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Author's Science Fiction BookClub?
meg_evonne:
With the advent of chat, we have the capability of meeting together to discuss live works of science fiction. It's generally agreed that knowing your genre and its history is essential to writing--both technically as well as creatively.
Who would be interested? If there are enough, we could post a poll to find a good date and time, as well as establish a rotation of book selection. I'm thinking once a month?
I posted this here, because I thought we could stick to an author reading mindset vs general discussion?
Thoughts?
Aakaakaak:
I've never been in a book club thingie (Normally a slow reader). So we all get assigned the same book, read it, then come back a month later and talk about it? Am I on the right track?
meg_evonne:
Yeah, only I'm hoping that someone is very clever and already in another book club that manages to do that so it's funny, entertaining, and generally enjoyable... I'm pretty sure that alcohol seems to be a major factor for enjoyment, if you are of age. And chocolate of course. Can't have proper discussion without chocolate. :-)
Aakaakaak:
Can I substitute chocolate for some stinky cheese?
An idea for a starter book would maybe be book 1 of the True Blood series, since they just started season 3?
jeno:
I love the idea of a book club that's focused on analyzing stories from an writer's perspective. :D
What sort of books are we talking about? Urban Fantasy, Sci Fi, Fantasy, Horror, general SFF, mainstream? Mostly classics or what's hot right now?
For book selection... hm. I have more suggestions for books that are outside of UF than in that genre, to be honest, though there's a fair bit of crossover in some cases.
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks (horror, first person accounts of the zombie apocalypse)
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch (low fantasy, think Ocean's 11 in a fantasy setting that resembles late Renaissance Italy)
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson (...er, post cyberpunk? hackers with swords in the future integrate computer viruses with Sumerian mythology)
His Majesty's Dragon- Naomi Novik (historical fantasy, dragons are used to fight in the Napoleonic wars - think Master and Commander)
In general UF, there's Greywalker, Kitty Norville, Mercedes Thompson, Southern Vampire, Weather Warden, Anita Blake (early books), Newford, Neverwhere, War of the Oaks ...and there's quite a bit of Urban Fantasy in the YA genre - The Demon's Lexicon, Darkest Powers, etc.
I've been meaning to start reading A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore (the guy who wrote Lamb, the Gospel According to Biff) and House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski (which is supposed to be an amazingly mind-twisty book).
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