New Group Starting in September
| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Convenor: | |
| When: | Monthly on Tuesdays 2:00 pm-4:00 pm 2nd Tuesday of the month |
| Venue: | Quaker Meeting House. |
| Cost: | A contribution to the cost of room hire and refreshments. |
A discussion group which aims to answer this question, or have fun trying to. What are your feelings? Is Science Fiction;
An imaginative way to create thought experiments?
A model of what happens next?
A method “of approaching problems with the underlying assumption that things don’t have to be the way they are”?
Big big toys for big big boys?
A genre that happily accommodates romance, detective work, philosophy, sociology and speculation within its bounds?
The final frontier?
Does it have to be scientific?
Is it a reflector or a driver of scientific enquiry?
Is it whatever people are pointing at when they say, “it’s science fiction”?
We’ll be looking at old favourites from Asimov, Clarke and Wyndham through to modern writers like Chiang and Tchaikovsky via Ursula K Le Guin, Anne McCaffrey, William Gibson and Philip K Dick - with grateful nods to Huxley and Orwell, Wells and Verne.
Not necessarily in that order and with plenty of room for members’ suggestions.
What if you were to sign up for this group?
You may, or may not, but - “To say you have no choice is a failure of imagination.” Jean Luc Picard, circa 2399AD.
