Friday 10th February
Quiz

It’s Quiz time again. Always in February due to the expected bad weather
and the risk of speakers being unable to get to Brum – or worse still, the members being unable to get into the city centre. Again, we’ve invited members of the Birmingham University SF Society.

It’s a Pub Quiz style event with several teams competing for honours and
prizes. Questions are set by last year's winning team and will cover books, magazines, artwork, films, TV, radio, etc. so everyone has a chance of winning.

Next month
Friday 9th March
Christopher Priest

Chris Priest should need no introduction to most Brum Group members having visited us and given a talk on several occasions over the years. Newer members who have not had the pleasure of hearing Chris talk however, should already be aware of his work. From his early novels - the award-winning INVERTED WORLD and his homage to H G Wells, THE SPACE MACHINE through the 'middle-period' novels A DREAM OF WESSEX and THE AFFIRMATION to his recent classics, THE PRESTIGE and THE SEPARATION, all his work is of the very highest standard. Whether much of his work should be classed as SF is debatable. Chris has often said that he does not consider himself to be an SF author. But whether one classes his work as SF or not, there is little argument about the incredibly high quality of his writing.
His latest work is THE ISLANDERS a novel of wonders, horrors and tunnels.

More recently there is an announcement of a new Hollywood movie "It’s the story of two stage magicians, and it tells what happens when …". No it's not THE PRESTIGE all over again, this is taken from a short story called "The Stooge" written for a bank's training programme.