What we’re about
We meet to watch and discuss our favorite sci-fi TV programs, film, and go to conventions and other events. We also have a sci-fi book club which meets approximately every other month in Northampton.
Our sister groups are Dr. Who Club of Western MA, Western MA Movie Meetup, Western MA Star Trek Fans, and Pioneer Valley Geeks & Gamers. We are also on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/4SciFi
This group is about meeting people and creating community. Please include a picture of you in your profile and your full name.
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Upcoming events (1)
See all- The Best of All Possible Worlds book discussionForbes Library, Northampton, MA
For our April book discussion, we'll be reading The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord. We'll meet to discuss it Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 6:00 pm.
Location: Forbes Library, Watson Room
CLICK HERE for a list of what we'll be reading for the book group for the rest of the year.
The Best of All Possible Worlds synopsis:
A proud and reserved alien society finds its homeland destroyed in an unprovoked act of aggression, leaving the survivors no choice but to reach out to the indigenous humanoids of their adopted world, to whom they are distantly related. They wish to preserve their cherished way of life but discover that to protect their culture, they may have to change it forever.Now a man and a woman from opposite sides of these clashing societies must work together to save this vanishing race—and end up uncovering ancient mysteries with far-reaching ramifications. As their mission hangs in the balance, these unlikely partners—one cool and cerebral, the other fiery and impulsive—may find in each other their own destinies . . . and a force that transcends all.
Author bio:
Barbadian writer Dr. Karen Lord is the author of Redemption in Indigo, which won the William L. Crawford Award and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Her other works include the science fiction novels The Best of All Possible Worlds, The Galaxy Game, and The Blue, Beautiful World, and the crime-fantasy novel Unraveling. Lord also edited the anthology New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean.She was a judge for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the 2018 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean YA Literature. She has taught at the 2018 Clarion West Writers Workshop and the 2019 Clarion Workshop, and she co-facilitated the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Workshop in Barbados. She has been a featured author at literary festivals from Adelaide to Edinburgh to Berlin, and often appears at the Bocas Lit Fest in Trinidad & Tobago.
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*There is a limit of 12 attendees for this event, to make sure everyone has a chance to participate in the discussion. Please RSVP before it fills up! And if you have RSVPd but something has come up, please update your RSVP so someone else will have a chance.
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