Genre Specific Review Groups discussion

In joining this review group you are agreeing to review any book assigned to you within a two month time period. If you do not agree, please do not sign up below.

This is the Science Fiction review group, which will include fiction of novel or novella length (20,000 words and up) that falls within the science fiction genre. As with other review groups, you will be expected to read and give an honest review of the books assigned to you.

Participants are expected to post reviews to Goodreads. If the review is positive (three stars or higher on Amazon), the review should be posted to Amazon as well, if the book is available there. This makes having accounts with both Goodreads and Amazon.com a requirement. The author and reviewer can discuss other sites to post reviews as well -- Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, etc.

This topic will be updated with the list of authors as they sign up with their names and Goodreads links to their books. First come; first serve. This is an authors only peer review group.

If a reviewer and the author agree that the review should not be posted to Goodreads due to quality issues, the reviewer is relieved of the requirement of posting the review. This is entirely at the discretion of the reviewer and is not intended in any way to manipulate the rating of any book.


*** UPDATE ***
Okay, as of 4/7/15 we have six people signed up for this group. The schedule and assignments are posted below. If I've overlooked any conflicts (ex: R. Leib and Pearson Moore have already reviewed one another's works before, and so can't be paired off again, etc.)please call it to my attention. Contact the authors you are scheduled to review to arrange to receive a review copy of their work.

Please post to this topic, both when you receive review copies and when you post the reviews.

If you are going to be late with your review, either post to this topic as soon as possible or message the author and the moderator.

If your book has not been reviewed by the deadline for either round, contact the review group moderator. This is necessary to make certain that the review process is fair for everyone.



THE AUTHORS AND NOVELS ARE:


01. William Amerman -- Sky2 - Detritus Machine

02. Gary L. Close -- Breakout: The Roswell Legacy

03. Fred D. Shutts -- Miya's Assault: Black Watch Chronicles I

04. R. Leib -- The Negative's Tale

05. Grant Pies -- New Alcatraz

06. Pearson Moore -- Deneb


***SCHEDULE***

April 7th to May 7th
William Amerman reviews Pearson Moore
Gary L. Close reviews Fred D. Shutts -- complete
Fred D. Shutts reviews Grant Pies -- complete
R. Leib reviews William Amerman -- complete
Grant Pies reviews R. Leib -- complete
Pearson Moore reviews Gary L. Close -- complete

May 7th to June 7th
William Amerman reviews Gary L. Close
Gary L. Close reviews R. Leib -- complete
Fred D. Shutts reviews Pearson Moore -- complete
R. Leib reviews Fred D. Shutts -- complete
Grant Pies reviews William Amerman -- complete
Pearson Moore reviews Grant Pies -- complete

I'd love to read some good SF. I hope I'm following the rules with my understanding that I read and review one or more books and my book goes into the read/review pile for someone else?

My book is SF/Post-Apocalyptic. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

If I have the rules wrong, please forget I ever posted that link!

-Bill

William wrote: "I'd love to read some good SF. I hope I'm following the rules with my understanding that I read and review one or more books and my book goes into the read/review pile for someone else?

My book is..."

William, after six people have submitted their names and book titles, a schedule will be posted. There are two halves to it; the first half will assign your book to a reviewer, and also list a book for you to review. The second half will be the same, but with others assigned. Take a look at this for an example: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I love sci fi and write reviews on a regular basis. Here is my book. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N70QAFY Please include me in this group.

I am interested in signing up as a reviewer. None of my own work is yet at the publish stage, though. Is this a problem?

Amberle wrote: "William wrote: "I'd love to read some good SF. I hope I'm following the rules with my understanding that I read and review one or more books and my book goes into the read/review pile for someone e..."

Sounds great. Thank you for taking the time to clarify. Much appreciated.

I would like my book reviewed please

Thank you
fred

Please add The Negative's Tale by R. Leib

Doug wrote: "I am interested in signing up as a reviewer. None of my own work is yet at the publish stage, though. Is this a problem?"

The way these groups work, Doug, you need to have a reviewable work listed on Goodreads to participate. There are other, more general groups out there, though. They just take some searching for.

William, Gary, Fred, and R. Have all been added.

I would love to join the review group.

My Sci Fi book is New Alcatraz

Amberle,

Please add Deneb by Pearson Moore.

Deneb is an epic tale of culture clash set in three distinct time periods spanning 46,000 years of human history, from Neandertals to the 21st century to the 30th century, pitting seven different cultures against each other. The objective is the salvation of humanity. Deneb contains frequent above-the-waist nudity, six relatively graphic scenes of sexuality, frequent scenes of battle and death, one rape scene, and several characters use coarse language. At 267,000 words, with hundreds of named characters, with a full 7800-word conlang (constructed language) created for the novel, and 34 full-color, full-page paintings commissioned for the novel, and an epic poem (The Tekval Kan Enu Oktnam) to set the tone, Deneb is a true epic in every sense.

I'd like to join the group. The book is Calculated Risk. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1....

Thanks,
Kathy

Here is a link to Deneb:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Thank you!

Sign me in with my book Pepe: www.goodreads.com/book/show/13212842-...

Thanks, Amberle. It's what I thought, but it never hurts to ask. I'll be back in a few weeks when I have something to add to the community.

I have already read Deneb. So Pearson and I should not review each others works.

R.

Okay -- this group filled up fast! Due to the response shown here, I'm going to attempt running a second sci-fi group (#8) simultaneously with this one. K.S. and Robby, I will roll you guys over into that one -- you'll be signed up for #8.

Here is the link for group #8: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Thanks, Amberle!

Please add me for both books in The Spanners Series : This Changes Everything which is perma-free
and
This Changes My Family and My Life Forever which I can provide reviewer(s) with a Smashwords free coupon for downloading upon request.
sallyember AT yahoo DOT com

Please assign me some sci-fi that is NOT militaristic/war-filled ad more speculative/visionary/social sci-fi.

Thanks!

Thank you Amberlie

No problem, Robby and K.S.
Sally, I sent you a message.

Hi, I recently wrote a novella Back To The Viper - A Time Travel ExperimentBack To The Viper - A Time Travel Experiment and would love to provide readers with a digital file in whatever format they prefer.

Antara, this group has already filled up. Check out group #8, read over how the groups work, and sign up if you want. We'd love to have you.

My review of Breakout: The Roswell Legacy:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

By mutual agreement with the author, my review of Sky2 - Detritus Machine will not be published.

R.

My review of New Alcatraz:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

How's it going, everyone? Round one should be complete with reviews posted, moving into the second half of the schedule...

Both my reviews are done, had fun folks :) thank you for allowing me to read your work, some very talented folks here!

Fred

By mutual agreement with the author, my review of Miya's Assault: Black Watch Chronicles I will not be published.

R.