Hello Folks,
A good turnout at our most recent meeting, with most of us liking our book,
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. For our next book, we’ve chosen a tale of a man
and a woman who work together to save a vanishing alien race, in The Best of
All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord.
The Next meeting of the Science Fiction club will be on Thursday, April 13,
2017.
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 book, The Best of All Possible Worlds, is available both from BARD and in
Publisher Quality from Bookshare.
The BARD version is at:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.82117
The NLS annotation reads:
An alien society finds its homeland destroyed,
and the survivors reach out to the indigenous humanoids of
their adopted world, to whom they are distantly related. A
man and woman from these clashing societies must now work
together to save this vanishing race. 2013
The Bookshare version is at:
https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/611138
The Long Synopsis reads:
... The Best of All Possible Worlds is a stunning
science fiction epic that is also a beautifully wrought, deeply moving love
story.
A proud and reserved alien society finds its homeland destroyed in an unprovoked
act of aggression, and the survivors have no choice but to reach out to the
indigenous
humanoids of their adopted world, to whom they are distantly related. They wish
to
preserve their cherished way of life but come to discover that in order to
preserve
their culture, they may have to change it forever. Now a man and a woman from
these
two clashing societies must work together to save this vanishing race--and end
up
uncovering ancient mysteries with far-reaching ramifications. As their mission
hangs
in the balance, this unlikely team--one cool and cerebral, the other fiery and
impulsive--just
may find in each other their own destinies . . . and a force that transcends
all.
Come join us next month to talk about this book, and anything else SF related.
Evan
