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SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS OF THE S.F.A.B.C. - Topic Discussion Group

The Topic Discussion Group meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month, 8:00 PM, at Borders Books ∓ Music, 81 Wayne Towne Center Mall (next to the Willowbrook Mall), Wayne, New Jersey (973) 785 - 0037.

(This group previously was meeting at Borders in Paramus, New Jersey, but moved to Wayne in July 1998. The date has changed from the third Tuesday to the fourth Tuesday of the month.)

The group started as a book discussion group in June of 1994 and for a while was our most successful bookstore group. Over the last half of 1995, a number of key people moved away, took night classes, lost interest or became entangled in other matters. In an effort to broaden our base, we changed the focus of the group to a topic format.

We still recommend reading a specific book each month, but use that title as a starting point for a more general topic. This allows people who did not have a chance to read the recommended book to still take part in the discussion. In April of 1996, for example, The Time Machine by H G Wells springboarded a discussion of "Time Travel" that included both the book & movie versions, the Time Patrol series by Poul Anderson, the ChangeWars stories by Fritz Leiber, episodes of Star Trek, the Back to the Future movies, stories by Asimov, Bradbury, and many others.

Carol Smith is the Moderator of the group. Ms. Smith is a member of the New Jersey Science Fiction Society and a past president and newsletter editor of that group.

The following is a list of books (and topics) discussed:









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