We hope we see you again soon, till then here’s a SF quote to ponder on.
Science fiction in particular is often assumed to be about the future, or about some abstract technological or philosophical idea, or just about 'adventure,' but writers can't build worlds out of nothing. We use bits and pieces of the real world to assemble our fictional ones.
~Ann Leckie
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Greetings ,
welcome to πThe Science Fiction Book Club!
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We’ love to have you along but sadly even the Galaxy’s Greatest Book Club takes money to run.
Greetings ,
starting in 2026 π The Science Fiction Book Club, the Galaxy’s Greatest Book Club, will now be reading a handful of the best SF SelfPub novels each year.
If anyone imagines only the very best SF novels written appear in book shops they’re sadly misinformed. An endless number of amazing SF novels have been written over the years but got tragically overlooked by the publishing industry for a variety of reasons including the taste, personal politics, as well as good old-fashioned economics, of each and every publishing professional. Sadly Science Fiction is still the unloved left-handed ginger haemophiliac stepchild of literature.
But over the last 10-15 years almost all of the creative energy in SF has slowly shifted from the gatekeepers of TradPub to wild-west of SelfPub, leaving bookshops flooded with the current endemic Romantasy slop we see today.
That’s sad for book shops and a lot of readers, but not for us.
