[bksvol-discuss] Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club, Thursday, November 10, 2011

From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bob Acosta" <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <scifi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:00:00 -0400

Hello Folks,

We had a good crowd and some great discussion of our books last night, Inferno 
and Escape from Hell by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Although the reviews 
were decidedly mixed, everyone had something positive to say about them.

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, November 10, 2011.

Place, 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 go back into the future for a new take on the perennial conflict 
between old and new. This time between old humanity on Earth and the evolving 
inhabitants in the rest of the solar system. We'll be reading The Quiet War by 
Paul J. McAuley, available as a digital download from BARD at:

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.70472

Here's the NLS synopsis:

After Earth is damaged by climate change and the Overturn, many refugees escape 
to Mars and the moons of
Jupiter and Saturn. Greater Brazil's powerful families and green saints control 
most of the remaining survivors and create innovative warfare technology to 
prepare Earth for war with the Outers.

And here's a longer description from Publishers Weekly taken from Amazon's page 
for this book:

Starred Review. Shortlisted for this year's [2009] Arthur C. Clarke Award, this 
sweeping interplanetary adventure is also a thoughtful examination of human 
nature. The few people remaining on feudal 23rd-century Earth are obsessed with 
repairing the damaged ecosystem, while the near-anarchic Outers, who fled to 
the solar system's outer worlds, would rather probe the atmosphere of Saturn 
and grow gardens in vacuum. Earth tries
to rein in the Outers with a campaign of intrigue, assassination and sabotage 
that culminates in bloody carnage. McAuley (Cowboy Angels) moves deftly among 
five well-drawn characters in the thick of the action: a cloned spy, a hotshot 
pilot, a ruthless scientist, a bluntly independent biological engineer and an 
unscrupulous diplomat. They all, in different ways, must choose between the 
familiar and the new, struggling to reconcile conflicting desires. This 
compelling tale opens vast panoramas while confronting believable people with 
significant choices.

Sounds like this one will have substantial action as well as being thought 
provoking, an excellent combination. So hope lots of you can come and talk 
about it with us in November.

Evan

[bksvol-discuss] Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club, Thursday, November 10, 2011

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