Robin

This month’s book is Emergence by David Palmer. The first part was originally published in Analog in 1981, with a followup in 1983. These parts were combined in a novel published by Bantam in 1984, and the book was nominated for the Hugo Award in 1985, losing out to William Gibson’s Neuromancer. The style is … Read more

First Friday Fandom has a long tradition of holding a 4th of July barbecue and potluck. Breaking tradition, the meeting will be held on July 4th, which isn’t even a Friday! We’ll meet in the afternoon around 2pm at our usual location at 1245 Allegheny Drive, with the plan of grilling in the early evening. … Read more

First Friday Fandom will be meeting at 8pm on June 3rd at our usual location at the home of Kent Bloom and Mary Morman. This month’s book will be another novel that didn’t win the Hugo when it was nominated. We’ll be reading Harpist in the Wind by Patricia A. Mckillop, which lost to The … Read more

First Friday Fandom will be meeting at 8pm on May 6 to discuss another of our “Hugo Losers”. We don’t want to imply that the books are losers, because every one of them was nominated for a Hugo. They just happened to be up against stiff competition in the year they were eligible. This month … Read more