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 […]
We had our first #ReadWomenSF chat this evening and it went great! Big thank you to everyone who joined in. It would be nice to see some more fellas in next month’s though. Tom doesn’t really count. PERSONAL VERDICT: I thought All Systems Red by Martha Wells was a very strong read. The main character […]
In my previous blog post I set up a poll to choose what we’ll be reading for our first ever #ReadWomenSF Read Along, and the people have spoken. For April, our eyeballs will be getting all down and dirty with Martha Wells’ ALL SYSTEMS RED. At the time of picking the titles for next month, […]
(A monthly Read Along book group for those who want to explore science fiction written by women.) I participated in a panel event at the Women of the World festival in London with the title Do Women Dream of a Different Future: Women and Science Fiction and it didn’t take much research to find that […]
