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Chicago Doctor Who Meetup: THE ANDROIDS OF TARA
January 25, 2018 By gordondymowski -
Make Gallifrey Great Again: THE INVASION OF TIME (Screening)
January 25, 2018 By gordondymowski -
Chicago Doctor Who Meetup: HUMAN NATURE/FAMILY OF BLOOD
January 25, 2018 By gordondymowski -
Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club #101
January 09, 2018 By Paul -
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Category Archives: Bookclub
Science Fiction & Fantasy Bookclub #17
For our next bookclub meeting (on a new day: February 21, to not conflict with Valentine’s Day) we’ll be reading Wild Cards I. This recently re-released collection of short stories edited by George R. R. Martin explores a shared world: one in which the Wild Card virus hits during WWII, killing many, and in those it didn’t
Science Fiction & Fantasy Bookclub #16
For our next bookclub meeting we’ll be reading Machine of Death. Machine of Death has been released as a free PDF. This collection of short stories has a simple premise, inspired by this episode of Dinosaur Comics: “a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. It
Science Fiction & Fantasy Bookclub #14
For our thirteenth bookclub meeting we’ll be reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (we suggest the 2001 Penguin Classics printing). In it, the Devil visits Soviet Russia: the result is a wicked satire about good and evil and how they play within the social order. Some consider this to be one of the greatest books of
Science Fiction & Fantasy Bookclub #13
For our thirteenth bookclub meeting we’ll be reading Ringworld by Larry Niven. In it a team, both human and alien, ventures out to investigate an artificial strip of a world orbiting a star in order to determine its threat to the species of alien trying to escape a collapsing galaxy. Ringworld won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards,
Science Fiction & Fantasy Bookclub #12
For our twelfth bookclub meeting we are reading Daemon by Daniel Suarez. Daemon opens as a detective novel investigating the deaths of two employees of an international gaming company and develops into “thrills, chills, and cyber suspense” according to Publishers Weekly. Join us for discussion of our current book as well as the opportunity to voice
Science Fiction & Fantasy Bookclub #11
For our eleventh bookclub meeting we are reading Fables: Legends in Exile, our first graphic novel for the group, and the first graphic novel released for the comic, collecting issues #1-5. Fables follows the real lives of various characters from fairy tales and fables who have been forced by the conqueror of their Homelands into a
Science Fiction/Fantasy Bookclub #10
For our tenth bookclub meeting we are reading A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. Canticle is set in a future where World War 3 bombed civilization back to the dark ages and follows a group of monks as they uncover knowledge and the hazardous path of the intellectual in a society where knowledge is
Science Fiction & Fantasy Bookclub #9
For our eighth bookclub meeting we are reading the Aldous Huxley classic Brave New World. Join us for discussion of our current book as well as voice your opinion for our next selection. This is what you missed at our last bookclub meeting: In March the Clubbers read “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” by Seth Grahame-Smith. The
Science Fiction and Fantasy Bookclub #8
The Council of Elrond decreed that we form a bookclub, and we obliged. For our eighth bookclub meeting we are reading Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Join us for discussion of our current book as well as voice your opinion for our next selection. From Publishers Weekly Review: Following the success of his bestselling Pride and Prejudice
Chicago Nerds Sci-fi / Fantasy Bookclub Information
The Chicago Nerd Social Club’s Science Fiction/Fantasy Bookclub is open to new science fiction and/or fantasy readers as well as die hard fans. We are a diverse group of readers of various ages and backgrounds, meeting once a month for book discussions. Our discussions tend to range across various topics, comparisons to other novels, science,


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