2022 SFFKIT Planning Thread

Please post here with SFFKIT topic suggestions, or if you're willing to host a month. I'll update this post as we go.

January - A villain or morally grey main character - JayneCM - https://www.librarything.com/topic/337514
February - Time travel - SilverWolf28 - https://www.librarything.com/topic/338804
March - Historical SFF - christina_reads - https://www.librarything.com/topic/339607
April - Lifespans - antqueen - https://www.librarything.com/topic/340500
May - Invasion - majkia
June - Next book in a series (not #1) - Kristelh
July - Family (biological or found) - markon
August - SFF by Asian authors - Kristelh
September - antqueen - Quests and Journeys
October - Robots and Sentient AI - Tanya-dogearedcopy
November - Award winners - h-mb
December - majkia

The wiki is here: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/2022_SFFKIT

2021's main thread is here if you'd like to take a look for reference or inspiration.

Suggestions:
- Mama Cat - meaning read a book that will work for one of the 2022 Cats and the SFFkit
- Mental abilities, like telepathy or telekinesis or dreams that affect the real world

Some old favorites:
- Female authors

I'm not sure I can host a month, but can I suggest Lifespans for a topic?

It would cover either future humans or an alien/fantasy race with a lifespan very different from what we consider usual. So, they live for centuries or millennia or are even immortal. Alternatively, they could have a lifespan of days, months or a year.

>2 Robertgreaves: I like that one. Though it makes me realize that I've read a lot of books with beings with longer lifespans than humans have, but not so many with shorter ones.

>3 antqueen: I have a vague idea that I have read a story where an alien race had a very short lifespan but I can't remember the title or author.

OTOH I did see this on FB recently (warning, you might want to have your hankie out):

I'll take May, topic not decided yet.

eta: how about invasion as a topic.

>4 Robertgreaves: Aww...

>5 majkia: Added!

I'll take June, topic undecided.

I'll take February.

Great! I've added you both. I put myself in for April too, though if anyone else wants it I don't have any strong preference for a month.

I'll volunteer to do July - not sure what the theme will be yet.

I'll take January if you like. I was thinking 'a villain or morally grey main character' as the topic.

I'll take November.
Still thinking about the topic.

Updated, thanks for hosting!

I'm still thinking about a topic too. I like the lifespans idea in >2 Robertgreaves:, or maybe something with mental abilities, like telepathy or telekinesis or dreams that affect the real world. I liked the journeys category from 2021 too. And we did near future/alternate reality this year. Far future/distant past might be interesting. Hmm.

So many SFF are works of series and maybe we did them every year but seems like it is something that works every year. May I host complete a book(s) in one of your series, cannot be book 1.?

Another one that I've thought might be different for us is to read a SFFkit that it's mama Cat, meaning read a book that will work for one of the 2022 Cats and the SFFkit. A twofer.

>14 Kristelh: Sounds good! I've updated the main post.

I think I'll take the award winners as theme for november. Thanks for the idea !

I'm trying to decide between a theme of family in a work (found or biological) and weather/climate theme. I know finding weather/climate stories is pretty easy these days, so I'm leaning toward works with a family theme.

>17 h-mb: I've put you in for award winners.

>18 markon: I'd never really thought about the "found family" idea as such until I saw it in a reading challenge, but since then I've noticed I read more than I'd have thought. Apparently a favorite of mine :)

I'd like to volunteer for a historical SFF theme in March. It would include steampunk, gaslamp fantasy, and really anything that is set in a recognizable past time.

Great! I'll add you in. Still need a few hosts, but we're getting there.

Checking my notes as to when the next MurderBot book is coming out... Fall 2022...

I'd like to take October! Robots and Sentient AI

ETA: The new book being released next Fall is called, 'Witch King' and is NOT a Murderbot book!
I would still like to take Robots & AI though... I'm sure there will be something if not another MB story!

Thanks! I'm behind on MurderBot myself... need to catch up, but I guess I have until next fall :)

>19 antqueen: Put me down for family in July - this can be bio or found family.

>24 markon: Done

I put myself in for a second month... just need two more now.

I'll take a second month if no one else offers.

I'll take August and I will do SFF by Asian authors.

>27 Kristelh: Thanks, I added you in for August

>Ooohh, looking foward to that one!

>26 majkia: No one else yet... I'll go ahead and put you in for December. I picked my months more or less arbitrarily, so if you'd rather have one of those just let me know.

Here's the wiki for the 2022 SFFKIT: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/2022_SFFKIT

My first LT wiki page... thank goodness for copy and paste :)

>31 antqueen: copy and paste was a gift from the data gods.

>31 antqueen: CONGRATULATIONS!

I appreciate majkia and all her work in the past. :)

Does anyone have ideas for my topic in February?

>34 SilverWolf28: romance, children's, dragons, before/after a certain decade, mystery, murder, horror, monsters, time travel, animals, retellings...

>34 SilverWolf28: Books made into/based on TV/film/other media

>34 SilverWolf28: generation ships, pocket universe (through the mirror sorts of things),

>34 SilverWolf28: Or we don't seem to have a time travel month yet?

>34 SilverWolf28: >38 christina_reads: Came here to second Time Travel as well! :-)

Other ideas I was kicking around before I settled on Robots & AI were: Stand Alone Fantasies, Fantasies under 300 pages, graphic novels, science fiction from the Age of Sputnik... If any of those appeal, feel free to take! :-)

Thanks for all the ideas! I decided to do Time Travel.

>40 SilverWolf28: My favourite! I already know I will keep going with Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel series!

>41 JayneCM: I was just thinking the same. I got Blackout for Christmas so that's perfect!

>40 SilverWolf28: YAY! I’ve got Slaughterhouse-Five (by Kurt Vonnegut) in my stacks which should work! :-)

ETA: OK, no—‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ is time travel but it’s not SFF. I know I must have SFF + Time Travel in my stacks… Time to do a tag mash search!

Is there a January thread yet?

>44 susanna.fraser: Yes - it can be found here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/337514#

>45 DeltaQueen50: Thanks!

Here's February's thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/338804

The March thread is up: https://www.librarything.com/topic/339607.

April's thread is here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/340500

May's thread is up: https://www.librarything.com/topic/341192

I'm looking ahead to plan my reads and was wondering if there is a theme selected for December?

>51 sturlington: Oh, that's me! Uhm. How about read your favorite authors?

>52 majkia: Well, that makes it easy! :-)

June thread is up https://www.librarything.com/topic/341778

>25 antqueen: >24 markon: Is there a July thread?

>55 Tanya-dogearedcopy: I'll get it posted sometime in the next few days. It's drafted, I just want to look through and see if I need to add anything. Theme is family, biological or found.

Posted Monday here.

The August thread is up. https://www.librarything.com/topic/342908#unread

September thread is up! https://www.librarything.com/topic/343546

🤖 October thread is up! https://www.librarything.com/topic/344184

Do we have a November thread yet?

2023 CAT Voting is now open at https://www.librarything.com/topic/345396

>12 h-mb: >17 h-mb: Is there a November thread in the works?

Hello,

I'm very sorry about the delay. RL happened and I quite forgot I was to host a month...

Here's the link : November SFFKIT

2023 SFFKIT planning thread is here:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/345448

And here are a few links if you can't think of one . . .

Ursula K. LeGuin prize for fiction
Arthur C. Clarke award
Otherwise award
Nebula
Hugo

December thread is up:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/345840

January 2023 thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/346551