[bookshare-discuss] Re: Confluence Trilogy
- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:04:55 -0500
No, NLS doesn't have those. They've got several others by him, but not the
Confluence trilogy. However, Bookshare does have them in one volume:
Child of the River, Ancients of Days, Shrine of Stars
It says Excellent quality, but they were added back in April of 2002, so I'm
skeptical. Still, I should check them out and see what kind of shape they're
in. I'll bet I'll want to rescan them, though, once I have a look at them.
Evan
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From: Kim Friedman
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 2:43 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Confluence Trilogy
It sounds good to me also. I wonder if Bookshare has the trilogy in the
collection. I think it may be in the NLS program but haven't made a concerted
effort to find it. Regards, Kim.
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From: EVAN REESE [mailto:mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:19 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Confluence Trilogy
Nope, haven't read the Confluence trilogy. From what I've heard of it,
though, it really does sound quite good.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Kim Friedman
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 4:41 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club,
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Hi, Evan, I read an excerpt of this in Asimov's sf and I liked it better
than William Barton's stuff. Are you familiar with Paul McAuley's Confluence
trilogy or with Kim Newman. This last isn't a sf writer but I read a couple of
stories by him in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Other authors I've come
to like are Andy Duncan and there was a fantasy story by Jay Lake I took a
fancy to. Regards, Kim.
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From: EVAN REESE [mailto:mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:35 PM
To: scifi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
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Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club,
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Hi All,
A great time was had by all at this evening's meeting of the Science
Fiction Club.
Our next meeting will be on Thursday, April 8, 2010.
Time: 9 PM Eastern, 8 Central, 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific.
Place, Book Nook at:
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e
This month, we're reading an ambitious first novel called:
Singularity's Ring
by Paul Melko
Available for download from both Bookshare and BARD.
The BARD link is:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.68913
The Bookshare link is at:
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/93355?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9rZXl3b3JkPSZxdW90O3Npbmd1bGFyaXR5J3MgcmluZyZxdW90OyY%3D
The book is listed as being of Excellent quality.
Here are some synopses from Bookshare and Amazon.
Bookshare Long Synopsis:
The debut novel from an exciting new voice in SF about what happens after
ninety
percent of humanity leaves Earth. There is an artificial ring around the
Earth and it is
empty after the Singularity. Either all the millions of inhabitants are
dead, or
they have been transformed into energy beings beyond human perception.
Earth's population
was reduced by ninety percent. Human civilization on Earth is now
recovering from
this trauma and even has a vigorous space program. Apollo Papadopulos is in
training
to become the captain of the starship Consensus. Apollo is a unique
individual in
that he/she/it is not an individual at all, but five separate teenagers who
form
a new entity. Strom, Meda, Quant, Manuel, and Moira are a pod, as these
kinds of
personalities are called, genetically engineered to work as one and to be
able to
communicate non-verbally. As a rare quintet, much relies on the successful
training
of Apollo, but as more accidents occur, the pod members struggle just to
survive.
From Publishers Weekly
This superior debut initially resembles a straightforward YA adventure but
abruptly
veers into much stranger territory. Various factions struggle for control
of the
Ring, a colossal space station built around Earth by engineers who turned
most of
humankind into a group mind called the Community, which promptly figured
out how
to access other realities and vanished from this one. The few remaining
humans genetically
engineer their children to form pods of individuals so closely bonded that
they function
as one person. After stumbling on secret research during a training
exercise, the
teenage pod called Apollo Papadopulos soon find themselves on the run from
shadowy
forces who want to seduce or kill them. The setting extends from Earth
orbit to the
Amazon jungle, and the action ranges from a tense space rescue to an almost
idyllic
trek through the Rockies with a family of genetically altered bears. Though
some
loose plot ends dangle a bit, the ingenious character development and
startling images
and ideas are deeply satisfying.
From Booklist
Earth is surrounded by an artificial ring, former home of the
human-cybernetic Community,
which vanished in the Singularity, years after which multiple person Apollo
Popadopulos
(a pod of five individuals) is one of several competitively training to
captain the
starship Consensus to search for the vanished preponderance of humanity.
Training
is arduous, and returning to Mother Redd�s farm to await assignment proves
harder.
Apollo meets Malcolm Leto, recently removed from stasis, who was once part
of the
Community. As Apollo falls victim to more and more accidents, and Leto
schemes to
bring back the Community, harsh truths come to light about Apollo�s origins
and the
bleak reality of the Community�s disappearance. Melko�s world is a
fascinating one,
in which single humans are increasingly rare, pods like Apollo are the
norm, and
the Singularity did not necessarily improve the human condition. This
strong first
novel boasts engaging characters and tight, fast-paced action sustained
through some
acrobatic plot stunts. --Regina Schroeder
I read a piece of an early part of this novel in Asimov's a couple years
ago, and I thought it was
excellent. It still sticks in my memory, unlike most of what I read that
far back.
There's likely to be plenty of Sense of Wonder in this novel, something the
Science Fiction genre is uniquely suited to provide. I hope lots of people will
read and enjoy it, and come to talk about it at the next meeting.
Evan
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