Join us the SECOND Tuesday of each month to discuss books in the genre of science fiction/fantasy with our staff member, Jessica. We meet at 6 pm. At least half our selections very new, published within the past three years, but we get some old-school classics in as well. Everyone is welcome; even if you haven’t finished (or started) the book - please join us!

As always, our book club selections are available at a 20% discount. For more information, contact us at (970) 667-0118 or email [email protected]

The reading list for the first half of 2012 is as follows:

• January 12 (Modern) Kraken by China Mieville – a museum curator gets swept up in the bizarre world surrounding a nine-meter-long squid and goes on the run with a renegade kraken cultist.
• February 7 (Classic) Dawn by Octavia Butler – Lilith Iyapo wakes up to find herself aboard an alien spacecraft, full of aliens who say they will help the humans return home – for a price. (We are meeting on the 1st Tuesday in February to avoid Valentine’s Day.)
• March 13 (Modern) The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason – a series of jazzy, post-modernist variations on The Odyssey.
• April 10 (Classic) Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy – (Provisional – may not be available after all.) Connie Ramos is overwhelmingly sane. She’s just tuned to the year 2137.
• May 8 (Modern) The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick– Nonfiction. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born.
• June 12 (modern) The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook– please look past the awful cover to find Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth, the novel’s fierce, sharp heroine. When the Iron Duke finds a frozen dead body on his doorstep, Mina is caught up in an adventure.
• July 10 (modern) Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Genevieve Valentaine. Two of Tresaulti’s performers are entangled in a secret standoff that threatens to tear the circus apart – just as the war lands on their doorstep.

Previously read:

2011:

• January (Modern) Darkship Thieves by Sara A Hart
• February (Classic) Brain Teaser (That Sweet Little Old Lady) by Mark Phillips
• March (Modern) The Search for Wondla by Tony DiTerlizzi
• April (Classic) Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
• May (Modern) Shades of Gray by Jasper Fforde
• June (Classic)The Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Ward Rudcliffe -
• July5 (Modern) The Company by K. J. Parker
• August 2 (Classic) The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
• September 6 (Modern) Who Fears Death? by Nnedi Okorafor
• October 3 (Classic/Modern combo) A selection of short stories: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, plus two from Cory Doctorow’s Overclocked- “I, Robot” and “I, Rowboat.”
• November 2 (Modern) How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

2010:

• September (Modern) The Windup Girl by Paulo Bacigalupi
• October (Classic) The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
• November (Modern) Brains, A Zombie Memoir by Robin Zecker
• December (Classic) The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon