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This book club is for people who like to read science fiction. The best sci fi, thriller, fantasy and non fiction books. We meet at the tables at the back of black forest coffee in half price books. Were kicking off the wired book club with a fantasy epic or. Current members of dallas scifi book club, a meetup group with 50 members in dallas, tx. Were a global book club for likeminded women to discuss great books. This fastpaced novel continues the hard science fiction history of the formic wars. Dallas scifi book club pages dallas scifi book club. But not any old book club, cus i think those kite flyer books are just kinda annoying and pretentious, and my brain cell doesnt have the time to compute all the subtleties unless orcs are involved.
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All members of the book club read the same book over the same period. Dune is the worlds bestselling science fiction novel for a reason though it doesnt pull any punches in the sci fi department there will be complicated names, its as specific and. The just city, the first fifteen lives of harry august, the sword of kaigen, the manycoloured land, t. A bookclub group for science fiction and fantasy readers in dfw, tx but. We prefer to read 600 page or less books, and if the book is in a series either the first or a good standalone novel.
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