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

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

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