What we’re about
Welcome to The Fictitious Book Club of Vancouver!
What this book club is about?
- This group is for those who love exploring thought provoking stories through deep discussion and critical thinking.
- Though the name hints at 'fiction', we will touch many types of books.
- We strive to keep the discussion as lively and interactive as possible.
House Keeping
- Do keep in mind that it is every attendee's responsibility to allow others to voice their thoughts and respect their opinion. In general, please be mindful of your behavior.
Things that will revoke your membership:
- Aggressive behavior
- Loud shouting and yelling
- Uncontrolled ranting and oversharing
- Any other actions that the organizer deems unsafe for the group
Upcoming events (4)
See all- Recursion by Blake CrouchFaubourg, Vancouver, BC
Crouch's another standalone book. Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science Fiction (2019)
Goodreads Overview
Memory makes reality.
That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It's why she's dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.
As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face to face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease—a force that attacks not just our minds, but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it.
But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them?
At once a relentless pageturner and an intricate science-fiction puzzlebox about time, identity, and memory, Recursion is a thriller as only Blake Crouch could imagine it—and his most ambitious, mind-boggling, irresistible work to date.
- [Book + Movie Discussion] Arrival👽2016 | Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang 1998Faubourg, Vancouver, BC
Join us for a book and a movie discussion on Arrival and the book it was based on -- "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang.
Get the Book PDF here from University of California Santa Barbara
Goodreads Overview
What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we discovered that the fundamentals of mathematics were arbitrary and inconsistent? What if there were a science of naming things that calls life into being from inanimate matter? What if exposure to an alien language forever changed our perception of time? What if all the beliefs of fundamentalist Christianity were literally true, and the sight of sinners being swallowed into fiery pits were a routine event on city streets? These are the kinds of outrageous questions posed by the stories of Ted Chiang. Stories of your life. . . and others.
![[Book + Movie Discussion] Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro cover photo](https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/8/e/a/event_525002282.webp "[Book + Movie Discussion] Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro")
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![[Book + Movie Discussion] True Grit (2010) by Charles Portis (1968) cover photo](https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/4/f/3/event_525437651.webp "[Book + Movie Discussion] True Grit (2010) by Charles Portis (1968)")
