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Upcoming Topics

The next few meeting topics are shown below.

More meeting topics get chosen at our June and December meetings each year.

Meeting Title Author or Director Medium Presenter
September 6, 2014 John Carter Andrew Stanton Film Carol W.
We will show the film during the meeting prior to the discussion.
Civil War veteran John Carter was still haunted by the violence he witnessed on the battlefield when he inexplicably awoke on the distant planet of Barsoom (Mars). Upon learning that the inhabitants of Barsoom are bracing for a major conflict and that war appears inevitable, John finds out that love is a rare commodity on the Red Planet, and summons the courage to be the hero the Martians have been hoping for. Meanwhile, John falls under the spell of the enchanting Dejah Thoris, who struggles to suppress her compassion in a society known for its warlike ways.
 
October 4, 2014 The Crucible of Time John Brunner Book Jen D.
This book is available at Amazon and ABE Books. Used bookstores may also have copies.
A world struggles to recognize and prevent cyclical downfalls of their civilizations.
 
November 1, 2014 11/22/63 Stephen King Book Mark A.
This book is available at the London Public Library. It can also be obtained at bookstores, Chapters/Indigo, and Amazon.
A teacher who is shown a portal to the year 1958 decides to travel back in time to prevent JFK's assassination.
 
December 6, 2014 The Hundred Dascha Paylor Book Ana T.
This book is available in both paperback and Kindle at Amazon for a very modest price.
A doctor on a planet that is fighting a plague which is 100% fatal, stumbles upon a remote community that is immune to the plague. The author, a member of Science Fiction London, will be present. Please note that this book is completely unrelated to the TV series The 100.
 
January 3, 2015 Being John Malkovich Spike Jonze Film Doug M.
The film will be shown at the meeting, prior to the discussion.
A puppeteer discovers a secret door to the mind of actor John Malkovich and seeks to find a way to make money from this discovery.
 
February 7, 2015 The Map of Time Felix Palma Book Rob W. (London)
This book is available at the London Public Library. It can also be purchased at Chapters/Indigo and Amazon.
Set in Victorian London, with characters real and imagined, The Map of Time is a page-turner that boasts a triple play of intertwined plots in which a skeptical H. G. Wells is called upon to investigate purported incidents of time travel and to save lives and literary classics, including Dracula and The Time Machine, from being wiped from existence.
 

Preparing For Meetings

If you are thinking about attending one of our meetings, it would be a very good idea for you to prepare beforehand. Generally, that means getting and reading the book before the meeting. We know that many people cannot afford expensive hardcover editions. Therefore, it is our practice to choose only meeting topics for which a trade paperback or mass market paperback is available. For information on how to acquire the books mentioned on this page, please see our Availability of Books page. It offers information on how to search the London Public Library online catalog as well as links, phone numbers, and more to help you track down a copy of a book so that you can prepare for one of our meetings.

For film and TV topics, we will show the film or program (or at least an episode or two) at the meeting if the library licenses allow it. If the licenses don't permit us to show the film or program, we will circulate one or more copies of the film or program prior to the meeting. The description of the topic will indicate whether the film will be shown at the meeting or whether members will need to acquire it in advance. The Film/TV Sources page of this website will give you some information on how to determine if the film can be found at the London Public Library as well as how to find it elsewhere if the library doesn't have it.

Past Topics

You can see a more-or-less complete list of past meeting topics as well as a variety of interesting reports about those topics. Those reports list the authors and directors we have examined the most frequently, the members who have presented topics the most often, etc. etc.



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