hey all, tonight is the night, hope to see lots of you there. Its fun even if you haven't read the book just to discuss Science fiction.
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Hello Folks,We had a good showing at our most recent meeting, with everyone enjoying our book, Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton. Our next book is a tale of coming of age on a generation ship in Across the Universe by Beth Revis. The next meeting of the Science Fiction club will be held on Thursday November 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, Across the Universe, is available from both Bookshare and BARD. The Bookshare version is at:https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/340175 <https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/340175>and the BARD version is at: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.72924 <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.72924> Here is Bookshare's Long Synopsis:A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder. Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules. Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone - one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship - tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next. Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she couldnever have seen coming.
and here is the NLS annotation: After Amy and her parents agree to be cryogenically frozen for three hundred years aboard the spaceship Godspeed, Amy is shocked to awaken early--and to learn that someone is trying to kill her.Hope lots of people will join us to talk about this exciting and thought provoking book.Evan
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