[bksvol-discuss] Re: [bookshare-discuss] Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club, Thursday, July 12, 2012
- From: Lelia Struve <leliastruve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:18:22 -0400
Hey all, this is a good book come on and lets discuss it.
Original message:
Hello Folks,
Another good showing at our most recent meeting, and while not everyone
liked it equally, we all thought that our book, Virus on Orbis 1 by PJ.
Haarsma was at least okay. For next month, we honor the memory of one
of the greats who passed away recently, Ray Bradbury, as we read The
Illustrated Man.
The next meeting of the Science Fiction club will be on Thursday, July
12, 2012.
Place, Book Nook at:
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e
<http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e>
Time: 9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific, and 1:00 UTC.
Our next book, The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, is available from
both BARD and Bookshare. The BARD link is at:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.21322 <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.21322>
and the Bookshare version is at:
https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/13895
<https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/13895>
Here's the BARD synopsis:
Science fiction short stories on rocket travel, escape to the past,
dreams, hypnotism, and numerous other subjects.
And here's an Amazon.com review:
That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in
1951 is fair
testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his
second collection
(the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into
The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of
science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents
himself as
a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose
entire body is
a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and
increasingly
disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive,
and each proceeds
to unfold its own story, such as "The Veldt," wherein rowdy children
take a game
of virtual reality way over the edge. Or "Kaleidoscope," a
heartbreaking portrait
of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the
benefit of a
spaceship. Or "Zero Hour," in which invading aliens have discovered a
most logical
ally--our own children. Even though most were written in the 1940s and
1950s, these
18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now.
Come join us next month to talk about this one and remember Ray Bradbury.
Evan
--
Lelia
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