[bksvol-discuss] Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club, Thursday, April 16, 2009
- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <Scifi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:15:02 -0400
The next meeting of the Science Fiction Club will be held on Thursday, April
16, at 9 PM Eastern, 6 PM Pacific in the Friends of Bookshare Community Room at:
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e
We normally have our meetings on the second Thursday of each month, but because
of Passover and Good Friday this year, we've moved the meetting a week ahead.
This month, we are reading Spin by Robert Charles Wilson, available from
Bookshare, Baen Webscriptions and NLS. I borrowed the Publisher's Weekly
Editorial Description from Amazon because the Bookshare short synopsis is
singularly uninformative, and the long synopsis is nonexistent.
This book won a Hugo award for best novel of 2005. The Hugo is given by Science
Fiction fans, so a lot of people liked this book very much. This really is a
good one, folks.
Hope to see a whole bunch of people there.
From Publishers Weekly
One night the stars go out. From that breathtaking "what if," Wilson (Blind
Lake,
etc.) builds an astonishingly successful mélange of SF thriller, growing-up
saga, tender
love story, father-son conflict, ecological parable and apocalyptic fable in
prose
that sings the music of the spheres. The narrative time oscillates effortlessly
between
Tyler Dupree's early adolescence and his near-future young manhood haunted by
the
impending death of the sun and the earth. Tyler's best friends, twins Diane and
Jason
Lawton, take two divergent paths: Diane into a troubling religious cult of the
end,
Jason into impassioned scientific research to discover the nature of the
galactic
Hypotheticals whose "Spin" suddenly sealed Earth in a "cosmic baggie," making
one
of its days equal to a hundred million years in the universe beyond. As
convincing
as Wilson's scientific hypothesizing is--biological, astrophysical, medical--he
excels
even more dramatically with the infinitely intricate, minutely nuanced
relationships
among Jason, Diane and Tyler, whose older self tries to save them both with
medicines
from Mars, terraformed through Jason's genius into an incubator for new
humanity.
This brilliant excursion into the deepest inner and farthest outer spaces offers
doorways into new worlds--if only humankind strives and seeks and finds and will
not yield compassion for our fellow beings.
Evan
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