The April meeting will be held on the first Friday, April 5th, 2013 at 8pm. Our discussion topic will be The Big Time by Fritz Leiber - This short novel won the 1958 Hugo Award, and deals with opposing factions of time travellers engaged in an ongoing war who recruit their soldiers from famous armies throughout history.

The May meeting will be held on the first Friday, May 3rd, 2013 at 8pm. Our discussion topic will be Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi - This is the novel John Scalzi wrote to see if he could manage to write a book. The answer seems to be "yes". It has been published in a variety of formats. An older version is on the web for free at www.scalzi.com/agent, and an updated version has been published by Tor Books. The book deals with a Hollywood agent tasked with representing an alien race.

The June meeting will be held on the first Friday, June 7th, 2013 at 8pm. Our discussion topic will be the stories in the November/December 2012 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine. Copies of this were handed out to attendees of COSine and at the February FFF meeting. If you need one, let us know. This issue features a novella by Robert Reed, a short story by Alan Dean Foster, and many others, totalling about 250 pages total.

The July meeting will be held on the first Friday, July 5th, 2013 at 4pm for our annual 4th of July picnic. Our discussion topic will be The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth, a story of an advertising copy-writer in an overpopulated near-future world where the corporations dominate society. At this meeting we will also discuss the future of the COSine science fiction convention. We need more people to commit to help run the convention if we plan to continue in 2015.

The August meeting will be held on the first Friday, August 2nd, 2013 at 8pm. Our discussion topic will be Troubled Waters by Sharon Shinn - The story of a woman who begins to find herself after the death of her father, and a world in which the blessings of the elements have real power.

The September meeting will be held on the first Friday, September 6th, 2013 at 8pm. Our discussion topic will be Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - A novel about four teenagers in San Francisco who, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on San Francisco, defend themselves against the Department of Homeland Security's attacks on the Bill of Rights. It won the John W. Campbell award in 2009, and was a finalist for the best novel Hugo Award. The book is available for free on the author's website and through the Gutenberg free library