In June, a sufficient quorum attended the book club to pick the Hugo-nominated Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross. I forgot to actually send the announcement e-mail until, uh, now, mere hours before we might be expected to show up and talk about the book. (I’d blame Calvin for making my life more interesting.) Instead of expecting everyone to read the book in the next six hours, it seems more appropriate to reschedule for next month. You get four weeks to read Saturn’s Children, and we’ll meet on Monday, August 3 at 18:45 in the reading room at the Erie Community Library.
June Book Club
May 31, 2009On Monday evening, 1 June 2009, we’ll be meeting for the monthly Erie Science Fiction Book Club meeting in the reading room at the Erie Community Library at 18:45. We’re reading the Hugo-nominated Newberry-winning The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.
In related news, I’ve set up a Google calendar for the book club, which should give me one more place to keep up-to-date with the latest and greatest schedule.
May Meeting (The book club returns!)
May 2, 2009After a three-month hiatus in which Gem and I introduced a new science
fiction fan to the world, we’re ready to resume the science fiction
book club. We’re meeting Monday evening, May 4, in the reading room at
the Erie Community Library at 18:45. We’re reading Idlewild by Nick
Sagan; please come even if you didn’t read it, since no one else will
remember much of it after three months. I’ll be there to lead the
discussion and pick our next book; Gem and Calvin may also be there if
they’re feeling up to leaving the house.
February’s meeting postponed
February 2, 2009This may be late notice, but February’s book club meeting, originally scheduled for tonight, is postponed indefinitely.
We were to be reading Idlewild by Nick Sagan; at least, this gives me a bit more time to reread the book.
We’re also considering alternating between science fiction and fantasy. Initial feedback is positive. Any thoughts?
January Book Club
December 9, 2008For January’s book club meeting, we’ve decided to read a book and then watch a movie based on the book. Any suggestions of science fiction book-to-movie adaptions?
Book Voting Results
October 8, 2008From the beginning of the book club, the plan was to vote on the available books. It’s often difficult to pick a single book to vote for, given the number of books and the quality of each one, and coming to some sort of consensus is difficult. So we started allowing fractional votes. Each attendee gets to split his or her vote across all books, and the book with the most votes wins. This is the results for Monday night’s voting:
| Dan | Jon | Nick | Ted | Gem | Total | |
| The Ordinary | 40% | 100% | 45% | 50% | 47% | |
| Anathem | 10% | 55% | 60% | 5% | 26% | |
| Eifelheim | 50% | 40% | 15% | 21% | ||
| In the Garden of Iden | 20% | 4% | ||||
| The Child Goddess | 10% | 2% | ||||
| 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
November Book Club
October 8, 2008Selected Books
For November, we decided to read The Ordinary by Jim Grimsley (HPLD, Boulder Public Library, Other Libraries)
When
Monday, November 3, 2008 from 6:45-8:00 PM
October Book Club
September 9, 2008Selected Books
For October, we decided to read Matter by Iain M. Banks (HPLD, Boulder Public Library, Other Libraries)
When
Monday, October 6, 2008 from 6:45-8:00 PM
September Book Club
July 30, 2008Selected Books
For September, we decided to read Crystal Soldier by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (HPLD or Other Libraries).
Due to canceling the August meeting, we have some extra time so if you run out of reading material we might discuss the sequel to Crystal Soldier, Crystal Dragon (HPLD or Other Libraries).
When
Monday, September 8, 2008 from 6:45-8:00 PM
NO August Book Club
July 30, 2008Due to busy schedules, the science fiction book club will not meet in August. Our next meeting will be September 8 in the meeting room at Erie Community Library.
