Hello /c/sciencefiction, it is that time of the month. Time to vote for the book of the month. The options are loosely collected from the most voted and discussed books in the "What are you Reading" thread for August.
At the end of the month the poll will be closed and the winner will be the book of the month for August 2023. Myself and hopefully some others will read this book over the following month and then near the end of the month a discussion post will be made to talk about it. Feel free to participate or not at your leisure.
Once the book is chosen it will be set to "Reading" status on the community BookWyrm account here. https://bookwyrm.social/user/ScienceFiction Feel free to follow this account with your own BookWyrm account so other members can find you. This can help people find book recommendations of like minded science fiction readers.
Here are this months selection
- Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
- 22/11/63 - Stephen King
- Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey
- Hyperion - Dan Simmons
- Wool (Silo Series Book 1) - Hugh Howey
- Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Red Rising - Pierce Brown
- Neuromancer - William Gibson
- A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
I'm shocked that I've never read any of these although a bunch are on my list. Voted for Neuromancer because cyberpunk is my main focus for my own work.
Only one I read on this list is Project Hail Mary and it was really good…and everyone I know who has read it (including people who don’t regularly read science fiction) loved it, too.
Neuromancer is basically the manifesto of the cyberpunk genre. A great novel with an astonishing prophetic look at the technologies of the future.