What we’re about
Enjoy reading about fantastical worlds, eerie dystopias, or outlandish sci-fi? Then this club is for you! Not sure what we're talking about but eager to chat about weird books with cool people? Then this club is also for you!
Speculative fiction encompasses science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, and other sub-genres that stretch the boundaries of reality.
We will meet approximately once a month, and welcome anyone in the Boulder/Denver area that would like to read and discuss improbable "what-ifs".
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Our crowd-sourced suggestion list is here, feel free to vote for books or add your own suggestions:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ku6a3gPzAJiuSBD5vYtxcf8RbLt_qEdnEpEngmAXfOk/edit?usp=sharing
Upcoming events
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Book Club: The Peripheral by William Gibson
Twisted Pine Brewing Co, 3201 Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, USFlynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural near-future America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she’s trying to avoid. Her brother Burton lives, or tries to, on money from the Veterans Administration, for neurological damage suffered in the Marines’ elite Haptic Recon unit. Flynne earns what she can by assembling product at the local 3D printshop. She made more as a combat scout in an online game, playing for a rich man, but she’s had to let the shooter games go.
Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. Things are pretty good now, for the haves, and there aren’t many have-nots left. Wilf, a high-powered publicist and celebrity-minder, fancies himself a romantic misfit, in a society where reaching into the past is just another hobby.
Burton’s been moonlighting online, secretly working security in some game prototype, a virtual world that looks vaguely like London, but a lot weirder. He’s got Flynne taking over shifts, promised her the game’s not a shooter. Still, the crime she witnesses there is plenty bad.
Flynne and Wilf are about to meet one another. Her world will be altered utterly, irrevocably, and Wilf’s, for all its decadence and power, will learn that some of these third-world types from the past can be badass.
The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1) by William Gibson | Goodreads
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The spreadsheet to organize suggestions has been updated for future books and added a link to another document with more suggestions.
You can access the spreadsheet here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ku6a3gPzAJiuSBD5vYtxcf8RbLt_qEdnEpEngmAXfOk/edit?usp=sharing
Feel free to suggest any book, and if you want to vote for a book just add your name to the votes column.5 attendees
Past events
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