Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Forthcoming selections






At our previous meeting (and shame on you for not being there), we determined our selections through August.











We meet at Flight Path at 7 PM and we'd love to see ya there. Check out our home page for more details about the Dark Forces Book Group.




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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Forthcoming selections



At our previous meeting (and shame on you for not being there), we determined our selections through May.



We meet at Flight Path at 7 PM and we'd love to see ya there. Check out our home page for more details about the Dark Forces Book Group.

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Doris Lessing Wins Nobel!



Britain's Lessing wins Nobel for literature

By Sarah Edmonds and Niklas Pollard

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - British novelist Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature on Thursday for a body of work that looked unflinchingly at society's ills and inspired a generation of feminist writers.

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Lessing is the first writer, who actually wrote and was marketed as science fiction, to win a Nobel Prize.

Very interesting Harvey Blume interview with Lessing where they discuss her career especially her views on science fiction.

Doris Lessing:
What they didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time. I also admire the classic sort of science fiction, like Blood Music, by Greg Bear. He's a great writer.

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