Speculative Fiction

[close] #RubyReadalong is the central place for readers to share their love of all things romance, and chat about the finalists's books and novellas in the Romance Writers of Australia's Romantic Book of the Year (RuBY) Awards. In short, grab a book, talk about it, and use the tag #RubyReadlong on social media. The RuBY is the RWA's premier award and is decided by readers of romance in several categories. Category finalists will be anounced on July 1, and the winners will be announced on the gala awards night, August 14 (Perth, Western Australian time.) Whenever you mention a book that's up for a RuBY, use the tag #RubyReadalong to share the love.

[close] Online book club discussion of Scifi books. We will pick a book to read each month through polls, so be sure to vote. Hopefully we broaden our reading horizons and find books that we love that we might not have otherwise.

[close] I'd love to connect with people interested in utopian fiction. Specifically, I am interested in speculative fiction that does NOT rely on scifi and fantasy. I love that stuff, but there are plenty of places to talk about scifi and fantasy utopias. I'm thinking about the classic utopias that used to rely on some cheap premise to justify some really cool world building. We definitely, definitely, definitely don't need to confine ourselves to those classic genres sticking close to the form of an outsider visiting an isolated utopia then returning to tell the story, but this is where it begins: More's Utopia, Perkins-Gilman's Herland, Skinner's Walden Two, Bellamy's Looking Backward, Morris's News from Nowhere, Hilton's Lost Horizon, Huxley's Island, etc... In fact, I am here to find out if there are some fresher takes on utopia. Let's talk about it.

[close] THIS GROUP IS ON HIATUS! THANKS TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED!! We're a group building a reliable bookshelf-database of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books that do NOT mention sexual violence or dubious sexual consent. We're inspired by Sarah Gailey's essay urging authors to "Do Better" https://www.tor.com/2016/08/22/do-better-sexual-violence-in-sff/ Join our long term project by sharing your recent reads in our monthly chat. Once a month we update the bookshelf database but recommendations are welcome everyday of the year!