Econ Sci Fi Book Club
ECONOMICS SCI-FI BOOK CLUB
Announcement of Winter 2024 Book Club Choice and Meeting Time
By consensus at the last meetup of the Book Club in June 2024, we decided that the Winter 2024 book would be selected rather than voted on, if only because the voters always choose the longest book on the list. So this winter, find yourself a copy of
by Olaf Stapledon
Written in 1930, Wikipedia (sorry, your correspondent has yet to crack it open) says it is: "A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first."
For those who run out of time, or prefer watching to reading, there is a movie version, featuring the fabulous Tilda Swinton (which is a reminder to either watch, or re-watch, Orlando).
We'll be meeting to chat on Monday December 30 EST (North America) from 3-4:30pm
(or drop in for however long you have to spare)
As always, it'll be on-line, likely Zoom again. Watch your email for the link, or sign up below if you haven't already.
Or send us an email (though we do only check in around regular book club time).
ABOUT US
The Economics Sci-Fi Book Club started off with Matt Clancy bringing together a group of like-minded people on Twitter to chat in about books. We’re a group of people interested in economics (many practicing economists), who enjoy reading sci-fi books and thinking about the economics issues they raise.
We meet up on-line twice a year – once in the Summer and once in Winter, typically around Northern Hemisphere university break times – to discuss a book that we've voted on as a group. Choices so far have been:
· Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (July 2021)
· Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock (July 2022)
· Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed (Dec 2022)
· Liu Cixin, The Three Body Problem (July 2023)
. Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Dec 2023)
. Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time (June 2024)
You can still find some of us at least on Twitter, at the EconTwitter Sci-Fi Book Club community.
We’d love to have more people join in our book clubs. If you’re interested in being on our mailing list (which has only a few emails per year), please sign up!