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The Book Thief (Markus Zusak) "This book is narrated by death. Not a god of death, not some kind of herald of it, the abstract concept of death itself. And death permeates the entire story. The book begins with our protagonist, a young girl living smack-dab in the middle of Nazi Germany name Leisel Meminger watching her younger brother Werner die on their way to their new foster home, and it only gets worse from there. Leisel continually strives to save herself and others from the inevitable destruction and end that awaits them, predominantly, of course, by stealing books, but also eventually by harboring a Jewish man named Max Vandenburg, and it is consistently not enough. I'll spare you most of the details in the hopes of you reading it yourself, but the book ends with our protagonist's home being bombed and the deaths of her foster parents and the boy she loves. Leisel herself dies of old age decades later, and death's final words to her (and arguably to the readers themselves) are "I am haunted by humans"."

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (Joshua Piven & David Borgenicht) "A handy little manual that shows all the ways that you can survive the worst possible situations. And now that you have the Leitner edition, you'll be putting those skills to good use almost constantly, as every deadly thing described in those pages begins to manifest in your life."

The Cold Equations (Tom Godwin) "The Cold Equations

The story of a pilot who finds a girl stowed away on his spaceship, which is delivering lifesaving medicine to a distant frontier world. The fuel had been carefully measured out, the weight precisely calculated -- and none of it accounted for the stowaway. There is only one way to complete the mission. The numbers are merciless."

End Leitner Bracket Round 3 Bout 4

The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (Piven & Borgenicht)

The Cold Equations (Tom Godwin)

Voting ended onMay 30, 2024

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Frank Kelly Freas illo for Astounding SF Magazine, illustrating Tom Godwin's story, "The Gulf Between"

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Beyond Another Sun

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Piranesi (Susanna Clarke) "Piranesi lives in a place called the House, a world composed of infinite halls and vestibules lined with statues, no two of which are alike. The upper level of the House is filled with clouds, and the lower level with an ocean, which occasionally surges into the middle level following tidal patterns that Piranesi meticulously tracks. He believes he has always lived in the House, and that there are only fifteen people in the world, all but two of whom are long-dead skeletons. The status that decorate the halls and walls of the House are all gigantic and the halls themself are immense and bigger than what any human would be able to build on their own."

The Nothing Equation (Tom Godwin) "A man goes mad in an isolated space observation station as he becomes overwhelmed by the enormity of space. Link"

Vast Leitner Bracket Round 1 Bout 7

Piranesi (Susanna Clarke)

The Nothing Equation (Tom Godwin)

Voting ended onApr 2, 2024

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Kaleidoscope (Ray Bradbury) "First published in the October 1949 edition of Thrilling Wonder Stories this describes a scene where a spaceship is hit by a meteor and torn apart – ejecting the crew into space. Each astronaut flies off on his own trajectory, hurtling to his doom. For a time they can all communicate through their helmet comms, but slowly, as the separation becomes millions of miles apart, they wind up as solitary figures, alone with his thoughts."

The Nothing Equation (Tom Godwin) "A man goes mad in an isolated space observation station as he becomes overwhelmed by the enormity of space. Link"

Vast Leitner Bracket Round 3 Bout 2

Kaleidoscope (Ray Bradbury)

The Nothing Equation (Tom Godwin)

Voting ended onApr 4, 2024

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The Nothing Equation (Tom Godwin) "A man goes mad in an isolated space observation station as he becomes overwhelmed by the enormity of space. Link"

Deeplight (Frances Hardinge) "In the old days, the islands of the Myriad lived in fear of the gods, great sea monsters that rose up from the Undersea to devour ships and depopulate entire islands. Now, the gods are no more. They tore each other apart in an event known as the Cataclysm. Fragments of their bodies (known as godware) are dredged up and sold. Hark and his best friend Jelt are petty criminals. When they embark on a dangerous scavenging expedition, they stumble across a strange, pulsing piece of godware and things begin to go very, very wrong."

Gods, the ocean depths, and poverty all play into the themes of insignificance in this novel.

Vast Leitner Bracket Round 2 Bout 4

The Nothing Equation (Tom Godwin)

Deeplight (Frances Hardinge)

Voting ended onApr 3, 2024