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Phandemonium Book Club – Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge
08 years
by Marinda Darnell
in Book Club
*Note* Please note the time change. Cosi now closes at 8 pm.
Join us for a lively discussion of Paul Krueger’s Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge.
From Goodreads: “A sharp and funny urban fantasy for “new adults” about a secret society of bartenders who fight monsters with alcohol fueled magic.
College grad Bailey Chen has a few demons: no job, no parental support, and a rocky relationship with Zane, the only friend who’s around when she moves back home. But when Zane introduces Bailey to his cadre of monster-fighting bartenders, her demons get a lot more literal. Like, soul-sucking hell-beast literal. Soon, it’s up to Bailey and the ragtag band of magical mixologists to take on whatever—or whoever—is behind the mysterious rash of gruesome deaths in Chicago, and complete the lost recipes of an ancient tome of cocktail lore.”
We’ll be meeting on Sunday, January 15, 2017, at 6:00 pm at our normal location:
Cosi 1740 Sherman Ave Evanston, IL
Phandemonium Book Club – The Fifth Season
08 years
by Marinda Darnell
in Book Club
Join us at WindyCon for our November book club. We will be in Maple.
Saturday, November 12, 2016 @ Noon.
www.windycon.org
We are reading N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season. Winner of the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel, this book promises to be fantastic.
From Goodreads:
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS… FOR THE LAST TIME.
A season of endings has begun.
It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world’s sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun.
It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter.
It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.
This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.
Phandemonium Book Club – The Man in the High Castle
08 years
by Marinda Darnell
in Book Club
Join us for a lively discussion of Philip K. Dick’s Hugo Winning novel, The Man in the HIgh Castle.
From Goodreads: “It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war, and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.
This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake”
We’ll be meeting on Sunday, September 25, 2016, at 7:00 pm at our normal location:
Cosi 1740 Sherman Ave Evanston, IL
Phandemonium Book Club – Slan
09 years
Join us for a lively discussion of A.E. Van Gogt’s book Slan. Slan is a finalist for the Retro Hugos.
From Goodreads: “In the 1940s, the Golden Age of science fiction flowered in the magazine Astounding. Editor John W. Campbell, Jr., discovered and promoted great new writers such as A.E. van Vogt, whose novel Slan was one of the works of the era.
Slan is the story of Jommy Cross, the orphan mutant outcast from a future society prejudiced against mutants, or slans. Throughout the forties and into the fifties, Slan was considered the single most important SF novel, the one great book that everyone had to read. Today it remains a monument to pulp SF adventure, filled with constant action and a cornucopia of ideas.”
We’ll be meeting on Sunday, July 10, 2016, at 7:00 pm at our normal location:
Cosi 1740 Sherman Ave Evanston, IL
Phandemonium Book Club Evanston – “The Martian”
09 years
Join us for a discussion of Andrew Weir’s novel “The Martian”. It is the basis for the movie of the same title that will hit theaters this October.
We’ll be meeting on Sunday, September 27, 2015, at 7:00 pm at our normal location:
Cosi
1740 Sherman Ave
Evanston, IL
Join us for what is sure to be a lively discussion.
Phandemonium Book Club Evanston – “Lock In”
010 years
Join us for a vigorous discussion of John Scalzi’s newest book, “Lock In”. It is currently nominated for a John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Science Fiction Novel.
We’ll be meeting on Sunday, July 26, 2015, at 7:00 pm at our normal location:
Cosi
1740 Sherman Ave
Evanston, IL
Join us for what is sure to be a lively discussion.
Phandemonium Book Club Elgin – “Up the Walls of the World”
010 years
You don’t have to be psychic to appreciate “Up the Walls of the World”, the 1978 debut novel by James Tiptree, Jr. This is a story of vastly different intelligences, with an Earth invasion as well.
We’ll be meeting on Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 1:00 pm at…
Elgin Books
66 S. Grove Avenue
Elgin, IL 60120
Read this classic and see if Earth survives!
Phandemonium Book Club Evanston – “Ubik”
010 years
Philip K. Dick may be a lot of things, but he’s never dull. Join us as we discuss one of his most acclaimed novels, “Ubik”. It was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest novels since 1923.
We’ll be meeting on Sunday, May 17, 2015, at 7:00 pm at our normal location:
Evanston, IL
Join us for what is sure to be a lively discussion.
Phandemonium Book Club Evanston – “Soon I Will Be Invincible”
010 years
The next Phandemonium Book Club Evanston selection is a tale of orbital death rays, heroic deeds, and diabolical plans for world domination. You’ll find all this and more in “Soon I Will Be Invincible” by Austin Grossman.
This fun tale takes you behind the scenes in the life of superheroes and supervillains. It’s also being produced as a musical by Chicago’s Lifeline Theatre.
We’ll be meeting on March 15, 2015 at 7:00 pm at our normal location:
Cosi
1740 Sherman Ave
Evanston, IL
We hope you’ll join us.
Phandemonium Book Club Elgin – “The Time Machine”
010 years
There have been hundreds of sci-fi stories about time travel, but the grandaddy of them all is “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells. Join us to examine how the far future looked from over a century ago.
We’ll be meeting on Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 1:00 pm at our NEW LOCATION…
Elgin Books
66 S. Grove Avenue
Elgin, IL 60120
Come see us or the Morlocks will come looking for you!