[bksvol-discuss] Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club, Thursday, March 14, 2013
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Bob Acosta" <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "SF list" <scifi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:32:14 -0500
Hello Folks,
We had a fairly small turnout at our most recent meeting, with most of us
liking our book, Strange Attractors by Jeffrey A. Carver. For our next book, we
return to Earth for a tale of what might be a distinctly possible not too
distant future. We'll be reading Nexus by Ramez Naam.
The next meeting of the Science Fiction club will be on Thursday, March 14,
2013.
Time: 9 PM Eastern 8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific, and 02:00 UTC.
Place, Book Nook at:
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e
Our book Nexus by Ramez Naam, is available from Bookshare in Publisher Quality
at:
https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/591667
Here's the long synopsis:
Mankind gets an upgradeIn the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can
link
humans together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are
some
who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it.When
a
young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he's thrust over his head into a
world
of danger and international espionage - for there is far more at stake than
anyone
realizes.From the halls of academe to the halls of power, from the headquarters
of
an elite US agency in Washington DC to a secret lab beneath a top university in
Shanghai,
from the underground parties of San Francisco to the illegal biotech markets of
Bangkok,
from an international neuroscience conference to a remote monastery in the
mountains
of Thailand - Nexus is a thrill ride through a future on the brink of explosion.
Here's a bit about the author from Wikipedia:
Ramez Naam was born in Cairo, Egypt, and came to the US at the age of 3. He's a
computer
scientist who spent 13 years at Microsoft, leading teams working on email, web
browsing,
search, and artificial intelligence. He holds almost 20 patents in those areas.
Ramez is the winner of the 2005 H.G. Wells Award for his non-fiction book More
Than
Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement. He's worked as a life
guard,
has climbed mountains, backpacked through remote corners of China, and ridden
his
bicycle down hundreds of miles of the Vietnam coast. He lives in Seattle, where
he
writes and speaks full time.
A lot of people like Nexus. On Amazon, with 128 reviews currently, 101 gave it
five stars, and 26 gave it four stars. Hope to get a large group at our next
meeting to talk about what is likely to be a very exciting and thought
provoking book examining some questions that are not all that far off in our
future.
Evan
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