Thanks to everyone who turned out for the inaugural Science Fiction Book Club! There was plenty of enjoyable science fiction discussion to be had, and some really great suggestions for an initial reading list. After much debate, we settled on:
- The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
- The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
For the first few months. In addition, we all decided that it would be a good idea to supplement the reading list with some short stories from A Science Fiction Omnibus which covers a wide range of classic science fiction authors such as Clifford Simak, Isaac Asimov and Philip K Dick.
The next meetup is on Tuesday the 16th of February and it’s not too late to get involved, just pick yourself up a copy of the Joe Haldeman and get stuck in!
Ryan has generously volunteered himself to administrate this group for the first meeting, and Tom will be the advocate for the first book. Also, there’s now an official Google Group which you can find here.
In addition, the person who comes up with the twitter #tag for this group will be presented with a copy of the Science Fiction Omnibus, so flick the switch on your thinking caps to WIN.
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What a great lookin’ list. Will get reading and see you all on Feb 17.
Cool choices, I look forward to re-reading them. How about #SFiclub? or #SFmadclab ?
Anyone read Neal Stephenson’s Anathem? I’m loving it, and wondering why all the exposition as dialogue (Aka the “As you already know, Captain” school of SF writing) isn’t driving me up the wall. Okay, he’s based his world on Socratic dialogues, but still . . .
Looks fine to me too, will be there on the 16th. Also just finished Anathem, very different shift for NS but really enjoyed it. I’d still rate his ‘The Diamond Age’ as one of the best of all time.
Hi, stumbled on this book group and it sounds interesting, can anyone turn up?
Aled: Absolutely, you’ll be most welcome.