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[Results] Book of the Month (August 2023) (i.imgur.com)

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Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

We had a pretty good turnout for our first book of the month vote. To be honest I did not anticipate the problem of there being a tie. I took the liberty of flipping a coin which came out heads for Project Hail Mary. In the future I might have to come up with a better method of tie breaking. I'm figuring this out as I go and it is all just for the fun of it anyway so please don't take this too seriously.

I intend to read this book over the month of September and then near the end of the month I will create a discussion thread for it where people can discuss it without worrying about spoilers. Follow along if you want to.

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Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir - 20 votes
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky - 20 votes
Neuromancer - William Gibson - 17 votes
Hyperion - Dan Simmons - 13 votes
Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey - 13 votes
A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine - 11 votes
Wool (Silo Series Book 1) - Hugh Howey - 10 votes
Red Rising - Pierce Brown - 4 votes
22/11/63 - Stephen King - 1 vote

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[–] lockewiggins@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 year ago

I'm really late to this whole thing but this book is one of my favorite comfort reads. Idk, I think it feels weirdly wholesome where it's just 2 people(a guy and a huge scary space spider?) trying their best to save everyone and even though it didn't have an antagonist, it still felt like there was one in the form of space bacteria(?). One of my favorite reads

[–] macallik@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Great book, I'm looking forward to the movie adaptation as well

[–] FuntyMcCraiger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Having read both, The Martian was very much a book I just simply put down (I lost so many hours of sleep because of it) whereas this one seemed decent.

If you liked the Martian, you'll like this one probably. There definitely was some weak moments, and the science portion, while crunchy sometimes, didn't hold up consistently.

Worth a read.

[–] coolasbreeze@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Damn. Didn't expect the expanse to be so far down

[–] BingoBangoBongo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Waiting on the library copy of phm. I'm something like 32 in line

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Im listening to the audio version of Project Hail Mary right now and am about half way through and Im not seeing the huge draw that it has on so many people. Im hoping it gets better

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