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Club members have one month to read the book the group has agreed on. We hope to be back with you as soon as possible and celebrate our. Please note there may be other humans there who arent part of us. With their typical brilliance in style, penguin embraces all the good, the bad and the comically ugly in traditional scifi design with their science fiction series. I have two cardinal rules in selecting the best book club books. The science fiction book club, london, united kingdom.
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