Pandemic

[close] During the school closures, share book ideas with the group. No judgments.

[close] Techno-thrillers explore the ramifications of emerging technology, science, or natural phenomena in a story where your pulse races to thriller intensity at least briefly. The genre tends toward the relatively near-reaching possibilities of sci-fi, and usually includes enough technical detail/explanation to satisfy your inner geek. This is not your classic crime mystery novel. Not a galaxy far, far away. Not a fantasy. Nothing magical. Plausible physics on/near Earth in roughly the near present/future, roughly as we have known it for at least a good part of the book. It can be also be non-fiction, or yes, sometimes it can indeed be rather far-fetched.    

[close] I'm setting up a book club for science. How this will work is I'll give you a list of books, then you all vote on which one you want to read next (instant-runoff style). Then we will have a semi-guided tour through the book, discussing a few chapters per week, along with a monthly-ish meetup in cyberspace to talk about some of the bigger issues. Most of the actual discussion and probably the voting will happen on discord, this interface is not very popular :) To get things started I am just choosing the first two books from ones I've read recently: (1) "The Great Influenza" by John Barry and (2) "Ten Drugs" by Thomas Hager. Please don't worry about hurting my feelings if you aren't interested in reading and discussing science books with me!

[close] Extra-small bookclub for an extra-large pandemic.