One book from each side, read with the other’s eyes.
Each cycle takes one book, or a pair, one from each side: a novel and the paper, the memoir, the textbook chapter it leans on. A writer and a scientist open the conversation; everyone else at the table carries it. Dates are posted here and sent to members.
The WorldCon reading group
The boards, the reading and the dates, kept live and shared from the organisers' desk. The address rotates every few weeks; this door always leads to the current one.
Opening meeting
Date to be announced. The first pairing is chosen at the table.
To be announced
The catalogue of cycles, current and past, is listed here as it is set.
The storytellers and the researchers.
Novelists, poets, essayists and screenwriters who work with science as material; researchers and engineers who read fiction seriously and will say where it gets them wrong, and right; and readers who would rather hear both than either. The salon is a room, not a panel.
A game played on a map of the literature.
Alongside the reading, the salon runs a tabletop exercise. Each player is a nation, a lab or a university in the years before the generative era, pushing research across a map drawn from the field itself, and nobody at the table knows where the decisive discovery lies.
Open the exercise portal
Write to the organisers.
The salon is open to writers, scientists and readers by introduction. Send a line about what you read and what you do.