Oxford Geeks

This is a sci-fi & fantasy writing group that reciprocally gives critique on our members' submitted work. Our members span the gammut of writing interests - from sentient spaceships and near-future distopias, to supernatural gothic Victorians, high fantasy, sci-fi thriller/horror, and more.

New members cannot submit their own work for their first meetup. This allows new members to get a feel for how the group works. It's not a pat-on-the-back praise-group - it's honest critique on character, dialogue, plot, setting, prose, etc.

How critique meetups work:

1. Members submit their work during the month to our group Google Drive. This is part of Google Groups to protect members' email addresses. It also restricts access of submitted work to members only (so it isn't publically available on the internet).

• Cutoff for submission is 1 week prior to the physical meetup to allow time for members to give a high-quality critique.
• Maximum length: 10 single-space pages, Times New Roman 12 font.

2. We meet the last Saturday of the month to discuss the writing submitted during the month.

If you're interested in the group, message me to touch base, then you can request membership (and access to submissions) here:
https://groups.google.com/g/oxford-sff-writing-group

You can also find us on Facebook, where we make casual posts:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/OxfordSFFWriters
Note: joining the group on Facebook doesn't give you access to the submissions - you'll need to join the Google Group for that.

Most of our core doesn't sign up on Meetup for each event, so don't be intimidated if there aren’t many people signed up via Meetup. :)

Come chat with fellow writers about all things sci-fi and fantasy. Let us know what you're working on.

#### We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Volume 1 (Bobiverse) by Dennis E. Taylor [WARNING: THIS BOOK IS NOT READILY AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK]

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Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.
Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty.
The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad — very mad.

This is a sci-fi & fantasy writing group that reciprocally gives critique on our members' submitted work. Our members span the gammut of writing interests - from sentient spaceships and near-future distopias, to supernatural gothic Victorians, high fantasy, sci-fi thriller/horror, and more.

New members cannot submit their own work for their first meetup. This allows new members to get a feel for how the group works. It's not a pat-on-the-back praise-group - it's honest critique on character, dialogue, plot, setting, prose, etc.

How critique meetups work:

1. Members submit their work during the month to our group Google Drive. This is part of Google Groups to protect members' email addresses. It also restricts access of submitted work to members only (so it isn't publically available on the internet).

• Cutoff for submission is 1 week prior to the physical meetup to allow time for members to give a high-quality critique.
• Maximum length: 10 single-space pages, Times New Roman 12 font.

2. We meet the last Saturday of the month to discuss the writing submitted during the month.

If you're interested in the group, message me to touch base, then you can request membership (and access to submissions) here:
https://groups.google.com/g/oxford-sff-writing-group

You can also find us on Facebook, where we make casual posts:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/OxfordSFFWriters
Note: joining the group on Facebook doesn't give you access to the submissions - you'll need to join the Google Group for that.

Most of our core doesn't sign up on Meetup for each event, so don't be intimidated if there aren’t many people signed up via Meetup. :)

Come chat with fellow writers about all things sci-fi and fantasy. Let us know what you're working on.

#### Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

For Kivrin Engle, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing a bullet-proof backstory. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received.

But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours.