03-20-2009, 07:55 PM | #31 |
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I nominate Neptune crossing, since I just started reading it .
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03-20-2009, 08:20 PM | #32 |
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Ok, since I only made 1 nomination so far and I want to see more books for the vote and I like Richard Herley's Refuge so much I will nominate:
The Penal Colony by Richard Herley It is 1997. The British government now runs island prison colonies to take dangerous offenders from its overcrowded mainland jails. Among all these colonies, Sert, 25 miles off the north Cornish coast, has the worst reputation. There are no warders. Satellite technology is used to keep the convicts under watch. New arrivals are dumped by helicopter and must learn to survive as best they can. To Sert, one afternoon in July, is brought Anthony John Routledge, sentenced for a sex-murder he did not commit. Routledge knows he is here for ever. And he knows he must quickly forget the rules of civilized life. But not all the islanders are savages. Under the charismatic leadership of one man a community has evolved. A community with harsh and unyielding rules, peopled by resourceful men for whom the hopeless dream of escape may not be so hopeless after all ...
AND: The Moon and the Sun by Vonda McIntyre 1997 Nebula Award winner Set in Versailles, France, in 1693, The Moon and the Sun tells the story of a Marie-Josephe, a lady-in-waiting to the niece of Louis XIV -- the Sun King. Marie-Josephe's brother, Father Yves de la Croix, is a Jesuit and also the King's natural philosopher and explorer. He has brought the King a living sea woman and a dead male, both captured on an ocean voyage. So begins a rich tale of conscience, politics, science, history, and love. BOb |
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In the interest of having more choice for folks, there's a lot of Sci-Fi on the current list, I'll add a nomination for Catherine M. Wilson's When Women Were Warriors: Book 1 The Warrior's Path.
She is offering the first book free in PRC and PDF in a thread here... https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...light=warriors ...the book can be downloaded here... http://www.catherinemwilson.com/free-ebook.html The PRC seems to convert well to LRF and EPUB in Calibre. Quote:
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I'll second Penal Colony!
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Can I nominate Moejoe?
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03-20-2009, 11:23 PM | #37 |
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Noo...Here are his stories that I know of:
Ur, Wabbit Season, A Song of Insects, and I think he has like six more out there that I haven't mentioned yet. |
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I think he has a collection...maybe we should drag him in here to pimp himself
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I think there is a little bit of confusion about how the book selection process works.
The first round is the nominations round. This is the thread in which people can make suggestions and recommendations. After three people have nominated a book, it goes on to the voting round. During the nominations round, nominations don't get counted after 3 people suggest the same book. The second round is the voting round. Every qualifying book from the nominations round gets put in a poll, and the single book with the most votes after a week is the one that will be read in the next month. |
03-21-2009, 10:49 AM | #45 |
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Fledchen, Vonda McIntyre's The Moon And The Sun should be through to the voting round. Pilot Bob nominated it in post #32, ShortNCuddlyAm seconded in post #41 and I gave it a third in post #43.
That makes a total of seven books in the voting round, so far. |
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