Okay, okay, lots of suggestions, but we need to pick one.
I'm sure I missed a few suggestions, but I didn't want to flood the possibilities and end up splitting interest even more than six picks does.
Here are overviews, so you can make an informed decision:
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - The first of a trilogy (with an "extra" 4th book that expands on the universe) about a society slightly in the future where everyone gets plastic surgery at the age of 16 so that beauty is the standard. It's a quick, fun, fascinating read.
The Stand by Stephen King - Um...if I remember correctly, there's like a flu that wipes almost everyone in the world out, and then things get really weird, in traditional King fashion.
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson - Um, I read the descs but I still have no idea what it's about. Hopefully, if I copy a desc from Amazon, it won't be too spoilery: John Percival Hackworth is a nanotech engineer on the rise when he steals a copy of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" for his daughter Fiona. The primer is actually a super computer built with nanotechnology that was designed to educate Lord Finkle-McGraw's daughter and to teach her how to think for herself in the stifling neo-Victorian society. But Hackworth loses the primer before he can give it to Fiona, and now the "book" has fallen into the hands of young Nell, an underprivileged girl whose life is about to change.
Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood - In the near future, everything sucks, and you find out how and why. Sort of. I don't mean to write a Better Than It Sounds-type review, but everything on Amazon is so spoilery. There appears to be only one person left in the world, as we know people, who is in charge of a new life form. He tells the story of how everything got that way. Yeah, I suck at this. It's a REALLY good book.
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami - Japanese students are taken to an island and forced to kill each other to survive.
Neuromancer by William Gibson - Cyberpunk bible.
Comment to vote, since the poll died somewhere in creation.
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Don't forget that we're going to be more genre-oriented next month, so if you're not pleased with the winner, you still can read and discuss another book within the genre.
Here are overviews, so you can make an informed decision:
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - The first of a trilogy (with an "extra" 4th book that expands on the universe) about a society slightly in the future where everyone gets plastic surgery at the age of 16 so that beauty is the standard. It's a quick, fun, fascinating read.
The Stand by Stephen King - Um...if I remember correctly, there's like a flu that wipes almost everyone in the world out, and then things get really weird, in traditional King fashion.
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson - Um, I read the descs but I still have no idea what it's about. Hopefully, if I copy a desc from Amazon, it won't be too spoilery: John Percival Hackworth is a nanotech engineer on the rise when he steals a copy of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" for his daughter Fiona. The primer is actually a super computer built with nanotechnology that was designed to educate Lord Finkle-McGraw's daughter and to teach her how to think for herself in the stifling neo-Victorian society. But Hackworth loses the primer before he can give it to Fiona, and now the "book" has fallen into the hands of young Nell, an underprivileged girl whose life is about to change.
Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood - In the near future, everything sucks, and you find out how and why. Sort of. I don't mean to write a Better Than It Sounds-type review, but everything on Amazon is so spoilery. There appears to be only one person left in the world, as we know people, who is in charge of a new life form. He tells the story of how everything got that way. Yeah, I suck at this. It's a REALLY good book.
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami - Japanese students are taken to an island and forced to kill each other to survive.
Neuromancer by William Gibson - Cyberpunk bible.
Comment to vote, since the poll died somewhere in creation.
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Don't forget that we're going to be more genre-oriented next month, so if you're not pleased with the winner, you still can read and discuss another book within the genre.