Short Stories: The Evening and the Morning and the Night; Harrison Bergeron

* New Location - Let's try Screwbean Brewing (coffee, tea, beer, mocktails, I think wine also) - usually not too crowded on Fri nights, open til 10pm, inside AC if too hot outside

This is a Short Story "Book" Club that focuses on sci fi/fantasy and horror short stories or novelettes. This month's stories are "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" (1987) by Octavia E. Butler and "Harrison Bergeron" (1961) by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (-this one is very short)

Links to the stories:
The Evening and the Morning and the Night: http://future-lives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/24.2butler.pdf
Harrison Bergeron: https://www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-magazine/post/origin-story

Octavia E. Butler was a renowned African American author who received a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. Born in Pasadena in 1947, she was raised by her mother and her grandmother. She was the author of several award-winning novels including PARABLE OF THE SOWER (1993), which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and PARABLE OF THE TALENTS (1995) winner of the Nebula Award for the best science fiction novel published that year. She was acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations in stories that range from the distant past to the far future. (Excerpted from https://www.octaviabutler.com/theauthor)

Kurt Vonneget, Jr. was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1922. He is the author of 14 novels, including New York Times best-seller Slaughterhouse Five (1969), Breakfast of Champions (1973), and Timequake (1997). Vonnegut also wrote seven short story collections, chief among them Welcome to the Monkey House (1968), and seven plays. He entered the army at age 20 and was later captured by Germans in the Battle of the Bulge, whereupon he was sent to Dresden as a POW, an experience that would come to influence his work tremendously. For his service Vonnegut received a Purple Heart and a Prisoner of War Medal. He taught at Harvard University, City College of New York, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Widely considered a humanist, Vonnegut served as the honorary president of the American Humanist Association for many years. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007. (From https://www.loc.gov/item/n79062641/kurt-vonnegut/)