- Date: this coming Thursday, February 2nd
- Time: noon
- Place: Golden Prague Pub
The book for this month is:
- The Player of Games, by Ian M Banks
This is the second book in Ian Banks’ Culture series, which are all standalone stories set in a far future of humanity known as The Culture, a utopian, post-scarcity space society of humans, humanoid aliens, and advanced super intelligent artificial intelligences living in artificial habitats spread across the Milky Way galaxy. The stories center themes of how do you find meaning in a life when all of your needs are already met (an apt question for some retirees), how do you reconcile military action with the idea of an enlightened society, how to resolve fundamental clashes of values between extremely different cultures, and other such questions.
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For anyone who hasn’t been to the Golden Prague Pub, you can find it under that name in Google Maps. It’s directly across the street from the Supermaxi El Vergel, 2 blocks south of Parque de la Madre on Alfonso Cordero. The place opens at noon — if you get there early, I’m not sure what their policy is on letting you grab a chair, but the Supermaxi has a couple of benches outside on the upper level.
Anyone who finds themselves available and wants to show up is welcome. (It’s not required to have read the monthly book first, but be warned that its discussion will likely involve spoilers.) This is intended to be a general geek-interest reading/discussion group. Subjects could involve scifi/fantasy fiction and movies, anime, tech, gaming, a book-of-the-month reading, and so forth. Friendly arguments, such as about whether The Death of the Author can ever be applied to the works of an unpleasant author who hasn’t had the good grace to actually die yet, or whether it’s worth watching Season 1 of a new show when Netflix has already announced that there will never be a Season 2 that resolves the story arcs.
If you have any questions, feel free to post them below and I’ll keep an eye on this space to answer them.
See you all then!
Thursday, February 2nd, noon, 0,
Golden Prague Pub, Calle Alfonso Cordero y Av. Jose Peralta
Charles Castleberry: howtaobrowncow@gmail.com
City: Cuenca
