January BOTM nominations thread

[Anna]

Greetings Space Opera Fans!

I hope y'all are having a lovely Chris-Hannu-Kwanzaa-kah and a lovely December. It's time for us to nominate which books we'd like to read as a group in January.

Up this month we have the following categories:

READER PICK: Dead trees is where it's at for the Reader Pick, which should be widely available in both paperback and ebook at most chain bookstores and public libraries. Books can't be exclusive to Kindle Unlimited since we're a global community.

INDIE PICK: This is for those newer, edgier books where the author has to do it all. Books that have been published by a micropress that helps you upload the thing, but YOU otherwise do the work and marking are okay, or if you got your backlist back, still qualify.

YOUNG ADULT FRIENDLY PICK: This is where YOU guys help me indoctrinate set a good example for my teenagers and hook them up with good books that won't make them roll their eyes. That means: Must be written FOR a young adult and STAR a young adult protagonist (age 17 or less) and not have been published any earlier than the year 2000 AD (yeah, I know you all think Heinlein is young adult, but the Y2K kids think he's sooooo 1966).



Since it's hard to find purely space opera YA books, any sci-fi book that has a strong space or space-yearning element will probably be acceptable. Gotta still have spaceships and aliens.

Drop your nomination into the thread below and, on January 1st, or as soon thereafter as I come out of my New Years Eve alcohol-induced fog, we'll spin it through Random.org to pick three brand new group reads.

Be epic!

Anna Erishkigal
SOF Borg Queen

P.S. - as of late we've had some people we've never heard of before popping by to spam this thread with nominations for the same book and then disappearing, never to be seen again. While we welcome new members, that's kinda a crappy thing to do to our author-members who hang out here organically to chit-chat about cool science stuff, so just so you know, if it's fishy, I just disqualify any nomination that is not made by an active community member.

[E.J.]

Reader Pick: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (and ugh I'm still not sure why the old ugly cover is still showing up...the new one is much prettier

Indie Pick: Renegade (at least I think it's indie)

YA Pick: I was TOTALLY gonna nominate Beyond the Red but then I realized it's not even out yet. Still, it's one we might want to be aware of in the next few months :)

[Fiannawolf]

Indie:
Pursue the Past: Samair in Argos: Book 1
by Michael Kotcher

Reader:
A Soldier's Duty (Theirs Not to Reason Why #1)
by Jean Johnson

YA:
Tin Star (Tin Star #1)
by Cecil Castellucci

I downloaded the 5 chapt sample and it seems fairly interesting.

Sidenote: Renegade is indie. His other series is published by Pyr though. They don't have sales too often either. Sadness

[Adrian]

I will persevere with my old school nomination,
So for Reader pick

And for Indie, I still want to read

[Leonie]

I'm still continuing to nominate for my Indie pick - it'll come up one day!

Also, for YA

[Greg]

If a YA book is needed, and if I can nominate my own, there's this:



It's a good time because there is sequel news that I will be allowed to disclose shortly.

[Conal]

I nominate...

for Indie pick

for Reader pick

[Krzysztof]

READER PICK

INDIE PICK

[audrey]

I'd like to nominate:

YOUNG ADULT FRIENDLY PICK: He Laughed with His Other Mouths

READER PICK: Diving into the Wreck

[Anna]

Time to Randomize it :-) This thread is now closed.