You can find our full reviews of the books here on the Club Fantasci website.
April's Book of the Month is The Glass Demon by Helen Grant and the Hangout will take place on April 26th at 7:30pm CST.
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Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Ender's Game: Review by Club Fantasci
Club Fantasci met last weekend to discuss both the March Book of the Month - Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. You can watch the discussion of co-hosts David Lowry, Dionne Lister, Kriss Morton and myself below.
You can find our full reviews of the books here on the Club Fantasci website.
April's Book of the Month is The Glass Demon by Helen Grant and the Hangout will take place on April 26th at 7:30pm CST.
You can find our full reviews of the books here on the Club Fantasci website.
April's Book of the Month is The Glass Demon by Helen Grant and the Hangout will take place on April 26th at 7:30pm CST.
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Club Fantasci: Review of the Last Continent
Club Fantasci met last weekend to discuss both the December and January Books of the Month - Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey and The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett. You can watch the discussion of co-hosts David Lowry, Dionne Lister and myself below.
You can find our full reviews of the books here on the Club Fantasci website.
February's Book of the Month is The Accidental Sorcerer by Australian author Karen Miller, writing as K.E. Mills, and the Hangout will take place on February 23rd at 7:00pm CST.
February's Book of the Month is The Accidental Sorcerer by Australian author Karen Miller, writing as K.E. Mills, and the Hangout will take place on February 23rd at 7:00pm CST.
Thursday, 17 January 2013
The Last Continent: Club Fantasci
Those of you who follow Club Fantasci might have noticed the scheduled Hangout for Kushiel's Dart did not proceed as planned at the end of December. This was unfortunately due to a combination of technical issues and illness amongst the co-hosts.
Given the holiday period, and how close we now are to the end of January, we've decided to role the Hangout for Kushiel's Dart and January's book into one.
January's Book of the Month is The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett, a comedic fantasy set in the country of XXXX on the Discworld, a country that is not Australia, but looks suspiciously like it! For those who don't know, there's a beer in Australia called XXXX!
The Hangout will be held on 1 February 2013 at 7pm CST time instead of 25 January to allow for the Australia Day public holiday in (you guessed it) Australia. After all, I'm pretty sure it would be un-Australian to discuss a book about a country that looks a lot like Australia, on Australia Day. Unless maybe you do it with a XXXX in your hand.
If you don't already follow Club Fantasci, we're an online speculative fiction book club striving to educate and entertain in the genre of speculative fiction. You can check out our previous Hangouts here and we look forward to seeing you on 1 February!
Given the holiday period, and how close we now are to the end of January, we've decided to role the Hangout for Kushiel's Dart and January's book into one.
January's Book of the Month is The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett, a comedic fantasy set in the country of XXXX on the Discworld, a country that is not Australia, but looks suspiciously like it! For those who don't know, there's a beer in Australia called XXXX!
The Hangout will be held on 1 February 2013 at 7pm CST time instead of 25 January to allow for the Australia Day public holiday in (you guessed it) Australia. After all, I'm pretty sure it would be un-Australian to discuss a book about a country that looks a lot like Australia, on Australia Day. Unless maybe you do it with a XXXX in your hand.
If you don't already follow Club Fantasci, we're an online speculative fiction book club striving to educate and entertain in the genre of speculative fiction. You can check out our previous Hangouts here and we look forward to seeing you on 1 February!
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Club Fantasci: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
November’s Book of the Month for Club Fantasci was The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice. The book
certainly seems to polarise readers, and it had that effect on myself
and my co-hosts. Watch the Hangout below to see what we thought of this rewrite
of the classic Sleeping Beauty.
Reviews by the co-hosts will shortly be available on the Club Fantasci
website and will be linked here as soon as they go up.
Next month, we have another erotic fantasy - Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey. Tune in to see the Hangout on December 29 at 7pm CST or, it being the holiday season, check it out while recovering from a post-holiday hangover!
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Next month, we have another erotic fantasy - Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey. Tune in to see the Hangout on December 29 at 7pm CST or, it being the holiday season, check it out while recovering from a post-holiday hangover!
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Monday, 29 October 2012
The Anubis Gates: Club Fantasci Hangout
Club Fantasci convened by Google+ Hangout on Saturday night to discuss The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers. Discussions ranged from the evocative quality of the descriptions, to issues with plot pacing - too fast, just right? It got a bit Goldilocks and the Three Bears there for a bit. Then Dionne got philosophical and existentialist when she decided to turn the discussion to time paradoxes, to the point where I suggested she might be better off having the conversation with a scientist who specialises in that field, instead of poor little me!
When we unveiled next month's book, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice, the conversation got a bit naughty and turned to foot fetishes and whipped cream.
You can find the whole discussion here.
Reviews by the hosts will also shortly be available at the Club Fantasci website, and don't forget to stop by Goodreads and join the Club Fantasci discussion boards.
If you enjoyed this post, please feel free to check out my previous posts if you haven't already. If you're finding yourself here often, you might as well join as a member, sign up to the blog through RSS or email, or sign up for the newsletter.
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When we unveiled next month's book, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice, the conversation got a bit naughty and turned to foot fetishes and whipped cream.
You can find the whole discussion here.
Reviews by the hosts will also shortly be available at the Club Fantasci website, and don't forget to stop by Goodreads and join the Club Fantasci discussion boards.
If you enjoyed this post, please feel free to check out my previous posts if you haven't already. If you're finding yourself here often, you might as well join as a member, sign up to the blog through RSS or email, or sign up for the newsletter.
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Sunday, 30 September 2012
The Way of Shadows: Club Fantasci September Hangout
Club Fantasci met yesterday for its second G+ Hangout and first successful hangout! You can watch myself and co-hosts Dionne Lister and David Lowry discuss The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks here. If you've read the book, join us on our Goodreads page - start your own discussion threads or join the ones already going.
Reviews by all three hosts are available on the Club Fantasci website - follow the links to read reviews by Dionne, David and myself.
The song I chose for The Way of Shadows is Standing Outside the Fire by Garth Brooks. The song is a metaphor for how life without love is an empty existence. I chose it because this is exactly how Durzo tries to live, and how he teaches Kylar to live, for their own safety - but ultimately, the fire of love draws them like moths to the flame. Despite themselves, they can't live in that empty, loveless existence.
October's Book of the Month is The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers. The book is in print, but so old you'll likely have to order it online as you'll have trouble finding it on the shelf. The copy I've stolen... ahem, borrowed, from my Dad is a hardback, so it's like to be damn near as old as I am!
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Reviews by all three hosts are available on the Club Fantasci website - follow the links to read reviews by Dionne, David and myself.
The song I chose for The Way of Shadows is Standing Outside the Fire by Garth Brooks. The song is a metaphor for how life without love is an empty existence. I chose it because this is exactly how Durzo tries to live, and how he teaches Kylar to live, for their own safety - but ultimately, the fire of love draws them like moths to the flame. Despite themselves, they can't live in that empty, loveless existence.
October's Book of the Month is The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers. The book is in print, but so old you'll likely have to order it online as you'll have trouble finding it on the shelf. The copy I've stolen... ahem, borrowed, from my Dad is a hardback, so it's like to be damn near as old as I am!
If you enjoyed this post, please feel free to check out my previous posts if you haven't already. If you're finding yourself here often, you might as well join as a member, sign up to the blog through RSS or email, or sign up for the newsletter.
Don't forget to share the love and spread the word on Twitter, Facebook or StumbleUpon (or other social networking site of your choice) if you know other people who might also enjoy this.
Thanks for stopping by and visiting with us.
Saturday, 1 September 2012
Club Fantasci Reviews The Night Circus
Club
Fantasci had its first meeting ever 12 hours ago. As soon it's
available, the link to the video of the Google+ Hangout will be
available on our website and Facebook page for everyone who missed viewing the live Hangout.
In the meantime, check out my review of The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern here on Club Fantasci's website - you'll also find reviews by co-hosts Dionne Lister and David Lowry.
Feel free to contribute to the discussions about The Night Circus starting on our Goodreads page, or start your own if there's something about the book you want to discuss! If you want to comment on more than one of the co-hosts' reviews, it may be easier to start a discussion thread on Goodreads instead.
The date for the next meeting is yet to be confirmed, but will be at the end of September, and September's Book of the Month is The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks.
If you missed it, check out my review of The First Confessor.
If you enjoyed this post, please feel free to check out my previous posts if you haven't already. If you're finding yourself here often, you might as well join as a member, sign up to the blog through RSS or email, or sign up for the newsletter.
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In the meantime, check out my review of The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern here on Club Fantasci's website - you'll also find reviews by co-hosts Dionne Lister and David Lowry.
Feel free to contribute to the discussions about The Night Circus starting on our Goodreads page, or start your own if there's something about the book you want to discuss! If you want to comment on more than one of the co-hosts' reviews, it may be easier to start a discussion thread on Goodreads instead.
The date for the next meeting is yet to be confirmed, but will be at the end of September, and September's Book of the Month is The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks.
If you missed it, check out my review of The First Confessor.
If you enjoyed this post, please feel free to check out my previous posts if you haven't already. If you're finding yourself here often, you might as well join as a member, sign up to the blog through RSS or email, or sign up for the newsletter.
Don't forget to share the love and spread the word on Twitter, Facebook or StumbleUpon (or other social networking site of your choice) if you know other people who might also enjoy this.
Thanks for stopping by and visiting with us!
Friday, 3 August 2012
New “Club Fantasci” Speculative Fiction Video Book Club
I’m
co-hosting a video book club. Me. Wow.
The book reviewers are David Lowry,
author Dionne Lister, entertainment
personality and model Shannon Million,
and of course myself!
Club Fantasci launched August 1, 2012, and is designed to help bring great books
and great authors more exposure to the world at large. We are taking the stigma
out of speculative fiction!
The book club will select a book each
month for review, and the reviewers will then meet via G+ Hangout once a month
to discuss the literary merits of the book – and we’ll be doing more than just
telling you we liked or didn’t like the book. In an entertaining way, of
course. So it's just like an offline book club... except online... with wine... and stuff.
The first G+ hangout is scheduled for August 31st 7:00pm EST/CST.
For those of you in the southern hemisphere, that’s 1 September 10am AEST. So
if you fancy joining us, go pick up this month’s book, The Night Circus by
Erin Morgenstern,
and we look forward to seeing you there.
You can learn more about us by:
Joining our group on Goodreads
Liking our Page on Facebook
Checking out our Website
And here’s a little more about Club
Fantasci and what we hope to achieve:
We want to expose you to the full gamut
of the speculative fiction genre, including science fiction, hard SF,
militaristic SF, high/epic fantasy, dark fantasy, dystopian, cyberpunk, steampunk,
space opera, paranormal, urban fantasy, SFF romance and erotica, and everything
in between.
We want to educate readers on good writing in speculative fiction, entertain with witty banter, and above all have a fantastic time. Fiction need not be literary to be well written, and good writing need not be boring or mundane! We promise you we’ll do our best to bring you a good book every month, and if not, we’ll tell you why it’s not! For a bit of light fun, we’ll also be featuring a wine of the month and picking a song that best fits the book.
Club Fantasci will introduce the “Wine of the Month” and each of the reviewers will pick music they feel best represents the current “Book of the Month.” So bring your book, keep that wineglass topped up, and don’t forget your iPod!
We want to educate readers on good writing in speculative fiction, entertain with witty banter, and above all have a fantastic time. Fiction need not be literary to be well written, and good writing need not be boring or mundane! We promise you we’ll do our best to bring you a good book every month, and if not, we’ll tell you why it’s not! For a bit of light fun, we’ll also be featuring a wine of the month and picking a song that best fits the book.
Club Fantasci will introduce the “Wine of the Month” and each of the reviewers will pick music they feel best represents the current “Book of the Month.” So bring your book, keep that wineglass topped up, and don’t forget your iPod!
The “Wine of the Month” for August is a
2011 “Suited Muscat” from Sort This Out Cellars Winery in Las Vegas, NV.
Alternatively, you can connect with the reviewers
The Lowry Agency:
Dionne Lister
Shannon Million
Ciara Ballintyne
You can read the official press release for the launch of
Club Fantasci here.
If you missed it, check out my guest post on POV Rules and when it's OK to break them here.
If you enjoyed this post, please feel free to check out my previous posts if you haven't already. If you're finding yourself here often, you might as well join as a member, sign up to the blog through RSS or email, or sign up for the newsletter.
Don't forget to share the love and spread the word on Twitter, Facebook or StumbleUpon (or other social networking site of your choice) if you know other people who might also enjoy this.
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