Next Book Club and Award Winners of the Year so far...

Okay Next week is Becky Chambers novel, A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet; and like I do, I just picked it up last night! Many late nights ahead to catch up.

Next month we have The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts. Here is a brief blurb about that book:

"Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenter's The Thing. 
Two men while away the days in an Antarctic research station. Tensions between them build as they argue over a love-letter one of them has received. One is practical and open. The other surly, superior and obsessed with reading one book - by the philosopher Kant. 
As a storm brews and they lose contact with the outside world they debate Kant, reality and the emptiness of the universe. They come to hate each other, and they learn that they are not alone."

Award season breakdown (mostly, because I'm curious about what to add to our reading from this):

The Hugo's will be announced 8/11/2017;

Nebula Award Winner: All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders;

British Science Fiction Award: Europe in Winter by Dave Hutchinson (n/a in US);

Locus Awards will be announced at the end of June;

World Fantasy Awards will be announced later this summer;

Prometheus Awards will announced in August;

Philip K Dick Award: The Mercy Journals by Claudia Casper (this will be book club selection this fall);

Arthur C Clarke Award will be announced in July;

The Aurora Awards will be announced at the end of July;

Jame Tiptree, Jr. Award: When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore;

As you can see there are so many awards out there! I didn't cover the Aurealis Awards or the Andre Norton or Shirley Jackson (mostly horror) or even the Bram Stoker (again horror), but I would once I figure out there winners.

See you all (if you are in town) next week!