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What’s the First Line of the First Book You’re Reading this Year?
By Andrea · 40 posts · 99 views
By Andrea · 40 posts · 99 views
last updated Feb 07, 2025 07:31PM
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Time Magazine - 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time
By Andrea · 24 posts · 290 views
By Andrea · 24 posts · 290 views
last updated Feb 26, 2025 12:58PM
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NPR Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Novels
By deleted member · 161 posts · 3940 views
By deleted member · 161 posts · 3940 views
last updated Mar 08, 2025 09:03AM
Discover Sci-Fi list of books everyone should read
By Tony · 43 posts · 188 views
By Tony · 43 posts · 188 views
last updated Sep 04, 2024 10:57AM
What have you been reading this April?
By Andrea · 83 posts · 53 views
By Andrea · 83 posts · 53 views
last updated May 02, 2025 05:58PM
What have you been reading this March?
By Andrea · 71 posts · 54 views
By Andrea · 71 posts · 54 views
last updated Apr 04, 2025 03:49PM
What have you been reading this February
By Andrea · 71 posts · 62 views
By Andrea · 71 posts · 62 views
last updated Mar 10, 2025 06:59AM
What have you been reading this January, 2025?
By Tony · 117 posts · 75 views
By Tony · 117 posts · 75 views
last updated Feb 01, 2025 11:26AM
What Were Your Favorite SF/F TV Shows of 2019?
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By deleted member · 23 posts · 54 views
last updated Oct 01, 2021 12:06AM
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Locus Magazine Best SF&F of the Century
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By deleted member · 25 posts · 640 views
last updated Jan 10, 2018 02:00PM
2020 Nebula Award Finalists Announced
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By deleted member · 1 post · 29 views
last updated Mar 18, 2021 10:03AM
2019 Nebula Award Finalists Announced
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By deleted member · 7 posts · 52 views
last updated Dec 30, 2020 02:35PM
2020 Hugo Award Finalists Announced
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By deleted member · 3 posts · 41 views
last updated Apr 10, 2020 07:28AM
His Majesty's Dragon (buddy read September 2023)
By Robin · 211 posts · 41 views
By Robin · 211 posts · 41 views
last updated Sep 29, 2023 07:17AM
The Long Price Quartet by Daniel Abraham
By Hillary · 26 posts · 64 views
By Hillary · 26 posts · 64 views
last updated May 11, 2020 06:05PM
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
By evofox · 85 posts · 118 views
By evofox · 85 posts · 118 views
last updated Apr 07, 2020 03:05AM
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
By deleted member · 46 posts · 150 views
By deleted member · 46 posts · 150 views
last updated Mar 28, 2025 02:28PM
Some Kind Of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce
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By deleted member · 19 posts · 115 views
last updated Feb 01, 2024 03:59PM
A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
By deleted member · 192 posts · 81 views
By deleted member · 192 posts · 81 views
last updated Oct 01, 2021 01:25PM
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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By deleted member · 30 posts · 65 views
last updated Sep 07, 2021 09:50PM
A Night In The Lonesome October Cover
By Jim · 37 posts · 73 views
By Jim · 37 posts · 73 views
last updated Jul 17, 2021 06:29PM
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Fun Fantasy/Science Fiction Web Articles
By Jonathan , Reader of the fantastic · 157 posts · 446 views
By Jonathan , Reader of the fantastic · 157 posts · 446 views
last updated Nov 27, 2023 09:05AM
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SF/F Book to Discuss in January 2020 selected
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By deleted member · 22 posts · 82 views
last updated Dec 30, 2019 04:34PM
I Skipped August... and September.... and October.... and November.... and December
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By deleted member · 12 posts · 62 views
last updated Jun 19, 2019 10:49AM
Group read & discussion of a SF/F Series?
By deleted member · 45 posts · 82 views
By deleted member · 45 posts · 82 views
last updated Jun 23, 2018 07:42AM
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Share Special Deals, Sales & Bargains in SF&F
By deleted member · 1051 posts · 1256 views
By deleted member · 1051 posts · 1256 views
last updated Apr 05, 2025 08:27AM
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Free Kindle Books in the Space Opera category on Amazon
By Randy · 1391 posts · 1219 views
By Randy · 1391 posts · 1219 views
last updated Sep 02, 2024 01:52PM
Reviving (in the future, from suspended animation); free stories
By Tim · 2 posts · 8 views
By Tim · 2 posts · 8 views
last updated Apr 20, 2025 08:09AM
Was Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ better before it was bought by Amazon?
By L.A. · 49 posts · 127 views
By L.A. · 49 posts · 127 views
last updated Jan 17, 2021 07:12AM
Disney doesn't pay novel writers
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By deleted member · 9 posts · 30 views
last updated Dec 30, 2020 03:01PM
GoodReads to Charge Authors for Running Giveaways in 2018
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By deleted member · 41 posts · 102 views
last updated Jun 19, 2019 06:52AM
Looking for Reviews: Epic/Dark Fantasy
By Sapho · 1 post · 14 views
By Sapho · 1 post · 14 views
last updated May 20, 2024 02:53AM
MAJORITY [space opera a la Vernor Vinge, Red Rising]
By Abby · 1 post · 15 views
By Abby · 1 post · 15 views
last updated Aug 13, 2023 09:18PM
ARC readers wanted to SciFi Space Opera
By Michael · 1 post · 11 views
By Michael · 1 post · 11 views
last updated Aug 12, 2021 07:04AM
Review for Devouring Divine by Shrinivas Gaikwad
By Shrinivas · 1 post · 7 views
By Shrinivas · 1 post · 7 views
last updated Aug 01, 2021 04:06AM
A new year, a new reading challenge (including 2024 BINGO!)
By Andrea · 22 posts · 64 views
By Andrea · 22 posts · 64 views
last updated Dec 31, 2023 02:29PM
Ideas for 2023 Group Challenges including BINGO suggestions
By Andrea · 22 posts · 25 views
By Andrea · 22 posts · 25 views
last updated Dec 27, 2022 09:16AM
Ideas for 2022 Group Challenges? - BINGO card ideas wanted
By Andrea · 22 posts · 33 views
By Andrea · 22 posts · 33 views
last updated Dec 20, 2021 01:00AM
“Nine Last Days on Planet Earth" by Daryl Gregory
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By deleted member · 6 posts · 20 views
last updated May 02, 2019 10:43AM
“When We Were Starless� by Simone Heller
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By deleted member · 8 posts · 16 views
last updated May 02, 2019 09:32AM
“A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies� by Alix E. Harrow
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By deleted member · 11 posts · 142 views
last updated May 01, 2019 10:34AM
“The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections� by Tina Connolly
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By deleted member · 7 posts · 11 views
last updated May 01, 2019 05:51AM
“The Court Magician� by Sarah Pinsker
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By deleted member · 4 posts · 21 views
last updated Apr 30, 2019 11:52AM
The Hand of Oberon by Roger Zelazny
By Andrea · 38 posts · 22 views
By Andrea · 38 posts · 22 views
last updated Nov 17, 2018 11:08AM
Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny
By Andrea · 18 posts · 25 views
By Andrea · 18 posts · 25 views
last updated Oct 18, 2018 06:45AM
The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny
By Andrea · 40 posts · 37 views
By Andrea · 40 posts · 37 views
last updated Sep 30, 2018 07:11AM
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
By Andrea · 44 posts · 58 views
By Andrea · 44 posts · 58 views
last updated Sep 14, 2018 08:23AM
"Marionettes, Inc." by Ray Bradbury
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By deleted member · 4 posts · 21 views
last updated Jun 19, 2018 03:14PM
"The Other Foot" by Ray Bradbury
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By deleted member · 7 posts · 26 views
last updated Jun 19, 2018 03:11PM
"No Particular Night or Morning" by Ray Bradbury
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By deleted member · 5 posts · 16 views
last updated Jun 19, 2018 02:58PM
"The City" by Ray Bradbury
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last updated Jun 19, 2018 02:51PM
"Paradises Lost" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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By deleted member · 4 posts · 75 views
last updated Apr 05, 2018 03:22PM
"Dragonfly" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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By deleted member · 5 posts · 140 views
last updated Mar 29, 2018 02:51PM
"On The High Marsh" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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By deleted member · 3 posts · 58 views
last updated Mar 29, 2018 08:13AM
"The Finder" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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By deleted member · 6 posts · 39 views
last updated Mar 28, 2018 10:54AM
"Old Music And The Slave Women" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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last updated Mar 24, 2018 07:16PM
"The Future Is Blue" by Catherynne M. Valente
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By deleted member · 8 posts · 52 views
last updated Nov 21, 2017 09:50AM
"Last Gods" by Sam J. Miller
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last updated Sep 24, 2017 07:50AM
"Only Ten More Shopping Days Left Till Ragnarök" by James Morrow
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By deleted member · 7 posts · 20 views
last updated Sep 22, 2017 08:03AM
"The New Venusians" by Sean Williams
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last updated Sep 22, 2017 07:41AM
"The Phoenix on the Sword" by Robert E. Howard
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By deleted member · 15 posts · 36 views
last updated Aug 17, 2019 07:39AM
"The Tower of the Elephant" by Robert E. Howard
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By deleted member · 14 posts · 32 views
last updated Jun 13, 2019 07:05AM
"The Scarlet Citadel" by Robert E. Howard
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last updated Sep 04, 2017 03:40PM
"The Devil in Iron" by Robert E. Howard
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By deleted member · 7 posts · 12 views
last updated Aug 09, 2017 10:30AM
"Xuthal of the Dusk" by Robert E. Howard
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last updated Aug 03, 2017 12:13PM
"Diamonds and Pearls: A Fairy Tale" by Neil Gaiman
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last updated Aug 12, 2021 07:44AM
"A Lunar Labyrinth" by Neil Gaiman
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By deleted member · 7 posts · 188 views
last updated Sep 24, 2018 11:52AM
"Nothing O’Clock" by Neil Gaiman
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By deleted member · 6 posts · 34 views
last updated Aug 12, 2017 11:37AM
"The Case of Death and Honey" by Neil Gaiman
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By deleted member · 6 posts · 27 views
last updated Aug 05, 2017 09:54AM
"Captive Market" by P.K. Dick
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last updated Mar 27, 2017 01:28PM
"If There Were No Benny Cemoli" by P.K. Dick
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last updated Mar 26, 2017 09:33PM
"Explorers We" by P.K. Dick
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last updated Mar 26, 2017 09:22PM
"Oh, to Be a Blobel!" by P.K. Dick
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last updated Mar 26, 2017 09:20PM
"The Days of Perky Pat" by P.K. Dick
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last updated Mar 26, 2017 04:32AM
"Riding the Shore of the River of Death" by Kate Elliott
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last updated Jan 20, 2017 07:43AM
"Strife Lingers in Memory" by Carrie Vaughn
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last updated Jan 20, 2017 07:15AM
"The Mad Apprentice" by Trudi Canavan
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last updated Jan 20, 2017 07:12AM
"The Mystery Knight" by George R. R. Martin
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last updated Jan 20, 2017 07:05AM
"The Bound Man" by Mary Robinette Kowal
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last updated Jan 17, 2017 05:42PM
"The Mad Scientist’s Daughter" by Theodora Goss
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last updated Jun 20, 2017 06:06PM
"We Interrupt This Broadcast" by Mary Robinette Kowal
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last updated Nov 29, 2016 05:25PM
"The Food Taster’s Boy" by Ben H. Winters
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last updated Nov 25, 2016 06:30AM
"Mofongo Knows" by Grady Hendrix
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last updated Nov 25, 2016 06:28AM
"The Pittsburgh Technology" by Jeffrey Ford
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last updated Nov 25, 2016 06:28AM
"The Event" by Autumn Kalquist
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last updated Sep 21, 2016 12:30PM
"To Catch an Actor" by Blair C. Babylon
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last updated Sep 19, 2016 06:50AM
"Lulu Ad Infinitum" by Ann Christy
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last updated Sep 18, 2016 06:48AM
"The Exception That Proves the Rule" by Mathew Burrows
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last updated Jul 18, 2016 03:41PM
"Another Day of Infamy" by Ashley Henley
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last updated Jul 18, 2016 03:36PM
(Graphics) "We Can Win the War, You Must Win the Peace" designed by EG Douglas
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last updated Jul 16, 2016 06:45AM
"A Visit to Weizenbaum" by Jamie Metzl
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last updated Jul 15, 2016 03:52PM
"Eyes Of Dust" by Harlan Ellison
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last updated Jun 27, 2016 05:37PM
"I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison
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last updated Jun 25, 2016 10:51AM
"World of the Myth" by Harlan Ellison
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last updated Jun 25, 2016 08:27AM
"Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" by Harlan Ellison
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last updated Jun 25, 2016 04:43AM
"Delusion For A Dragon Slayer" by Harlan Ellison
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last updated Jun 25, 2016 04:42AM
“Cat Pictures Please� by Naomi Kritzer
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last updated May 03, 2016 10:00AM
"Madeleine� by Amal El-Mohtar
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last updated Apr 28, 2016 02:04AM
"The New Mother" by Eugene Fischer
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last updated Apr 27, 2016 12:50PM
"The Bone Swans of Amandale" by C.S.E. Cooney
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last updated Apr 26, 2016 11:58AM
“Rattlesnakes and Men� by Michael Bishop
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last updated Apr 26, 2016 09:59AM
"Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)" by Rachel Swirsky
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last updated Feb 07, 2017 09:31AM
"The Magician and Laplace's Demon" by Tom Crosshil
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last updated Feb 06, 2017 02:16PM
"A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i" by Alaya Dawn Johnson
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last updated Feb 06, 2017 11:47AM
"Covenant" by Elizabeth Bear
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last updated Mar 01, 2016 05:58AM
"Makeisha In Time" by Rachael K. Jones
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last updated Feb 25, 2016 08:12AM
And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side
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last updated Jan 11, 2017 07:36AM
The Last Flight of Doctor Ain
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last updated Jan 09, 2017 09:24AM
The Evening and the Morning and the Night
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last updated Sep 22, 2015 10:06AM
"The Fifth Dragon" by Ian McDonald
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last updated Aug 26, 2015 11:02AM
"The Scrivener" by Eleanor Arnason
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last updated Aug 20, 2015 06:39AM
"Amicae Aeternum" by Ellen Klages
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last updated Aug 20, 2015 06:36AM
"Cimmeria: From The Journal of Imaginary Anthropology" by Theodora Goss
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last updated Aug 19, 2015 08:51AM
Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon?
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last updated Jul 20, 2015 05:07PM
The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi
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last updated May 20, 2015 09:24AM
Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon
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last updated Jun 13, 2015 11:30AM
A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide
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last updated Apr 29, 2015 07:19PM
The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye
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last updated Apr 16, 2015 12:03PM
July Contemporary SF/F Discussion Topic Nominations Closed
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last updated Jun 07, 2019 08:55PM
July Classic SF/F Discussion Topic Nominations Closed
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last updated May 20, 2019 07:45AM
June Contemporary SF/F Discussion Topic selection complete
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last updated May 14, 2019 01:50PM
June Classic SF/F Discussion Topic selection complete
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last updated Apr 22, 2019 07:37AM
April Contemporary SF/F Discussion Topic selection complete
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last updated Apr 12, 2019 09:54AM
Past Introductions (2015-2016)
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last updated Dec 30, 2016 09:17AM
Introduce Yourself! (Archived)
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last updated Jan 10, 2015 06:21PM
What's Your Favorite Anthology Series?
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last updated Sep 23, 2014 07:11PM
