[bksvol-discuss] Next Science Fiction Cllub meeting, Thursday, July 14, 2011

From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <scifi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:49:14 -0400

Hello Folks,

We had another good discussion at the meeting last night. While everyone had 
quibbles, we all liked the first two books in Robert J. Sawyer's WWW trilogy, 
WWW: Wake and WWW: Watch.

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, July 14, 2011.

Place: Book Nook at

http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e

Time: 9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific, and 01:00 UTC.

This month, we're reading a far future murder mystery by a modern master of 
wide screen space opera. Our book this month is House of Suns by Alastair 
Reynolds. This one is available as a digital download from BARD at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.70315

Here's the NLS synopsis:

Every two hundred thousand years, the shatterlings--one thousand male and 
female clones of Abigail
Gentian--congregate to share the news from space. But at this
reunion, shatterlings Campion and Purslane discover that someone is massacring 
their siblings and they must track down
the killers before the Gentian line disappears.

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

Reynolds (The Prefect) returns to the universe of his 2005 novella Thousandth 
Night in this sprawling novel of intergalactic intrigue. It is 6.4 million 
years in the future and humanity has spread throughout the Milky Way. Some 
cultures have established transient empires across space; others, the Lines, 
have used relativistic travel to colonize deep time. Clone-siblings Campion and 
Purslane are delayed on their way to a Gentian Line reunion, a coincidence that 
saves them from a massacre. Allied with potentially hostile Machine People and 
an enigmatic post-human god called the Spirit, armed only with fragmentary 
records and hints that Campion's research provoked the mysterious House of 
Suns, the Gentian survivors struggle to find and stop their enemies before the 
genocide can be completed. Intriguing ideas and competent characterization make 
this a fine example of grand-scale relativistic space opera.

Sounds like it should be a lot of fun on an epic scale. Few are as good as 
Reynolds at this kind of thing, so hope to see lots of people next time to talk 
about this one.

Evan

[bksvol-discuss] Next Science Fiction Cllub meeting, Thursday, July 14, 2011

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