We’re a little more than two months out from our next book club on June 19th and 20th. For our June book club we’ll be celebrating Pride Month the Cannonball way with a The Future is Queer book club focusing on speculative and science fiction written by queer authors and/or featuring queer characters. Since the world has gone into a more protective mode in response to our current pandemic, books might be a little harder to come by, or you may have found your reading […]
Announcing 2020 #CannonBookClub Topics and Dates!
For CBR12 we’re planning three book clubs that we hope will inspire you to pick up a new to you book or reread something and consider it again. On March 20th and 21st we’ll celebrate five years of #CannonBookClub and revisit our first book – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. We have lots of new faces, as well as plenty of us who have been around since Cannonball Read 7 so it seemed the perfect time to revisit one of my favorite books […]
A bunch of gay as hell space books
The Disasters by M.K. England
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
The Sol Majestic by Ferrett Steinmetz
Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White
These are some of the sci-fi books I read in 2019. I’m not going to specify how for each one but they are all gay as hell in various ways, which is honestly just how I think space is going to be for us when we finally get there. Or at least, I sure hope. The Disasters by M.K. England takes one of my favorite tropes, a ragtag bunch of outcasts who circumstances force together must fight for their survival and learn to trust and […]