Hey all, come on and join us for the next Science Fiction book club
meeting!!! In this book we're talking about cities that are alive.
What in the wild wild world of Science Fiction am I talking about?
Well, come on, read Evans information below and then join us for what
could be a great discussion. Even if you don't read the book but enjoy
Science fiction come on in.
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Hello Folks,
We had another very good crowd at our most recent meeting to discuss our book and remember Leonard Nimoy as Spock. Most of us enjoyed the book, Spock’s World by Diane Duane. For next month, we’ve selected a tale of alien contact that may result in catastrophe for humankind in The Quiet Invasion by Sarah Zettel.
The next meeting of the Science Fiction club will be on Thursday, May 14, 2015.
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 01:00 UTC.
The Quiet Invasion is available both as a download from BARD, and in Publisher Quality from Bookshare.
The link to BARD’s version is at:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.51427 <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.51427>
And the bookshare Publisher Quality version is at:
https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/88974 <https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/88974>
Here is the NLS annotation:
At the crucial juncture when Dr. Helen Failia learns that funding is being withdrawn for Venera, her permanent research colony for Venus, an alien artifact is found on the planet's surface. The ensuing human contact with extraterrestrial life forms yields repercussions that are far from benign.
This is Bookshare’s Long Synopsis:
Venus, second planet from the Sun, is a lonely sphere of lethal heat, deadly pressure, and poisonous winds. Yet mankind still explores it for signs of life. When an abandoned alien outpost is discovered on Venusian soil, Dr. Veronica Hatch is sent to investigate. What she discovers is extraordinary -- an alien race has escaped its dying and distant world to colonize Venus, the only planet that can support it. But back on Earth, this news is received with dread. Fearing the aliens will invade and conquer the entire solar system, Earth prepares for war. It is now up to Veronica to urgently convince the aliens that mankind is truly worth saving -- before Earth becomes ground zero of an interstellar war.
Come join us next month to talk about this one, and anything else you’ve read, or would like to read, in SF.
Evan
