Welcome! You are most certainly not the only Virginia person here, I know cassidym hails from those parts, and I was born there (and still have family there).
And for another link, check out our MobileRead book club. This month we are doing contemporary novels (all free), and there's a few Scifi titles on the list. It is currently up for vote (whichever has the highest votes is that month's pic). Here's the link:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37219