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Here are some books I don‘t have time to read this month. 😂

🪴 Galactic Pot-Healer - for #classicLSFBC
🗽 Language City - for book club, p. 115/378
⚠️ A Psalm for the Wild Built - for Banned Books Week which is in October this year? Rescheduled accordingly
⭐️ Where the Forest Meets the Stars - for the #keywordchallenge
🔥 The Fireman - for IG group read, p. 463/750
🤠 The Gunslinger Born - for #losersclub with @BarkingMadRead

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September's selection for #ClassicLSFBC is Philip K. Dick's Galactic Pot Healer. I confess I'm totally unfamiliar with this book, so it should be interesting going in totally blind. Being PKD, I'm sure it's going to be wild and weird. I hope everyone enjoyed August's selection, The Left Hand of Darkness. I think it's one of LeGuin's best novels, and a totally unique world creation.
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(1969) It's a story about culture clash and friendship on a world whose natives are sexually neuter for most of their lives, except once a month when they may become either male or female. I remember bouncing off this when I first encountered it in grade school, so was delighted to find it completely absorbing as a thought piece, as a story about cross-cultural friendship, and as an adventure yarn.

This was the August pick for #ClassicLSFBC

I had to renew my library card to order The Left Hand of Darkness for this month's #ClassicLSFBC pick, and while I was there randomly picked up this graphic novel, which, to my delight, is a blend of Tintin and Indiana Jones.
Julius Chancer is the young archaeology assistant to London-based antiquarian Sir Alfred Catesby-Grey. It's the 1920s, and Hollywood starlet Lily Lawrence teams up with Julius to help extricate her boozy aristocratic ⬇️

Classic SF novel about an ice age planet where the inhabitants are neither male nor female except at certain points in their reproductive cycle when they may become either.

I first read this around 1980 and found it enthralling, loving the exploration of the ideas. I then read it again 20-odd years ago when I found the journey across the icecap tedious. This time it was more enjoyable but it didn't have the wow factor from when I first read it.

#coffeeandabook
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repost for @RamsFan1963

The #ClassicLSFBC selection for August is Ursula LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness. I've read this not long ago, so I'll probably pass on the reread, but those who haven't read it are in for a treat.

September's choice is Galactic Pot Healer by Philip K. Dick. It was a tie between this and Software, so I flipped a coin and GPH won. Happy reading everyone!!

#BuddyRead

The #ClassicLSFBC selection for August is Ursula LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness. I've read this not long ago, so I'll probably pass on the reread, but those who haven't read it are in for a treat. September's choice is Galactic Pot Healer by Philip K. Dick. It was a tie between this and Software, so I flipped a coin and GPH won. Happy reading everyone!!
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(1967) I've tried this one before and didn't get far, and even this time I found that it takes some time to get used to the premise and the space. But once it clicks -- for me it clicked in the third chapter -- it is a delight. It's humorous, intriguing, and sneakily serious about the role of religion in civilization. A potential future re-read for sure.

Thanks #ClassicLSFBC for prompting me to move it from “someday“ to “okay, now“

#ClassicLSFBC
Zelazny weaves elements of Hindu and Buddhist motifs in a tale of technocratic "gods" vying for power and freedom on a far future alien planet.
It's a story of liberation from religious, oligarchic oppression, which once frames this as a fight against fascism, so it also fits for the #AntifaBookClub
The means of control of the populous is a high technology dressed in state religious ideology, used to enforce scientific ignorance ⬇️