Sci-Fi / Fantasy Discussion Group

Genesis, a novel by Ken Lozito

When

08/19/2026

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Event Type

At the August 19, 2026 meeting, we’ll discuss the novel Genesis (2017) by Ken Lozito [Book 1 of 20 in the First Colony Series] (328 pages, audio 9 hrs, 6 mins)

From Goodreads:

*A mission gone wrong. Innocent lives have been lost.

Escaping wrongful imprisonment wasn’t something Connor had in mind, but being put into stasis aboard Earth’s first interstellar colony ship was something he couldn’t have prepared for.

For three hundred thousand colonists, the new colony brings the promise of a fresh start…a second chance. Connor might be the wrong man for the colony, but he’s the right man to see that it survives what’s coming.

available in Apple, Amazon, Audible, and Spotify

At the end of the meeting, we will choose a book for our October 21st meeting.

September 15, 2026, 7-8:30

We’ll discuss the 2023 movie “Relax, I’m from the Future” (1 hr, 32 mins)

From Rotten Tomatoes:

*Relax, I’m From the Future is the feature debut of writer/director Luke Higginson, and is based on his TIFF-featured 2013 short film of the same name. Self-described as a “dirtbag time travel comedy”, Relax stars the comedic absurdist genius, Rhys Darby. Darby leads as the stuck-in-the-past protagonist but in this case, his “past” is present-day Toronto.

available in libraries, Hoopla, and Amazon.

At the end of the meeting, we will choose a movie for our November 18 meeting.

The Sci-Fi and Fantasy Discussion Group was meeting via Zoom before it was cool! Lovers of science fiction and fantasy, at UUCPA and beyond, have been getting together online to talk about books, movies, and television episodes chosen by the group, every other month since early 2019. Past books include The Broken Earth Trilogy (N. K. Jemisin), The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Robert Heinlein), Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler), The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin), Red Moon (Kim Stanley Robinson); past television and movies include Arrival, Blink (Doctor Who), Serenity and The Train Job (Firefly), and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

The meeting method: via Zoom, 7-8:30 p.m.