I had wondered why we were getting so many emails from Robert, does he
work for bookshare, and are all these meetings somehow tied directly to
the function of the service?
Just wondering,
Karen
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, debra goodmam wrote:
Please remove me from further emails: shdowsafetyproducts@xxxxxxxxx.
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Robert Acosta <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
*NEWSWIRE: THURSDAY JULY 9, 2015*
*SCIENCE FICTION MEETING, 9 PM EDT, BOOK NOOK ROOM:
WWW.ACCESSIBLEWORLD.ORG <http://WWW.ACCESSIBLEWORLD.ORG>*
*Hello Folks,*
*Well, we had a smaller than usual turnout at our most recent meeting. Bad
weather kept some of our regulars offline. But everyone who was able to
make it liked our book, Ventus by Karl Schroeder. For our next book, we???ve
selected a tale of first contact by one of the best author collaborations
in SF history: We???ve chose The Mote in God???s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry
Pournelle.*
*The next meeting of the Science Fiction club will be on Thursday, July 9,
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.*
*Our book, The Mote in God???s Eye is available from both BARD and
Bookshare.*
*The Bookshare version is at:*
*https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/29134*
<https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/29134>
*and the link to the downloadable BARD version is at:*
*http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.45438*
<http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.45438>
*The NLS annotation reads as follows:*
*In the thirty-first century, humans make initial contact with another
intelligent species. Though the aliens seem candid, they may be concealing
their true and dangerously cunning nature.*
*Here is a review from Amazon???s page for Mote:*
*Amazon.com Review*
*In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star
systems, thanks*
*to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings
have ever been*
*encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system carrying
a dead alien.*
*The probe is traced to the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud,
and an expedition*
*is dispatched.*
*In the Mote the humans find an ancient civilization--at least one million
years*
*old--that has always been bottled up in their cloistered solar system for
lack of*
*a star drive. The Moties are welcoming and kind, yet rather evasive
about certain*
*aspects of their society. It seems the Moties have a dark problem, one
they've been*
*unable to solve in over a million years.*
*This is the first collaboration between Niven and Pournelle, two masters
of hard*
*science fiction, and it combines Pournelle's interest in the military and
sociology*
*with Niven's talent for creating interesting, believable aliens. The
novel meticulously*
*examines every aspect of First Contact, from the Moties' biology,
society, and art,*
*to the effects of the meeting on humanity's economics, politics, and
religions. And*
*all the while suspense builds as we watch the humans struggle toward the
truth.*
*--Brooks Peck*
*Come join us next month to talk about what many consider one of the best
first contact novels ever written, and anything else SF literature related.*
*Evan*
*Host: Evan Reese*
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