For my part I know nothing with any certainty,
but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
~Vincent Van Gogh
It never fails. Like clockwork, the cold December evenings and the enormous presence of the constellation Orion in the winter night skies ignite within me the desire to return to my literary first love, Science Fiction. Last year at this time I described it thus:
“Science Fiction as a genre and the art of reading have been inextricably linked together as far back as my earliest solo reading memories. It is a bond that the passage of time and my own growth as a reader has not severed. In fact it is quite the opposite. As my length of days stretch out before me I find the ties to my own past growing ever more strong and ever more important.”
The awareness of this phenomenon in my own life caused me to wonder if perhaps others had similar feelings about the science fiction genre and so I personally declared the first two months of the new year the time for The Sci Fi Experience 2008 and encouraged others to read and share their love of science fiction. That Experience spawned what was arguably the greatest single month of reading that I have ever had in my life (something I will share more about in my forthcoming Year in Review post). I enjoyed this experience so much that I want to share it with you again.
And so with great pleasure I announce The Sci Fi Experience 2009, which will run from January 1st through February 28th, 2009.
