Econ Sci Fi Book Club
ECONOMICS SCI-FI BOOK CLUB
Voting closed for Summer 2024
And the winner is ...
Children of Time
After running a close second in voting last year, the book club has decided it's time to return to humanoids dealing with a spider world for the 2024 edition. Children of Time won the Clarke Award in 2016. Praised by the Financial Times's James Lovegrove for "tackling big themes - gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness - with brio", it follows survivors of Earth looking to terraform a new planet that it turns out is already spoken for.
We'll be meeting to chat on Friday June 28 EDST (North America) from 3-4:30pm
(or drop in for however long you have to spare)
As always, it'll be on-line, with the exact platform tba
Runners up in order were:
Accelerando, Charles Stross
A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer
Dark Matter, Blake Crouch
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
(Excitingly, the top 3 were each one vote apart, with preferences
from AMCE splitting 6-2 for CoT and pushing it over the top.)
And lovely to see lots of new signups! If you're wanting to join us, please please sign up at the link below.
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)
. and 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!