hey its about time for the sci fi meeting yay!!!. I really wish I were going to b there because I really liked the book. But have a great meeting and really hope there is a great turnout.
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Hello Folks,We had a small turnout at our most recent meeting, likely because of it being around the holidays, and our book, Engineering Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan, received only lukewarm reviews from everyone.Our next meeting will be on Thursday, January 10, 2013. Time: 9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific, and 01:00 UTC. Place, Book Nook at:This time, we read a tale of a human and an alien who team up to save the Earth in Neptune Crossing by Jeffrey A. Carver, the first volume of the Chaos Chronicles.The book is available from both Bookshare and as a digital download from BARD. The publisher quality Bookshare version is at:https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/222974 <https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/222974>The BARD version is at: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.39793 <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.39793> Here is the NLS synopsis: Space pilot John Bandicut, part of a mining expedition on Triton, doesn't know just what made him drive his rover past the invisible stop line, but something seemed to be calling him. Landing in a cavern, he is confronted by a quarx--a member of an alien race that can predict the future. It seems that Earth is about to collide with a comet, and it is up to Bandicut to save the planet. Strong language. Here is the long synopsis from Bookshare:When survey pilot John Bandicut falls into a cavern on Triton, his life changed forever ... and for an alien quarx, one hundred million years of solitude suddenly comes to an end. The quarx, part of an eons-old interstellar civilization that uses advanced chaos theory to predict catastrophic events, cannot by itself prevent the cometary collision that threatens to devastate the Earth. John Bandicut must help this strange disembodied alien, knowing that humanity's very existence rides on the result. He has to break all the rules and sacrifice everything he has ever known or loved to prevent a cataclysm that neither he nor any human can possibly detect. Hurling across our solar system at incredible speed in a stolen ship, Bandicut can only hope that his desperate gamble will save the Earth. Even if he doesn't live to see it again. Hope to see lots of new people in the new year to talk about this adventure tale.Evan
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