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Space Opera Sunday: Steel Frame

Book cover: Steel Frame - Andrew SkinnerRook has a choice: volunteer for hazardous duty or stay on the chain gang. It’s no choice at all. But deep in Open Waters, something ancient and hungry is stirring. If Rook can’t stop it, death is coming for everyone.

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December 8, 2019 Reviews

#SciFiMonth: Mission Complete

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Welcome to final SciFiMonth Mission Status for this year. What a month it’s been: over 330 blog posts plus a treasure trove of tweets, pictures and comments! Thank you all so much for making it our most epic SciFiMonth yet.

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December 2, 2019 Giveaways, SciFiMonth, SciFiMonth 2018

Six Degrees of SFnal Separation: revisited

SciFiMonth 2019: Adventure works in any strand (background image of a distant star gleaming past the curve of a planet)
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Kate over at Books Are My Favourite And Best took over the bookish Six Degrees of Separation meme in 2016: she nominates a book and participants see where it leads them. For SciFiMonth, I ignored Kate’s prompt and issued a SciFiMonth challenge to start at Frankenstein and see how far we could go…

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November 30, 2019 SciFiMonth 2019, Special Features

Current SF authors I really want to read

SciFiMonth 2019: Adventure works in any strand
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Last week, I took a look at backlist SF authors I’m yet to read, focusing on women published before 2000. Today, I’m looking at authors that I’m dying to read publishing SF in the last few years.

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November 26, 2019 SciFiMonth 2019, Top Ten Tuesday

#SciFiMonth Mission Status: week four

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Welcome to half of the weekly SciFiMonth Mission Status log! I’ll be covering the week’s reviews and read-alongs again this week – hop over to Dear Geek Place for a round-up of the week’s discussions and other comms chatter.

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November 25, 2019 Giveaways, SciFiMonth, SciFiMonth 2018

Book Tag: the SF TV Shows tag

Decorative text: The Sci-Fi TV Shows Book Tag
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Annemieke is on a roll this year! First she created an epic genre reading challenge and for SciFiMonth she has created the SF TV Shows Book Tag. I’ve only seen two of these shows, but I’ve read a lot of books… I can do this, right? Let’s find out…

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November 24, 2019 Book Tags, SciFiMonth 2019

Read-along: Record of a Spaceborn Few – week three

SciFiMonth Read-along: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
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Being part of the Galactic Commons is bringing changes to the Exodan Fleet, and change can be a scary thing. Sometimes you need a bit of perspective to know what’s good for you…

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November 23, 2019 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2019

The Sparrow Read-along: week three

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On Rakhat, Emilio dances God, transported by the beauty of the alien world and the challenge of learning to communicate with the Runa. On Earth, Vincenzo Giuliani is determined to save the priest who fell from grace.

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November 22, 2019 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2019

Backlist SF authors I really want to read

SciFiMonth 2019: Adventure works in any strand
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We all spend a lot of time focused on recent releases: today, I want to look at SF that has been on the shelf a little longer and – horrifyingly – is disappearing from it as backlist books get so little love in bookshops.

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November 20, 2019 SciFiMonth 2019, Top Ten Tuesday

#SciFiMonth Mission Status: week three

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We’ve just passed the halfway point on our journey, and the reports are coming in thick and fast from the ground crews and the wider Fleet. Adventure has been found in deep space, on other planets, in other times and dimensions and (of course) in a galaxy far, far away. Let’s take a look…

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November 18, 2019 Giveaways, SciFiMonth, SciFiMonth 2018

Read-along: Record of a Spaceborn Few – week two

SciFiMonth Read-along: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
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In the Exodan Fleet, everyone is guaranteed a home and food on their table, and everyone works to make a contribution to the Fleet in return. But life isn’t without difficulties. This week focuses on the challenges faced by those who make the Fleet their home…

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November 17, 2019 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2019

Confessions of a bad SF Fan: Childhood’s End

Book cover: Childhood's End - Arthur C ClarkeTime for one of my intermittent efforts to catch up on the greats of science fiction. For SciFiMonth (ahem, and the Hive prompt for Dancing with Fantasy and SciFi) I chose Arthur C Clarke’s first novel – one of his earliest and apparently one of his best.

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November 14, 2019 Confessions of a Bad SF Fan, Reviews

The Sparrow Read-along: week two

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Blessed with impressive funding and free from the concerns of global politics or corporate profit, a mission to another planet becomes far more feasible. But the Jesuits believe they have another advantage in their corner: Deus vult.

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November 13, 2019 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2019

#SciFiMonth Mission Status: week two

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We’re all settled in for the journey now. The TBRs are stashed, the reading has begun in earnest, and there’s a media catalogue big enough to keep Murderbot happy. Maybe. Let’s look back at the last week’s activity…

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November 11, 2019 Giveaways, SciFiMonth, SciFiMonth 2018

Six Degrees of SFnal Separation

SciFiMonth 2019: Adventure works in any strand (background image of a distant star gleaming past the curve of a planet)
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You know the saying: no two people in the world (uncontacted peoples excepted) are more than six social connections apart. But what interesting reading journeys can we find if we apply it to thematic connections between books?
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November 10, 2019 SciFiMonth 2019, Special Features

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