Charlotte Sci-Fi Book Club

In a first for this group, we will be attending a screening of Project Hail Mary in theaters and heading out for discussion afterwards

The date for this is pretty unlikely to change, however the time will be adjusted once I know the showtimes to choose from

We will also need to discuss what theater we want to go to and where to go after. I plan to discuss that at the in person meeting prior to this one

This month's book is Equations Of Life by Simon Morden

There is another more popular book called The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution by Charles Cockell WE ARE NOT READING THAT BOOK. Please double check you have the correct book

Get it here: https://www.amazon.com/Equations-Samuil-Petrovich-Simon-Morden/dp/0316125180

This event will likely be online, link to be added

Description:

Samuil Petrovitch is a survivor. He survived the nuclear fallout in St. Petersburg and hid in the London Metrozone – the last city in England. He’s lived this long because he’s a man of rules and logic. For GETTING INVOLVED = A BAD IDEA.But when he stumbles into a kidnapping in progress, he acts without even thinking. Before he can stop himself, he’s saved the daughter of the most dangerous man in London. And SAVING THE GIRL = GETTING INVOLVED.Now, the equation of Petrovitch’s life is looking increasingly MOBSTERS + YAKUZA + SOMETHING CALLED THE NEW MACHINE JIHAD = ONE DEAD PETROVITCH.But Petrovitch has a plan – he always has a plan – he’s just not sure it’s a good one.

This month's book is All You Need Is Kill by Hiorshi Sakurazaka

Get it here: https://www.amazon.com/All-Need-Kill-Hiroshi-Sakurazaka/dp/1421527618

This event will likely be in person at Divine Barrel Brewing

Description:

There’s one thing worse than dying. It’s coming back to do it again and again…

When the alien Gitai invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many raw recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to find himself reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On the 158th iteration though, he sees something different, something out of place: the female soldier known as the Bitch of War. Is the Bitch the key to Keiji’s escape, or to his final death?

This month's book is Diaspora by Greg Egan

Get it here: https://www.amazon.com/Diaspora-Novel-Greg-Egan/dp/1597805424

This event will likely be in person at Divine Barrel Brewing

Description:

By the end of the 30th century humanity has the capability to travel the universe, to journey beyond earth and beyond the confines of the vulnerable human frame.The descendants of centuries of scientific, cultural and physical development divide into fleshers — true Homo sapiens; Gleisner robots — embodying human minds within machines that interact with the physical world; and polises — supercomputers teeming with intelligent software, containing the direct copies of billions of human personalities now existing only in the virtual reality of the polis.Diaspora is the story of Yatima — a polis being created from random mutations of the Konishi polis base mind seed — and of humankind, Of an astrophysical accident that spurs the thousandfold cloning of the polises. Of the discovery of an alien race and of a kink in time that means humanity — whatever form it takes — will never again be threatened by acts of God.