2013 Selections

2013 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club List

Meetings have been moved to Quarterly on the first Thursday of the month (exception for this year since July 4th is a Thursday so meeting has been moved to the 11th.) Two books have been nominated and either or both can be read for that quarter. October has only one book nominated with the second book space open as a ‘Float suggestion’. Any new books that come out in 2013 or are suggested reads should be mentioned at previous meeting to fill that float spot. Meetings will start at 6:00pm at an area restaurant.


Jan 3rd at 6:00pm at Panera on Old Fort Parkway (suggestions for restaurant for next meeting)
Books –
Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross
Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin

April 4th at 6:00pm – Restaurant to be determined
Books –
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne
Valente
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Genevieve Valentine

July 11th at 6:00pm - Restaurant to be determined
Books –
Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi
*Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper – extra credit read. This is the inspiration for Fuzzy Nation
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

October 3rd at 6:00pm - Restaurant to be determined
Books –
At The Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
Float Suggestion

2012 Selections

Here are our selections for 2012:

January -- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

February -- Oryx and Cake by Margaret Atwood

March -- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

April -- Time and Again by Jack Finney

May -- Replay by Ken Grimwood

June -- A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

July -- The Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher

August -- Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume I, edited by Robert Silverberg

September -- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (in honor of banned books week!)

October -- Feed by Mira Grant

November -- Mistborn by Brian Sanderson

December -- Holiday Party 

2011 Selections

Here they are! Our selections for 2011!

Jan 26 -- Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Feb 23 -- The City and the City by Chia Mievelle
Mar 23 -- The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein
Apr 27 -- In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
May 24 -- The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
June 27 -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
July -- Movie Meeting: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part Two
Aug 24 -- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Sep 28 -- The Skewed Throne by Joshua Palmatier
Oct 26 -- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Nov 16 -- Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
Dec 11 -- Holiday Party & Book Selection

Holiday Party Canceled!

Due to the weather conditions, we've called off the holiday party this evening!

Just trying to get the word out as many ways as possible.

Please send your top seven nominations to bigorangemichael at gmail dot com. We'll compile the lists and let you know the winners and schedule.

2011 Nominations

Here they are! Our nominations for 2011.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K.Rowling
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R.Tolkein
Throne of Jade by Naomi Novak
Time Traveler's Never Die by Jack McDevitt
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Bridge of Birds by Barry Hugart
Good Omens by Neal Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
To Ride Pegasus by Anne McCaffrey
Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer
Rendevous with Rama by Arthur C.Clarke
Use of Weapons by Ian Banks
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Time and Again by Jack Finney
The City and the City by China Mievelle
Sam Gunn Omnibus by Ben Bova
Slant by Greg Bear
The Skewed Throne by Joshua Palmatier
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
Little Brother by Cory Doctrow
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Berserker by Fred Saberhagen

Last updated: December 1, 2011

Nominations Held Over From Last Year

Last year, we had three books that got a lot of response and interest, but in the end we couldn't find a place for them in our reading schedule.

We decided to punt them and strongly consider them for 2011. Those books are:

The City & the City by China Mievelle
Steal Across the Sky by Nancy Kress
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

Previous Reads (Updated for 2010)

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe by Douglas Adams
Gateway by Frederick Pohl
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri Tepper
A Canticle for Leibowitz by William Miller
Dragonflight by Ann McCafferty

The Mote in God's Eye by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Star Man's Son by Andre Norton
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Wicked by Gregory Maguire
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
Orphanage by Robert Buettner
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
Farnham’s Freehold by Robert Heinlein
Children of Men by P.D. James
Red Mars by Kim S. Robinson

His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
Way Station by Clifford Simak
Dune by Frank Herbert
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clark
Foundation by Isaac Asimov

There will be Dragons by John Ringo
Lucifer’s Hammer by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi

Time Slave by John Norman
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois M. Bujold
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

On the Beach by Nevil Shute
The Truth by Terry Pratchett
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dorsai by Gordon Dickson
Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein

Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Santiago by Mike Resnick

The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Someplace to be Flying by Charles De Lint
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber

The Caves of Steel & The Naked Sun by Issac Asimov
Soulless by Gail Carringer
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp
Acacia by David Anthony Durham
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Hyperion & Fall of Hyperion by Dam Simmons
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawkes

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
Archangel by Sharon Shinn