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Three of my Nebulugo Book Club friends join me for a draft of our favorite Science Fiction and Fantasy concepts.
Themes:
- Dan – Weird SF
- Emmanuel – Exploring the Perception of Others
- Kalin – Technologies and Hypotheticals that have stuck with him
- Seth – Grab bag, no particular theme
Round 1:
- Dan: Merged Consciousness (Vacuum Flowers, by Michael Swanwick)
- Emmanuel: Societal otherness (The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. LeGuin)
- Kalin: Human Modification (“Liking What You See: A Documentary,” by Ted Chiang)
- Seth: Galactic Geography (The Zones of Thought, A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge)
- Seth remembered a recommendation about the Kate Daniels series with a concept of cycles of magic and technology trading dominant periods.
Round 2:
- Dan: The Alien Imposter (Veil’s Hypothesis from The Fifth Head of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe)
- Emmanuel: Human Dignity (Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes)
- Kalin: Human Modification and Unintented Consequences (The Quantum Evolution series, by Derek Künsken)
- Seth: Fantasy Cosmology and Pantheons (World of the Five Gods series, by Lois McMaster Bujold)
Round 3:
- Dan: Supernatural Temptation (The Carousel in Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury)
- Emmanuel: Uplift (Startide Rising, by David Brin)
- Bonus pick from Kalin: Children of Time series, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Kalin: Exploring different ways of organizing societies (Too Like the Lightning, by Ada Palmer)
- Seth: Time-travelers meeting themselves (“The Convention” from Man in the Empty Suit, by Sean Ferrell)
Round 4:
- Dan: Psychic Powers (“Newtypes” from Mobile Suit Gundam)
- Emmanuel: Time Dilation (The Forever War, by Joel Haldeman)
- Kalin: Time Dilation (I’m Waiting for You, and Other Stories, by Kim Bo-Young)
- Seth: Unique perspectives (Unseeing and Breach in China Miéville’s The City and the City)
- Bonus pick for The Lives of Others (film)
Bring Out Your Dead:
- Dan:
- Merged Consciousness in The Quantum Thief
- Emmanuel:
- Exploring the other in The Culture Series, the way The Culture sees itself vs. reality
- Also Planet of the Apes as a reversal, with humanity becoming the Other
- Kalin:
- First contact, attempts at communication from Embassytown, by China Mieville
- Seth:
- Farcasters in Hyperion, a house with rooms on many worlds
- The Battle Room in Ender’s Game
- The Net from Connie Willis’s Oxford Time Travelers series
Other Notes & Links:
Nebulugo Discord: https://discord.gg/HgMJUnjg
CSFFA website: www.csffa.ca
CSFFA Discord (where the Retrospective Book Club is happening): https://discord.gg/kvZshxwRWq
CSFFA Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/csffa.bsky.social
Hugos There Episode about Planet of the Apes with Emmanuel:
https://hugospodcast.com/podcast/planet-of-the-apes-by-pierre-boulle-feat-emmanuel-dubois/
Emmanuel’s links:
How do I join the Nebulugo book club?
Here’s the invite link: https://discord.gg/HgMJUnjg
I’ll add it to the show notes as well.
Thank you! The link worked just fine.