Time-Travel Fuels Steampunk Mystery
Date: October 27,2014-7:00 p.m.
Title: Infernal
Devices
Author: K.W. Jeter
Publisher: Osprey Publishing Ltd.
Available from: Fine booksellers, including
Barnes & Noble
Meeting Location: Barnes & Noble #2352
11323 W 95th Street, Overland Park, KS 66214
11323 W 95th Street, Overland Park, KS 66214
Overview from Barnes & Noble:
“He inherited a watchmaker’s
store—and a whole heap of trouble. But idle sometime-musician George has little
talent for clockwork. And when a shadowy figure tries to steal an old device
from the premises, George finds himself embroiled in a mystery of time travel,
music and sexual intrigue. A genuine lost classic, a Steampunk original whose
time has come.”
Please note that K.W. Jeter does not seem to have an official author website. If you would like to know more about him, you may enjoy looking at the biographical information from Wikipedia, Amazon, GoodReads, and Facebook.
Start reading now for November!
Implacable Strangeness in the Universe
Date: November 24, 2014-7:00 p.m.
Title: Burning
Paradise
Author: Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Meeting Location: Barnes & Noble
#2352, 2nd Floor
11323 W 95th Street, Overland Park, KS 66214
11323 W 95th Street, Overland Park, KS 66214
Overview from Barnes & Noble:
“From Robert Charles Wilson, the author of the
Hugo-winning Spin, comes Burning Paradise, a new tale of humans
coming to grips with a universe of implacable strangeness.
“Cassie
Klyne, nineteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015—but
it’s not our United States, and it’s not our 2015.
“Cassie’s
world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1918. There was no World
War II, no Great Depression. Poverty is declining, prosperity is increasing
everywhere; social instability is rare. But Cassie knows the world isn’t what
it seems. Her parents were part of a group who gradually discovered the awful
truth: that for decades—back to the dawn of radio communications—human progress
has been interfered with, made more peaceful and benign, by an extraterrestrial
entity. That by interfering with our communications, this entity has tweaked
history in massive and subtle ways. That humanity is, for purposes unknown,
being farmed.
“Cassie’s
parents were killed for this knowledge, along with most of the other members of
their group. Since then, the survivors have scattered and gone into hiding.
Cassie and her younger brother Thomas now live with her aunt Nerissa, who
shares these dangerous secrets. Others live nearby. For eight years they have
attempted to lead unexceptional lives in order to escape detection. The tactic
has worked.
“Until
now. Because the killers are back. And they’re not human.”
IMAGE CREDITS: Many thanks to the blog, "Solar Bridge" for the cover image of Infernal Devices, and to GoodReads for the cover of Burning Paradise.
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