[bookshare-discuss] Re: [Scifi] Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club, Thursday, February 11, 2010
- From: Lelia Struve <leliastruve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:24:03 -0500
Hey all, again I'm letting Evans email do the work here.
lelia
Original message:
Hi Folks,
The next meeting of the Science Fiction club will be on Thursday,
February 11, 2010.
Time: 9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific, and 0100 UTC.
Place: Book Nook at
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e
<http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e>
The book we're reading this month is Night Train to Rigel by Timothy
Zahn, available from Bookshare at
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/26415?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9rZXl3b3JkPSZxdW90O25pZ2h0IHRyYWluIHRvIHJpZ2VsJnF1b3Q7Jg%3D%3D#mainContent
<http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/26415?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9rZXl3b3JkPSZxdW90O25pZ2h0IHRyYWluIHRvIHJpZ2VsJnF1b3Q7Jg%3D%3D#mainContent>
and available from NLS as a BARD download at
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.62671 <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.62671>
or on tape with number RC 62671 <http://62671>.
Bookshare's copy does not have a long synopsis, but here is the short one:
When former intelligence agent Frank Compton discovers a Quadrail
ticket in his name
in a dead man's pocket, he decides to use it and see where the train takes him.
Here is the NLS synopsis:
2084. A dying messenger hands Frank Compton a ticket for a seat on the
Quadrail--an interstellar
transportation system run by the Spiders--destined for an
Earth colony in the Rigel star system. Once he's aboard the Spiders
recruit Frank to stop trans-galactic weapons smugglers who could be
plotting an attack.
Finally, here's a slightly longer description from Publishers Weekly
taken from Amazon:
Hang on! Hugo-winner Zahn (Cascade Point ) takes off on a rip-roaring
interstellar train ride with hard-boiled hero Frank Compton, recently
fired from Earth's Western Alliance Intelligence for whistle-blowing on
the costly Yandro colony boondoggle, a U.N. scheme to make humanity a
real interstellar power. From Earth's mean streets, Compton hops the
Quadrail, a mysterious galactic system run by the alien Spiders, who
give him four months to defuse an interstellar war being engineered by
the gestalt entity the Modhri. With Bayta, "The Girl" sent by the
Spiders to recruit him, Compton blasts his way through layers of
subterfuge and teams of unpronounceable alien baddies. Seeing a new
chunk of the truth fall into place about every hundred pages, Compton
carries comic-strip action to dizzying extremes in this highballing
romp. Situations predictable from tough-guy PI fiction and characters
straight out of Dick Tracy (even though some wear chipmunk fur and
others inhabit telepathic coral colonies) make this night train a
juicily familiar joyride.
Sounds like tremendous and imaginative fun from someone who knows how
to do it well. Hope lots of you will give it a try and can drop in next
month to talk about it.
Evan
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