Rocket Summer 2025

Yes, I know that we're still in the midst of June and we're all enjoying this year's June on the Range Western reading event (as I write this, I'm almost finished with my third book for the month), but I thought I'd take a moment to let you know what I have planned for next month's Rocket Summer event! 🚀

Rocket Summer is an out of this world reading event that celebrates "classic Science Fiction" (from its roots up through the 1960s). Like June on the Range, Rocket Summer comes to us from BookTuber Michael K. Vaughan and the event is structured thusly:

• Week 1 - Science Fiction's humble beginnings up through the 1930s
• Week 2 - The 1940s
• Week 3 - The 1950s
• Week 4 - The 1960s

This time around, I'll be reading books (and novellas) from those eras that have been reprinted and republished in "extra large" paperback editions by Armchair Fiction out of Medford, Oregon.

I currently only own six of these, but between them, all of the above eras are well represented. Some of these are quite short, thus my hope that I will absolutely crush all 12 of them before we roll into August at which point I'll devote a few weeks to Book Trek (more on that later)!

You'll note that of the dozen, SEVEN are from the 1950s, so I may have to cheat a bit with a little overlapping of eras and weeks.

Until then, it's back to them thar' westerns!