Hard SF discussion

The poll for the month of October 2010 is up for the HardSF BotM at Yahoo groups.

Remember, you can vote for any number — so, for example, if there are only two that you wouldn't want to read: reverse voting, courtesy of Yahoo.

For your research, the books are:
① Flood , by Stephen Baxter
❷ Weapons of Choice , by John Birmingham
③ Childhood's End , by Arthur C. Clarke
❹ The Sands of Mars , by Arthur C. Clarke
⑤ For the Win , by Cory Doctorow
❻ Makers , by Cory Doctorow
⑦ Forever Free , by Joe Haldeman
❽ The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress , by Robert A. Heinlein
⑨ Code of the Lifemaker , by James P. Hogan
❿ The Proteus Operation , by James P. Hogan
⑪ Thrice Upon A Time , by James P. Hogan
⓬ Cosmonaut Keep , by Ken MacLeod
⑬ Forty Signs of Rain , by Kim Stanley Robinson
⓮ WWW:Wake , by Robert J. Sawyer
⑮ Quicksilver , by Neal Stephenson

You have over a week, so plenty of time to research and consider.

For anyone in or near San Francisco, there is a newly-initiated Science Fiction meetup group that is also reading Sawyer's WWW:Wake for their first selection, so two-birds-one-stone kinda thing.