The Freebird Brooklyn Post-Apocalyptic Book Club February/March Meetup

Valentine's Day will be the one year anniversary of the Freebird Brooklyn Post-Apocalyptic Book Club, so to mark the occasion we will postpone the next actual discussion to March (to give a little more time to read the book) and pause to watch a couple of post-apoc themed short films on February. More info to come. But let's just say they involve the Dewey Decimal system.

March's discussion will be Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake. Told from the perspective of the world's last human survivor, it recounts civilization's final days when an obsessed scientist (named Crake) genetically engineers hybrid animals and docile humanoids to replace earth's warring population. As much a commentary on technology run rampant as a satire of our own commodified culture, Oryx and Crake raises intriguing questions about science's ethics.

Directions: Bergen stop of the F train--approx. 8 blocks to the waterfront (http://www.freebirdbo.... The B61 bus also stops directly in front of the store.

Book discussions take place at the store (on the Brooklyn waterfront of Cobble Hill/Red Hook) at 7:30 pm.

Monthly meetings will revolve around a particular post-apocalyptic theme (nuclear annihilation, ecological catastrophe, pestilence, alien invasion...you get the idea).