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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
