The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Alex Shepherd
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The black sign, painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates,…
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Sci-Fi Book Club – June 2013: Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks
Lisa Taylor
In June, our Science Fiction book club will be reading Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks, which won the British Science Fiction Association Award for Novel (1995). In a world…
Fantasy Book Club – June 2013: Foundling by D. M. Cornish
In June, we will be reading Foundling (Monster Blood Tattoo #1) by D.M. Cornish. Foundling won the Aurealis Award for Young Adult Novel (2006). Meet Rossamünd a foundling, a boy…
Sci-Fi Book Club – May 2013: Dune by Frank Herbert
In May, our Science Fiction Book Club will be reading Dune by Frank Herbert, which won the Hugo Award in 1966, and the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel. Dune…
Fantasy Book Club – May 2013: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
In May, we will be reading The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. I’ve already read and definitely enjoyed this one. It was very different than I expected and very different…
Sci-Fi Book Club – April 2013: Foundation by Isaac Asimov
In April, our Science Fiction book club will be reading Foundation by Isaac Asimov, which won Hugo Award for Best all time novel series (1966). “One of the great masterworks…
Fantasy Book Club – April 2013: Fade To Black by Francis Knight
Fade to Black by Francis Knight won our Debut theme for April. I’m pretty anxious to start this one because it definitely sounds like a book I will really enjoy.…
Sci-Fi Book Club – March 2013: Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
The Sci-Fi Book will be reading John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War in March. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2006. “John Perry did two things…
Fantasy Book Club – March 2013: Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
Our theme for nominations and voting for March was set to Pirates, and Retribution Falls (Tales of the Ketty Jay #1) had a decisive win. I have already read this…
Sci-Fi Book Club – February 2013: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Sci-Fi Book will be reading in February is Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. “Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak,…
Fantasy Book Club – February 2013: The Black Company by Glen Cook
February marks the first month of our new themed and subgenre based book club selections. Since we did a very different steampunk book for December and vampires in January, I…
Sci-Fi Book Club – January 2013: Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
The Sci-Fi Book club will kick off 2013 by reading Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon, winner of the Philip K. Dick Award. “In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout…