For those who like thinking and feeling about their speculative fiction. We meet one Saturday afternoon per month. Current location: Seven Stills Bayview.
This is a casual group. New members are welcome to join us at any time. We are trying out a short story and a novel each month, so everyone has reading options.
Themes so far: aliens, immigration, assimilation, myth/legend, evolution, atonement, slavery and symbiosis.
*Please join if you:
-Like reading and talking about stories that explore the intersection of technology, society, and what it means to be human.
-Have 90 minutes one Saturday afternoon a month for discussion, drink and/or food. -We pick the next couple novels and stories at the end of each meeting.
"[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings." -Isaac Asimov, 1951.
*Social SF: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/when-science-fiction-meets-social-science/
*Examples: 1984, Animal Farm, Binti, Brave New World, A Clockwork Orange, The Dispossessed, Dune, Fahrenheit 451, The Handmaid's Tale.
