Hello Folks,
An average turnout at our most recent meeting with two thirds of us liking our
book, Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon. For our next book we’ve chosen a
tale of alien contact on a vast scale in Up the Walls of the World, by James
Tiptree Jr.
The next meeting of the Science Fiction club will be on Thursday, August 11,
2016.
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, Up the Walls of the World is available from Bookshare, and from BARD.
The BARD version is at:
https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB16155
The link to the Bookshare version is at:
https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/777765
Here is the NLS Annotation:
Participants in a secret U.S. military research project on telepathic
powers receive messages from alien beings threatened with destruction. An
interstellar
entity is destroying whole solar systems and appears to be part of a plan to
create
a new mode of existence for aliens and humans alike.
The Bookshare Long Synopsis reads:
James Tiptree Jr. tells a fascinating tale of bizarre aliens and flawed humans
in
the novel "Up the Walls of the World". On Earth, a burned-out doctor leads a
government
project to test a group of highly dysfunctional human telepaths. On the
wind-world
of Tyree, a group of aliens try to stave off the destruction of their sun by a
creature
known as the Destroyer. To save themselves, they could jump into the minds of
the
human psychics, but should they? Should they sacrifice the lives of a few people
to save their own race from destruction? Such moral questions lie at the heart
of
Tiptree's work.
Come join us next month to talk about what sounds like a thought provoking tale
with plenty of sense of wonder, and anything else relating to SF literature.
Evan
