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Peter Watts’ Blindsight should be no stranger to anyone on PrintSF. On our Reddit incarnation, it was recommended in just about every thread asking for recommendations. It was sometimes even a suitable recommendation....

For me, best of 2023 was Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow. A retirement-age forensic accountant traveling around in an ex-rock star bus from Walmart parking lot to next gourmet dining location does a job for a billionaire and suddenly ends up in a surprising amount of hot water over it. Hijinks ensue....

Mass Effect, Star Trek, similar stuff, without the giant franchise money machine. To consume like popcorn....

Hey everybody! Sorry I missed last weekend was busy with work. Again this is voting for the book to discuss at the end of October. I’ll post the runner up from last month and otherwise post your selection. Don’t forget that we will be discussing Winter World by A.G. Riddle at the end of the month / next weekend!...

First discussion thread for the book club. This is for August’s book Player of Games by Iain Banks....

What sci-fi books are missing something that seems obvious to us today (and is somewhat central to the story / setting)?...

Hey everybody! It’s the middle of August so that means it’s time to vote on what to read for September. The most upvoted comment will be the book for September’s discussion. The runner-up will be automatically reposted for the next month’s vote. In case of a tie I’ll move each one involved. If the runner up was your...

The title’s a bit dramatic, but I was having trouble coming up with a good pun or otherwise....

By popular demand I’m putting together a monthly book club. My plan is to vote for a book to discuss around the middle weekend of the month and to discuss it on the last weekend of the following month. Should give ~6 weeks to find a copy from a library to checkout or purchase it if you like and a little more time to read it in...

Imagine I could only choose 5 sci fi books for a brand new sci fi reader – what would they be?

That name cannot be a coincidence, can it? ;)

Any interest? Vote on a book, hold a discussion thread 4 weeks later. Maybe make the vote it’s own post with comments being the books and taking the highest upvoted suggestion. Or most total votes up or down for better discussion later.

I just finished reading House of Suns. Wonderful book. So many great ideas and such alien concepts. I really enjoyed it....

Thought it’d be fun to share what everyone has been reading. I’ll try to include titles and authors to make finding more information on them easier as well as a brief synopsis and my thoughts....

Politics, combat, exploration, found family. Recs?

If so, do you have an opinion? Somewhat of a polarizing work.

This book was eerily amazing when it was written, but doesn’t account for modern technologies. And I haven’t really kept abreast of the thriller market....

Paste a passage from your favourite speculative fiction, replacing all the proper nouns with “Lemmy”. Then I’ll try to guess where it came from without using google :)

So I’ve been in the Malazan marathon for a while. Currently early in book nine, but expect to be done book ten within a month. It’s fantastic (pun intended)! Going to need something to cleanse the palate after such a rich series – the speculative fiction equivalent of the pickled ginger served with sushi. Any suggestions?

Thanks to everyone that has posted or DMed about the bot doing the Reddit crossposting, and giving me your thoughts! Reviews have been mixed, which I expected, about whether or not the bot is useful or annoying or somewhere in between. It’s getting turned off for now and I’ll let the community grow organically....

Sorry for multiple posts spamming people’s feed over the past few hours! Our bot became a bit frisky. I think it’s all sorted now.

I have a bot to help bring in fresh content. Posts on Reddit are being crossposted here. Don’t worry, each will only appear once, and comments on these posts in Reddit will not be crossposted....

It was a post-apocalyptic story. The protagonist was a young teenage girl who comes out of some kind of a bomb shelter and has to deal with a world where almost everybody seems to have died. She was written as very bright and into martial arts I think. I seem to recall it was written in an odd style. Any ideas?

So I'm not super familiar with science fiction outside of the occasional story in anthologies, but something I'm aware occasionally pops up tends to involve futuristic interpretation of gender and sexuality, along with odd and out there biology. I think it'd be very fun to read a book that discusses these topics, however I don't...