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This folder is for voting on and discussing the book of the month for the group reads. I also invite anyone who has read the book of the month to read one of the other 3 books that will be voted on each month and discuss or comment on it instead.

We read one or two books monthly as a group. The object is to explore the SF genre & foster group discussion. Please keep that in mind when nominating a book.

General book nomination guidelines:

Books are nominated in periods (1) based on their original publishing date.(2)

All nominations should be made with the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ link to the book (not the cover) using the "add book/author" link above the comment box. The Timegod is an example.

One nomination per person. If you change your nomination, please delete your earlier one from the thread.

Books must be readily available in the group language, English. The more available a book is (multiple formats, good price) the more likely people are to vote for it.

Books should be the first in a series unless they stand alone.

Only books that the group hasn't read in the past are eligible. You can find the books in the Group Bookshelf
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If we have read more than 3 books by an author in a period, their books will not be eligible for further nominations in that period for 5 years.(3)

We'll make at least one group poll for the period. If about 8 or more books are nominated, we might create 2 polls & break up the books in whatever manner seems appropriate.

(1) The current reading periods are:
Pre 1920
1920-1939
1940-1959
1960-1979
1980-1999
2000-Present

(2) Sometimes these dates aren't clear due to republishing, but generally we'll use whatever date Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ has as the first publishing date. If there is a question, make your case & the moderators will rule on it based on the current number of nominations & other factors.

(3) Authors that are ineligible for nomination are:
Pre 1920 - Proto SF
1920-1939 Pulp Era
1940-1959 Golden Age
1960-1979 New Wave
Philip K. Dick
Ursula K. Le Guin
1980-1999
2000-up

Book self-nomination rules:

Authors can nominate their own book for a group read under the following conditions:
- Up to 3 times if it meets the group's other read criteria.
- They & anyone voting for their book must have been a member of this group for 3 months & made at least 1 comment.
- The nomination must disclose that they are the author, self-nominating, & why they think we should read it.
- They must provide a copy to the designated reader at least 2 weeks prior to make sure it will qualify before nominating their book publicly.
- If the book wins, they must provide those who voted for it with a free copy in all major formats (pdf, epub, mobi), up to a dozen copies on a first come, first serve basis to others in the group.
- All author promotions are limited to the Promotion folder except for the nomination post. The author may answer direct questions, but keep them short. Refer to their topic in the promotion folder if it looks as if an off-topic conversation is starting.

As always, the moderators reserve the right to break up polls to foster group reads. We may break out self-published authors into a separate poll if enough apply.

We will also stop this at any time without prior notice if we feel that it is disturbing the group too much.

Books Read By Month/Year With Topic Links: 2013 - 2015

August 2013:
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818)
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September 2013:
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne (1865)
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October 2013:
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (1898)
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November 2013:
The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel (1901)
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December 2013:
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle (1912)
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A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay (1920)
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January 2014:
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1921)
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February 2014:
War with the Newts by Karel ÄŒapek (1935)
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March 2014:
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart (1949)
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April 2014:
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester (1955)
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Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (1953)
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May 2014:
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (1966)
Have Space Suit—Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein (1958)
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The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (1959)
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June 2014:
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
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Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (1967)
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July 2014:
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959)
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Ubik by Philip K. Dick (1969)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (1968)
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August 2014:
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany (1974)
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (1973)
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The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle (1974)
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle (1977)
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September 2014:
The Inverted World by Christopher Priest (1974)
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October 2014:
Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
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Hyperion by Dan Simmons (1989)
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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (1985)
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November 2014:
The Prestige by Christopher Priest (1995)
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The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe (1980)
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December 2014:
Women at War by Lois McMaster Bujold (1995)
The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold (1986)
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Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem (1995)
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January 2015:
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1993)
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Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (2002)
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February 2015:
The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (2010)
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March 2015:
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (2009)
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The Martian by Andy Weir (2012)
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April 2015:
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (2007)
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The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter and Other Fantastic Stories by Anonymous (2013)
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May 2015:
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (1864)
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June 2015:
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells (1896)
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July 2015:
The Iron Heel by Jack London (1908)
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August 2015:
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
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September 2015:
Metropolis by Thea von Harbou (1925)
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October 2015:
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis (1938)
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November 2015:
Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp (1941)
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December 2015:
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (1950)
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
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Books Read By Month/Year With Topic Links 2016 - 2018

January 2016:
City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin (1967)
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February 2016:
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin (1971)
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March 2016:
Timescape by Gregory Benford (1980)
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April 2016:
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr. (1990)
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1992)
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May 2016:
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (2001)
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June 2016:
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (2014)
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July 2016:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
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The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A.E. van Vogt (1950)
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August 2016:
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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September 2016:
Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)
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October 2016:
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (1972)
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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (1979)
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November 2016:
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
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December 2016:
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (1996)
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January 2017:
Old Man's War by John Scalzi (2005)
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The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron (2007)
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February 2017:
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (2016)
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March 2017:
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (1897)
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April 2017:
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon (1953)
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May 2017:
Solaris by Stanisław Lem (1961)
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June 2017:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)
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Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny (1976)
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July 2017:
Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh (1981)
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³Ò²¹±ôá±è²¹²µ´Ç²õ by Kurt Vonnegut (1985)
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August 2017:
The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke (1993)
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September 2017:
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (2003)
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The City & the City by China Mieville (2009)
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October 2017:
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011)
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November 2017:
The Clockwork Man by E.V. Odle (1923)
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The World of Null-A by A.E. van Vogt (1945)
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December 2017:
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (1959)
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January 2018:
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick (1974)
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February 2018:
The Difference Engine by William Gibson & Bruce Sterling (1990)
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Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1992)
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March 2018:
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
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Nexus by Ramez Naam
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April 2018
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott (1884)
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May 2018
R.U.R. by Karel Capek (1921)
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June 2018:
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1951)
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July 2018:
Gateway by Frederik Pohl (1977)
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Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (1961)
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August 2018:
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks (1988)
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A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (1992)
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September 2018:
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2015)
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October 2018:
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
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November 2018:
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
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December 2018:
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
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Books Read By Month/Year With Topic Links 2019 & up

January 2019: The New Age: 1960-1979
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
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Deathworld 1 by Harry Harrison
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February 2019: 1980- 1999
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
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March 2019: Current: 2000 & up
Lock In by John Scalzi
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April 2019: Proto SF, pre-1920
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
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May 2019: The Pulp Era: 1920-1939
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
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Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
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June 2019: The Golden Age: 1940-1959
The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl
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July 2019: The New Age: 1960-1979
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
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August 2019: 1980-1999 era
On Basilisk Station by David Weber
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September 2019: 2000 & up era
We Are Legion by Dennis E. Taylor
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October 2019 - Proto SF era, up to 1919
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
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November 2019: The Pulp Era: 1920-1939
The Whisperer in Darkness by H.P. Lovecraft
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Gladiator by Philip Wylie
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December 2019: The Golden Age: 1940-1959
1984 by George Orwell
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Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
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