Forthcoming selections

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

• May 13 The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
• June 10 Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler
• July 8 A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
• August 12 On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers

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.

Forthcoming selections

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

• March 11 Beloved by Toni Morrison
• April 8 Laughin' Boy by Bradley Denton (Derek and I both gave the book rave reviews!)

• May 13 The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing

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.

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.