Date: November 24, 2014-7:00 p.m.
Title: BurningParadise
Author: Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Available from: Fine booksellers, including Barnes & Noble
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.
Please note, there is no December meeting. This year the 4th Monday is only 3 days from Christmas.
But it's not too early to start preparing for the January meeting!
Date: January 26, 2015-7:00 p.m.
Publisher: Tor Books
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:
“John C. Wright burst upon the SF scene a decade ago with the Golden Age trilogy, an innovative
space opera. He went on to write fantasy novels, including the popular Orphans of Chaos trilogy. And now he
returns to space opera in Count to a Trillion.
“After the
collapse of the world economy, a young boy grows up in what used to be Texas as
a tough duelist for hire, the future equivalent of a hired gun. But even after
the collapse, there is space travel, and he leaves Earth to have
adventures in the really wide open spaces. But he is quickly catapulted into
the more distant future, while humanity, and Artificial Intelligence, grows and
changes and becomes a kind of superman.”
IMAGE CREDITS: Many thanks to GoodReads for the cover image for Burning Paradise, and to the "Bewildering Stories" review blog for the cover image for Count to a Trillion.
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