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Hello, and welcome to Alpha Book Club! If this is your first time joining us, you’re in for a real treat. Alpha Book Club is, as the title suggests, an interactive book club hosted by Nerdist Editor-in-Chief Rachel Heine (that’s me!), host of the Nick Animation Podcast and many of Geek & Sundry‘s Twitch shows, Hector Navarro, and from SourceFedNERD and GeekBomb, the incomparable Maude Garrett. Every Wednesday at 6:15pm PST, we gather together online with our fellow bookworms to discuss a section of that month’s chosen book.

Like any good book club, ABC features rousing discussion about characters, themes, tone, and style, fan casting or comparing potential film adaptations, questions from the audience, and of course, copious amounts of wine. Usually, you can only watch Alpha Book Club by signing up to be an Alpha member, but for the entire month of February, we’re bringing you our latest book, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, for free on the Nerdist YouTube channel!

If you’re just joining us for the first time, never fear! You can watch the first two episodes right here:

Now that you’ve caught up, you can watch our third discussion of the month up above, where we discuss some exciting book news (Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is getting a companion series!), debate the arrogance and cruelty of humanity, show off our best “ugly faces,” and of course, wax poetic about the power of storytelling.

Join us this week to finish Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy AND select our next book for March! Vote below and our selection will be announced at the end of Wednesday’s show.

It's time to vote for next month's #AlphaBookClub read!

Introducing the #AlienCovenant crew. Don’t miss @LegionFX on @FXNetworks tomorrow, February 22, for a special sneak peek. pic.twitter.com/PvhQmkVlKc

— 20th Century Fox (@20thcenturyfox) February 21, 2017

First, we saw the whole gang from the upcoming Han Solo movie earlier today, and now we have the cast of Alien: Covenant, gathered together on their ship and looking as happy as we’re sure they won’t be in the film. (via Birth. Movies. Death.)

• Dwayne McDuffie’s frequent collaborator Matt Wayne was set to write a tribute to the late comics professional in the program book for this year’s SDCC. Instead, it will not be running, because Comic-Con apparently can’t handle honesty about the flaws in the comics industry. You can read Wayne’s full tribute over at The Nerdy Bird.
• Seth Myers has missed Jordan Peele’s Barack Obama impression, especially in light of current political goings-on, and so have we. Peele indulged him on Late Night.
• Game of Thrones‘ Iwan Rheon will be starring in the upcoming Marvel Inhumans series on ABC as the show’s lead, Maximus. (via The Hollywood Reporter)
• Lastly, here are this year’s nominees for the Nebula Awards from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America! (via io9)

What have you seen out there today?

(featured image via 20th Century Fox)

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