Soul

[close] Soul Readers Book Club!! WE LOVE READING!!!

[close] A discussion on panpsychism—the idea that mind or soul or consciousness is a property of matter. That’s the premise behind my science fiction novel Knocking on Heaven’s Door, and I wonder what you think. I don’t know, myself. I write in order to inhabit what I don’t know. It’s all so possible. The universe being not only more than we think but more than we can think. Please also consider entering the current giveaway of Knocking on Heaven’s Door, which just won the New Mexico/Arizona Book Award for science fiction, as well as the Arizona Authors Association Award. The giveaway is easy. Just go to the book and click.

[close] This is a group supporting the idea that there is a paucity of current fiction being written about the era from 1960 to 1980. The tumultuous period of Cross-country trips, a generation gap and the social movements of anti-war, pro civil rights, plus woman's, and gay liberation. The period from what might be called the first Liberation Lit book, "On The Road", to Tim Robbins string of irreverences in the late seventies, with "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"providing a good example. But what writers are reflecting back now on this period of huge change and a restructuring of the entire social contract? Where are the novels to finally end the divide between the returning soldier and the protesting hippie? Where is the closure that is needed as baby boomers enter their old age. They need art to reflect their sense of all this finally being past.

[close] A group that for readers and writers where passionate ranting is not only allowed but encouraged. If you read a book that made you want castrate yourself because bringing a child into a world sullied by the mere presence of that waste of perfectly good toilet paper is too cruel a world. Or If you read a book that made you want to do a pound of cocaine and fight grizzly bears....then this is the place to talk about it in full.