#SciFiMonth Waiting on Wednesday 11/10/21
Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that first originated at Breaking the Spine but has since linked up with “Can’t Wait Wednesday” at Wishful Endings now that the original creator is unable to host it anymore. Either way, this fun feature is a chance to showcase the upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on!
Mogsy’s Pick
Rosebud by Paul Cornell (April 26, 2022 by Tor.com)
In honor of Sci-Fi Month, I’m featuring sci-fi picks for my Waiting on Wednesday posts for the whole of November! This week, the spotlight is on this upcoming novella by Paul Cornell. Sure, I may prefer longer novels, but this one had me at the locked-room premise. How can I resist that?
“A multilayered, locked-room science fiction novella from Paul Cornell in which five digital beings unravel their existences to discover the truth of their humanity.
“The crew of the Rosebud are, currently, and by force of law, a balloon, a goth with a swagger stick, some sort of science aristocrat possibly, a ball of hands, and a swarm of insects.”
When five sentient digital beings—condemned for over three hundred years to crew the small survey ship by the all-powerful Company—encounter a mysterious black sphere, their course of action is clear: obtain the object, inform the Company, earn lots of praise.
But the ship malfunctions, and the crew has no choice but to approach the sphere and survey it themselves. They have no idea that this object—and the transcendent truth hidden within—will change the fate of all existence, the Company, and themselves.”
The BiblioSanctum 
Oh.. now that sounds like a killer read. Weird. But interesting as all get out.
Thanks for sharing, Mogsy, I’ll have to read this one!
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Yes, crossing my fingers it’ll be as good as the publisher blurb makes it sound, lol! 😀
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It’s sad how unhelpful the blurbs can be sometimes.. I’ll keep my fingers cross too, just in case! 😆
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The description of those five digital characters is beyond intriguing! 🙂
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Hmm intriguing!
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OOh nice pick! That’s a new to me one. Hope you thoroughly enjoy it once you get to read it!
Here’s my WoW
Have a GREAT day!
Old Follower 🙂
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I saw the cover reveal for this too, and it does sound good! I’ve never read Cornell before.
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I don’t think I have either!
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Yes, I like the sound of this one, too. I’m curious to see what we’ll end of feeling about these digital beings by the end of the story.
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That part definitely piqued my interest as well!
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This didn’t grab me a first glance, but then I reread it and “a balloon, a goth with a swagger stick, some sort of science aristocrat possibly, a ball of hands, and a swarm of insects” caught my interest, 🙂
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LOL, funny how such a random collection of words can have a way of doing that to us 😀
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This sounds so unusual – I’d probably love it.
Lynn 😀
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