Orange County Science Fiction Club Orange County Science Fiction Club

Scheduled Meetings

Our meetings are open to the public at no charge, although donations to help cover the costs are appreciated.

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July 30, 2008

  • Guest/program: author David J. Williams

    David has just published his first novel The Mirrored Heavens

    From one of the reviews on amazon.com: "A crackling cyberthriller. This is Tom Clancy interfacing Bruce Sterling. David Williams has hacked into the future." - Stephen Baxter, author of the Manifold series

    David is coming in from the east coast and we look forward to hearing from him.

  • READING ORBIT- OCSFC Book Club:
    This month's book is "The Anubis Gates" by Tim Powers (400 pages)

    Author Tim Powers evokes 17th-century England with a combination of meticulously researched historic detail and imaginative flights in this sci-fi tale of time travel. Winner of the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award. Steeping together in this time-warp stew are such characters as an unassuming Coleridge scholar, ancient gods, wizards, the Knights Templar, werewolves, and other quasi-mortals, all wrapped in the organizing fabric of Egyptian mythology.

    Availability: Amazon $13.95, paperback, may have trouble finding a library

August 27, 2008

  • Guest/program: author Gregory Urbach

    Gregory is the author of the Waters of the Moon series, the first of which Waters of the Moon: Book One: Tranquility's Child published in hardback in 2001.

    Per Gregory: Seems like it should be for kids but actually good for anybody, like Tom Sawyer on the moon. The author (that's me)has used a variation of Tarzan of the Apes to tell a compelling story about growing up under difficult circumstances.

  • READING ORBIT- OCSFC Book Club:
    This month's book is Nebula Award winner "Stations of the Tide" by Michael Swanwick

    As the planet Miranda slowly drowns under the weight of its own tides, a bureaucrat from the Division of Technology Transfer conducts an investigation into the life of a local celebrity, a "magician" who possesses proscribed technology and whose personal powers hold much of the dying planet in thrall. Swanwick demonstrates his mastery of understated drama in a novel that brings a surrealistic approach to "hard" sf.

    Availability: Amazon paperback, In libraries 252 pages Published 1991

September 24, 2008

  • Guest/program: TBD

    TBD.

  • READING ORBIT- OCSFC Book Club:
    This month's book is "Nightwings" by Robert Silverberg (240 pages)

    This is a classic Silverberg fantasy, considered his best work.

    Availability: Amazon paperback, ICurrent paperback, may have trouble finding it in libraries.

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Email info@ocsfc.org for more information or call Greg at (949) 552-4925.