The next meeting will be on Saturday 9th December at 2 p.m. in the Storyhouse meeting room. For details see the Facebook Chester Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Group user group, or comment here to ask for the details if you are not on Facebook.

We will be discussing Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel:

The book has had terrific reviews, for example see this review from the Guardian.

Sea of Tranquility continues the good work done by Station Eleven in seducing new readers to speculative fiction. In fact, the book uses many more out-and-out science fiction conceits – space travel, sinister scientific institutions – but with a lightness of touch, as though they are intended to be glimpsed out of the corner of an eye that’s focused on the human dramas at the book’s centre. There’s something simultaneously fresh and old-fashioned in the novel’s comfort with omniscient narration, and its relaxed style that can swoop between the history of a lunar colony and the most intimate moments of a human life. It conveys the vertiginous sense of a reality that transcends a single existence and feels simultaneously poignant, celebratory and uncanny.