Upper Valley Sci-Fi & Fantasy Club

Our May Book Club selection, Count Zero, is the second volume in the visionary Sprawl Trilogy by the Nebula and Hugo award winning author William Gibson.

Count Zero is a work of speculative-fiction that explores the nature of consciousness in a world of hyper-advanced computers in a frighteningly probable parable of the future.

"A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he’s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D—and the biochip he’s perfected—out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties—some of whom aren’t remotely human...."

In our June Book Club selection, The Once And Future King, renowned author T. H. White, winner of the Retro Hugo Award, mingles wisdom, wonderful, laugh-out-loud humor, and deep sorrow—while telling one of the great tales of the Western world.

The Once And Future King is a masterful retelling of the saga of King Arthur is a fantasy classic as legendary as Excalibur and Camelot, and a poignant story of adventure, romance, and magic that has enchanted readers for generations.

"Once upon a time, a young boy called “Wart” was tutored by a magician named Merlyn in preparation for a future he couldn’t possibly imagine. A future in which he would ally himself with the greatest knights, love a legendary queen and unite a country dedicated to chivalrous values. A future that would see him crowned and known for all time as Arthur, King of the Britons.

During Arthur’s reign, the kingdom of Camelot was founded to cast enlightenment on the Dark Ages, while the knights of the Round Table embarked on many a noble quest. But Merlyn foresaw the treachery that awaited his liege: the forbidden love between Queen Guenever and Lancelot, the wicked plots of Arthur’s half-sister Morgause and the hatred she fostered in Mordred that would bring an end to the king’s dreams for Britain—and to the king himself."