We made it out to Toronado on a rainy sunday, we finally had a quick half-assed discussion of Connie Willis' Doomsday Book, and though it was brief, we had a great discussion of Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl. Once again, it seemed that while everyone had issues with different aspects of the book, over all (and excepting what appears to be a glaring plot hole on Page 201) people really enjoyed the book, and as a debut novel, it was pretty impressive.
I personally recommend people follow up with Bacigalupi by reading his 2004 short story "The People of Sand and Slag."
Also, we decided that our next book would be sci-fi staple The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, by Neal Stephenson, and for a meet up the first Sunday of February, tentatively.
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