All the information is in the blog title, but if you didn’t quite catch it, this month we’ll be intrepidly exploring one of URSULA K. LE GUIN’s science fiction worlds. Now, I could list the extensive selection of awards this lady has won or been nominated for over the years to give you some idea of how important a writer Le Guin […]
First of all, a big thank you to everyone who entered or shared the competition to win four titles from our #ReadWomenSF’s reading list. I had some really great book recommendations come through. I’ve picked a winner, though, and it goes to a Twitter user by the name of @LM_Towton. Congratulations! I’ll be posting through your prize just as […]
For November’s #ReadWomenSF, we’ll be reading Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson (see blurb below). We had three top books to choose from, though, all picked out for us by @janeoreilly, and they’re definitely worth a look; I’ve left their blurbs and whatnot below, too, if you’d like to add them to your […]
For this month’s #ReadWomenSF, the lovely Carol (@JupitersGhost) picked three great books for us to choose from (and I urge you all to add them to your TBR piles). As fate would have it, the author we’ve voted to read for October was on the very panel that inspired this reading group! Very fitting. So we’ll be getting stuck […]
As the Man Booker Prize shortlist is being announced on the 20th September, this month’s #ReadWomenSF will be The Water Cure – the only sci-fi novel written by a woman nominated for this year’s longlist. The Amazon link is provided in the title below, but please do pop to your local library if you can’t […]
In celebration of the brand new instalment in the Wayfarers series (releasing on the 24th July), August’s #ReadWomenSF will be your choice of a Becky Chambers’ book. Following the successes of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit, excitement levels are staggeringly high for book three. So here’s your […]
In honour of the Arthur C. Clarke Awards this month (2018’s winner due to be announced on 18th July), we’ve taken a vote on four books that have either won or been short-listed for the prize in the past. The votes have been counted and the book we’ll all be reading this month will be ANCILLARY […]
This month’s #ReadWomenSF book was my very first foray into the works of Octavia E. Butler. Recently re-released with BEAUTIFUL new cover art by Yeti Lambregts, Kindred is a time-travelling historical novel set between 1970s California and pre-civil war Maryland. With this new edition, I’m sincerely hoping this book finds lots of new readers because, honestly, […]
The group has voted and our third read for #ReadWomenSF is KINDRED by Octavia E. Butler. Which is ace because I’ve been hankering to read Butler since we started this. Kindred or Dawn were the two I had my eye on, and Kindred is only 99p on Kindle at the moment, so grab yourself a […]
Well, voting didn’t go to plan. We had two joint winners with 45% of the vote each. So, beings as I don’t get to take part in any Twitter polls I post, I guess I get the deciding vote. So for May, we’ll be reading… WHO FEARS DEATH by Nnedi Okorafor. I know this title probably […]
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