Authors Covered In the Series (So Far)
Each month we focus upon a different author. Generally, we are not attempting to look at the whole of their works, but just a portion that offers a rich narrative universe to us, their readers.
So far, these are the authors whose works we have read and discussed in the sessions:
2016 - First Year Of The Series
- February – J.R.R. Tolkien’s Saga of Middle Earth
- March – A.E. Van Vogt’s World of Null-A
- April – C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy
- May – Isaac Asimov’s Foundations
- June – Frank Herbert’s Dune Universe
- July – Roger Zelazny’s Amber and Chaos
- August – Ursula K. Leguin’s Hainish Universe
- September – Michael Moorcock’s Multiverse and the Eternal Champion
- October – Phillip K. Dick’s Alternate Americas
- November – Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast
- December – George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire
2017 - Second Year Of The Series
- January – Philip Jose Farmer’s Riverworld
- February – Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet
- March – Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Galaxy
- April – Anne McCaffrey, World of Pern
- May – Orson Scott Card’s Enderverse
- June – Ian Banks’ Culture Series (chosen by fan input)
- August – H.P Lovecraft’s Universe of the Elder Gods
- September – William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy
- October – C. L. Moore’s Fantastic Worlds
- December – Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy (chosen by fan input)
2018 - Third Year of the Series
- January – Jorge Luis Borges' Labyrinths and Libraries.
- February – Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser Series
- March – Robert Heinlein's Novels of The Future
- April – L. Sprague de Camp’s Complete Enchanter Multiverse
- May – Andre Norton’s Witch World
- July – Robert Howard's Hyborean Age (chosen by fan input - the hands-down favorite)
- August – Arthur Clarke’s Mysterious Cosmos
- October - C. J. Cherryh‘s Alliance–Union Universe
- November – Jack Vance's Dying Earth (chosen by fan input)
- December – Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun
2019 - Fourth Year of the Series
- January - Edgar Allan Poe's Uncanny Universe
- February - G.K. Chesterton's Novels of Intrigue and Rebellion
- April - Lewis Carroll's Fantastic Lands
- May - Tanith Lee's Flat Earth Series
- July - Gordon Dickson's Childe Cycle
- August - August Derleth's Universe of the Cthulhu Mythos
- September - Karl Edward Wagner's Ancient World of Kane
- October - Aldous Huxley's Utopias and Dystopias
- November - Bram Stoker's World of Gothic Horror
2020 - Fifth Year of the Series
- January - Mary Shelley's Modern Worlds (Frankenstein, The Last Man)
- February - China Mielville's Bas-Lag Novels
- [no sessions due to Covid-19]
- July - Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind
- August - Walter Miller's Post-Flame-Deluge Leibowitz Novels
- September - Ursula K. Leguin's Earthsea Trilogy
- December - Ursula K. Leguin's Earthsea Continued
2021 - Sixth Year of the Series
- January - Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past
- February - Philip K Dick's Stories of Colonization and Insanity
- March - R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before
- April - R. Scott Bakker, The Warrior Prophet
- May - R. Scott Bakker, The Thousandfold Thought
- June - Philip Jose Farmer's World of Tiers (volume 1)
- July - Philip Jose Farmer's World of Tiers (volume 2)
- August - A. E. Van Vogt's Isher and Weapons Shops Novels
- September - Stanislaw Lem's Solaris (and some other works)
- [no sessions from October- December due to general busyness!]
2022 - Seventh Year of the Series
- January - Neal Stephenson's Anathem
- February - Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy
- March - Octavia Butler's Parable novels
- April - [session cancelled]
- May - Olaf Stapledon's Cosmic novels
- June - Veronica Roth - Carve The Mark series
- July - Roger Zelazny, Chronicles of Amber continued
- August - [session cancelled]
- September - J.G. Ballard's modern dystopias
- October - [session cancelled]
- November - Philip K. Dick's Androids and Humans
- December - Dan Simons - Hyperion Cantos part 1
2023 - Eighth Year of the Series
- January - Dan Simmons - Hyperion Cantos part 2
- February - Andrzej Sapkowski - Witcher series
- March - Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy part 1
- April - Session postponed to May
- May - Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy part 2
- June - C.J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union Universe redux
- July - C.L. Moore's Jirel Of Joiry's Tales
- August - J.G. Ballard's Environmental Apocalypses
- September - Thomas Ligotti's Tales of Philosophical Horror
- October - N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth
- November - Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
- December - Steven Erikson's Malazan series