First Friday Fandom is a Colorado Springs science fiction fan group. We meet on the (you guessed it) first Friday of every month to discuss science fiction, gossip, and eat brownies. Don't forget the mandatory Heinlein references! We also have run the COSine science fiction convention for 12 years. First Friday Fandom usually meets at 8:00 pm at the home of Kent Bloom and Mary Morman, at 1245 Allegheny Drive, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
First Friday will meet at 8pm on April 6th at 1245 Allegheny Drive.
Our book this month will be Lois McMaster Bujold’s A Civil Campaign. This entertaining novel is part of the Miles Vorkosigan series, but the books can be read out of order if you don’t mind spoilers.
This month we will meet at 8pm at the usual location at 1245 Allegheny Drive. Our book theme for 2018 is humor in science fiction and fantasy.
We’ll be reading William Goldman’s novel that inspired one of the best movies ever – The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure. Goldman took an interesting approach to this book; pretending the story was one told to him by his grandfather, translated from an old Florinese novel written hundreds of years earlier by “S. Morgenstern”. He describes his (fictional) efforts to find the book at rare book sellers. After finally getting a copy and reading it, he realized that his grandfather had been skipping over big swathes of political commentary and asides on historical fashion in order to tell him the “good parts version”. Give it a read!
