[bksvol-discuss] Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club, Thursday, August 13, 2009
- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bob Acosta" <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <scifi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:33:12 -0400
The next meeting of the Science Fiction club will be held on Thursday, August
13, 2009 in the Book Nook at:
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 Sphere by Michael Crichton. The Bookshare copy,
available at:
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6478/Sphere%20?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9rZXl3b3JkPXNwaGVyZSY%3D
has neither a short nor a long synopsis, but it is listed as being of Excellent
quality. (I don't think the book actually has 977 pages though.)
You can also get it from NLS, either as a digital download at:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.25998
or on tape with number RC 25998. (The book is on three cassettes, actually 9
sides, 11 hours 58 minutes, which is why I think the Bookshare page count must
be off.)
The NLS annotation reads:
Thriller about a team of scientists who are brought to the South Pacific to
investigate a huge spaceship resting on the ocean floor. Inside the ship, which
bears evidence of being a future artifact that traveled back in
time after a confrontation with a black hole, the scientists find a metallic
sphere. As time passes, bizarre events occur, and then one by one the
scientists begin to be murdered.
Here's a review from School Library Journal taken from Amazon:
YA As in Crichton's Andromeda Strain (Knopf, 1969), the focus of this science
adventure tale is humankind's encounter with an alien life form. Within a space
ship lying on the sea bottom is a mysterious sphere that promises each of the
main characters some personal reward: military might, professional prestige,
power, understanding.
Trapped underwater with the sphere, the humans confront eerie and increasingly
dangerous threats after communication with the alien object has been achieved.
The story is exciting and loaded with scientific and psychological speculations
that add interest at no cost to the action, including an intriguing sequence in
which human and computer attempt to decode the alien communication. As the
story races to an end, suspicions
of evil-doing fall as many ways as in a detective novel. Young adults should
find this book both accessible and satisfying.
Sounds like a lot of fun. So come over and join us next month.
Evan
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