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Originally Posted by issybird
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. 
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. |
I suggested it as a reminder that the future never turns out like we think, by seeing "futures" that didn't turn out they way they were thought up.
I read to either learn something I didn't already know (non-fiction) or as a "magic carpet" to take me to places I could never go. It doesn't matter if I go to places that were, and no longer are, or never were in the first place.