What we’re about
A book club to scratch that sweet spot inside your head. Reading books that will gnaw their way into your brain and then eat it out from the inside out. Books that aren't afraid to imagine radical new possibilities for both you and the rest of the world. Books that question themselves and everything else. Books that make strange noises and funny little beeps. Books that refuse to offer easy answers and instead invite you to... go a little bit deeper.
Conversations that get beneath the surface and beyond the superficial to examine the various beautiful and mysterious ways that books can challenge and shape our perspectives and ideologies in ways that enrich and inspire us further. Making us into better humans or maybe even something better than human?
Peeking into the minds of such authors as: Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K Dick, Stanisław Lem, Jorge Luis Borges, Margaret Atwood, Alasdair Gray, Octavia E. Butler, Michel Houellebecq, China Miéville, Becky Chambers, Vladimir Nabokov, qntm, Haruki Murakami, H. P. Lovecraft, Jeff VanderMeer, Cormac McCarthy, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kurt Vonnegut, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Virginia Woolf, Susanna Clarke, Iain M Banks, Gene Wolfe, Sally Rooney, J. G. Ballard and many more
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Upcoming events
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Brain Worms 111 / Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High Street, Dalston, Hackney, GBCursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses elements of the fantastic and surreal to address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society. Anton Hur's translation skilfully captures the way Chung's prose effortlessly glides from being terrifying to wryly humorous.
Available from all good libraries and book shops.
You don't have to have read it to join us - but it'll probably help.
We will be meeting in The Ludski Bar in the Rio Cinema.
https://www.riocinema.org.uk/your-visit/You are welcome to bring outside food in with you but please buy your drinks from inside the cinema. Thank you.
We hope to see you there.
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To join the Brain Worms WhatsApp Group please click here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/EvFibn1d6AsEwdVGmwkhko (in order to stop spam bots this will take you to a Waiting Room. Once in please write your name and we will join you to the main chat).
Meetup charges subscription fees. If you would like to make a donation please click here: https://paypal.me/philosophycollective
15 attendees
Brain Worms 112 / Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High Street, Dalston, Hackney, GBCharlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence – a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.
Available from all good libraries and book shops.
You don't have to have read it to join us - but it'll probably help.
We will be meeting in The Ludski Bar in the Rio Cinema.
https://www.riocinema.org.uk/your-visit/You are welcome to bring outside food in with you but please buy your drinks from inside the cinema. Thank you.
We hope to see you there.
...
To join the Brain Worms WhatsApp Group please click here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/EvFibn1d6AsEwdVGmwkhko (in order to stop spam bots this will take you to a Waiting Room. Once in please write your name and we will join you to the main chat).
Meetup charges subscription fees. If you would like to make a donation please click here: https://paypal.me/philosophycollective
11 attendees
Brain Worms 113 / Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High Street, Dalston, Hackney, GBArea X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, we join the twelfth expedition. The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.
Available from all good libraries and book shops.
You don't have to have read it to join us - but it'll probably help.
We will be meeting in The Ludski Bar in the Rio Cinema.
https://www.riocinema.org.uk/your-visit/You are welcome to bring outside food in with you but please buy your drinks from inside the cinema. Thank you.
We hope to see you there.
...
To join the Brain Worms WhatsApp Group please click here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/EvFibn1d6AsEwdVGmwkhko (in order to stop spam bots this will take you to a Waiting Room. Once in please write your name and we will join you to the main chat).
Meetup charges subscription fees. If you would like to make a donation please click here: https://paypal.me/philosophycollective
3 attendees
Past events
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