MobileRead August 2014 Book Club Nominations

[treadlightly]

I'll second The Martian

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by John F

Edit: Nevermind. I thought it was saying the book won an award, but I think they are saying the author won an award(s) (for other work(s)).


Looking at the cover on Amazon, it says "Hugo and British Science Fiction award winner"; what Hugo award did it win?

It didn't win a Hugo, Brunner won it 1969 and 1971? for Stand On Zanzibar and The Sheep Look Up. But it was a finalist.

The Shockwave Rider is a superb book. I've read it a half dozen times...

I second (obviously) The Shockwave Rider.

(But what can you expect? My tagline comes from it!)

[Synamon]

I'll third Ancillary Justice. It's on sale for $1.99 at Amazon (and probably elsewhere since it's a Hachette title), plus I found it at my public library (Overdrive).

[ccowie]

I'd like to nominate Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

From the Hardcover:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Words of Radiance, coauthor of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn Trilogy, Brandon Sanderson presents Steelheart, the first book in the Reckoners series, an action-packed thrill ride that will leave readers breathless.
How far would you go for revenge if someone killed your father?
If someone destroyed your city?
If everything you ever loved was taken from you?
David Charleston will go to any lengths to stop Steelheart. But to exact revenge in Steelheart’s world, David will need the Reckoners—a shadowy group of rebels bent on maintaining justice.
And it turns out that the Reckoners might just need David too.
"A tense, fast-paced adventure. Brandon Sanderson is one of the best fantasy sci-fi writers working today."-Christopher Paolini, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller Eragon
“Fantastic! The suspense is relentless and the climax explosive.” —James Dashner, New York Times bestselling author of the Maze Runner series and The Eye of Minds

“Steelheart is another win for Sanderson, proving that he’s not a brilliant writer of epic fantasy, he’s simply a brilliant writer. Period.” —Patrick Rothfuss, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Name of the Wind
[STAR] “Snappy dialogue, bizarre plot twists, high intensity action, and a touch of mystery and romance; it’s a formula that sucks readers into the prologue, slings them through one tension-filled encounter after the other, and then...leaves them panting for the sequel.”—Booklist, Starred

“The near-constant action, Sanderson’s whiz-bang imaginings, and a fully realized sense of danger… make this an absolute page-turner.”—Publishers Weekly

“Perfect for genre fans who love exciting adventure stories with surprising plot twists.”—School Library Journal

“A straight-up Marvel Comics–style action drama.”—Kirkus Reviews

[JSWolf]

We need for seconds/thirds so please give Halting State a nod so we can get on with the voting sooner.

[crich70]

I want to nominate The City at Worlds End. It's available at Amazon
Amazon US

And here at MR. Mobileread
It's basically a story about a town that finds itself with a unique problem.

The quote is the one posted at Amazon.

Kenniston realized afterward that it was like death. You knew you were going to die someday, but you didn't believe it. He had known that there was danger of the long-dreaded atomic war beginning with a sneak punch, but he hadn't really believed it.
Not until that June morning when the missile came down on Middletown. And then there was no time for realization. You don't hear or see a thing that comes faster than sound. One moment, he was striding down Mill Street toward the plant, getting ready to speak to the policeman coming toward him. The next moment, the sky split open.
It split wide open, and above the whole town there was a burn and blaze of light so swift, so violent, that it seemed the air itself had burst into instantaneous flame. In that fraction of a second, as the sky flared and the ground heaved wildly under his feet, Kenniston knew that the surprise attack had come, and that the first of the long-feared super-atomic bombs had exploded overhead....
Shock, thought Kenniston, as his mouth crushed against the grimy sidewalk. The shock that keeps a dying man from feeling pain. He lay there, waiting for the ultimate destruction, and the first eye-blinding flare across the heavens faded and the shuddering world grew still. It was over, as quickly as that.
He ought to be dead. He thought it very probable that he was dying right now, which would explain the fading light and the ominous quiet. But in spite of that he raised his head, and then scrambled shakily to his feet, gasping over his own wild heartbeats, fighting an animal urge to run for the mere sake of running. He looked down Mill Street. He expected to see pulverized buildings, smoking craters, fire and steam and devastation. But what he saw was more stunning than that, and in a strange way, more awful.
He saw Middletown lying unchanged and peaceful in the sunlight.
The policeman he had been going to speak to was still there ahead of him. He was getting up slowly from his hands and knees, where the quake had thrown him. His mouth hung open and his cap had fallen off. His eyes were very wide and dazed and frightened. Beyond him was an old woman with a shawl over her head. She, too, had been there before. She was clinging now to a wall, the sack of groceries she had carried split open around her feet, spilling onions and cans of soup across the walk. Cars and street-cars were still moving along the street in the distance, beginning erratically to jerk to a halt. Apart from these small things, nothing was different, nothing at all.

[Mims]

I'll second Halting State.

[WT Sharpe]

I'll second The City at World's End by Edmond Hamilton and add the link to the mobi upload in our library by JSWolf.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13785

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I'll second The City at World's End by Edmond Hamilton and add the link to the mobi upload in our library by JSWolf.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13785

I'll have to get an ePub of this one made.

[Dazrin]

Several good nominations so far but I need to do some research before I decide where to put my votes. I can't go through the Baen Free Library at work and I know there are some good titles there (Honor Harrington series, Starfire series, 1632, etc.) Maybe Wool would be a good starting point too. Decisions, decisions...

I really like The Martian, but it has been read by a fair amount of people recently, so I suspect most people have written their comments in this thread and we might end up with just a re-hashing of that.

[ccowie]

I'll third The City at World's End

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I'll have to get an ePub of this one made.

crich70 already linked to one already in the library.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

Several good nominations so far but I need to do some research before I decide where to put my votes. I can't go through the Baen Free Library at work and I know there are some good titles there (Honor Harrington series, Starfire series, 1632, etc.) Maybe Wool would be a good starting point too. Decisions, decisions...

I really like The Martian, but it has been read by a fair amount of people recently, so I suspect most people have written their comments in this thread and we might end up with just a re-hashing of that.

That's my only problem with The Martian as a nomination. It's a great book, one I'd recommend with no reservations, great hard science fiction, and an edge-of-your-seat great thrill ride. But it's already had its own thread here at MobileRead as well as having been discussed by several MobileReaders (of which I'm one) in the Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading? thread. Of course, that doesn't mean it can't be a book club selection, but I don't see what could possibly be added that hasn't already been said.

BTW, if anyone hasn't read this story, what are you waiting for? This one rocks!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

<snip> Decisions, decisions... <snip>

I'll make it easy on you. The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner still needs a 2nd and 3rd.

[jemc]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

It didn't win a Hugo, Brunner won it 1969 and 1971? for Stand On Zanzibar and The Sheep Look Up. But it was a finalist.

The Shockwave Rider is a superb book. I've read it a half dozen times...

I second (obviously) The Shockwave Rider.

(But what can you expect? My tagline comes from it!)

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I'll make it easy on you. The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner still needs a 2nd and 3rd.

Tom, "The Shockwave Rider" already received a second and here's a third.