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September 2019

Stefen’s Bookclub – September

September 3, 2019 @ 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Durty Nelly’s, 397 Murray St (In Shafto Lane)
Perth,
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Light by M John Harrison For the September book club, will be reading M. John Harrison's 2002 book Light. This is big-universe science fiction with all the physics that goes with that. It's also about the now as well, as we move from characters in the 25th century to their ancestors in the 20th as each struggle with very human problems but in different situations. It's not a book with what I'd call sympathetic characters, but they are interesting as…

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October 2019

Stefen’s Bookclub – October

October 1, 2019 @ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Durty Nelly’s, 397 Murray St (In Shafto Lane)
Perth,
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Native Tongue by Suzette Hayden Elgin I doubt that this will come as a surprise to most of you, in fact I think I probably hinted it in the short piece about the book in the last newsletter. This book has been on my 'want to read for book club' list for years, but getting copies was a problem. With the recent re-issue it went straight to the front of the list. The premise of the book is that a…

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November 2019

Stefen’s Bookclub – November

November 5, 2019 @ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Durty Nelly’s, 397 Murray St (In Shafto Lane)
Perth,
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The Outside by Ada Hoffman There were some recent changes in distribution with this one that delayed its selection for book club, but that's been sorted and I've got plenty on the way to the store so here we are. I'm always looking for something a bit different to set for discussion, so when I heard that Ada Hoffmann, an autistic author, had written a science fiction novel with an autistic protagonist and antagonist, set in in a universe run…

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December 2019

Stefen’s Bookclub – December

December 3, 2019 @ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Durty Nelly’s, 397 Murray St (In Shafto Lane)
Perth,
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler I've been thinking about setting another Octavia Butler book for the book club for a while now, but other than Kindred, so a recent re-issue of the Earthseed novels seemed like the perfect reason to stop procrastinating. Parable of the Sower is set in a future world in the process of economic and social collapse and is told through the eyes of a young woman who begins somewhat protected from these facts, though circumstance and a quirk of her own nature…

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February 2020

Stefen’s Bookclub – February

February 4, 2020 @ 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Durty Nelly’s, 397 Murray St (In Shafto Lane)
Perth,
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Parable of the Talents By Octavia Butler As many of the folks who came to the discussion of Parable of the Sower mentioned, it ends kind of suddenly. In a sense, it ends with the idea of an Earthseed community, rather than the formation of the actual community. This book explores that community and others that grow from the near-collapse future America. This is going to be interesting to compare to Parable of the Talents, since many of its ideas…

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March 2020

Stefen’s Bookclub – March

March 3, 2020 @ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Durty Nelly’s, 397 Murray St (In Shafto Lane)
Perth,
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The Power by Naomi Alderman If you'd asked me a month ago if we've read Naomi Alderman's The Power for Book Club, I would probably have said we have. The reality is that we haven't, it just gets mentioned a lot. When I realised this I decided to correct that oversight. The Power is an unusual book in that it's presented as a historical fiction account of a massive cultural shift that starts in the present, as told by someone…

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April 2020

Stefen’s Bookclub – April

April 7, 2020 @ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Zoo City by Lauren Beukes I've had it in my head to put up a Lauren Beukes book for a while now, so I'm glad that in April we'll be discussing this one. Zoo City was originally published in 2010 and won the Arthur C Clarke award in 2011. It's an interesting mix of the modern world, and magic where crime and its associated guilt manifest as animal companions. In one of my favourite films (We're No Angels from 1955)…

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June 2020

Stefen’s Bookclub – June

June 2, 2020 @ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller I'd decided to set this one for book club months ago, and even ordered plenty of copies so I'd be ready. Then things happened and now it looks like a choice made based on current affairs rather than me just wanting to chat about some old science fiction. It's funny how the present can change the way you perceive the past, which coincidentally is one of the themes of this book. Covering…

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July 2020

Stefen’s Bookclub – July

July 7, 2020 @ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Durty Nelly’s, 397 Murray St (In Shafto Lane)
Perth,
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Children of Time by Andrian Tchaikovsky I’ve wanted to do this as a bookclub book for a while. It’s quite a thick read but I think it’s one that is worth everybody’s time. It’s basically a book about aliens, although the aliens are not quite what we usually get in science fiction, they’re done with a very interesting and clever development structure and they’re made from something familiar. This is one of my favourite books where humans and other intelligences…

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August 2020

Stefen’s Bookclub – August

August 4, 2020 @ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Durty Nelly’s, 397 Murray St (In Shafto Lane)
Perth,
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Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson I’ve wanted to do a Kim Stanley Robinson book for a while but they’re generally pretty hefty or in multi book series’ and I try to avoid that for bookclub books. However, Red Moon, the most recent release is about the right length and stand-alone. It’s a near-future tale of colonisation of the Moon, but also of people and society. Kim Stanley Robinson is quite famous for weaving science and politics into his books…

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