[bookshare-discuss] THE SCIFI GROUP DISCUSSION IS NOW ARCHIVED.

From: "Bob Acosta" <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bob Acosta" <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:58:10 -0700

ACCESSIBLE WORLD SCIENCE FICTION DISCUSSION GROUP PRESENTS INFINITY BEACH
has
been posted to the Science Fiction Discussion Group Archives and can also be
found on the front page of http://accessibleworld.org/ under the "Recent
Content" heading.

The link to the full description of the archive is below:
http://accessibleworld.org/content/accessible-world-science-fiction-discussion-group-presents-infinity-beach

The link to download the file is below:
http://accessibleworld.org/sites/default/files/science-fiction-club-04-12-12-meeting.mp3

Science Fiction Discussion Group description:

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.

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

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

J. R. Westmoreland, Group Facilitator
Email: jr@xxxxxxx

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