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The Memory Collectors: A Novel | Dete Meserve

#aardvark picks- grabbed another #camplitsy25 book!

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Bookish_Gal

The Rest of the Robots | Isaac Asimov

so-so

This is another collection of short stories about robots in society in the I, Robot series. What‘s interesting about these stories, is that they are mostly magazine style shorts. Which Asimov would describe, himself, prior to each story. The stories themselves didn‘t really strike me as hard as the first book did, though they were still fun reads. Still worth a read if you like the original story world.

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RamsFan1963

Classic Science Fiction Stories | Adam Roberts

We have a very eclectic selection for June's #ClassicLSFBC. I think any of them would make for a enjoyable read or reread. As usual, the book with the most votes will be for June, and the next closest will be the choice for July. I'll announce the winners on Monday. #ClassicLSFBC
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CatLass007 I will vote for PD James‘s

The Children of Men

The_Literary_Jedi I‘m so undecided now! Wow! So many great choices. Since it‘s been on my TBR forever, I think I‘ll vote for

Foundation

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RaeLovesToRead I vote Lord of Light! 2d

RaeLovesToRead Also, I had no idea that Children of Men was written by PD James! 2d

TheSpineView Voting for

Foundation Series/Foundation Bk 1/Foundation and Empire Bk 2/Second Foundation Bk 3/Foundations Edge

rwmg I'll cast my vote for Foundation, but will be equally happy with Children of Men.

Foundation

swynn I'm going to abandon my nomination to vote for Lord of Light which I should have read by now but haven't. But really, I'll be happy to read (or re-read) any of these. 2d

kwmg40 I'll vote for Foundation. 2d

Larkken Lord of light pls! 2d

KathyWheeler I loved The Children of Men movie and have always meant to read the book. I‘d actually be okay with any of these though. 2d

Ruthiella I‘m going to sit this and next month out. I‘ll rejoin in August! 2d

Bookwomble Lord of Light 😊 2d

Texreader I‘m not in the group but I can tell you James Hogan is amazing!!! His sci fi can be very deep (& so I skipped it) and didn‘t miss a beat of the fantastic stories he‘s written. I‘ve had dinner with him and he was an amazing and interesting man 1d

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Larkken

Sundiver | David Brin

pick

I had this novel backburnered from a #classicLSFBC buddyread, but I‘m happy to have finally read it! Great cover, wacky book. I‘m giving it a low pick bc the idea of humanity entering the space-faring universe as one of the only species not to have a patron to introduce technology led to interesting alien dynamics. But the plot was all over the place - a Jekyll-&-Hyde thing, a murder mystery, oddly timed pov shifts, hand-to-hand fighting… I dunno

Ruthiella There was indeed a lot going on in this one. But the idea of patronage was very interesting and thought provoking. 2d

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Robotswithpersonality

Ardent Violet and the Infinite Eye | Alex White

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so-so

Emotional damage! Honestly if you want to get a flavour for what this book is going to do to you, just go to the two page author's note On Black Cats and Books at the back, you'll get a feel for the devastation.
There are still moments where what made the first book special to me reappears, but this is a second book in a trilogy? series? and while it ends one arc of conflict, it makes the book mostly about said conflict. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I'm never well-suited for a novel so heavily focused on the cost and components of combat. There's spectacular world-building being done, a lot of potential in the alien races and alliances introduced even if the Coalition might not survive the current book's outcomes.
I just need a higher ratio of triumph or relief to heartbreak. Ardent and Gus made it out, but they're not together, and worse, Ardent thinks Gus is dead. Ardent and Gus made 1w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? but Greymalkin and Falchion didn't, not to mention both Jotunn AND Hjalmar. Considering the amount of character development given to the Mechas, I feel wronged as a reader having three of the four original team Mechas destroyed, even if it was complicated - their past actions and relationship with human conduits. And I guess I have some questions about what could possibly happen in the next book given there were already understood to be 1w

Robotswithpersonality 4/? negative health outcomes for Ardent and Gus as a result of becoming conduits, and the Mechas were their best shot at planetary defence. Will the next book finally be more from Nisha's perspective?
On the plus side, this series has strong non-binary, queer and now, chronic pain and disability rep, and at least one character opening up about trauma, I just wish I could say it was also a book where those characters were having a good time for (edited) 1w

Robotswithpersonality 5/5 more than moments I can count on one hand.
Will I read the next book whenever it comes out? Probably, in that now somewhat naive hope that there is a happy ending waiting for all those who have managed to survive to this point.
⚠️body horror, mention of statutory SA, suicide (edited) 1w

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swynn

The Weapon Makers | A.E. Van Vogt

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(1947)

This is a kind-of sequel to April's #ClassicLSFBC read, “The Weapon Shops of Isher“, and continues the story of Weapon Shop agent Robert Hedrock. Here he investigates rumors about a new interstellar drive ... and finds himself condemned to death both by the Empire and the Weapon Shop. This was conceived as a single story so feels more coherent than mashup TWSOI; still, the story takes off in multiple directions for that signature VV style

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