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
<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 <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
