[bksvol-discuss] Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club, Thursday, March 11, 2010

From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <scifi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:40:47 -0500

Hi Folks,

The next meeting of the Science Fiction club will be held on Thursday, March 
11, 2010.

Place: Book Nook at:

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

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

This month, we're reading:

Trading In Danger, Vatta's War ; book 1 by Elizabeth Moon.

No Bookshare version of this one.

available for digital download from BARD at:

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.57103

or on tape with number RC 57103.

Here's the NLS synopsis:

Kylara Vatta is expelled from a military academy for a seemingly small 
indiscretion. To rebuild her
self-confidence, her father sends her on a mission to command the 
scrapyard-bound cargo ship Glennys Jones. As captain, she expands the mission 
and finds herself in the middle of a space war. Bestseller. 2003.

Here's a longer synopsis from Amazon:

From School Library Journal
Adult/High School-Ky Vatta has been groomed for a career in her family's 
interstellar shipping empire, but yearns for the life of a military officer. 
Sadly, in her senior year at the Space Academy, she is accused of an 
indiscretion and forced to resign. When she returns home in disgrace, her 
father hands her what she feels to be a demeaning assignment, though it does 
make her a captain: to take an obsolete ship to the scrap yard. But before 
long, the family talent for commerce emerges, and Ky negotiates an independent 
contract to supply a struggling colony with agricultural equipment from a 
nearby planet, hoping to realize sufficient profit to buy and refit her ship. 
The young woman finds herself in the midst of an interplanetary crisis and must 
prove her mettle. In this human future, commerce is the common ground where a 
believable variety of peoples, societies, and religions interact, and integrity 
and intelligence are essential factors in leadership. Entertainingly, Moon 
creates suspense and reveals character as much through contractual negotiations 
as through military action. Some readers might not approve of the author's use 
of shorthand sci-fi conventions to sidestep scientific issues, but for most 
others, the human interest, well-wrought story, humor, and rich world-building 
will more than satisfy. The publisher bills
this first in a series as military science fiction. It could equally be 
described as space opera … la Robert Heinlein, or a family yarn that can please 
fans of Anne McCaffrey's "Rowan" saga (Ace).

Hope to see lots of you at the next meeting.

Evan

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