Hello there all, well, its that time again or almost. Come on this Thursday and join us to talk of this most interesting book or any other Science fiction book your reading or have read. Check out Evans info below for time and place. thanks
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Hello Folks,We had a good showing at our most recent meeting, where we all liked our book, Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo. For our next book, we're on another ship, this time journeying to the edge of the galaxy and perhaps beyond, in Transcendental by James Gunn. The next meeting of the Science Fiction club will be on Thursday, January 9, 2014Place, 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, 6 PM Pacific, and 02:00 UTC.Our book, Transcendental by James Gunn, is available as a digital download from BARD at: https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/77425 <https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/77425>Here is the NLS annotation: Riley joins a group of pilgrims traveling to the outer edges of spaceseeking transcendence. His secret assignment is to uncover the identity of the prophet leading the group, but as he learns his fellow passengers' stories--and developsa relationship with mysterious Asha--his mission grows more complicated.And here's an editorial review from Booklist taken from Amazon's page for this book: *Starred Review* Gunn, whose science fiction novels include the classics Star Bridge (1955) and The Immortals (1962), hasnt published a new title in about eight years, which is too long for a voice as strong as his to remain silent. Considering how good this novel is, readers will probably forgive him his lengthy absence. The story involves a human ex-soldier, Riley, whos coerced into joining an interstellar, multirace pilgrimage in the hopes of identifying the Prophet, the man or, perhaps, the alien being who promises transcendence to another spiritual plane at the end of the long journey. Identify the Prophet, and then kill himthats the plan. But as Riley begins to learn more about his fellow passengers aboard the dilapidated spaceship Geoffrey, he begins to question his mission and his own feelings about transcendence. Very loosely structured like a far-future Canterbury Tales (the ship is named after Chaucer, and individual chapters recount the stories of some of the key characters), with literary allusions to works as varied as T. S. Eliots The Waste Land and Robert Burtons The Anatomy of Melancholy, the novel offers a thoughtful and thought-provoking examination of the delicate nature of personal faith and the power of human (and nonhuman) relationships. An ambitious and resoundingly successful novel from theresurgent Gunn.Let's start off the new year with another good crowd, (including some new voices), to talk about what sounds like a very thought provoking offering from one of the greats of Science Fiction.Evan
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