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The infos for the book of the month are usually gathered by Johannes, and everyone is welcome to add their opinion as a comment on these postings. But there’s also the “Other Books” category where you can write about other books you like. If you want to do that, you need an account on this site. Just ask Johannes at the next meeting or use the contact form.

Used Images

Two photos from Flickr were used for the front page (alternating each month): The dragon is by wili_hybrid and shows a statue in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The UFO is by Oldtasty and shows a building in Dalian, China. Both photos are licenced under the Creative Commons licence.

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Book of the Month

Jul 2010: The Caves of Steel

The Science-Fiction book of the month for July 2010 is “The Caves of Steel” by Isaac Asimov (first published in 1954).

Detective Elijah Baley invesitgates the murder of an offworlder in Spacetown. In the opinion of the Spacers, the murder is tied up with recent attempts to sabotage the Spacer-sponsored project of converting Earth to an integrated human/robot society on the model of the Outer Worlds. read on…