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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
How about The Air Conditioned Nightmare?
The theme would be Utopian/Disutopian fiction.
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I like dystopian books myself; it's really the
only area of SFF I enjoy, but this seems like an attempt to do an end run around the genre proscription.
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Originally Posted by GreyWolfsGhost
I'm not a regular participant but frequently lurk hoping I can get/ read the book in time.
I had two ideas pop into my head
The present: the pasts future
And because of the discussion in the May vote thread
Runner up retry: 2nd chances
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There was an annual runner-up month in the old MR Club and I'm not a huge fan. The books have already been nominated and people can read them or not as they will; any individual book can be renominated; it means a themeless month which I think is inherently less interesting and no new books to catch someone's attention as well. There are a lot of books out there!
Honestly, I think the real reason for the retread was to give both the members and the runner a break from nominations in the holiday season, which is a good-enough reason but not compelling.
As for the first, books that occur include
1984 and
Looking Backward, i.e., books that were set in the future when they were written, but now are about a past that didn't happen.