Classics

[close] Welcome to Written Gems, a discussion group devoted to the wonderful but often underappreciated works that form the roots of Fantasy and Science Fiction today. This will include such greats as: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lord Dunsany, Robert E. Howard, H.G. Wells, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H.P. Lovecraft, and more—plus the occasional author you may have never read (but will be very glad you did). These authors not only influenced the development of their genres but are still frankly fun to read today. We want to explore these works together and seek out more. To that end, we offer our mandatory mission statement: MISSION STATEMENT Written Gems is a discussion group dedicated to uncovering little-remembered gems of Fantasy and Science Fiction literature which have influenced the genre and our culture. Each month we will explore a new work seeking to understand not only what made it fun in the past, but why it has endured. Most importantly, we want to know what it has to offer for audiences today. To lead us in these discussions, we have three co-moderators, Gilbert M. Stack, William L. Hahn and Chris L. Adams. Each are authors in the field and if you’re interested you can learn more about them in the threads named after them.

[close] Welcome! This is a group where we will read a classic novel each month and discuss what we liked and didn't like about it. Classics are important to our culture and education, and often times they provide a level of enjoyment that modern books cannot. So this group is here to appreciate artwork through out history! -Warren (Starry Night Reader)

[close] This is a group for reading vintage British mysteries from the Golden Age and beyond, including the British Library Crime Classics series. Our group challenge for 2018 is to read the first 12 Inspector Alleyn mysteries by Ngaio Marsh. During 2017 we completed reading all the Miss Marple books by Agatha Christie for our challenge. We also read and discuss books by many other authors from the era, including a few from other countries.

[close] In 2014, Jim, Scott and Rob decided to make an effort to read some classic science fiction that they somehow never read. This followed from Jim's series of facebook posts "Jim reads classic science fiction that's new to me."