We've been reading H.G. Wells' The War in the Air, a book published (serialized)
in 1908 that foresees both WWI and the emergence of 20th-Century style industrial warfare and its potential consequences, sci-fi at its best. It is a book for, as Wells himself might have said, "a book for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books." But it does, alas, get a little tedious in the telling, and so we, always conscious of our readers' refined sensibilities, will refrain from adding it too the official book list. It is available, however, free, from Project Gutenberg.
Soon to appear on the book list, however, are a collection of short stories by Nelson Algren and Carl Hiaasen's newest novel. So keep the faith.
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