Help Us Pick Our Novellas for August!

Hi everyone,

Help us pick out two contemporary sci fi novellas for this month by voting at the poll below.
https://www.meetup.com/thescifibookclub/polls/1296453/

Vote today! I’ll close the poll at 1pm EST on Friday, July 27th.

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Also, here’s some quick info on each story along with its Goodreads link.

Silently and Very Fast – Catherynne M. Valente (2011)
– https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12887497-silently-and-very-fast
– Locust Award winner about a programmer, her family history, and a mysterious machine.

Binti – Nnedi Okorafor (2015)
– https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25667918-binti
– Hugo and Nebula Award winner about a girl that earns herself an education among the stars and finds herself in a war.

Acadie – Dave Hutchinson (2017)
– https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34914165-acadie
– Humans have left a dying Earth for a new planet and the humans left behind are out to start a galactic war.

And Then There Were (N-One) – Sarah Pinsker (2017)
– https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58041115-and-then-there-were
– Directly from Goodreads: When physicist Sarah Pinsker is murdered at SarahCon — an interdimensional convention where everyone is Sarah Pinsker from a different alternate timeline — only insurance investigator Sarah Pinsker can solve the case.

The Tea Master and the Detective – Aliette de Bodard (2018)
– https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36686547-the-tea-master-and-the-detective
– Nebula Award winner that is a murder mystery in a space habitat society.

This Is How You Lose the Time War – Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone (2019)
– https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43352954-this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war
– Hugo, Nebula, and Locust award winner about two rival time agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions.
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Finally, some of you have been asking about how to join up as screeners for the Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival. I have tried to send a message to those of you that RSVP’ed for the meeting but it doesn’t seem to be going through. Sooooo, you’ll find info about how to watch the recent meeting about BSFFF and join at the link below:

https://www.meetup.com/thescifibookclub/messages/boards/thread/53306434#%5Bmasked%5D

Cheers!
Jon