2024 SFF Planning Thread

Are we doing this again next year? If so, let me know and volunteer for a month and pick a topic now or later.

January - swords & sorcery/ epic fantasy - Hosting: christina_reads - https://www.librarything.com/topic/355889 -
February - critters/creatures - Hosting: JayneCM - https://www.librarything.com/topic/357085
March - Space Opera - Hosting: DeltaQueen50 - https://www.librarything.com/topic/358438
April - Time Travel - Hosting: KeithChaffee - https://www.librarything.com/topic/359218
May - Archaeology - Hosting: majkia - https://www.librarything.com/topic/360103
June - Monsters - Hosting: whitewavedarling - https://www.librarything.com/topic/360894
July - First Contact - Hosting: h-mb - https://www.librarything.com/topic/361450
August - paranormal/space detectives - Hosting: amberwitch https://www.librarything.com/topic/361996
September - Gods/Mythology - Hosting: antqueen https://www.librarything.com/topic/362663
October - Women Authors - Hosting: susanna.fraser - https://www.librarything.com/topic/363373
November - Read that book that was recommended to you by a friend, family member, or some other personal acquaintance, but not a software program - Hosting: fuzzi https://www.librarything.com/topic/365009
December - Bookish Fantasy - Hosting: MissBrangwen - https://www.librarything.com/topic/365744

the Wiki is here: SFFKIT Wiki

Suggestions for topics? Feel free to suggest even if you don't want to necessarily use that idea for yourself.
✔ Space Opera
✔ First Contact
Strange Worlds
✔ Critters
✔ Gods
Hiding in the shadows (living among us like Harry Potter)
✔ Paranormal detectives?
Steampunk
✔ Mythology
Magical realism
Retelling of another tale (fairy tale)
Parallel worlds
✔ Monsters
Something tagged SFF or on the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Novel list https://www.librarything.com/list/1/all/Best-Science-Fiction-Novels
https://www.librarything.com/list/3/all/Best-Fantasy-Novels

I love Space Opera so I volunteer to host the month of March with that topic. For those who read Fantasy we could add in the theme of Travels/Quests.

>2 majkia:
Love these. How about:
Steampunk
Mythology
Magical realism
Retelling of another tale (fairy tale)
Parallel worlds
Monsters
Something tagged SFF or on the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Novel list https://www.librarything.com/list/1/all/Best-Science-Fiction-Novels
https://www.librarything.com/list/3/all/Best-Fantasy-Novels

I'll volunteer for April, and the theme of time travel.

>3 DeltaQueen50: and >5 KeithChaffee: Got you two

>4 amberwitch: Good ideas!

Idea for a topic - past futures, books where the setting was the future when it was written but is now the present or past, e.g,, 2001 A Space Odyssey (written 1968, set 2001) or Stand on Zanzibar (written 1968, set 2012)

I'll take February with critters/creatures please.

I'd love to host a theme of sword & sorcery/epic fantasy. Happy to take January if no one else wants it!

I'll volunteer for May and do archaeology in space and at home. Yes, I'm an Indiana Jones groupie.

I'll take November, topic TBD.

Could I do monsters in June?

I've got everyone up to here. Thanks all!

I'll take gods (maybe combine gods/mythology?) in September.

> yeah, I think mythology and gods go together, unless someone wants to do a restricted mythology month.

Four months to go!

I will take December with "bookish fantasy" - stories involving magic books, enchanted libraries, traveling to other worlds through books etc.

>17 MissBrangwen: oh, sounds good!

I'll take July (I can change if necessary) with the first contact theme

I'll take October with a theme of women authors, if folks are OK with that as a theme.

>20 susanna.fraser: Great theme!

If no-one else is interested, I'll do August with paranormal/space detectives.

>22 amberwitch: Great! LOL. Love the title.

We're all set!

Shouldn’t this thread be pinned like the other planning discussions?

>25 amberwitch: I believe it is pinned! It's showing up that way for me at least.

The January SFFKIT thread is now live: https://www.librarything.com/topic/355889.

>26 christina_reads: I ser it now, thank you:)

>1 majkia: November - Read that book that was recommended to you by a friend, family member, or some other personal acquaintance, but not a software program...

>29 fuzzi: Got it. :)

>29 fuzzi: Great topic!

>31 MissBrangwen: thank you!

I have a bunch of them on my shelves...

February is up - https://www.librarything.com/topic/357085#n8357913

March thread is up: https://www.librarything.com/topic/358438

The April thread is up, and it's time travel month!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/359218

May thread is up.

>36 majkia: thank you.

The June thread is up (with apologies for the delay)! https://www.librarything.com/topic/360894

The July thread is here

Halfway through the year already! Eek.

The September thread is up.

>42 antqueen: Thanks!

November is up: https://www.librarything.com/topic/365009

The 2025 thread is up in the new 2025CC Group. Please join us!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/365472

The December thread is here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/365744

Sorry for the delay!