This month, we want to discuss two things:
(i) The 2026 Hugo Award for best novel:
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters – but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten. Centuries later, Owen Mallory – failed soldier, struggling scholar – falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives, and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs. But that story always ends the same way.
We invite people to read the novel for more discussion.
and (ii) what is your favourite adaptation of a story to another medium?
The October 21st meeting is at 6:30 at the Minor Works Building
(entry via path between 50 and 52 Sturt Street)
Critical Mass Oct 21, 2026 6:30pm Adelaide, 7pm Melbourne
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