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Phandemonium Book Club – The Fifth Season
04 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
04 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
05 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 – “Lock In”
06 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 update
010 years
Just a reminder of our upcoming Phandemonium Book Club selections and dates.
The next book club will be on Sunday, September 26 discussing “To Say Nothing of the Dog” by Connie Willis. We will meet at the Border’s in Evanston (1700 Maple Ave) at 6:30.
The book club after that will be held at WindyCon, exact time TBD. The book discussed will be the winner of this year’s Hugo award for Best Novel.