[bookshare-discuss] Re: [Scifi] Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club, Thursday, April 12, 2012

Lelia Struve <leliastruve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:02:32 -0600

hopes am I think I hit the wrong thing but I think this message is going to the 
right place. Anyway, I won't be at the meeting tonight and having a bit of 
computer issues. See you next time.

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 9, 2012, at 5:55 PM, "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Folks,
>  
> We had an excellent turnout at last night's meeting. Everyone who read it 
> liked our book, Star Soldiers by Andre Norton.
>  
> Our book for the next meeting deals with one of the most important questions 
> there is: Are we alone in the universe? For next month, we'll be reading 
> Infinity Beach, by Jack McDevitt.
>  
> The next meeting of the Science Fiction club will be on Thursday, April 12, 
> 2012.
>  
> 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 24:00 UTC.
>  
> Infinity Beach is available from NLS web braille, and as a Publisher Quality 
> book direct from HarperCollins on Bookshare at:
>  
> http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/356085
>  
> Here's the NLS synopsis:
>  
> People living on the Nine Worlds, and on the
> starships keeping them connected, believe they are the only
> life in the universe. Searching for her clone/sister (who
> disappeared on a space mission twenty-seven years ago),
> scientist Kim Brandywine discovers they may not be alone
> after all. Strong language. 2000.
>  
> And here is the long synopsis from Bookshare's version:
>  
> We are alone. That is the verdict, after centuries of Search for 
> Extra-Terrestrial
> Intelligence missions and space exploration. The only living things in the 
> Universe
> are found on the Nine Worlds settled from Earth, and the starships that knit 
> them
> together. Or so it's believed, until Dr. Kimberly Brandywine sets out to find 
> what
> happened to her clone-sister Emily, who, after the final, unsuccessful manned 
> SETI
> expedition, disappeared along with the rest of her ship's crew.Following a 
> few ominous
> clues, Kim discovers the ship's log was faked. Something happened out there 
> in the
> darkness between the stars, and she's prepared to go to any length to find 
> answers.
> Even if it means giving up her career...stealing a starship...losing her 
> lover. Kim
> is about to discover the truth about her sister -- and about more than she 
> ever dared
> imagine.
>  
> Finally, here's a short review from Publishers Weekly taken from the Amazon 
> page for this book:
>  
> HA thousand years in the future, on the terraformed planet Greenaway, 
> humanity has
> everything to make itself comfortable and complacent--longevity, leisure and 
> luxury
> are all readily available. But one question remains: Is humanity alone in the 
> universe?
> Kimberly Brandywine doesn't necessarily believe in aliens, until she hears 
> that her
> missing elder "sister," of whom she's a clone, may have been murdered, along 
> with
> some crewmates, by celestial beings after a voyage aboard a space yacht. Her 
> sister/clone's
> disappearance has long haunted Kim, whose search for the truth takes her 
> underwater
> and into space, loses her a lover and causes her to commit crimes (including 
> stealing
> a spaceship). Kim's efforts to solve the mystery of the vanishing and to make 
> first
> contact with the aliens presumably behind it are hampered by the general 
> malaise
> society has sunk into. And since death appears to follow in the wake of the 
> aliens,
> Kim wavers about whether first contact will be beneficial or will destroy 
> civilization
> as she knows it. McDevitt (Eternity Road) has created a future that is 
> technologically
> sound and filled with hubristic, foolish people who make choices based more 
> on how
> they will look to history than on what's best for it. Though his aliens are 
> insubstantial
> (both physically and on the page), the mystery of what happened to Kim's 
> sister and
> her fellow celestial seekers unfolds as precisely as an origami flower, and 
> will
> hold readers in thrall.
>  
> Hope to see lots of people at the next meeting to talk about this exciting 
> tale.
>  
> Evan
>  
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