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our June book:

The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin

As always please join us at #bskybc
Pinned
#bskybc to kick us off here’s the start of the wonderful introduction to the edition I have.

Discussion schedule is five chapters a week for four weeks starting… now!!
You heard it here first #bskybc

You loved* the adventures of Severian the Torturer

Now get ready for the adventures of Severian the Lame

IN

Gene Wolfe’s “Urth of the New Sun”

Coming 12/19-January something or other

Surprise!
Ok let’s fucking go baby we run a minibskybc just on urth
December 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Ok. With all this AI & sentience discourse flying around we definitely need to read Blindsight or a book about the fae next. I have a short list of fae stuff from some of you, feel free to toss in more here, or Blindsight-adjacent recommendations too #bskybc
August 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Destriers, am I right? #bskybc
absolutely normal horses
August 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This is not an official selection but if anybody wants to read le Carre’s The Honourable Schoolboy with me now’s your chance #bskybc
July 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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somehow only just realized ansible was named after Le Guin's ansible #bskybc
June 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
June 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Appalling #bskybc
June 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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June 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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she waive on my shifgrethor til I’m in kemmer
June 19, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Ok I’ll bite. What the hell is shifgrethor #bskybc
June 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Man, the foretelling scene, wow! #bskybc
June 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
So they’ve got some pretty grim folk tales here on Gethen eh? Of course, I come from a whole planet of perverts, so maybe my judgment is flawed

How’s everybody enjoying themselves?
#bskybc
June 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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already finished the first five - there's still time to start and join! two of the chapters are just a couple pages
#bskybc to kick us off here’s the start of the wonderful introduction to the edition I have.

Discussion schedule is five chapters a week for four weeks starting… now!!
June 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The #bskybc experience
What if we all read some ancient truths before bed
June 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
#bskybc to kick us off here’s the start of the wonderful introduction to the edition I have.

Discussion schedule is five chapters a week for four weeks starting… now!!
June 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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June 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Hello #bskybc! It looks like The Left Hand of Darkness has twenty chapters, if we do our usual schedule that’s five chapters a week. Nice and manageable. How would we feel about starting tomorrow?
June 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
And the winner izzzzz *drum roll* The Left Hand of Darkness! I’ll be reading an ancient paperback I found in a free box, but as always there are lots of cheap used copies with free (USA) shipping on Abe Books. Get yours today! We’ll start idk Wednesday? #bskybc

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The Left Hand of Darkness - AbeBooks
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May 31, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Polls close in four hours #bskybc
We have our finalists: Ursula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking classic “The Left Hand of Darkness”, about a planet of sex-shifting aliens; and Samuel Delaney’s “Dhalgren”, a puzzle box that has been confounding the sci-fi community for fifty years. Only one can win—which should we read? Vote now! #bskybc
Trying a new polling site. Which has slightly changed the ordering from that image! Great! Anyway, here is the bracket! Round 1 ends tomorrow at 10pm Pacific. Will China Mieville best Neal Stephenson? Which space opera triumphs--Simmons or Vinge? Stay tuned! #bskybc

www.polltab.com/bracket-poll...
May 31, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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We have our finalists: Ursula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking classic “The Left Hand of Darkness”, about a planet of sex-shifting aliens; and Samuel Delaney’s “Dhalgren”, a puzzle box that has been confounding the sci-fi community for fifty years. Only one can win—which should we read? Vote now! #bskybc
Trying a new polling site. Which has slightly changed the ordering from that image! Great! Anyway, here is the bracket! Round 1 ends tomorrow at 10pm Pacific. Will China Mieville best Neal Stephenson? Which space opera triumphs--Simmons or Vinge? Stay tuned! #bskybc

www.polltab.com/bracket-poll...
May 30, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We have our finalists: Ursula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking classic “The Left Hand of Darkness”, about a planet of sex-shifting aliens; and Samuel Delaney’s “Dhalgren”, a puzzle box that has been confounding the sci-fi community for fifty years. Only one can win—which should we read? Vote now! #bskybc
Trying a new polling site. Which has slightly changed the ordering from that image! Great! Anyway, here is the bracket! Round 1 ends tomorrow at 10pm Pacific. Will China Mieville best Neal Stephenson? Which space opera triumphs--Simmons or Vinge? Stay tuned! #bskybc

www.polltab.com/bracket-poll...
May 30, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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vote vote vote vote vote for the bsky book club book (and join us! just post about the book at #bskybc). semifinals polls close at 10pm pacific!
May 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Heading into a surprising semifinals as Peter Watts is knocked out by Quifan Chen! These all look great, I’d read them each #bskybc
May 29, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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if youre in line for book club voting you’re probably doing it wrong but stay in line!! voting ends in 3 hours
Gideon the Ninth vs. Dhalgren! Perdido Street Station vs. A Fire Upon The Deep! All good choices perhaps?

Will The Left Hand of Darkness and Blindsight sail to the semifinals, or get beaten by upstarts?

Which book should the #bskybc read? Polls close at 10pm Pacific!
Trying a new polling site. Which has slightly changed the ordering from that image! Great! Anyway, here is the bracket! Round 1 ends tomorrow at 10pm Pacific. Will China Mieville best Neal Stephenson? Which space opera triumphs--Simmons or Vinge? Stay tuned! #bskybc

www.polltab.com/bracket-poll...
May 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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@huwupy.kawaii.social lied to me and said ice cream was unhealthy so he could eat it himself. be sure to vote against him.
Gideon the Ninth vs. Dhalgren! Perdido Street Station vs. A Fire Upon The Deep! All good choices perhaps?

Will The Left Hand of Darkness and Blindsight sail to the semifinals, or get beaten by upstarts?

Which book should the #bskybc read? Polls close at 10pm Pacific!
Trying a new polling site. Which has slightly changed the ordering from that image! Great! Anyway, here is the bracket! Round 1 ends tomorrow at 10pm Pacific. Will China Mieville best Neal Stephenson? Which space opera triumphs--Simmons or Vinge? Stay tuned! #bskybc

www.polltab.com/bracket-poll...
May 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM