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There’s a problem aboard the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid. Every time there is an away mission, the crew encounters some sort of deadly confrontation with alien forces. The ships captain and the bridge team always survive. Some poor sucker from the lower decks is always killed.
Now the ship’s crew are expending all their energy avoiding being assigned to Away Missions, until new crewmember Andrew Dahl stumbles across information that may offer him and his fellow redshirts a chance to escape with their lives.
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Two twins and their friend are lying in a back yard one night when the stars go out. Thus begins a story that spans thirty odd years, as the three of them find strive to survive and overcome the slow apocalypse that has overtaken the earth. What has caused the stars to go out? Who is behind this mystery? And how much longer does humanity have?
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Our Book for September/October is The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
Charmaine sees an advertisement for a project called Positron that promises you a job, a place to live, a bed to sleep in – imagine how appealing that would be if you were working in a dive bar and sleeping in your car. The only catch is that once you’re in there, you can’t get out.
You’ll notice an important change – we’ve switched from a book a month to a book every two months, responding to feedback (including from me) that it was difficult to keep on top of the reading. So the deadline for your feedback is October 31st!
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Robert Neville is the last man alive. Every other man, woman, child and dog is now a vampire. They are out to drink his blood. Barricaded in his home by night, locked in the desperate necessities of survival day, how will he go on? And why?
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Solaris, Lem S, Science Fiction (Faber & Faber 1961)
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Psychologist Kelvin is sent to the Research Station orbiting one of the greatest mysteries encountered by mankind: an oceanic planet that appears to exhibit signs of intelligence. His mission is to evaluate whether the research is a failure. What he finds is utter chaos, scientists driven past the edge of sanity by a force that may be the ocean – and that Kelvin may not be able to escape.
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