Richard Adams' Watership Down

At our December 2008 Book Discussion meeting, we discussed the Richard Adams novel "Watership Down".

If you're a Star Base Andromeda member who has read this novel and would like to offer up your opinion, please share your thoughts here with the rest of SBA and anyone else who drops in. As part of your comments, please give "Watership Down" a score, from 1 to 10 (10 best) and identify yourself in your comments.

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Who Goes There? and Two versions of The Thing

At our December 6 2008 we watched both The Thing From Another World [1951] and The Thing [1982], following which we discussed both films and the John W. Campbell short story "Who Goes There?" that served as the inspiration for both films.

If you're a Star Base Andromeda member who has read this story and/or seen either of these films, and would like to offer up your opinion, please share your thoughts here with the rest of SBA and anyone else who drops in. As part of your comments, please give "Who Goes There?" a score, from 1 to 10 (10 best) and identify yourself in your comments.

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Alan Moore's "Watchmen"

At our October 28 2008 Book Discussion meeting, we discussed the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons graphic novel "Watchmen".

If you're a Star Base Andromeda member who has read this graphic novel and would like to offer up your opinion, please share your thoughts here with the rest of SBA and anyone else who drops in. As part of your comments, please give "Watchmen" a score, from 1 to 10 (10 best) and identify yourself in your comments.

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Algis Budrys' "Rogue Moon"

At our September 2008 Book Discussion meeting, we discussed the Algis Budrys novel "Rogue Moon".

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Octavia Butler's "Fledgling"

At our August 2008 Book Discussion meeting, we discussed the Octavia Butler novel "Fledgling".

If you're a Star Base Andromeda member who has read this novel and would like to offer up your opinion, please share your thoughts here with the rest of SBA and anyone else who drops in. As part of your comments, please give "Fledgling" a score, from 1 to 10 (10 best) and identify yourself in your comments.

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James Tiptree Jr.'s "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever"

At our June 2008 Book Discussion meeting, we discussed the James Tiptree Jr. short-story collection "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever".

If you're a Star Base Andromeda member who has read this collection and would like to offer up your opinion, please share your thoughts here with the rest of SBA and anyone else who drops in. As part of your comments, please give "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever" a score, from 1 to 10 (10 best) and identify yourself in your comments.

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Nalo Hopkinson's "Brown Girl in the Ring"

At our May 2008 Book Discussion meeting, we discussed the Nalo Hopkinson novel "Brown Girl in the Ring".

If you're a Star Base Andromeda member who has read this novel and would like to offer up your opinion, please share your thoughts here with the rest of SBA and anyone else who drops in. As part of your comments, please give "Brown Girl in the Ring" a score, from 1 to 10 (10 best) and identify yourself in your comments.

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Harry Bates' "Farewell to the Master"

In March 2008, we held a joint "Video Week/Book Discussion" meeting, during which we showed the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still, and afterwards discussed the Harry Bates story "Farewell to the Master", upon which the film was loosely based.

If you're a Star Base Andromeda member who has read this story and would like to offer up your opinion, please share your thoughts here with the rest of SBA and anyone else who drops in. As part of your comments, please give "Farewell to the Master" a score, from 1 to 10 (10 best) and identify yourself in your comments.

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E.R. Eddison's "The Worm Ouroboros"

Tonight's SBA meeting was scheduled to be the delayed discussion of E.R. Eddison's classic fantasy novel The Worm Ouroboros. Not enough of us who've actually finished the novel were present to effectively discuss the book.

Therefore, we're using The Worm Ouroboros to launch our Book Discussion blog.

If you're a Star Base Andromeda member who has finished this book and would like to offer up your opinion, please share your thoughts here with the rest of SBA and anyone else who drops in. As part of your comments, please give The Worm Ouroboros a score, from 1 to 10 (10 best).

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Welcome...

Welcome to the Star Base Andromeda Book Discussions Blog!

Star Base Andromeda is Lincoln, NE's long-running SF/Fantasy club -- we're actually interested in a whole lot more than just those two main genres, but they'll suffice for the moment.

Our website started up a few years ago, and we used a package of discussion forum software to post threads where members (and visitors) could leave comments about books which we'd read as part of our ongoing "Book Discussion" meetings (where everyone tried to read the same book and discuss it at a particular meeting). Due to one thing or another, that discussion forum software ultimately went away and we shifted our e-mail list from a mostly private listserv to Yahoo!Groups.

We've since been thinking of options for returning our Book Discussions to an electronic format, where they wouldn't get buried in the day-to-day minutiae of meeting schedules, and news announcements. Two ideas took the forefront -- a separate Yahoo!Group just for Book Discussion comments, and a blog, where the comments could be threaded. We're not completely committed to using one or the other, but we're going to experiment with this Blog format first.