2012 Themes

Right. Now the club's themes will have to remain as they currently are for now. They are:-

August - The life and works of J.G. Ballard
September - Dystopias
October - The life and works of John Wyndham
November - Colonisation
December - The Unmissables: those books you really could not do without

And now that leaves us with next year's themes list to start work on.

I've started working on a list of themes for next year. The first candidates are in. I wonder if you'd like to look at what I'd like to see to start with:-

2012 Monthly Topics List

January 2012 - Between Jest and Earnest: The Works of William Olaf Stapledon
February 2012 - To Have And To Hold: Relationships In SF and Fantasy
March 2012 - The Red Planet - Mars In Perspective
April 2012 - The Works of Douglas Adams
May 2012 - Marvellous Technologies - V.2.0
June 2012 -
July 2012 -
August 2012 -
September 2012 -
October 2012 -
November 2012 -
December 2012 - The End Of The World (to coincide with the end of the Mayan calendar and/or the Singularity).

We now have six slots available; Rodney Milton rather brilliantly suggested, among others, Douglas Adams. I can't top Rodney's suggestion there - Douglas Adams it is.

We did cover H2G2 in this last meeting, sure, but that was under the aegis of "Adaptations," and how well (or badly) the show translated to different media. The theme for next April is focusing on the stories he wrote: meaning, relevance, humour, and what makes his works cult hits.

So, then, six more slots. Rodney also listed the following:-

Steampunk
Comedy science fiction & satire
Alternate history
Alien invasion
Space empires
Alternate universes
Strange/weird futures
Authors:- Isaac Asimov
Robert Silverberg
Clifford D Simak
Jasper Fforde

Who's next to step up?

All suggestions will be brought up at the next meeting. Be ready for some horse trading.