This Evening

This evening, when I enter the Gregson Centre (and see image) to attend our small sf group, Kevin will be catching up with this blog on his mobile, having forgotten to look at it since last month. John will arrive late from farm work and will tell us about current super-hero films.

I will have taken along my newly acquired copy of SM Stirling's The Desert And The Blade and will recommend Stirling's alternative history fiction. None of us will drink much, if any, alcohol. We will arrange to meet again probably on the third Wednesday of next month. A meal at another venue, also involving our respective wives, might be discussed.

I will not need to tell them about the richness of the Time Patrol texts because they have heard all that before. Kevin and I first met at the inaugural meeting of an sf society on 4 November, 1976. John joined us much later from a comics group. Our group is called "Englishmen" for a very obscure reason. The greeting, if I ever remember to use it, is "England prevails," taken from Alan Moore's V for Vendetta. See here. For a short while, we were a Prisoner (also here) and sf group.