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Scifi book club recap: Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

Posted in books, tagged , , , , on May 8, 2011 |

First, an announcement: for June only, the Scifi book club meeting will be at 6pm on the SECOND Tuesday, June 14, instead of the normal first Tuesday. We will be reading The Mysteries of Udolpho, which is the book that Jane Austen parodied in Northanger Abbey, and was also one of Edgar Allen Poe’s major [...]

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Scifi Book Club 1/3/11: The Darkship Thieves

Posted in books, tagged , , , on January 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Our December book club book was The Darkship Thieves by Sara Hoyt. Because of the weather and my poor memory, the author wasn’t able to join us after all, but we still had an energetic discussion. The story is a romantic space opera, told from the first-person perspective of a twenty-something princess with serious psychiatric [...]

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December’s Scifi Book Club Meeting

Posted in books, tagged , , , , , on December 27, 2010 |

Sorry for the delay in posting this recap. Our scifi book club meeting for December was our best-attended yet, with 11 participants!  We read Theodore Sturgeon’s The Dreaming Jewels.  It’s a very dark story of Horty, a boy with mysterious powers, who runs away to the carnival. Perhaps because Theodore Sturgeon was primarily a short [...]

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Come start a scifi book club with me!

Posted in books, tagged , , on July 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »

There is so much cool scifi/fantasy/speculative fiction out right now, I’d love to start a book club for it.  Who’s with me?  If I can get 5 people to commit to coming every month and buying the books for it, I bet I can convince Steph to carry our book list. For the first month, [...]

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Hugo & Nebula Awards!

Posted in books, tagged , , , , , , , on April 10, 2010 |

It’s that time of year again; the grass is turning green, the trees are budding out, the Nebula awards ceremony is coming up and the Hugo award nominees have been announced! The Nebula nominations were announced in February, of course. I haven’t read any of them myself (sad day!) but I’m about to start Boneshaker [...]

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Pattern Recognition

Posted in books, tagged , , , , , , on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It’s been a while since William Gibson‘s Pattern Recognition came out, and I still haven’t managed to read it. I enjoyed Neuromancer very much, but haven’t been impressed by some of his other work. Nevertheless, this interview in the Blackbird Archive is fantastic. Most of it, you’ll notice, is an extended meditation on what constitutes [...]

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