White Papers

This report, by Drs Danielle Fuller & DeNel Rehberg Sedo, was submitted to the organizing committee of the Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge One Book, One Community programme.

Members of the KWC organizing committee commented that:

"2005 proved to be a very successful year, we made a really radical choice - we selected a work of science fiction, we are the first community to do this. The response was great and what the community discovered is that SF is first and foremost, a literature of ideas."

and

"Our region's OBOC had a really good year ... we went out on a limb and chose a science fiction book and the response was better than we expected. The numbers are still being tallied but we had more readers this year than ever before!!! And we caught a broader range of people, esp. men of all age groups."