Religion and Science in Fiction Book Club
Organizer: Elze Hamilton
Held at the Barnes & Noble Cafe, Aboretum
7:00 pm every last Thursday of the month
(unless otherwise noted: please see calendar)
A lively book club with a usual attendance of 5 to 8 people.
Everyone is welcome to come share their thoughts and engage in some
stimulating conversation.
Book list for upcoming meetings
- December 30: Kim Stanley Robinson "Galileo's Dream"
- January 27: Ted Chiang: "Stories of Your Life and Others"
- February 2011: W. Somerset Maugham "Of Human Bondage"
Book discussed at previous meetings
2010
- January: Neal Stephenson "Anathem"
- February: Greg Bear "Strength of Stones"
- March: Charles Stross "Accelerando"
- April: Michael Flynn "In the Country of the Blind"
- May: Gregory Benford "Cosm"
- July: Peter Watts "Blindsight"
- August: John Casti "The One True Platonic Heaven"
- September: Robert Forward "Dragon's Egg"
- October: Connie Willis "Doomsday Book"
- November: Rebecca Goldstein "Properties of Light"
2009
- January: Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged"
- February: Greg Bear "Darwin's Radio"
- March: Arthur Clarke "Childhoold's End"
- May: Katharine Kerr "Snare"
- June: Douglas Preston "Blasphemy"
- July: Bruce Sterling "Holy Fire"
- August: Robert Sawyer "Calculating God"
- October: Kim Stanley Robinson "Red Mars"
- October: Chris Beckett "The Holy Machine"
2008
- January: Phillip Pullman's "The Subtle Knife" (Part 2 of the His Dark Materials Trilogy)
- March: edited by Gardner Dozois "Galileo's Children" (a science fiction story anthology by various authors)
- April: Phillip Pullman's "The Amber Spyglass" (Part 3 of the His Dark Materials Trilogy)
- May: Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses"
- June: Walter Miller's "Canticle for Leibowitz"
- July: Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light"
- August: Kurt Vonnegut "Cat's Cradle"
- September: Melissa Snodgrass "Edge of Reason"
- October: Fred Hoyle "Black Cloud"
- November: No meeting this month (read Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged")
- December: No meeting this month (read Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged")
2007
- September: Khaled Hosseini "A Thousand Splendid Suns"
- October: Christopher Moore "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal"
- November: Orhan Pamuk "Snow"
- December: Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett "Good Omens"
Reports from previous meetings
- Doria Russell's "The Sparrow
- James Morrow's "Towing Jehovah"
- Neil Gaiman's "American Gods"
- Phillip Pullman's "The Subtle Knife"
- Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns"
