What we’re about
We're temporarily closed to new members at this time!
The group is kept to a manageable size because we cultivate real community. It's difficult to find a place to meet and have a good conversation when we're too large. Members should be interested in meeting in person in West Orange on 4th or 5th Fridays of the month.
Join a journey of discovery, escape, and pleasure - alien planets, swords, sorcery, spaceships, paranormal powers, adventure, multiple realities, monsters, spirits, human becoming, alternative histories and futures, robots, social experiments, time travel, and other cool stuff. Let's enjoy the best of the genre.
The group began in February 2014, and has met every month since that time. Initially we read novels that won both Hugo & Nebula awards. After about 6 months we began alternating reading novels that won both Hugo and Nebula Awards with books picked by members that won either the Hugo or Nebula award. We now also read award winning novellas, Arthur C. Clark winners, Locus award winners, and Hugo award nominees in the summer before the Hugo award has been announced. (For a list of what we've read already please see the google doc at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NhEKzQ6cMDznXN1UfL3jxyPy_w-zWMwQH9-Ss_qTcWw/edit?usp=sharing .) We meet each month, generally on the last Friday in the West Orange/Montclair area. We're a diverse group of interesting, smart, creative folk.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- December Read, Meet & EatSea's House, West Orange, NJ
This month we'll pair an award winning novella and a novelette or short story. Please read Nightflyers by George R.R. Martin, 1981 Locus award winner for best novella, and Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ by Rebecca Roanhorse, 2018 Hugo award winner for best novelette. (The novelette is available here: https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/welcome-to-your-authentic-indian-experience/)
$5 donation requested via cash, PayPal ([email protected]), Venmo (@CLynn-Carr) or Cash app (clcarrsea) to cover meetup fees & small costs of hosting. If you can't, no worries.It is expected that this will be an in-person event. Stay tuned for evolving plans and dinner ordering info.
- February Read, Meet & EatSea's House, West Orange, NJ
This month we'll pair an award winning novella and a novelette or short story. Please read Inside Job by Connie Willis, 2006 winner of the Hugo award for best novella, and Solitude by Ursula LeGuin, 1995 Nebula winner for best novelette. (Find the novelette here: https://archive.org/details/solitude_leguin .)
$5 donation requested via cash, PayPal ([email protected]), Venmo (@CLynn-Carr) or Cash app (clcarrsea) to cover meetup fees & small costs of hosting. If you can't, no worries.
It is expected that this will be an in-person event. Stay tuned for evolving plans and dinner ordering info.
