#SciFiMonth2025 Join the Fun!
- It’s November…and you all know what that means
- …SciFiMonth2025 is started!
- Follow on: @SciFiMonth on Bluesky and Instagram
- INTRO/WRAP UP POSTS Document
Hosting:
- Annemieke @A Dance With Books
- Lisa @Dear Geek Place
- Mayri @Book Forager
- Imyril @ There’s Always Room For One More
- Hashtag: #SciFiMonth2025
- Theme for the month: travel in this speculative genre of scientific endeavour,
- alien encounters, alternate timelines and parallel dimensions.
- My theme: anything I can find…I’m terrible when it comes to Scifi!
- SIGN-UP INFO: HERE
NOTES:
- Need some books that are “light” to balance a month of “heavy” French reading.
- Not going to read about octopuses (…sorry Adrian Tchaikovsky)
- Reading 2 Hugo Award winners 2025 (novel and novella)
- Posting VERY short reviews…just one or two sentences
- …b/c I do ‘t feel myself any judge of
- …what good SciFi should be.
- I’m just glad I finished the book!
- The Ministry the Future – K. S. Robinson – READING
- The Wall – M. Haushofer – READING
- QualityLand – March-Uwe Kling – READING
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- Ten years ago, the Terran Commonwealth dispatched its most advanced ship,
- …CSS Eudoxus, on a top-secret mission.
- A mission so secret that when the ship failed to return!
- Flight Lieutenant Carter Maxwell, commanding a crew of misfits and outcasts,
- …must win the race to uncover the truth of the mystery that sent Eudoxus and her crew into the dark,
- NOTE: This is my first experience with “Military SciFi”.
- I did not know this was a “thing”.
- But I’m ready to board the patrol ship, CSS Endurance and I heard
- .. I going to meet an alien doomsday cult! Yikes!
- BTW…the book cover is impressive!
Tusks of Extinction – Ray Nayler – 112 pg (novella) –
- When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.
- Moscow has resurrected the mammoth.
- I had to look up on Google what a mammoth looked like!
- But someone must teach them how to be mammoths
- …or they are doomed to die out again.
- How do you teach a mammoth?
- This NOT a book I’d grab off the shelf…but is is short, novella
- …so that’s a good thing!
- I think I’ll #NeedMoreCoffee…for this one this morning!
- NOTE: Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella 2025
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NancyElin.blog 
Welcome Aboard! The Tainted Cup and its sequel are great reads :D I hope you enjoy.
There’s a sequel? I only read sci-fi in November but I should, I must try to read this genre during the entire year. Problem is I don;t know where to look for good sci-fi reading suggestions. Now I have the book blogs from the host of this challenge….I come back to you all for some help! Thanks for you commet.
November is so crowded with bookish events!
Wishing you a great reading week
Son many books….so little time!
With all the hubbub around the start of Nonfiction November, I completely forgot about SciFi Month. I enjoyed reading a couple of science fiction novels last year. I remember planning to carry over a title or two from last year to this year. I wonder if I have anything good on my shelves…
Thanks for you comment and I’ll have a look at your blog to see if I can find your 2024 SciFi reads. Perhaps you could help me and add your book titles as a comment on this post? That would be very much appreciated.
This sounds like fun. The only one here I am familiar with is The Tainted Cup and I don’t know much about that one. I will have to look into that one, since it combines fantasy, science fiction, and murder mystery.
I have read books of Military Sci-Fi and Military Fantasy, and enjoyed both. I like the cover on Outcast’s Oath too.
I started Outcast’s Oath last night…it is good so far. I have to get used to the focuses on war, strategy and military life n general with this new setting for me: speculative and often interplanetary! With all the changes on the battlefield (drones, AI-powerd unmanned tanks)…this could be a sci-fi “thing” I’d like! If you or your son, husband discover any books about “war in the future” please let me know via a commet here, I’d appreciate any suggestions.