Showing posts with label New book club selections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New book club selections. Show all posts

September 08, 2017

SF&F Literati pre-announce Fall-Winter 2017-2018 selections

Books selected for the next few months 2017-18:
September 25, 2017: The Outsorcerer's Apprentice, by Tom Holt
October 23, 2017: Lightless, by C.A. Higgins
November 27, 2017: The Clown Service, by Guy Adams
(No meeting in December)
January 22, 2018: Seeds of Earth, by Michael Cobley
Each meeting:
7:00 p.m., on the 2nd floor of the Oak Park Barnes & Nobles, 11323 W. 95th Street, Overland Park, KS 66214

Reserve or order your copy now!
The Outsorcerer's Apprentice, by Tom Holt 

A happy workforce, it is said, is a productive workforce.

Mmmm.

Try telling that to an army of belligerent goblins. Or the Big Bad Wolf. Or a professional dragons layer. Who is looking after their well-being? Who gives a damn about their intolerable working conditions, lack of adequate health insurance, and terrible coffee in the canteen?

Thankfully, with access to an astonishingly diverse workforce and limitless natural resources, maximizing revenue and improving operating profit has never really been an issue for the one they call "the Wizard." Until now.

Because now a perfectly good business model -- based on sound fiscal planning, entrepreneurial flair, and only one or two of the infinite parallel worlds that make up our universe -- is about to be disrupted by a young man not entirely aware of what's going on.


There's also a slight risk that the fabric of reality will be torn to shreds. You really do have to be awfully careful with these things.

IMAGE: Many thanks to Goodreads, for the book cover image.

February 15, 2014

The Game's Afoot for SF&F Literati


Next meeting: February 24, 2014!
It's time to get started on February's Selection!
Book of the Evening: The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes
Author: George Mann
Overview from Barnes & Noble:
A collection of short stories detailing the supernatural Steampunk adventures of detective duo, Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Veronica Hobbes in dark and dangerous Victorian London. Along with Chief Inspector Bainbridge, Newbury & Hobbes will face plague revenants, murderous peers, mechanical beasts, tentacled leviathans, reanimated pygmies, and an encounter with Sherlock Holmes. 

Available from Barnes & Noble and other fine booksellers.

Remember! it's time for new selections.
Bring your list of books for the discussion of what the group can read next. 

IMAGE CREDITS: Book cover image for The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes is courtesy of the bilingual Norwegian and English blog of Cluva, "Bookworm with a Writing Itch."