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I‘ve got about 3 hours left in this book, and I‘m holding out for a happyish ending. Probably not realistic, but I sure wouldn‘t mind one. It got up to 79° here today, so I was walking in shorts again. #ClassicLSFBC #audiowalk

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RamsFan1963

Classic Science Fiction Stories | Adam Roberts

Hi Everyone!! I'm trying to be better with my mid-month check-in for #ClassicLSFBC. I hope everyone was able to find a copy of Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, either in print, ebook or audiobook. Now is the time to make nominations for January's #ClassicLSFBC selection. As usually, the book with the most votes will be January pick and the runner up will be for February. With it being a new year, with a new presidential administration, ⬇️

RamsFan1963 I was sorely tempted to pick something dystopian, but I'll try to keep it positive. My nomination is The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey. @Bookwomble @Ruthiella @TheSpineView @BookmarkTavern @wanderinglynn @Readergrrl @Johanna414 @Lizpixie @BookBelle84 @Larkken @julesG @Deblovestoread @majkia @LeticiaToraci @sebrittainclark @kwmg40 2d

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Ruthiella Looking forward to another year of classic sci-fi! 👍I don‘t have any nominations, however. I‘ll vote from everyone else‘s picks. 2d

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TheSpineView Would love to reread

The Martian Chronicles

CatLass007 I loved The Ship Who Sang. I‘m almost certain that I still have my copy. But it‘s packed away in a box in my storage building behind my house. But I‘d love to read something else by Anne McCaffrey. The Pern series is fabulous but she wrote other series I‘ve never read, so I‘ll nominate Freedom‘s Landing. Whatever the group chooses, I‘m inspired to read a lot more of her work in 2025 than I had thought of.

Freedom's Landing

swynn Yay for more classic SF! I hope to participate more regularly in 2025. I've been thinking about a reread of Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man, so I'll nominate that.

Demolished Man

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KathyWheeler

The Doomsday Book | Connie Willis

Well, something happened in this book that I wasn‘t expecting, but when I look back, it‘s not surprising. A friend and I went on a historic homes and churches tour, and it was such a beautiful day, I went for another walk when we were done. #audiowalk #ClassicLSFBC

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Ruthiella

Untitled | Unknown

#weekendreads

My weekend is booked with these three works:

The Whispering Statue is for #NancyDrewBR and #ChristmasCrimeChallenge

The Doomsday Book is for #ClassicLSFBC

Mystery in White is for #ChristmasCrimeChallenge

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Centique Love love love The Doomsday Book - i think we‘ve talked about the Connie Willis love before! 😍 4d

Ruthiella @Centique I don‘t think we have? This is only the second of hers that I‘ve read. 4d

willaful @Centique Me too. I used to reread it every summer. 4d

Centique @Ruthiella i must be confused sorry! I had talked about this book with Jenny on a Reading Envy podcast years ago and got a few Littens expressing their Connie Willis feels. I hope you enjoy it! 4d

BkClubCare I have always wanted to read Doomsday. 👏 13h

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KathyWheeler

The Doomsday Book | Connie Willis

I‘m predicting that someone Kivrin meets in the past is not who we and Kivrin are lead to think he is. I‘m not that great with figuring things out, so we‘ll see if my prediction is right. #ClassicLSFBC #audiowalk

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rwmg

Doomsday Book | Connie Willis

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In a time travel accident Kivrin Engle ends up just before Christmas 1348, when the Black Death arrived in Oxford and the surrounding countryside. Can she survive until rescue comes from 2055 Oxford? ⬇

#ClassicLSFBC @RamsFan1963

rwmg Very readable with well developed main characters, though some of the side characters, especially in 2055, were stock figures of fun. Written in 1992 and very presciently putting a pandemic in the 2020s, though in that world it was a lot worse than in ours. I'm not sure the author did all her homework, however, and there were some definite anachronisms in her picture of the 14th century. 1w

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KathyWheeler

The Doomsday Book | Connie Willis

I‘m glad this is the December book for #ClassicLSFBC because I‘m not sure I would‘ve picked it up again after multiple attempts to read it. I‘m about half way through and really like it. I got home before the rain started. It was 75° today; tomorrow, it‘s supposed to be in the 40s. #audiowalk

Ruthiella Nice when you give a book a second (or third) chance and it works out! 1w

KathyWheeler @Ruthiella It is! The same thing happened to me with In Cold Blood and Moby Dick. With Moby Dick, I‘d started it off and on over 40 years and finally read it a couple of years as a Litsy buddy read. 1w

rubyslippersreads I prefer the other books in this series.

Blackout

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KathyWheeler @rubyslippersreads Do they need to be read in a particular order? 3d

rubyslippersreads @KathyWheeler I haven‘t read them in order (and haven‘t read all of the series yet), but still enjoyed them. According to Goodreads, there‘s a new one coming in 2025,

Spanner in the Works

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rwmg

The Doomsday Book | Connie Willis

#coffeeandabook #ClassicLSFBC

@RamsFan1963

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RamsFan1963

Ringworld | Larry Niven

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112/150 Finally finished November's #ClassicLSFBC selection. I first read this when I was around 17 and thought it was a great adventure, but looking back on it 44 years later, I see the more obvious flaws. I still enjoyed the Ringworld as an amazingly imaginative construct, something that would take multiple books to fully explore and understand, but the characters annoyed me more this time than before. Louis's attitude toward Teela, and all ⬇️

RamsFan1963 women for that matter, was extremely grating. Teela herself was pretty infuriating at first, but at least she improved a little by the end. The non-humans, Nessus and Speaker-to-Animals, were much more interesting than either human. I have the sequel to this that I might get around to reading one day. 3 ⭐⭐⭐💫 1w

AnishaInkspill yeah, this has flaws but there is something about it and I would also read the second one 1w

kwmg40 Agreed. The non-human characters were much more interesting. 6d

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