Hard SF discussion

Having run out of Kim Stanley Robinson's books in his Science in the Capital series, we have to start the new year with something fresh. The poll for the month of January 2011 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, then use 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 Diaspora , by Greg Egan
❽ Forever Free , by Joe Haldeman
⑨ The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress , by Robert A. Heinlein
❿ The Proteus Operation , by James P. Hogan
⑪ Thrice Upon A Time , by James P. Hogan
⓬ Cosmonaut Keep , by Ken MacLeod
⑬ WWW:Wake , by Robert J. Sawyer
⓮ Quicksilver , by Neal Stephenson

Turns out we got ourselves a tie.

There were six votes each for:

① Flood , by Stephen Baxter
⑨ The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress , by Robert A. Heinlein

The run-off poll is over at the Yahoo Groups site — the voting ends tonight!

My personal lobbying campaign:

While The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is, in my opinion, Heinlein’s best legacy, it was just read in November by the SciFi and Fantasy Book Club. So, for the Goodreads voting bloc, I would hope we’d head over to the poll and vote on Flood. It would also be a nice comparison to Robinson’s three books, since it also deals with climate change.