This comprehensive, spirited, and often laugh-out-loud funny handbook will help you start, maintain, or enhance a science fiction and fantasy book group.
· Provides discussion questions for 50 specific fantasy and science fiction titles and materials and booklists for 40 different themes of fantasy and science fiction
· Offers 100 additional recommended books for discussion
· Includes a chronology of science fiction and fantasy history
· Presents a glossary of science fiction and fantasy discussion terms
· Provides a bibliography of print and online resources for further studies of book groups and the science fiction and fantasy genres
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What is it about science faction and fantasy that so fascinates readers? To boldly go where no one has gone before? The genre's popularity is unquestionable, and book clubs devoted to them are forming at a rapid pace. But fantasy and science fiction are wide-ranging genres and fans have very different tastes. How do you build a group that will satisfy them all?
Neil Hollands is an MLS-degreed librarian working at Williamsburg Regional Library in Williamsburg, VA. His published works include Libraries Unlimited's Read On...Fantasy Fiction.
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