Quite a week last week! No clear leader emerged, instead we had a tie for first place most the week. First place was tied with four books, then five, six... Then with just a few days to go Starship Troopers, which got a late start, pulled ahead by one vote. There were 21 votes in, which is what we usually get. I thought it was a done deal. But looking at the poll this morning, two last minute votes came in, both voting for The Handmaid's Tale. So looks like Handmaid's wins the group, and Troopers comes in second. Loosing out by a nose are The Diamond Age, Speaker for the Dead, Childhood's End, and A Scanner Darkly.
This week is the second to last group poll. We have the original time travel story by Wells, another classic dystopia, a boy's war novel, historical fictionpunk, another Heinlein classic, a slapstick space opera, and PK Dick messing with your mind in a story that's almost but not entirely unlike the movie based on it. And more...