Science Fiction Discussion Group

This month, we go back into the future for a new take on the perennial conflict between old and new. This time between old humanity on Earth and the evolving inhabitants in the rest of the solar system. We’ll be reading The Quiet War by Paul J.

This month, we’re going to do two books. Both of them together are shorter than our last book, Eifelheim, and we also have an extra week to read them. We’ll be reading a duology from Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle: Inferno, and Escape from Hell.

For this month, we shift focus from the far away in space and time to the very near
future America. The book we’re reading for the next meeting is Empire by Orson Scott
Card.
This one’s available from Bookshare at:

We had another good discussion at the meeting last night. While everyone had quibbles,
we all liked the first two books in Robert J. Sawyer’s WWW trilogy, WWW: Wake and
WWW: Watch.
J. R. Westmoreland, Group Facilitator

The book we’re reading this month is Starfarers by Poul Anderson.
This one’s available from Bookshare at
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/5988

The book we’re reading this month is aimed at young adult readers, but is one that
all SF fans can enjoy:
Time Machines: The Greatest Time Travel Stories Ever Written, edited by Bill Adler,
Jr.

This month we’ve chosen to read Eon by Greg Bear, available from both
Bookshare, and as a digital download from BARD.
The Bookshare version is at:

This month, we’ll be reading:
Steal Across the Sky by Nancy Kress, available from BARD at the following link:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.70030
Here’s the NLS synopsis:

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:

This month, we’re reading a tale of alien invasion and human resistance by one of
the greatest collaborations in SF history. The book is Footfall by Larry Niven and
Jerry Pournelle.
This one is available on Bookshare at: