Past society events

Well, not quite everything, but certainly the conclusion to several things we started watching this year, but never got around to finishing yet. So we'll be watching the last 3 episodes of The Lost Room and the end of Hitchhikers too.

It'll be the day after the summer ball so everyone will be tired and probably not waking up until after midday. Probably you'll be unsure what to do with yourself. Fear not, for your friends at The Institute For Impure Science (IFIS) have booked a lecture theatre and will be showing you one of the most overlooked trilogies of recent years: Jurassic park, aka jeff Goldbloom vs raptors :D

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

Deep Blue Sea is kind of like Jaws on steroids, featuring Saffron Burrows, Samuel L Jackson and more than two fish.

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

"This time, there's more."

This happens every year on the 25th of May as a tribute to the late Douglas Adams. As a reference to the awesome Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, fans carry with them a towel in his honour. Do you know where your towel is?

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

To boldly go... where some of us may have already gone before!

Fritz Lang's Metropolis is often described as one of the most pioneering science-fiction films. The silent 1927 classic tells the tale of a futuristic art-deco city that is divided between the workers and the city planners, and what happens when the two isolated worlds collide...

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

"Eight strangers find themselves waking up in a strange cube-shaped room with no recollection of how they came to be there. Soon discovering that they're in a strange fourth dimension where our laws of physics don't apply, they have to unravel the secrets of the "hypercube" in order to survive... "

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

The three hour miniseries that re-booted Battlestar Galactica from a slightly embarrassing, very low budget series to an Emmy award-winning masterpiece that the Guardian described as "a series that's as passionate and intelligent as The West Wing when debating war and terrorism, or as emotionally articulate about death, loss and love as Six Feet Under, or as trippy, mystical and deliciously baffling as Twin Peaks."

A special day for all Star Wars fans - May the Fourth be with you!

Star Wars day is every year on the 4th of May. It is derived from a pun on the Jedi phrase "May the force be with you", namely "May the Fourth be with you".

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

Everyone is invited to bring along some movies and we'll pick something on the night. And then we'll go to Crosslands afterwards.

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

Adam Roberts, who some of you will know as a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), is also a Science Fiction author and he's doing a signing at the Waterstones in Staines.