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Posted 2017-01-07 1:49 PM (#14984 - in reply to #14983)
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I hope everyone enjoys the challenge! Personally, I'm glad to see that people are still interested in checking out some of my "old school" favorites like Brunner, Brackett, and Moorcock. Gibson and Cherryh are two of my all-time favorites, and I've already read just about everything they've written. (Sable Aradia's picks are a really nice overview of Cherryh's prolific output...) And twelve Stephen King novels in a year is quite a commitment. My picks are a lot shorter!

It would be great to hear what you all think of these writers as you make some progress. Onward...


I discovered Cherryh last year for the Women of Genre Fiction challenge; read about three of her books (totally unrelated to one another) and loved each one. She crosses over with a lot of the other challenges I'm doing this year too: Grand Mistresses of Genre Fiction, LGBTQ, and weirdly, the Military Spec-Fic Challenge (that would be the Faded Sun trilogy and the world of Downbelow Station.) So she was a logical pick. I thought "Voyager in Night" was a work of genius. And you know, it's like nobody's ever heard of her around here! So weird! I hope other people will discover her too. I look forward to delving deeply into her work. I'm excited because "Downbelow Station" (also good for the Space Opera and 12 Awards) is on my to-read list this year and that's a book I've wanted to read since I first heard the filk music about it almost 20 years ago. Same with "The Tree of Swords and Jewels," though I understand that's number two in a series and I don't have book one, so I'm hoping I can muddle through anyway.

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