Hey all Below is Evans email concerning the next Science Fiction book club meeting, hope to see you there.
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Hi Folks,We had a really good meeting last night, with everyone who read it enjoying The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov, some of us for the second time. We also had fun discussing some of our favorite SF juveniles, as well as older SF books in general that we remember fondly, and some of our favorite NLS narrators, many of whom are no longer available for readers to hear. The next meeting of the Science Fiction club will be on Thursday, January 13, 2011.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 Central, 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific, and 02:00 UTC.The book we decided to read this month is Earth by David Brin, available from both Bookshare and as a digital download from BARD.The Bookshare version is Publisher Quality and is at:http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/267612 <http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/267612>and the link to the BARD version is at: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.32735 <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.32735> Here's the NLS synopsis:It is the mid-2000s and the Greenhouse Effect is having a devastating impact on Earth. It is almost impossible to go outside without protective clothing, sunglasses, and lotions. Siberia has become a temperate zone, and Miami has disappeared, all due to shifting weather patterns. Now a black hole has been found at the planet's core, and a team of scientists must discover a way to prevent Earth's destruction.Here's a little review from Publishers Weekly on Amazon:Weaving an epic of complex dimensions, Brin ( Startide Rising ) plaits initially divergent story lines, all set in the year 2038, into an outstandingly satisfying novel. At the center is a type of mystery: after a failed murder attempt, a group of people try to save the victim, recover the murder weapon, identify the guilty party and fend off other assassins, all the while being led through n + 1 plot twists--each with a sense of overhanging doom, because the intended victim is Gaea, Earth herself. The struggle to save the planet gives Brin the occasion to recap recent global events: a world war fought to wrest all caches of secret information from the grip of an elite few; a series of ecological disasters brought about by environmental abuse; and the effects of a universal interactive data network on beginning to turn the world into a true global village. Fully dimensional and engaging characters with plausible motivations bring drama to these scenarios. Brin's exciting prose style will probably make this a Hugo nominee, and will certainly keep readers turning pages.
Don't miss this one. Hope to see lots of people at the next meeting to begin another year of reading and talking about great SF.Evan _______________________________________________ Scifi mailing list Scifi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://orthanc.jrw.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scifi
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