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Proposal List
Current Poll
The set of active items that will be added to the next poll. If it hasn't been selected after three to four months, it will get moved to the historical backlist section below.
- Litany for a Broken World by LJ Cohen
- “When the three strangers, each broken in some way, are pulled into a conflict between those with the ability to travel the multiverse and the organization seeking to exploit them, they must risk everything that matters to heal the fractured places in themselves and throughout reality.”
- Notes: added in February 2026 poll
- Suggested by eldang
- The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- horror/fantasy story about witchcraft set across three different time periods
- Notes: added in February 2026 poll
- Suggested by enne
- Gliff by Ali Smith
- “A fable about survival in a totalitarian surveillance state. A reflection on childhood, siblinghood, and the cost and worth of kindness. A dance with language and memory.”
- Notes: added in February 2026 poll
- Suggested by enne
- The Navigating Fox by Christopher Rowe
- Redwall for adults, about re-leading an expedition to hell
- Notes: added in March 2026 poll
- Suggested by enne
Proposal List for Future Polls
This is the set of items to consider when adding to future polls. Please edit and add your own suggestions here.
- This All Come Back Now by various
- Notes: Anthology of Aboriginal Australian & Torres Strait stories [may be hard to source outside Australia]
- Suggested by dzshuniper
- Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
- “It is longer than usual, also less progressive than usual we read here. Interesting take on trying to solve global warming by geoingineering. It is far from technosolitionism (which Neal is known for).”
- Suggested by Jacek, now moved to https://m.askesis.pl/@jacek
- Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
- A more industrial-era fantasy novel, where the magic system is largely magic rules lawyering. This is book one of a trilogy, but I think the first book ends very solidly in a way you could read just one and enjoy it. The other two books also each satisfyingly escalate the magical ideas from book one.
- Suggested by enne
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi
- Notes: [first published August 2023; wait for paperback]
Historical Backlist
This is information about items that were voted on but not chosen.
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
- fantasy story about a shapeshifting people-devouring monster who falls in love with a human
- Notes: added in October 2025 poll
- Suggested by enne
- Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead
- generation ship novel in verse
- Notes: added in October 2025 poll
- Suggested by enne
- The Mercy of Gods by James SA Corey
- I'd describe this as: high stakes academia gets interrupted by alien invasion; their research then becomes even more high stakes while having to navigate trauma and powerful alien political currents.
- Notes: added in June 2025 poll
- Suggested by j12i
- Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
- It's by a South African author and is an urban fantasy about Johannesburg where people receive animal familiars as a punishment.
- Notes: added in May 2025 poll
- Suggested by unknown (maybe eldang?)
- North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher
- novella-length “story cycle” of shorter stories set on the same planet, connected thematically around AI, contracts and relationships, and penal labor. A review: https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/12/13/small-press-dispatch-form-and-function/
- Notes: added in April 2025 poll
- Suggested by enne
- Time's Agent by Brenda Peynado
- Notes: added in February 2025 poll
- Suggested by enne
- Power to Yield and Other Stories by Bogi Takács
- enne says: I read this short story collection because @eldang posted about it. So many of these stories continue to stick with me, and I'd love to discuss them with everyone.
- Notes: added in January 2025 poll
- Suggested by enne
- Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
- enne says: A novel that sits firmly in the intersection of both romance and scifi. Space politics, romance tropes, and an ending that satisfies both sets of genre expectations.
- Notes: added in December 2024 poll
- Suggested by enne
- Things We Found During the Autopsy by Kuzhali Manickavel
- Notes: Added in September 2024 poll. If buying direct from publisher doesn't work, try https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1431145
- Suggested by Vajra Chandrasekera
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