The next meeting of the Edinburgh SF Book Group will take place on Tuesday the 4th of October at 6pm in Henderson’s 94 Hanover Street (the very tasty wholefood and veggie restaurant/café) in the New Town. The book under discussion in October will be V For Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd.
This once futuristic tale (set in a time period that is now past) may have been written at the height of the greedy, Thatcherite/Reaganite 80s with the omnipresent Cold War background, but although it does retain some flavours of the period it was created in, V For Vendetta remains a work about politics, repression and freedom which are as relevant as ever; perhaps even more relevant given our troubled present times, the use of violence for political/ideological ends and restrictions on liberties.
Soon to be a motion picture, the film has been dogged by problems; the leading man being replaced shortly after shooting commenced, co-creator Alan Moore publicly decrying it and severing his association with it (and indeed from DC) and discussion over the possible ‘dilution’ of some scenes where Codename V attacks the fascist state which controls this dystopian Britain because of their similarities to ‘terrorist’ attacks.
Is Codename V a terrorist? An Anarchist? A freedom Fighter? Come along and join in the discussion – all are welcome. The Edinburgh SF Book Group normally meets on the first Tuesday of each month; it covers science fiction, fantasy and graphic novels and has covered books as diverse as Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon, R L Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Neil Gaiman’s Sandman – the Doll’s House, Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination to name a few. The books are chosen by the members themselves.
Mon, Sep 19, 2005
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