[bksvol-discuss] Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club, Thursday, July 12, 2012

From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bob Acosta" <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "SF list" <scifi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:55:51 -0400

Hello Folks,

Another good showing at our most recent meeting, and while not everyone liked 
it equally, we all thought that our book, Virus on Orbis 1 by PJ. Haarsma was 
at least okay. For next month, we honor the memory of one of the greats who 
passed away recently, Ray Bradbury, as we read The Illustrated Man.

The next meeting of the Science Fiction club will be on Thursday, July 12, 2012.

Place, Book Nook at:

http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e

Time: 9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific, and 1:00 UTC.

Our next book, The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, is available from both BARD 
and Bookshare. The BARD link is at:

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.21322

and the Bookshare version is at:

https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/13895

Here's the BARD synopsis:

Science fiction short stories on rocket travel, escape to the past, dreams, 
hypnotism, and numerous other subjects.

And here's an Amazon.com review:

That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is 
fair
testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second 
collection
(the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into
The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science 
fiction, fantasy, and horror.
In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself 
as
a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body 
is
a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly
disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each 
proceeds
to unfold its own story, such as "The Veldt," wherein rowdy children take a game
of virtual reality way over the edge. Or "Kaleidoscope," a heartbreaking 
portrait
of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the benefit of a
spaceship. Or "Zero Hour," in which invading aliens have discovered a most 
logical
ally--our own children. Even though most were written in the 1940s and 1950s, 
these
18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now.

Come join us next month to talk about this one and remember Ray Bradbury.

Evan

[bksvol-discuss] Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club, Thursday, July 12, 2012

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