The January meeting will be held on the first Friday, January 6th, 2012 at 8pm. We will meet at the COSine hotel - Colorado Springs Crowne Plaza - in the Executive Boardroom on the third floor. Our discussion topic will be Family Trade by Charlie Stross, our COSine guest of honor.

It will be held on the second Friday, February 10th, 2012 at 8pm. Expect an extended business meeting as we debrief from COSine. New officers will take their positions at this meeting. A new refreshment committee and book committee will be appointed. Our discussion topic will be Kenneth Oppel's debut steampunk novel Airborn from 2004.

The March meeting will be held on the first Friday, March 2nd, 2012 at 8pm. We will discuss C.S. Lewis' classic SF novel Out of the Silent Planet from 1938.

The April meeting will be held on the THIRD Friday, April 20th, 2012 at 8pm. Moving back into the 21st century we will read Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. The movie will be out on 23 March so we should have an interesting discussion of the difference in the two media and whether it's better to read the book first or see the movie first.

The May meeting will be held on the first Friday, May 4th, 2012 at 8pm. Moving 80 years back in time from last month's book, we will discuss E.E. "Doc" Smith's 1928 novel, Skylark of Space. T

The June meeting will be held on the first Friday, June 1st, 2012 at 8pm. We will read The Demolished Man written in 1951 by Alfred Bester. Bester's The Stars My Destination was the first book our club read back in 1995 when we began our book discussions. Hailed as one of the best classic SF writers, Bester wrote only these two SF novels - preferring the more lucrative creation of screenplays and mainstream magazine articles.

The July meeting will be held on the first Friday, July 6th, 2012. Moving back to the 21st century, we will read The Windup Girl by Colorado author Paolo Bacigalupi. Our annual Fourth of July barbeque will preceed the meeting and book discussion. Festivities will start at 4pm. Please contact the refreshment committee about what you would like to bring. The club will provide the usual hot dogs, brats, hamburgers, buns, and soda.

The August meeting, even though the month begins with an "A", will be on the first Friday - August 3rd, 2012 at 8pm. Our discussion topic will be This Immortal by Roger Zelazny. We asked Kent Bloom to name a novel he liked, since he consistently dislikes everything we read, and this was his choice. The original magazine publication was in two parts, and in an abridged form, as "Call Me Conrad". This Immortal tied with Dune for the 1966 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

The September meeting will be held on the first Friday, September 7th, 2012 at 8pm. We will read The Warlock in Spite of Himself by Christopher Stasheff, an old favorite suggested by Mary and Terry.

The October meeting will be held on the first Friday, October 5th, 2012 at 8pm. We will continue our 1960s theme with two books by SF master H. Beam Piper, Little Fuzzy and Fuzzy Sapiens. Sequels to the Fuzzy stories were written by William Tuning (Fuzzy Bones, 1981) and Ardath Mayhar (Golden Dreams, 1982) before Piper's own final Fuzzy book, Fuzzies and Other People, was found and published posthumously in 1984.

The November meeting will be held on the first Friday, November 2nd, 2012 at 8pm. We will read Thirteenth Child, a 2009 fantasy novel by Patricia Wrede.

April, August, and ah-December are the months when we typically have first Friday conflicts and so schedule around the first Friday. Our December meeting will be held on the SECOND Friday - December 14th, 2012 at 8pm. This will be our third year of having an SF movie and pizza night. Our film will be Blade Runner - and we also read Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep on which the movie was based.