What we’re about
We meet to watch and discuss our favorite sci-fi TV programs, film, and go to conventions and other events. We also have a sci-fi book club which meets approximately every other month in Northampton.
Our sister groups are Dr. Who Club of Western MA, Western MA Movie Meetup, Western MA Star Trek Fans, and Pioneer Valley Geeks & Gamers. We are also on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/4SciFi
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Upcoming events (1)
See all- The Future of Another Timeline book discussionForbes Library, Northampton, MA
ATTENTION: Please note we're meeting Thursday again this month and will be back at the Forbes Library in Northampton!
For our first book discussion of 2025, we'll be reading The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz. We'll meet to discuss it Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 6:00 pm.
Location: Community Room, Forbes Library
CLICK HERE for a list of what we'll be reading for the book group in 2025.
The Future of Another Timeline synopsis:
From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.
1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too.
2022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future, Tess has dedicated her life to visiting key moments in history and fighting for change. But rewriting the timeline isn’t as simple as editing one person or event. And just when Tess believes she's found a way to make an edit that actually sticks, she encounters a group of dangerous travelers bent on stopping her at any cost.
Tess and Beth’s lives intertwine as war breaks out across the timeline--a war that threatens to destroy time travel and leave only a small group of elites with the power to shape the past, present, and future. Against the vast and intricate forces of history and humanity, is it possible for a single person’s actions to echo throughout the timeline?
Praise for The Future of Another Timeline:
“A revolution is happening in speculative fiction, and Annalee Newitz is leading the vanguard."**--**Wil Wheaton
"An intelligent, gut-wrenching glimpse of how tiny actions, both courageous and venal, can have large consequences. Smart and profound on every level.”**—**Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"You close the book reeling with questions about your own life and your part in changing the future."**—**Amy Acker, actress (Angel and Person of Interest)
Author bio:
Annalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. They are the author of three novels: The Terraformers, The Future of Another Timeline, and Autonomous, which won the Lambda Literary Award. As a science journalist, they are the author of Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age and Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in science. They are a writer for the New York Times and elsewhere, and have a monthly column in New Scientist. They have published in The Washington Post, Slate, Scientific American, Ars Technica, The New Yorker, and Technology Review, among others. They are the co-host of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct, and have contributed to the public radio shows Science Friday, On the Media, KQED Forum, and Here and Now. Previously, they were the founder of io9, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.***
*There is a limit of 12 attendees for this event, to make sure everyone has a chance to participate in the discussion. Please RSVP before it fills up! And if you have RSVPd but something has come up, please update your RSVP so someone else will have a chance.
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