The reading list for the first half of 2011 for the SciFi/Fantasy Book Club is as follows:
January (Modern) Darkship Thieves by Sara A Hart (in paperback 4/1/10; Space opera political thriller style- a woman who hates space is forced into space adventure).
February (Classic) Brain Teaser (That Sweet Little Old Lady) by Mark Phillips (1959- funny short novel-psionics are real, FBI investigation).
March (Modern) The Search for Wondla by Tony DiTerlizzi (in hardcover 9/28/10; YA- young girl forced to flee from her underground home with a mysterious piece of cardboard).
April (Classic) Pirates of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1934-” astronaut Carson Napier crashes on Venus and is swept into a world where revolution is ripe, the love of a princess carries a dear price, and death can come as easily from the blade of a sword as from the ray of a futuristic gun”).
May (Modern) Shades of Gray by Jasper Fforde (in paperback 3/1/11; “a screwball comedy future in which social castes and protocols are rigidly defined by acuteness of personal color perception”).
June (Classic) The Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Ward Rudcliffe (1794; Ultra-gothic-prelude to modern horror/fantasy genre).
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