Group 100B Sci-fi. Mod Emma

[Emma]

This is a special celebratory, genre specific group. In joining this group you have agreed TO REVIEW ANY ALLOCATED BOOK within the set 12 week limit.

As we have so many scifi fans, I have started a second scifi group (100K) which will focus on 'hard' scifi. If you have signed up to this thread, and your book is in this category, please move over to group 100K.

• Hard science fiction—a particular emphasis on scientific detail and/or accuracy

• Soft science fiction—focus on human characters and their relations and feelings, while de-emphasizing the details of technological hardware and physical laws

Allocation is entirely random. The ONLY circumstance in which you may duck out of giving a review is if YOU provide a stand-in reviewer.

Let’s be honest here – even within the same genre, we don’t all like the same things but we all want reviews. The only way this group can function is if we trust each other to behave honourably. And it IS perfectly possible to give a fair-minded review of a text that does not coincide with our normal choice of reading matter. If you need a few hints/tips, please see this thread:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Make sure you have an author profile set up before you join and that your book is available for sale on amazon (not pre-0rder).

Please let me know as you sign up if you have been reviewed by, or have reviewed another author in the group. It is permissible to review an author more than once if a different book is available, but reciprocal reviews within the group are strictly prohibited.

Your group moderator will be
Emma Jaye

Member Links
1.Emma Jaye
2. Chrys Cymri
3.Josephine Boyce
4.Sean DeLauder
5.Tony Breeden
6.Stephanie R. Sorensen
7. Noah Nichols
8.Damian Knight
9.Joe Turk
10.L.N. Denison

Book Links
1.Discovery or any in the series
2. Dragons Can Only Rust
3.Rebellion
4.The Speaker for the Trees
5.Dreadknights
6.Toru: Wayfarer Returns
7.No Net
8.The Pages of Time
9.Making Monsters
10.Going Underground

[Chrys]

Hi, I'd like to sign up with 'Dragons Can Only Rust', soft sci-fi:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

[Josephine]

Hi,

I'd like to sign up Rebellion, which is YA Dystopian but sci-fi was the closest to its genre... Hope sci-fi enthusiasts are okay with that!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

[L.N.]

I am in the middle of a major re-write of my book, Going Underground. It is a mixture of Dystopia and Soft Sci-fi, and I would like to add it to the mix. I should have the new link within the next week or so.

[Chrys]

L.N. has reviewed my book 'The Dragon Throne' in a previous round. From memory, this means she can review my book 'Dragons Can Only Rust' but I cannot review her book?

[L.N.]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

[Sean]

I haven't reviewed anyone here before and vice versa, so I'd be happy to add my soft sci-fi novella, The Speaker for the Trees.

Thanks! Also, what a great idea to commemorate the centennial group.

[Tony]

I'd like to sign up with

[Noah]

Hey everyone! I'd like to sign up No Net for the Soft science fiction lot. Looking forward to reviewing a book here!

[Emma]

Welcome Noah, but It'll be four books (over 12 weeks) and they could be a mixture of hard and soft scifi.
You'll get four reviews in return, if that's too much, say now...

[Noah]

That's fine! I am fresh off the boat to this whole process so whatever works, I am completely down for it.

[Emma]

OK, so when we have our 10 members, I'll sort out the list of who is reading who, and then everyone exchanges files. You have to be able to at least send and recieve PDF, but most people also give out mobi or epubs.
When you've finished your reviews, post the links (on amazon.com, amazon.uk and goodreads to this thread.
If in doubt, ask the mod, or you can have a look at how the other up and running review rounds work.

[Joe]

I'd like to sign up with 'Making Monsters' More dystopian than sci-fi, but I think it qualifies as social/soft science fiction. Touch of horror in there. Wouldn't be chagrined if I was moved to that genre.

Book (Amazon): http://www.amazon.com/Making-Monsters...
Book (Goodreads): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Profile: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5...

I'm currently reading 'The Least Envied' by Sean DeLauder from this group...otherwise, no conflicts.

[Stephanie]

Hi Emma,

Toru: Wayfarer Returns
Stephanie R. Sorensen

I would like to join if possible. It's an alternate history steampunk tale set in Japan.

Stephanie

[Joe]

Maybe a second sci-fi group would be a good idea?

12-13 authors signing up for this category in the first 13 hours indicates we might have enough to do it.

Or perhaps we could rename horror as horror/scifi? get a few more peeps in that room.

...breaking them up by genre was a great idea, by the way. Very excited to read books in a preferred genre.

Emma: sent my message to link my profile to the book...no idea how long it will take them to connect it.

[Brian]

Hi Emma

I would like to offer my book, The Stratosphere. ***I am a softie***

I will be ready to post a link in five days, as the final re-edit will be finished by then.

many thanks
Brian

[Damian]

Hi Emma,

Great idea! Looks like this one's filling up pretty quickly, but if there's any space I'd love to include The Pages of Time.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Many thanks,
Damian

[Warren]

Sci-fi rules, Emma!

I agree with the second sci-fi group idea.

Here is my Goodreads link.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

[Emma]

I'm already modding 3 existing groups, plus this one and the romance one, as well as setting up everything else. If anyone wants to step in and offer to do little modding (preferable someone that's been in a group or two already) let me know.

Who would appreciate splitting the group further by having a 'hard' scifi section and a 'soft' section? Each with 10 members? We already have 15 signed up for this one, I don't think it'll take long to find five more people.

Mine's 'soft'. And no, I won't be sniggering if people announce theirs is 'hard'.
Oh wait, yes I will.

[Stephanie]

Ha! Soft/hard would be great. I love to read both, but fear the fate of my retro-tech story at the hands of a hard science fiction fan.

[Emma]

Ok folks, I have set up another scifi group.

To save on the swapping around, could people that prefer 'Hard' scifi move over to that group. (100K). I don't envision either of these groups will take longer than a few days to fill up, so don't worry about being left sitting around if you change.
( if you do move, and I've got your name up on this list, please let me know so I can take it down).
I'm not going to be pedantic about which group people are in, its just that you are more likely to get favourable reviews if you are in a group where people have similar tastes.

[Warren]

Hi Emma, I have moved to the other group.

See you there, Jacob.

[Joe]

Two groups, great!
As a Dystopian novel, I'm confident my book fits in the soft sci-fi category. (and my author page is now linked!)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Thank you!

I've read 'The Least Envied' by Sean, but have no other conflicts.

[Brian]

Ahhh, I missed out :(

Hopefully you guys will do another scifi round in the near future.

good luck
Brian

[Emma]

Pop along to group 100K Brian, hopefully your book will be all done by the time that one starts.

I'll get to setting up the group tomorrow folks, it now 9pm here, and I've been on the group for nearly 10 hours straight, Night night time for me.

[Emma]

Ready, Steady, Go!


START DATE: 17/03/2016

END DATE: 09/06/2016

Round 1 – post your review by 7th April
Round 2 – post your review by 29th April
Round 3 – post your review 19th May
Round 4 – post your review by 9th June



As AUTHORS you send your book file to:

B-01__ Emma Jaye
L N Denison for round 1
Joe Turk for round 2
Damian Knight for round 3
Noah Nichols for round 4

B-02__ Chrys Cymri
Emma Jaye for round 1
L N Denison for round 2
Joe Turk for round 3
Damian Knight for round 4

B-03__ Josephine Boyce
Chrys Cymri for round 1
Emma Jaye for round 2
L N Denison for round 3
Joe Turk for round 4

B-04__ Sean DeLauder
Josephine Boyce for round 1
Chrys Cymri for round 2
Emma Jaye for round 3
L N Denison for round 4

B-05__ Tony Breeden
Sean DeLauder for round 1
Josephine Boyce for round 2
Chrys Cymri for round 3
Emma Jaye for round 4

B-06__ Stephanie R Sorensen
Tony Breeden for round 1
Sean DeLauder for round 2
Josephine Boyce for round 3
Chrys Cymri for round 4

B-07__ Noah Nichols
Stephanie R Sorensen for round 1
Tony Breeden for round 2
Sean DeLauder for round 3
Josephine Boyce for round 4

B-08__ Damian Knight
Noah Nichols for round 1
Stephanie R Sorensen for round 2
Tony Breeden for round 3
Sean DeLauder for round 4

B-09__ Joe Turk
Damian Knight for round 1
Noah Nichols for round 2
Stephanie R Sorensen for round 3
Tony Breeden for round 4

B-10__ L N Denison
Joe Turk for round 1
Damian Knight for round 2
Noah Nichols for round 3
Stephanie R Sorensen for round 4

As REVIEWERS you will receive books for review from:

B-01__ Emma Jaye
Chrys Cymri for round 1
Josephine Boyce for round 2
Sean DeLauder for round 3
Tony Breeden for round 4

B-02__ Chrys Cymri
Josephine Boyce for round 1
Sean DeLauder for round 2
Tony Breeden for round 3
Stephanie R Sorensen for round 4

B-03__ Josephine Boyce
Sean DeLauder for round 1
Tony Breeden for round 2
Stephanie R Sorensen for round 3
Noah Nichols for round 4

B-04__ Sean DeLauder
Tony Breeden for round 1
Stephanie R Sorensen for round 2
Noah Nichols for round 3
Damian Knight for round 4

B-05__ Tony Breeden
Stephanie R Sorensen for round 1
Noah Nichols for round 2
Damian Knight for round 3
Joe Turk for round 4

B-06__ Stephanie R Sorensen
Noah Nichols for round 1
Damian Knight for round 2
Joe Turk for round 3
L N Denison for round 4

B-07__ Noah Nichols
Damian Knight for round 1
Joe Turk for round 2
L N Denison for round 3
Emma Jaye for round 4

B-08__ Damian Knight
Joe Turk for round 1
L N Denison for round 2
Emma Jaye for round 3
Chrys Cymri for round 4

B-09__ Joe Turk
L N Denison for round 1
Emma Jaye for round 2
Chrys Cymri for round 3
Josephine Boyce for round 4

B-10__ L N Denison
Emma Jaye for round 1
Chrys Cymri for round 2
Josephine Boyce for round 3
Sean DeLauder for round 4


Please remember the commitment you are making to your fellow group members. If you pull out after the start date for any reason it is the other members who will be faced with the problem of finding a replacement, or missing out on reviews, through no fault of their own. Please don’t ask the moderators to chase after replacements as we just don’t have the time.

It is the responsibility of the author to get their book to their reviewer in a format the reviewer can manage. Everyone must be able to accept PDF. There are no set dates for the start of each round. You can each work at your own pace, within the limits of the round deadlines.

When you have posted your reviews, please post the three links to your reviews in this thread.

All reviews must be posted to GR, Amazon .com and Amazon.co.uk.

Postings to any other sites are by agreement by both author and reviewer.

If I’ve missed something that results in you being asked to review someone who has already reviewed you, please let me know asap.

To exchange book files, my advice is to use PM to give email addresses to each other (save the chance of spammers getting your addies from this open forum). Happy reviewing, everyone :)

[Emma]

You can review your allocated books in any order. You can review quicker than the schedule if you wish, but not any slower. If anyone has a problem submitting a review on time, get in touch. I understand life can throw a spanner in the works occasionally, but PLEASE don't just go AWOL.

For my reviewers, my books are all in KU and if you have an account, I'd appreciate a download. If possible, I will be downloading the books I will be reviewing via KU. if your books isn't in KU, send me your send me your emails and what format you require. I can send pdf, mobi and epub.

[L.N.]

I'm going to download all of my review books from KU. The old version of my book is available on KU, but the revised version will be pdf. It'll be on KU within the week.

[Josephine]

L.N. wrote: "I'm going to download all of my review books from KU. The old version of my book is available on KU, but the revised version will be pdf. It'll be on KU within the week."

Thanks for giving my KDP graph a little pep.

[L.N.]

You're welcome, anything to help a fellow author...it all helps. I'm looking forward to a good read in genre close to my heart.

[Noah]

This is a really diverse and interesting group. I'm psyched to read my four. Genuinely want to read each and every one of them!

[Damian]

Good stuff - can't wait to get stuck in!

[Noah]

Just joined KU and downloaded all four books on my list! Can't wait to begin later on today.

[Emma]

I'm going to delete some of the posts on here, just to tidy it up so we don't all have to scroll through too much.

[Josephine]

The Speaker for the Trees review links:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R2L4K...

Will post amazon.com one when it's up (currently not showing on site)

[Joe]

Looks like all four of my to-read books were also on KU. downloaded all four. Anyone know if the review will post with the 'verified purchaser' tag?

[L.N.]

I don't think it does...I haven't seen it when I have done it....but I think that is because you are technically borrowing the book, not purchasing it.

[Emma]

Unfortunately, I don't think so as they are 'borrows' rather than 'purchases'. Still a borrow nets the author a few pennies, which has got to be better than a kick in the teeth.

[Sean]

Josephine wrote: "The Speaker for the Trees review links...

Josephine has just set an absurdly high bar.

[Noah]

Agreed, Sean. It was a very well-written and informative review! I was also impressed by her incorporating quotes within it.

[Sean]

It was a good review, and I'm guilty of an obvious bias, but I meant the fact that she read a book and churned out a review in less than a day. I'm not going to be able to match that pace.

[Noah]

Well, to be fair, as she stated in the review...it was a novella. ;) But then again, she's a fast reader regardless! Seriously though, I liked it so much that I liked it. And it's hard to pry a like from my desensitized hands.

[Josephine]

I spent a lot of time on the train this afternoon and got home to an empty flat so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Noah]

Josephine, in all honesty, your review made me want to read your own book even more so than I already did previously. So that just tells you how good of a review it truly was, train ride or not!

[Joe]

Finished 'Going Underground' by LN Denison - Round 1 complete

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R10JG7J...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3FZ8...

[Emma]

I'm intriegued, I couldn't find the review you are talking about, but as far as I know there are reviews, and 'editorial' reviews.
An editorial review is one that has been given to you as an author, often for a fee from a magazine etc. Becausr the opinion was paid for, you have to post it yourself, often in the book description.
All 'customer' reviews are just that.
Did he get the book as part of a review exchange, a system like we have here? Because if it is a cut and paste, I'd contact the group mod. We don't allow 'cut and paste' here. You are expected to actually read your allocated books and construct a genuine review.

[Joe]

There was a thread for authors to post their book for others to review at random. One person signed up for every book listed. A week later, boom, 7 reviews listed as 'critical review'.
If you click on my amazon purchase page and click on the 3 star reviews, it'll show. I don't mind a 3 star review. It wasn't all bad and at this point in the game, I'm just happy to see the main number tick upward. But I did wonder at critical vs customer designation.

I'm sure I can google it and find out. Thought someone might know off the top of their head.

[Emma]

I think he's probably trying to make a name for himself as a reviewer, either that of he's doing some sort of 'challenge' to do a certain number of reviews. These are just the same as any other customer review, no matter what label he gives them.
Because his ratings vary, I think he's at least looked at each book individually, but there is a lack of imagination there.
The fact that he uses the same disclaimer in each one is not suspicious.

[Joe]

Looks like Amazon might 'invite' customers to become critical reviewers once they have enough likes on their reviews. So yeah, probably launching a lot of reviews and establishing himself/herself.
I learned something today :)
Feel free to discard these questions. I'll clean up my round 1 post.

[Emma]

its all good information Joe, so unless this thread gets huuuge I'll leave as is.