Join Varsha, Dan, Steve, Chris and Jarrod to wrap up the discussions of the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. This has been an incredible journey. The group discusses the final quarter of the third book Acceptance and some Chris has a questionnaire for us to answer with our closing thoughts about the series! The short story for today is The Comet by W.E.B Du Bois

Join Varsha, Jarrod, Chris and Steve to discuss the third quarter of Acceptance. This discussion takes us through Ch. 19 of the third book of the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer.

Varsha, Chris and Jarrod discuss Chapters 16-22 of Authority by Jeff Vandermeer - the second book of the Southern Reach series. Many secrets are revealed and yet many more questions remain unanswered. Join us as we speculate about all the unknowns and gush about the reveals that we encountered in this section.

The short story for this discussion is The Triumph of Mechanics by Karl Hans Strobl. This is the third short story from the collection "The Big Book of Science Fiction" edited by Jeff and Ann Vandermeer.

In this episode we continue our speculations about what the heck is going on with Area X by discussing Chapters 6-15 of Authority - the second book of the Southern Reach Series by Jeff Vandermeer. Our short story pick for the day is Sultana's Dream by Rokheya Shekhawat Hossein

Sultana's Dream is available online at https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/sultana/dream/dream.html

Next week we'll continue on with Authority and read up chapter 22. The short story for next week is The Triumph of Mechanics by Karl Hans Strobl

Join Dan, Chris, Jarrod, Varsha and Steve to discuss Chapters 1-5 of Authority - the second book of the Southern Reach series by Jeff Vandermeer. Our short story selection for today is The Star by H.G. Wells. The short story can be found at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67071

The short story for next week will be Sultana's Dream by Rokheya Shekhawat Hossain. This story is available online at https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/sultana/dream/dream.html

In this episode we wrap up not one but two books with our discussion of Ch. 5 of Annihilation, and the short story Liking What you See: A Documentary by Ted Chiang from the short story collection Stories of Your Life and Others. Starting next week, we'll be discussing the second book of the Souther Reach Trilogy - Authority by Jeff Vandermeer, and continuing on with our exploration of Sci Fi short stories with short stories from the collection "The Big Book of Science Fiction". The collection has incidentally been edited by Jeff and Ann Vandermeer :)

The short story for next week is The Star by H.G. Wells. If you'd like to read and follow along with our discussion, it can be obtained for free online at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67071