CONVENOR
Ben Staveley-Taylor
TIME AND PLACE
We are a group of enthusiastic Science Fiction readers. Each month we choose a book to read and at the next meeting we start off with a discussion about it, although we soon digress into general SF-related chat. We aim to pick novels which are new to most of us, as opposed to re-reading. If you want to discover great new SF authors and books, this is the group for you!
We meet in the afternoon on the last Friday of each month in the Café Pi, which is in the basement level of the Andrew Wiles building – the University maths department in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter.
If there is an interesting film or other event happening we arrange ad hoc extra group outings as well.
If you would like more information about the group, or would like to join, email sigscoordinator@u3aoxford.org.uk for more information. We are currently operating a waiting list for new members.
Books planned for forthcoming meetings
| Hard to be a God – A & B Strugatsky | November 2026 |
| Luminous – Silvia Park | December 2026 |
| The Turing Protocol – Nick Croydon | January 2027 |
| Artificial Wisdom – Thomas R. Weaver | February 2027 |
| The Hydrogen Sonata – Iain M. Banks | March 2027 |
| There is No Antimemetics Division – qntm | April 2027 |
| Day Zero – C. Robert Cargill | May 2027 |
| The Three Body Problem – Cixin Liu | June 2027 |
| Providence – Max Barry | July 2027 |
| The Book of Koli – MR Carey | August 2027 |
| The Divide – Vicki Lloyd | September 2027 |
Books we have read previously
- Mickey7 – Edward Ashton
- Binti – Nnedi Okorafor
- Metro 2033 – Dmitry Glukhovsky
- Service Model – Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley
- Timescape – Gregory Benford
- Babel-17 – Samuel R Delaney
- The Calculating Stars – Mary Robinette Kowal
- Red Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson
- Last and First Men – Olaf Stapledon
- To Say Nothing of the Dog — Connie Willis
- Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
- Seveneves — Neal Stephenson
- The Kaiju Preservation Society — John Scalzi
- Dreamland — Rosa Rankin-Gee
- The Unincorporated Man — Dani & Eytan Kollin
- The Collapsing Empire — John Scalzi
