Sci-fi Book Group (3rd Wednesdays)

A regular book group night to discuss sci-fi and expand our reading horizons!

This month's topic is The Culture

The Culture is a fictional interstellar post-scarcity civilisation or society created by the Scottish writer Iain M. Banks and features in a number of his space opera novels and works of short fiction, collectively called the Culture series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture

Choose one, or pick anything related to the topic, read it and we can discuss it.

I'd recommend plunging into the middle with Excession - that's one of my favourites, and the one I started with - I'd argue they could be read in any order, however you might prefer to start with the first book in chronological order, Consider Phlebas.

The next topic for December's book group might be first encounters, robots, etc - we'll decide on the night depending on people's interests. Feel free to submit a suggestion in the comments below.

Looking forward to some interesting discussions!

As always, you can join our chat room on matrix at #bookgroup:glasgow.social (if you don't already have access to matrix, you can sign up at https://matrix.glasgow.social).