So here we are again ready to go to another fun filled Science fiction book club meeting. this truly has to be one of my favorite book club meetings that I go to. this book we are reading was great in my opinion. I truly hope you Sci fi fans will come in and join us even if you haveb't read the book we love discussing Science fiction of all types. Come on we won't bite.
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Hello Folks,We had a fairly small turnout at our most recent meeting, with most of us liking our book, Strange Attractors by Jeffrey A. Carver. For our next book, we return to Earth for a tale of what might be a distinctly possible not too distant future. We'll be reading Nexus by Ramez Naam. The next meeting of the Science Fiction club will be on Thursday, March 14, 2013.Time: 9 PM Eastern 8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific, and 02:00 UTC. Place, Book Nook at:http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e <http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e> Our book Nexus by Ramez Naam, is available from Bookshare in Publisher Quality at: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/591667 <https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/591667>Here's the long synopsis:Mankind gets an upgradeIn the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it.When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he's thrust over his head into a world of danger and international espionage - for there is far more at stake than anyone realizes.From the halls of academe to the halls of power, from the headquarters of an elite US agency in Washington DC to a secret lab beneath a top university in Shanghai, from the underground parties of San Francisco to the illegal biotech markets of Bangkok, from an international neuroscience conference to a remote monastery in the mountains of Thailand - Nexus is a thrill ride through a future on the brink of explosion.Here's a bit about the author from Wikipedia:Ramez Naam was born in Cairo, Egypt, and came to the US at the age of 3. He's a computer scientist who spent 13 years at Microsoft, leading teams working on email, web browsing,search, and artificial intelligence. He holds almost 20 patents in those areas.Ramez is the winner of the 2005 H.G. Wells Award for his non-fiction book More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement. He's worked as a life guard, has climbed mountains, backpacked through remote corners of China, and ridden his bicycle down hundreds of miles of the Vietnam coast. He lives in Seattle, where hewrites and speaks full time.A lot of people like Nexus. On Amazon, with 128 reviews currently, 101 gave it five stars, and 26 gave it four stars. Hope to get a large group at our next meeting to talk about what is likely to be a very exciting and thought provoking book examining some questions that are not all that far off in our future.Evan
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