Just like the last five years we’ll be having only one December meeting, on our usual second Monday of the month, and I am very pleased to say that once again it’s chosen by our President the late great Mr Iain M. Banks.
And afterwards we’ll be having another Xmas Pub Quiz!!
It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war—and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.
This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.
Hugo Award (1963) 1975
Locus All-Time Best Novel 1987
Locus Named it one of the All-Time Best SF Novel’s 1998 Locus Named it one of the All-Time Best SF Novel before 1990
And from 830ish we’ll be having our Second Annual pub Quiz!
