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Hi everyone!! I'm very sorry that I've dropped the ball the last two months with the #ClassicLSFBC. Between work and some recent health issues, I haven't been on Litsy as much as I'd like and things got away from me. Unless someone else wants to take over, I figured we'd let the book club pause the rest of 2025, and start anew in January. Let me know what's the general consensus. Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving (a little early)

I cannot recommend The Murderbot Diaries enough. So. Much. Fun. And the narration by Kevin R. Free is perfection.

Wasn‘t my favourite murderbot book but I still love the journey!

Onto the next!

(1959) Second in Norton's “Time Traders“ series. In this one, time agents discover an alien spaceship crash-landed on Earth in the Pleistocene. When the agents send it through a time gate for studying in the present, they accidentally trigger a return-to-home function, sending the mysterious craft and all on board to distant worlds. It's a big-dumb-object adventure, one of my favorite sf tropes, and I hope Norton builds on it through the series

#2025reads #ClassicLSFBC @RamsFan1963 #sciencefiction

This is sad, beautiful, funny, warming as it is unsettling. And in the midst of all this there is wonderful imagery like this:

“There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children‘s playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree.”

quote fr “December 2001 The Green Morning”

97/100 I've always thought Harry Harrison was a very underrated author, he doesn't get the mentions other writers of his era does. James "Slippery Jim" diGriz is his best creation. Con man, thief, smuggler and rogue, he knows how to fight but would rather think and talk his way out of bad situations, also he tries never to kill anyone unless its self defense. This book contains 3 of his short novels, and is a great introduction to

10,000 years ago aliens committed a great wrong against the human race. Now they have returned to Earth to atone by taking select Earthlings to act as Witnesses on other planets.

The first part in which we follow the work of one team of Witnesses was by far the best. The second and third parts lagged a bit and were not as exciting as they could or should have been.

Well written and very engaging.
Maya is studying in earth, but when her friend asks her to help steal a lost artifact crucial to their people, Maya joins the new crew and they embark on a galaxy wide adventure full of forgotten memories, visions of the future, and alien museums.
4.5/5 read for a Laura Croft type hero who wants to her help her friend but must choose if that help is worth the cost humanity

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️an important book about the power of reading, knowledge and the human connection.

A schizophrenic descent into a narcotic agent and junkie‘s double life, who gradually begins to lose the threads of his double act, as the addictive Substance D he ingests, in turn, eats away at his own brain. Instead of this novel being PKD‘s view on any and all drug wars, he claims it is more of a personal and neutral memorial to those friends devastated by substance abuse, himself included.