It's been busy for me recently, but let's get selecting for some new material.
Here's the ongoing list:
Neuromancer
So speak up for whatever piece sounds most appealing to you. Whichever appears to have the most support this round gets the pick!
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- Deadline is noteworthy for speculating about the refinement of plutonium in an age when nobody knew how to refine plutonium. Meanwhile this movie is 33 years old: - A Darkling Sea - I mean, this is not my list of "stuff I'd want friends to read." I'm expecting another Blindsight. - Neuromancer - A great book but considering we got like 3 people to commit two hours last time I'm not enthusiastic. Again, 'Fragments of a Hologram Rose' and 'Gernsback Continuum' are both readily available on the INternet and both under ten pages. - The Martian Chronicles - It's not a bad choice. I would argue that if you want to get your Bradbury on Illustrated Man is a more varied and better option. - The Last Man On Earth - NO. It's the worst adaptation of I am Legend and you're straight up shutting down that 1500-word, freely-available Matheson I linked last time. This one actually makes me mad. At least if we went with Omega Man we'd have the glory of Charlton Heston in full '70s regalia. - Elaphant's Dream - I don't want to watch 12-year-old student fumblings in Blender. Ever. - 2BR02B - there's a bunch of good Vonnegut. Why are we picking a Vonnegut that nobody reads? There was a lot of discussion last time about "good time travel movies" vs "bad time travel movies" and a number of options were presented: - Groundhog Day - Edge of Tomorrow - Time Machine with Rod Taylor - Stein's Gate - Looper
I'd love to hop in on this Sci-Fi Club! Not sure how often material is picked but this showed up as the latest material selection post under #scificlub If it needs to be short and free and easily accessible I would put forward The Last Question by Isaac Asimov. It is one of my favorite short stories and a really great conversation starter!