SPECULATIVE fiction
Sci-fi, horror and fantasy
Spec-fic: come explore the “what if” of it all! Whether it's a new universe or the one we think we know, we’ll take a journey through science fiction, fantasy, and all the weird cool stories that don't quite fit anywhere else. Join us and our host Ben once a month for a discussion on some of the most stirring classic and contemporary speculative fiction. This club usually meets the final Wednesday of each month, unless otherwise noted.
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Please note: Spec Fic will not be meeting in December. See you in the new year!
Speculative Fiction will be meeting on Wednesday, January 29th, at 7 pm. We will be reading The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett.
About the book:
In this first novel in the internationally bestselling Discworld series from legendary New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett (and the first in the Wizards collection), the fate of the Discworld depends on the survival of a naïve—and first-ever—sightseer.
A writer of brilliant imagination favorably compared to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, and Douglas Adams, Sir Terry Pratchett created a complex, satirical universe with its own set of cultures and rules, populated with wizards, witches, academics, fairies, policemen, and other creatures both fantastical and remarkably ordinary (including Death himself). Welcome to the Discworld . . . a parallel time and place that sounds very much like our own, but looks completely different—because it’s a flat world sitting on the backs of four elephants who hurtle through space balanced on a giant turtle.
In this, the maiden voyage through Terry Pratchett’s ingeniously twisted alternate dimension, the well-meaning but spectacularly inept wizard Rincewind encounters something previously unknown in the Discworld: a tourist!
Twoflower has arrived to take in the sights. Unfortunately, he’s cast his lot with a most inappropriate tour guide—a decision that could result in his becoming not only Discworld’s first visitor . . . but quite possibly, its last. And, of course, he’s brought Luggage along, a companion with feet—and a mind—of its own. And teeth. . . .
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