilica] Amazon Canada / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo / Sony Reader Store Spoiler:
*** Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks [fantasyfan, issybird, jemc] Amazon UK / Amazon US Spoiler:
*** Doomsday Book by Connie Willis [sun surfer, Bookpossum, jemc] Amazon Canada / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble US / Bookworld Australia Spoiler:
*** Lost Horizon by James Hilton [crich70, Hamlet53, fantasyfan] Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle Spoiler:
* Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlen [drofgnal] Amazon (US) / B&N (US) / Diesel (US only) Spoiler:
* Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: Watching the Clock by Christopher L. Bennett [WT Sharpe] Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Kobo / Sony Reader Store Spoiler:
* Existence by David Brin [WT Sharpe] Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Kobo / Sony Spoiler:
*** Solaris by Lem Stanislaw [Gabriel Morcan, caleb72, jemc] Amazon UK / Amazon US / B&N (US) / Diesel / Google Play (AUS) Spoiler:
*** Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury [issybird, Bookpossum, Synamon] Amazon US / Kobo Spoiler:
*** Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card [sun surfer, Hamlet53, jmilica] Amazon Canada / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble US / Bookworld Australia Spoiler:
* The Forever War by Joe Haldeman [AnemicOak] Amazon CA / Amazon UK / Amazon US / B&N / Kobo / Waterstones Spoiler:
* Dune by Frank Herbert [AnemicOak] Amazon CA / Amazon UK / Amazon US / B&N / Kobo / Sony (US) / Waterstones Spoiler:
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07-20-2013, 02:59 AM | #3 |
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I cannot nominate anything as I am somewhere with very little wifi, but I rather liked all Stephen Donaldson and Frank Herbert.
Edit: but with ample time to read tons of books.....so: nominate away...... Last edited by desertblues; 07-20-2013 at 03:05 AM. |
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I'm going to nominate A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs of Tarzan fame. It's the first in Burroughs's Barsoom series. From Wikipedia:
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I nominate Roadside Picnic by the Strugatskys brothers. The film Stalker is loosely based on the novel.
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I'll nominate Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke.
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I'll nominate Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.
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It was published in 1972 (wiki). The first english translation was 1977 (wiki). It was first published in Russia. Most likely it is still under copyright? |
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07-20-2013, 10:09 AM | #12 |
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I nominate Surface Detail by the late Iain M. Banks.
This is the penultimate Culture novel by Banks--written in 2010. In fact, it is our final visit to the Universe of The Culture as it is set later than The Hydrogen Sonata which was his final science-fiction novel. Surface Detail is regarded as one of the finest books set in that Universe. It has an epic sweep spanning Real and Virtual worlds. We meet the fascinating Ship minds, a memorable villain, and are submerged in a murder story, Machiavellian politics, a revenge quest and fascinating minor characters all set within four inter-related and integrated plots. The blurb from Amazon reads: "It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself." While the culture novels share a common setting, they can be read as stand-alone books. This wonderful book is available at a modest price from Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Surface-Deta...rds=iain+banks and Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...e+Detail+Banks An Epub version is available from the itunes Store and I imagine it would also be obtainable from Kobo or Feedbooks. Last edited by fantasyfan; 07-20-2013 at 10:22 AM. |
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I'll second A Princess of Mars.
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07-20-2013, 10:32 AM | #14 |
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Second Surface Detail.
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07-20-2013, 11:05 AM | #15 |
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I nominate Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.
From Amazon: Winner of both the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the Nebula Award for Best Novel. For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin -- barely of age herself -- finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours. Five years in the writing by one of science fiction's most honored authors, Doomsday Book is a storytelling triumph. Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit. From Publishers Weekly: This new book by Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning author Willis ( Lincoln's Dreams ) is an intelligent and satisfying blend of classic science fiction and historical reconstruction. Kivrin, a history student at Oxford in 2048, travels back in time to a 14th-century English village, despite a host of misgivings on the part of her unofficial tutor. When the technician responsible for the procedure falls prey to a 21st-century epidemic, he accidentally sends Kivrin back not to 1320 but to 1348--right into the path of the Black Death. Unaware at first of the error, Kivrin becomes deeply involved in the life of the family that takes her in. But before long she learns the truth and comes face to face with the horrible, unending suffering of the plague that would wipe out half the population of Europe. Meanwhile, back in the future, modern science shows itself infinitely superior in its response to epidemics, but human nature evidences no similar evolution, and scapegoating is still alive and well in a campaign against "infected foreigners."p. 204 This book finds villains and heroes in all ages, and love, too, which Kivrin hears in the revealing and quietly touching deathbed confession of a village priest. Availability: Amazon UK Bookworld Australia Amazon Canada Barnes & Noble US Amazon US Last edited by sun surfer; 07-20-2013 at 11:24 AM. Reason: added links |
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