Oxford Geeks

#### 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.

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.

#### Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse by James S. A. Corey

For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artefact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark.

Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artefact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core. As the emissaries of the human race try to find whether the gate is an opportunity or a threat, the greatest danger is the one they brought with them.

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.

# The Raven Tower: Ann Leckie

For centuries the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by a god known as the Raven. But in their hour of need, the Raven speaks nothing to its people. It is into this unrest that the warrior Eolo - aide to the true heir to the throne - arrives. In seeking to help his master reclaim his city, Eolo discovers that the Raven's Tower holds a secret. Its foundations conceal a dark history that has been waiting to reveal itself... and to set in motion a chain of events that could destroy Iraden forever.

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.

# Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky

On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they go?

Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close. Then his wishes become a reality in the worst way. His political activism sees him exiled from Earth to Kiln’s extrasolar labour camp. There, he’s condemned to work under an alien sky until he dies.

Kiln boasts a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem like nothing seen on Earth. The monstrous alien life interacts in surprising, sometimes shocking ways with the human body, so Arton will risk death on a daily basis. However, the camp’s oppressive regime might just kill him first. If Arton can somehow escape both fates, the world of Kiln holds a wondrous, terrible secret. It will redefine life and intelligence as he knows it, and might just set him free . . .

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.