Laser Rangers 2017 November Meeting

Laser Rangers Annual Thanksgiving Celebration

Date: November 4, 2017
Time: 4:15pm
Location: David Sooby’s home theater with 51-inch Samsung HDTV, a 5.1 Surround Sound Dolby Digital sound system, a full set of audiophile-grade speakers, and upgraded seating for about 15 people without crowding.
Captain Laser: We're All Captains Today
Food:Thanksgiving Feast
Costume: Elegant Dinner Party Fashion

To learn more, and coordinate what food to bring, please visit our Facebook Event Page!

This is our annual Thanksgiving Feast extravaganza and the meeting where we choose the movies for the upcoming year. Please join us and share in the celebration as we recount old memories, make new ones, and plan for those yet to come. As always short features will be shown before the main feature. You won't want to miss this!

Feature Presentation!
Wonder Woman

(2017, 141 minutes) Directed by: Patty Jenkins

Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Connie Nielsen, Elena Anaya

When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny.-IMDB

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!

Wait--war?? What happened to the BBQ?

Date: Monday, November 28, 2016, at 7:00 p.m.

Title: Mechanical Failure

Author: Joe Zieja 

Published by: Saga Press

Available from: Fine Booksellers, including Barnes & Noble

Meeting Location: Barnes & Noble #2352, 2^nd Floor

       11323 W. 95^th Street, Overland Park, KS 66214

The November SF&F Literati selection is Mechanical Failure, by Joe Zieja

Overview from Barnes & Noble:
A smooth-talking ex-sergeant, accustomed to an easygoing peacetime military, unexpectedly re-joins the fleet and finds soldiers preparing for the strangest thing—war.

The two hundred years’ (and counting) peace is a time of tranquility that hasn’t been seen since...well, never. Mankind in the Galactic Age had finally conquered war, so what was left for the military to do but drink and barbecue? That’s the kind of military that Sergeant R. Wilson Rogers lived in before he left the fleet to become a smuggler.

But it turns out that smuggling is hard. Like getting-arrested-for-dealing-with-pirates-and-forced-back-into-service kind of hard. It doesn’t seem so bad—the military was a perpetual tiki party anyway—but when Rogers returns after only a year away, something has changed. These are soldiers—actual soldiers doing actual soldier things like preparing for a war that Rogers is sure doesn’t exist. Rogers vows to put a stop to all this nonsense—even if it means doing actual work.

With an experienced ear for military double-speak, Zieja has created a remarkable and sarcastic adventure.

IMAGE: Many thanks to Simon and Schuster for the cover image, featuring art by Leonardo Calamati.