Speculative Fiction Book Group
Inspired by discussions held in the SFWC (Speculative Fiction Writing Cooperative), a book group focusing on works of Speculative (and Science) Fiction has been born. We convene on the 1st Tuesday of every month at 7:00 pm, like our other in-store book groups, newcomers & drop-ins are always welcome.
$19.99
ISBN: 9780316072809
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Published: Orbit - October 7th, 2011
Discussion Date: 10/6//2021Brief Description:A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination: unknown. Its purpose: a mystery. Its history: lost. Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from a dream of a new home--a new planet and the woman he was meant to love--he finds himself, wet, naked, and freezing to death. The dark halls are full of monsters but trusting other survivors he meets might be the greatest danger. Who is he? Where are they going? What happened to the dream of a new life? What happened to the woman he loved? What happened to Hull 03?
$25.00
ISBN: 9780525563860
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Published: Vintage - July 21st, 2020
Discussion Date 11/3/2021"Completing Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's definitive survey of fantasy fiction from around the globe, this companion volume to The Big Book of Classic Fantasy takes the genre into the twenty-first century with ninety-one astonishing, mind-bending stories. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. Return to the sumptuous, global feast of fantasy fiction with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's selection of modern masterpieces. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly nineties--and beyond, into the twenty-first century--the VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around the world that reinvented and revitalized the fantasy genre after World War II. From Jorge Luis Borges to Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock to Angela Carter, Terry Pratchett to Stephen King, the full range and glory of the fantastic are on display in these ninety-one stories in which dragons soar, giants stomp, and human children should still think twice about venturing alone into the dark forest"--
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062978585
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - October 26th, 2021
Discussion Date 12/01/2021A novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption follows a young woman as she discovers that the greatest superpower--for good or evil--is a properly executed spreadsheet.
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593318171
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Published: Knopf - March 2nd, 2021
Discussion Date 01/05/2022
"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous tale, Klara and the Sun, Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?"--
