[bksvol-discuss] Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club, Thursday, September 10, 2009
- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bob Acosta" <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <scifi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:46:33 -0400
Hello All,
The next meeting of the Science Fiction club will be on Thursday, September 10
in the Book Nook at:
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e
The time will be 9 Eastern, 8 Central, 7 Mountain and 6 Pacific in the U.S. and
01 hours UTC.
For the next meeting, we will be reading a collection of stories, City by
Clifford D. Simak, available from both NLS and Bookshare. I've pasted the NLS
synopsis, and one from Kirkus Reviews below.
The NLS digital download link is:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.62614
For those who cannot download, the number for the cassette version is RC 62614.
The book is fairly short, six sides on cassette, 7 hours, 39 minutes of
narration time.
Bookshare also has this book, with neither short nor long synopsis, and it is
only rated Good. You can find it at:
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/4980/City%20?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9rZXl3b3JkPWNsaWZmb3JkIHNpbWFrJg%3D%3D
NLS Synopsis:
Eight tales told by dogs about the legendary creature man who was once dominant
on earth even after cities ceased to exist. Bruce Webster was the man who began
altering dogs' traits, giving them speech and eyesight for reading, and leading
eventually to dogs' supremacy. 1952.
Here's the synopsis by Kirkus Reviews taken from Amazon:
Eight stories, each preceded by an explanatory prologue, of the legends and
history of the ascendancy of Dogs who, in some 12,000 years have taken over the
earth only to find that eventually they will be annihilated by ants. The
stories show the disintegration
of the human race, who taught the dogs to talk and read, the threat of the
mutants, the good and the wild robots, the emergence of the cobblies and the
insistence on the law of not killing. There's better writing here and a
sustained philosophical theme that rates it above the usual SF.
Hope lots of you can make it. Simak is a master; and while I haven't read this
one, I'm confident it will be very good.
Evan
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