About us
We love reading science fiction and want to talk about it.
We read and discuss one book a month -- but discussion ranges over the whole gamut of media and related genres and there will be forays into other such areas according to demand.
It is to be hoped this group will attract not only fanatics but people new to the genre and, perhaps, some who had forgotten just how much they love it.
Here is a list of books we have done in the past:
Upcoming events
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Last Meeting of 2026: "Appliance" by J.O. Morgan & Book Nominations for 2027
Location not specified yetI've scheduled this early as it is not the 2nd Monday of the month, sorry!
This being the last meeting of 2026 we will start earlier at 7pm so we an have a bite of food together and then discuss the last book of 2024. So, unusually, we ask that everyone who is aiming to come RSVPs by the week before so we can confirm the numbers with venue.
The book is "Appliance" by J.O. Morgan. A finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022 "a highly inventive and and humane novel about our relationship with technology and our addiction to innovation. The first step to a new future. A future that will be easy and abundant. A future in which distance is no longer a barrier to human contact. And all it takes is a simple transport unit, in every home, every street, every town. Quick. Clean. Easy. A future driven by data, not emotion. And so begins the journey of a new technology that will soon change the world and everyone in it...."
Available at the library, kobo, and kindle
Book Nominations
We will also perform the rite of the knapkin when you can make suggestions for next years book list from which I curate the schedule. Suggestions should be no longer than 450 pages, available in paperback and Science Fiction (if in doubt could you convincingly defend it being SF to the group?) . You can also make suggestions to me via Meetup if you won't be able to make the meeting.10 attendees
Past events
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