Laser Rangers 2020 November Alternate Meeting

Films from Before the Year Zero

Date: November 30, 2020
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Mike M's Place. Message the Facebook Group for more information
Captain Laser: Mike M.
Food: Chili
Costume: Casual

To learn more, please visit our Facebook Event Page.

Short features will be shown before each feature. Don't miss them!

Fahrenheit 451

(1966, 112 minutes) Directed by: François Truffaut

Starring: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack

In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task. -IMDB

Watch the trailer here!









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After the first feature, please join us for a potluck dinner. Bring something to share. It can follow the theme, or be something you prefer.
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Feature Presentation!
Rifftrax's "Star Wars Holiday Special"

(YEAR, 000 minutes) Directed by: The Rifftrax Team

Starring: Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Mike Nelson

Have a Happy Life Day! And nothing kicks off a memorable Life Day quite so much as watching the legendary Star Wars Holiday Special receive a fully deserved Rifftrax parody treatment! Yes, all your favorite Wookies are here: there's Chewbacca, Malla, Itchy, Lumpy and Art Carney.-Rifftracx Site

Watch the trailer here!







The home of the Laser Rangers is located about four miles north of the Kansas Speedway, NW of the intersection of I-70 and I-435 on the Kansas side of the Greater Kansas City area.

IMAGE CREDITS: The information for all of these shows come from the invaluable IMDB. The movie posters come from Wikipedia or the movie's respected distributors. 

The movie screen frame image used for the Laser Rangers contact information is courtesy of Psychology Today Online. Many thanks to these websites!

SF&F Literati meet Monday, 8/27/2018!

Now's your chance!
In case you somehow missed this science fiction classic, or want to read it again!

Announcing the August 27, 2018 meeting of the SF&F Literati 7:00 p.m.
Meeting Location: Barnes & Noble #2352, 2nd Floor, 11323 W. 95th Street, Overland Park, KS 66214

Discussing
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
Available from: Fine Booksellers, including Barnes & Noble

Here's a synopsis from the publisher, for the 60th Anniversary edition:
Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.

Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.

When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.

ALSO! Important decisions to make!
This is also the meeting where they'll decided on the fall-winter book selecti.ons If you have ideas for future reading selections, please show up and be counted!
NOTE: ALL ARE WELCOME to the meeting, whether you’ve read the book or not.

IMAGE: Many thanks to Amazon for the 60th Anniversary book cover image.

The tale of a fireman who gets burned

It's not too early to think about next month! 
SF&F Literati will take one of their periodic returns to the past in August, when they pull another science fiction classic from the shelf.

Somehow missed this science fiction classic? 

The August 27, 2018 meeting will discuss
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
Here's a synopsis from the publisher, for the 60th Anniversary edition:
Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.

Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.

When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.

Available from: Fine Booksellers, including Barnes & Noble
Meeting Location: Barnes & Noble #2352, 2nd Floor, 11323 W. 95th Street, Overland Park, KS 66214
NOTE: ALL ARE WELCOME to the meeting, whether you’ve read the book or not.

IMAGE: Many thanks to Amazon for the 60th Anniversary book cover image.