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February 2017
Stefen’s Bookclub – February
Swastika Night by Murray Constantine Because a January book club would fall too close to New Years Eve and so many people go away around that time, we'll following our usual plan and skipping January and having our first book club for 2017 on the first Tuesday of February. The book for the February meet will be Swastika Night, which sharp readers will recognise as the feature review title from last month. Because of that, I'll keep my notes here…
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Stefen’s Bookclub – March
The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson This one has been on my 'maybe' list for the book club since last year. I think of it as science fiction, but the tweaks and changes are light enough that others may see it as speculative or even contemporary fiction. In any event, it's a book that takes some aspects of the modern world and extends them past normal bounds to see what happens. It begins with the idea that you are more…
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Stefen’s Bookclub – April
The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North I'll be honest, this was not my first choice for this month's book. After The Affinities I wanted to do something that was more fantasy or big tech science fiction. Unfortunately some other books I wanted won't be available in time, so we'll be featuring Claire North's book The Sudden Appearance of Hope a bit earlier than I planned. Now that I think about it though, this is probably an interesting book…
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Stefen’s Bookclub – May
The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin I went back and forth a bit about whether or not to put this one up as a book club book. I think it's a very good book, and I'm pretty sure there's an interesting conversation in it, so it certainly meets that criteria. It is the first book of a series though, so the ending is pretty open and it's quite a bit longer that the books we normally do. But it's also…
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Stefen’s Bookclub – June
The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley I'm a big fan of Kameron Hurley's books, so it was really only a matter of time before one of them came up as a book club book. I am glad I waited however, since her latest book The Stars Are Legion is one I'd really like to discuss. It's science fiction book on a big scale with big ships and big ideas. It's also called by the author an 'all woman space…
Find out more »Supanova 2017
This year's Supanova Pop Culture Expo will be held at the Perth Convention Centre on the 24th and 25th of June and we'll be there with a selection of exotic and interesting books that we're ordering specially for the event. So far authors Brandon Sanderson and James Dashner have been confirmed as attending and I'm sure there will be others added closer to the date.
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Stefen’s Bookclub – July
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel This book has been on my radar for a while, long enough for a sequel to be out actually. It's an epistolary novel, much like an earlier bookclub book Radiance, in that it is a collection of reports and interviews. It begins with a recollection. An eleven year old girl falls into a sinkhole in a forest and when rescuers shine a light down the hole they see that she is sitting in the palm…
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Stefen’s Bookclub – August
The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis This is a debut novel, and a bit genre blender. It’s a dynamic thriller that begins with Elka who lives on a remote mountain with Trapper, the solitary hunter who took her in when she was seven years old. They live a simple, self sufficient existence and he has taught her everything she needs to survive. When, against Trapper’s advice Elka travels to the nearby town she sees wanted posters everywhere proclaiming Trapper as…
Find out more »Special Bookclub Event – The Erstwhile
The Erstwhile by Brian Catling The Erstwhile is the sequel to The Vorrh, which some of you may remember was the focus of a special event and book club back in 2015. Loads of people loved it and have asked me to arrange a special book club for them to discuss it. I've tried to stick it at the mid-point between our usual book club meets. I imagine that folks who want to could read The Vorrh and The Erstwhile…
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