Date: January 25, 2016-7:00 p.m.
Title: If
Then
Author: Matthew De Abaitua
Publisher: Watkins Media
Meeting Location: Barnes & Noble
#2352, 2nd Floor
11323 W 95th Street, Overland Park, KS 66214
11323 W 95th Street, Overland Park, KS 66214
Overview from Barnes & Noble:
James has a scar in the back of his head. It’s
where he was wounded in the Battle of Suvla Bay in August 1915. Or is the scar
the mark of his implant that allows the Process to fill his mind with its own
reality?
In IF, the people of a small
English town cling on after an economic collapse under the protection of the
Process. But sometimes people must be evicted from the town. That’s the job of
James, the bailiff. While on patrol, James discovers the replica of a soldier
from the First World War wandering the South Downs. This strange meeting begins
a new cycle of evictions in the town, while out on the rolling downland, the
Process is methodically growing the soldiers and building the weapons required
to relive a long lost battle.
In THEN, it is August 1915, at the
Battle of Suvla Bay in the Dardanelles campaign. Compared to the thousands of
allied soldiers landing on this foreign beach, the men of the 32nd Field
Ambulance are misfits and cranks of every stripe: a Quaker pacifist, a
freethinking padre, a meteorologist, and the private (once a bailiff) known
simply as James. Exposed to constant shellfire and haunted by ghostly snipers,
the stretcher-bearers work day and night on the long carry of wounded men. One
night they stumble across an ancient necropolis, disturbed by an exploding
shell. What they discover within this ancient site will make them question the
reality of the war and shake their understanding of what it means to be human…
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conversation is always good.
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Added Bonus!
You have the power to influence what the group reads next! New selections will be chosen at this meeting!
IMAGE: Many thanks to Matthew’sFacebook page, for the cover image.
