TO READ FOR NEXT WEEK:

No Truce With Kings -iffy audiobook link by Poul Anderson

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Blood Music by Greg Bear

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Right now I've only found an old audiobook reading on youtube for No Truce With Kings. This one's rather tricky to find any digital source for.

I've also plucked Blood Music from our list and put it onto the docket. Right now we've got the amazon link up.

DISCUSSION OF LAST WEEK'S READING:

The Dragon Masters by Jack Vance

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Hothouse

Prompts for discussion

The Dragon Masters: This is yet another book that totally cheated to get into the short story category. Since we haven't established any bounds for the reading on this one, I'll leave this to open discussion.

Hothouse: The end of Chapter 6 makes a nice cutting-off point. The book later goes on to evoke some pretty biblical themes and explore the virtue (or lack thereof) of intelligence, and how humans have lost it as the world evolves. What is the value of intelligence in the evolutionary scale?

And remember to vote for your favorites for next week

Ongoing list of material to vote on

Frankenstein

Forbidden Planet

The Day the Earth Stood Still

I, Robot (book)

Watchbird by Robert Sheckley

Equoid by Charles Stross

Shoutouts:

kleinbl00 JakobVirgil mhr OftenBen plewemt elizabeth blackbootz flagamuffin Meriadoc minimum_wage Tiger_the_Lion _thoracic johnnyFive tehstone rthomas6 War Dala OftenBen bhrgunatha kantos francopoli anatomygeek Purple_Ruby