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Topic: 2013 SF Challenge /DISCUSS /Oct-Nov-Dec

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Subject: 2013 SF Challenge /DISCUSS /Oct-Nov-Dec
Date Posted: 10/1/2013 1:37 PM ET
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The 4th quarter is here, so I thought I might start up a fresh discussi more...
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Date Posted: 10/3/2013 4:51 PM ET
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Home stretch, I guess?   I think I have 7 books left -- Military, Alte more...
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Date Posted: 10/3/2013 4:56 PM ET
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PS. Still can't think more...
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Date Posted: 10/4/2013 1:57 PM ET
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Doing fine.  It'll be close I think, but I'm guessing I'll just miss having t more...
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Subject: It's November, do you know where your SF Challenge is?
Date Posted: 11/13/2013 8:23 PM ET
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You know, I really enjoy the expansion phases of the challenges we've had.  I find it interesting not only to read the books, but to compare/contrast a few that fall together into a category.& more...
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Subject: Where's my challenge? More or less the same spot it was last month.
Date Posted: 11/13/2013 9:30 PM ET
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I'm kind of stalled on my challenge at the moment. I've got books on my TBR for more...
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Subject: The Drowned World
Date Posted: 11/14/2013 2:40 PM ET
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Melanti - The Drowned World happens to be o more...
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Date Posted: 11/14/2013 3:36 PM ET
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It really reminded me of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (the inspiration for the movie Apocolypse Now).  If you lik more...
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Date Posted: 11/15/2013 9:18 AM ET
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I've had the Drowned World on my list for a while. Funny it' more...
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Subject: The Drowned World
Date Posted: 11/16/2013 2:36 PM ET
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Well, that settles it.  I just finished Zoe's Tale, and The Drowned World is going to be my next read. more...
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Date Posted: 11/16/2013 8:05 PM ET
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Brad - Is your taste in SF changing?  I would not have expected you to go for Flood.  I had read it for a hard-sf group, and in that cont more...
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Subject: The Drowned World
Date Posted: 11/18/2013 9:47 PM ET
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So, I finally had a chance to read J.G. Ballard's New Wave classic The Drowned World. I think it suffers from the imprint of its era - cigarettes, booze, loose wome more...
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Subject: Samuel R. Delany
Date Posted: 12/11/2013 9:08 PM ET
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The SFFWA has named Samuel R. Delany as the recipient of the 2013 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.  I read his Bab more...
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Date Posted: 12/12/2013 12:46 PM ET
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For the first time I will call my Challenge "c more...
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Date Posted: 12/14/2013 12:43 PM ET
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Brad - I read The Road too and didn't l more...
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Subject: Ain't gonna make it
Date Posted: 12/16/2013 2:06 AM ET
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Once again I've lost my "challenge" focus. I attempted Shaman by KS Robinson and Pirate Cinema by Doctorow.  The library only had these titles as audio book more...
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Subject: Shaman
Date Posted: 12/19/2013 10:23 AM ET
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Yay!!  more...
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Date Posted: 12/19/2013 10:52 AM ET
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Melanti - I saw over on Goo more...
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Date Posted: 12/19/2013 12:02 PM ET
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Brad, I don't have a separate Goodreads shelf for fractured fairy tales, though I do have one for fairy tales in general.  I more...
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Date Posted: 12/19/2013 1:11 PM ET
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I'll look into those.  I've had more...
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Date Posted: 12/19/2013 2:49 PM ET
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Date Posted: 12/19/2013 3:14 PM ET
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That's what I though. **Sl more...
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Date Posted: 12/19/2013 3:17 PM ET
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Tom - I did that to myself too, fo more...
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Date Posted: 12/20/2013 1:32 PM ET
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