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Hello Folks,   Hope you all are having a good start to your new year.   It’s just about time for another meeting of the Science Fiction club, the first one of 2026.   It’s another Bring Your Own Book meeting. We decided to do that, rather than have a group read over the holidays. Besides, we’ll now have five weeks until the next meeting on February 12, so the length of the book will not be an issue.   So hope you guys will be thinking about what we might want to read as a group this month.  

Science Fiction Discussion Group. Bring Your Own Book Month.

available from BARD. https://nlsbard.loc.gov/bard2-web/search/DB126013/?prevPage=search_books&from=%2Fsearch%2Fresults%2F%3Ftype%3Dbook%26initialFormat%3Dall%26search%3Dthe%2Bobject%26initialLanguage%3Den The object DB126013 Author: Calvert, Joshua T. Reading Time: 15 hours, 4 minutes Read by: Shelton, Jessie Subject: Science Fiction “Deep space holds secrets… and one astronomer for NASA has found a big one. But it’s not what she thinks. Dr. Melody Adams, a physicist and the Gemini North Observatory, was studying Pluto in the telescope data and it struck her as odd. The numbers didn’t make sense. Could there be an extraterrestrial object in our solar system? She followed protocol. The scientific community didn’t believe her. And before she knew what happened, her career was over. The day that changed Melody’s life was like any other over the previous two years. She’d found she had a gift for writing and her career as an author had almost healed the pain of losing her job. When the Secret Service rang her bell, everything changed. Something was nearing Saturn… and it was slowing down. Had she been right about the object? You’ll love this hard science fiction novel because Melody is about to find out that everything she knew about space and time was wrong.”– From publisher. Strong language and some violence.

Hey Guys,   It’s bring your own book for this meeting, but please also bring any ideas you may have for our group read for November. We have five weeks this time, so don’t worry about length.  

Science Fiction Club meeting.    

Science Fiction Club Meeting.

Science Fiction Club Meeting

Science Fiction Club Meeting.

Science Fiction Club Meeting.

The taking DB58300 Author: Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray) Reading Time: 9 hours, 8 minutes Read by: Michele Schaeffer Subjects: Bestsellers, Occult and Horror Fiction, Suspense Fiction   Twenty-eight-year-old Molly Sloan and her husband, Neil, awaken to terrifying news of impending global disaster. As they lose all communication and watch an eerie fog settle on their small California town, Molly, Neil, and their neighbors brace themselves against the onslaught of evil. Violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2004.   New York : Bantam Books, c2004.   Here is the Bookshare link to this book:   https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/4564319?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPVRoZSUyQlRha2luZw  

Science Fiction club Meeting.

Hello Folks, At our most recent Science Fiction club meeting, we agreed to read the book The Engines of God, by Jack McDevitt, for our February 13 meeting. It is available from BARD: https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB41883 The NLS synopsis reads: Early in the twenty-third century, young Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins serves as a space pilot for a team of archaeologists investigating a long-extinct galactic civilization. Marvelling at the monuments left on distant planets, Hutch and her colleagues confront the natural hazards of new worlds and stay one step ahead of human colonizers, as the archaeologists unravel a secret that may be the key to human survival. There are a number of Publisher Quality versions on Bookshare, one of which is at: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/1175707 The synopsis for this Bookshare edition reads as follows: The first Priscilla Hutchins novel!Humans call them the Monument-Makers. An unknown race, they left stunning alien statues on distant planets in the galaxy. Each relic is different. Each inscription defies translation. Yet all are heartbreakingly beautiful. And for planet Earth, on the brink of disaster, they may hold the only key to survival for the entire human race.  

Science Fiction Club meeting.

Hello Folks, It’s time once again at the Science Fiction club for a group read. For December’s meeting, we’ve selected Inverted world by Christopher Priest. There are copies on both BARD” https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB69875 and two Publisher Quality versions on Bookshare: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/1020411 and https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/4162792 The NLS annotation reads as follows: The walled metropolis sits upon tracks, pulled along by a giant winch toward the ever-moving “optimum.” After becoming an apprentice in the secretive guild that keeps the city in motion, Helward Mann encounters an outside world that proves stranger than he ever imagined. Includes 2008 afterword by John Clute. and the Bookshare synopsis of one of the PQ versions reads: The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city’s engineers. But if the city does not move, it will fall farther and farther behind the “optimum” into the crushing gravitational field that has transformed life on Earth. The only alternative to progress is death. The secret directorate that governs the city makes sure that its inhabitants know nothing of this. Raised in common in crèches, nurtured on synthetic food, prevented above all from venturing outside the closed circuit of the city, they are carefully sheltered from the dire necessities that have come to define human existence. And yet the city is in crisis. The people are growing restive, the population is dwindling, and the rulers know that, for all their efforts, slowly but surely the city is slipping ever farther behind the optimum. Helward Mann is a member of the city’s elite. Better than anyone, he knows how tenuous is the city’s continued existence. But the world–he is about to discover–is infinitely stranger than the strange world he believes he knows so well.  

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