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• The Group has been going for just over 6 years. Its been a real

journey

• Age range: 17-87 years

• Gender: Good balance of Male/Female

• Diverse mix of people from shift workers, students, parents, retirees

• Averaging 15 people per meeting which is just manageable. The most

we have attend is 21. Anymore requires good crowd control skills

• They prefer to have library involvement and management rather than

self run

• Most are fantasy readers with a real love of DRAGONS!

• A few “geeks” and engineers who love the science fiction aspects

Fantasy and Science Fiction Discussion Group

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• Galaxy Bookshop, Kinokuniya, and Kings Comics: They have

showcased themselves here before at these seminars and they all maintain

good online presence

• Baen.com: Online SF books, short stories, non fiction, free download of

ebooks especially 1st title of a series.

Online Resources

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• Refer to “Who else writes like” on the back for suggested authors

• Newly published material and just arrived in the library

• Use an eye catching picture and produce quarterly material to save time

• This is used as a flyer and poster to maintain consistency.

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• Skyping with Brent Weeks

Value of RA Seminar

• Entranced and fooled by the great storyteller Garth Nix. How many people were fooled into putting their hands up for the gold coin

• Favourite reads came from a recommendation @ RA “Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern

• Committee members past & present – Vas, Ellen, Melanie, Jenn

• Getting to know the liaison person from Kings Comics @ RA

Penrith. It spawned a great relationship which launched trivia nights, book buying days, and comic days

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Trivia nights tie in with the

Graphic Novel collections,

Book Group

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• One of our local

author and Discussion

Group member

submitted a book

review for our monthly

Enewsletter. It

accounted for over

25% of total hits for

the month

• Who would have

guessed it would get

more clicks than

Honourable Justice

Michael Kirby? :)

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Book Group members were more

than willing to show their public

support on Library Lovers Day

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