[bookshare-discuss] Re: Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club, Thursday, April 12, 2012
- From: Lelia Struve <leliastruve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:26:20 -0400
hey all, here is Evans copy of the email he sent after the last meeting.
Original message:
Hello Folks,
We had an excellent turnout at last night's meeting. Everyone who read
it liked our book, Star Soldiers by Andre Norton.
Our book for the next meeting deals with one of the most important
questions there is: Are we alone in the universe? For next month, we'll
be reading Infinity Beach, by Jack McDevitt.
The next meeting of the Science Fiction club will be on Thursday, April
12, 2012.
Place, Book Nook at:
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e
<http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e>
Time: 9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific, and 24:00 UTC.
Infinity Beach is available from NLS web braille, and as a Publisher
Quality book direct from HarperCollins on Bookshare at:
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/356085
<http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/356085>
Here's the NLS synopsis:
People living on the Nine Worlds, and on the
starships keeping them connected, believe they are the only
life in the universe. Searching for her clone/sister (who
disappeared on a space mission twenty-seven years ago),
scientist Kim Brandywine discovers they may not be alone
after all. Strong language. 2000.
And here is the long synopsis from Bookshare's version:
We are alone. That is the verdict, after centuries of Search for
Extra-Terrestrial
Intelligence missions and space exploration. The only living things in
the Universe
are found on the Nine Worlds settled from Earth, and the starships that
knit them
together. Or so it's believed, until Dr. Kimberly Brandywine sets out
to find what
happened to her clone-sister Emily, who, after the final, unsuccessful
manned SETI
expedition, disappeared along with the rest of her ship's
crew.Following a few ominous
clues, Kim discovers the ship's log was faked. Something happened out
there in the
darkness between the stars, and she's prepared to go to any length to
find answers.
Even if it means giving up her career...stealing a starship...losing
her lover. Kim
is about to discover the truth about her sister -- and about more than
she ever dared
imagine.
Finally, here's a short review from Publishers Weekly taken from the
Amazon page for this book:
HA thousand years in the future, on the terraformed planet Greenaway,
humanity has
everything to make itself comfortable and complacent--longevity,
leisure and luxury
are all readily available. But one question remains: Is humanity alone
in the universe?
Kimberly Brandywine doesn't necessarily believe in aliens, until she
hears that her
missing elder "sister," of whom she's a clone, may have been murdered,
along with
some crewmates, by celestial beings after a voyage aboard a space
yacht. Her sister/clone's
disappearance has long haunted Kim, whose search for the truth takes
her underwater
and into space, loses her a lover and causes her to commit crimes
(including stealing
a spaceship). Kim's efforts to solve the mystery of the vanishing and
to make first
contact with the aliens presumably behind it are hampered by the
general malaise
society has sunk into. And since death appears to follow in the wake of
the aliens,
Kim wavers about whether first contact will be beneficial or will
destroy civilization
as she knows it. McDevitt (Eternity Road) has created a future that is
technologically
sound and filled with hubristic, foolish people who make choices based
more on how
they will look to history than on what's best for it. Though his aliens
are insubstantial
(both physically and on the page), the mystery of what happened to
Kim's sister and
her fellow celestial seekers unfolds as precisely as an origami flower,
and will
hold readers in thrall.
Hope to see lots of people at the next meeting to talk about this
exciting tale.
Evan
--
Lelia
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