GYRO 2021 SCHEDULE

 2021 Library List

January (4 Mondays)

“Dark Bright Water, The” by Patricia Wrightson

continued from December 2020

February (4 Mondays)

“Into the Green” by Chas DeLint

Wander among ancient oaks, moonlight and magic to discover the Summerblood in you.

March (5 Mondays)

“Leviathan” by Scott Westerfield (book 1 of the Leviathan trilogy)

A steampunk World War II with an uneasy friendship between a girl disguised as a Darwinist airman and a Clanker prince disguised as a commoner.

April (4 Mondays)

“Mote in God's Eye” by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

A ‘manned’ alien probe sparks an investigation of an ancient race who could enhance or destroy humanity if they ever got loose.

May (5 Mondays)

“Saturn Ruhk” by Robert L. Forward

‘Living Large’ is more than a phrase to astronauts investigating natural resources in the admosphere of Saturn.

June (4 Mondays)

“Behemoth” by Scott Westerfield (book 2 of the Leviathan trilogy)

Alliances and Secrets abound during the continuation of a steampunk WWII

July (4 Mondays)

“Weigher, The” by Eric Vinicoff & Marcia Martin

A small town judge finds her world turned upside down by a pair of (human) aliens and their suggestions for improving local society.

August (5 Mondays)

“Goliath” by Scott Westerfield (book 3 of the Leviathan trilogy)

Nicola Tesla unleashes his technology in an effort to bring an end to the war.

September (4 Mondays)

“”Mocking Program, The” by Alan Dean Foster

In a cyberpunk future, a cop becomes involved in a hunt for a criminal and a young girl who may have all of the criminal’s secrets encrypted in her mind.

October (4 Mondays)

“Watchstar” by

People are born, face ordeals, grow up and die to become part of the Merging God. That’s how it’s always been until a girl facing her ordeal meets a human boy from the stars.

November

“The Stone God Awakens” (by Philip Jose Farmer) total pages 281

    Ulysses Singing Bear a modern Native American suddenly wakes to find himself on a throne, worshipped and fought over by tribes of humanoid cats and dogs.  He learns how he'd slept as a stone figure for eons and now tries to deal with a bizarre world of the future.

December (4 Mondays)

(assorted short stories)

6th -- 20th
A two part story, "A Few Miles" and "Prometheus" by Philip José Farmer in the anthology, "Down in the Black Gang."
Brer (brother) John is a lay brother at a monastary.  He is told that he must go to a monastary on the planet Wildnwooly.  No provisions are given him so he walks to the spaceport.  It's only a few miles; what could go wrong?

27th
"Touching Faith" by Alexander B. Potter in the anthology, "Children of Magic."
Evan, a 'slow' but intelligent elementary school boy discovers an unusual ability and wonders what he can do with it.

Tomorrow, Dec 27th I'll start

Winds at Starmont, The by Terry Carr

This will conclude Jan 3rd

I'll have the 2022 story layout for you some time this weekl
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