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Science Fiction Author in Austin, TX

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Book of the Week (2018 Archive)

Book of the Week (2018 Archive)

How the book of the week emails got started…

Going into 2018, I was working on my fourth novel and reading widely in my genre, trying to get a higher-level view of the landscape and fill in some gaps in my genre knowledge before I really dug into my next project. I’ve always read widely, but as any reader does, I have naturally gravitated to tropes and types of stories that I enjoyed the most, and largely ignored the rest. As an author, I decided I needed a more nuanced view. I needed to know what I didn’t know.

This was an exercise in going outside my comfort zone. As is typical in life, many discoveries await you at the edges of your comfort zone, and reading more widely has been no different for me than any other adventure. It’s a slog, sometimes…but it’s also a thrill.

Over the course of the last two years, I’ve read tons of bestsellers, some film-to-book adaptations, and several modern sci-fi authors I’d found online but never heard of. I read dated classics, and Hugo Award Winners from the 1950s, and pulp fiction from before that, and comic books for which only seen the film adaptations. I read stories that are out of copyright and older novels that are considered the seed from which all sci-fi has grown. And most of all—I read a lot of my contemporaries.

At the same time, while I was reading, my subconscious was working on another problem. I had grown a small following through my email list and social media, and I was hungry for a deeper way to engage with them more often that didn’t hinge on my slower-paced output of new fiction.

Thus the Book of the Week was born.

I decided to send an email each week to my readers, and in that email recommend a book for them. Occasionally it would be mine, but mostly it would be books I’ve read and loved, and other sci-fi content that I think might entertain readers.

The list below is 2018’s archive. Beginning in January of that year. Looking for something to new to read? If you like science fiction, I’m sure you’ll find something you like below.

Enjoy.

-MG Herron

Austin, TX,

February 7, 2019

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New adventures each week!

Join MG Herron’s SFF book club to get sci-fi/fantasy book recommendations like this one in your inbox every Friday.

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Book of the Week Archives

12/20/18 The Translocator (science fiction audiobook) The Translocator By M. G. Herron SFF Book club letter about this book

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12/13/18 Tech Mage By Chris Fox SFF Book club letter about this book

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11/30/18 Star Hustler By Chris Turner SFF Book club letter about this book

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11/23/18 Rika Outcast By M.D. Cooper SFF Book club letter about this book

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11/16/18 The Forever War By Joe Haldeman SFF Book club letter about this book

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11/9/18 All Systems Red By Martha Wells SFF Book club letter about this book

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11/2/18 Shadow By Nicholas Woode-Smith SFF Book club letter about this book

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10/26/18 Lazarus Protocol By David Bruns and Chris Pourteau SFF Book club letter about this book

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10/19/18 Flicker By Rebecca Rode SFF Book club letter about this book

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10/12/18 Renegade Star By JN CHaney SFF Book club letter about this book

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10/5/18 Star Phase Exodus By Jason Werbeloff SFF Book club letter about this book

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9/28/18 Bastion Saturn By C. Chase Harwood SFF Book club letter about this book

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9/21/18 Lethal Cargo By Felix Savage SFF Book club letter about this book

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9/14/18 The Event By Nathan Hystad SFF Book club letter about this book

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9/7/18 Mask By Kerry Dietz SFF Book club letter about this book

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8/24/18 The Republic by M.G. Herron SFF Book club letter about this book

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8/17/18 Archangel Down by C Gockel SFF Book club letter about this book

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8/10/18 Max Rage by Jake Bible SFF Book club letter about this book

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8/3/18 Planetside By Michael Mammay SFF Book club letter about this book

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7/27/18 Bridge Across the Stars By SFB SFF Book club letter about this book

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7/27/18 Forbidden System By David Alastair Hayden SFF Book club letter about this book

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7/20/18 Juno Rising By Patty Jansen SFF Book club letter about this book

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7/13/18 Lucky Universe By Joshua James SFF Book club letter about this book

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7/6/18 Circuit Trilogy By Rhett Bruno SFF Book club letter about this book

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6/29/18 Star Forged By Justin Sloan SFF Book club letter about this book

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6/22/18 Nepenthe Rising By John Triptych SFF Book club letter about this book

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6/15/18 Mission: Improbable By J.J. Green SFF Book club letter about this book

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6/8/18 Land of the Free By Michael W. Huard SFF Book club letter about this book

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6/8/18 World Shift By K. Gorman SFF Book club letter about this book

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6/1/18 The Ares Initiative By MG Herron SFF Book club letter about this book

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5/25/18 The Other By Marilyn Peake SFF Book club letter about this book

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5/18/18 The Timelost By Chris Turner SFF Book club letter about this book

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5/18/18 Prison Quest By Mikey Campling and Saffron Bryant SFF Book club letter about this book

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5/11/18 Allies and Enemies: Fallen By Amy J Murphy SFF Book club letter about this book

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5/4/18 Coilhunter By Dean F Wilson SFF Book club letter about this book

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4/27/18 Earth Alone by Daniel Arenson SFF Book club letter about this book

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4/20/18 The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin SFF Book club letter about this book

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4/13/18 Iron Dragoons by Richard Fox SFF Book club letter about this book

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4/6/18 Rumors of War by Amy Duboff SFF Book club letter about this book

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3/30/18 Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel SFF Book club letter about this book

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3/23/18 Star Nomad by Linday Buroker SFF Book club letter about this book

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3/16/18 Time Zero by Carolyn Cohagan SFF Book club letter about this book

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3/9/18 Gods and The City by Steve Statham SFF Book club letter about this book

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3/2/18 Paradox Bound by Peter Clines SFF Book club letter about this book

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2/23/18 Legionnaire by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole SFF Book club letter about this book

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2/16/18 Black Dawn by K. Gorman SFF Book club letter about this book

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2/9/18 Assignment Darklanding by Craig Martelle and Scott Moon SFF Book club letter about this book

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2/2/18 Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson SFF Book club letter about this book Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon CA

M.G. Herron

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