[Tektalkdiscussion] Fw: Accessible World presents the Science Fiction Discussion Group, February 11, 2010

[Bob Acosta]

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Subject: Accessible World presents the Science Fiction Discussion Group, 
February 11, 2010


News Wire:

Hi Folks,

The next meeting of the Science Fiction Discussion Group will be on 
Thursday, February 11, 2010.

The book we're reading this month is Night Train to Rigel by Timothy Zahn,

The synopsis from Publishers Weekly.

Hang on! Hugo-winner Zahn (Cascade Point ) takes off on a rip-roaring 
interstellar train ride with hard-boiled hero Frank Compton, recently fired 
from Earth's Western Alliance Intelligence for whistle-blowing on the costly 
Yandro colony boondoggle, a U.N. scheme to make humanity a real interstellar 
power. From Earth's mean streets, Compton hops the Quadrail, a mysterious 
galactic system run by the alien Spiders, who give him four months to defuse 
an interstellar war being engineered by the gestalt entity the Modhri. With 
Bayta, "The Girl" sent by the Spiders to recruit him, Compton blasts his way 
through layers of subterfuge and teams of unpronounceable alien baddies. 
Seeing a new chunk of the truth fall into place about every hundred pages, 
Compton carries comic-strip action to dizzying extremes in this highballing 
romp. Situations predictable from tough-guy PI fiction and characters 
straight out of Dick Tracy (even though some wear chipmunk fur and
 others inhabit telepathic coral colonies) make this night train a juicily 
familiar joyride.

The book is available from:
NLS as a BARD download at: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.62671
or on cassette: RC62671.
Bookshare.org at: 
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/26415?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9rZXl3b3JkPSZxdW90O25pZ2h0IHRyYWluIHRvIHJpZ2VsJnF1b3Q7Jg%3D%3D#mainContent
Sounds like tremendous and imaginative fun from someone who knows how to do 
it well. Hope lots of you will give it a try and can drop in next month to 
talk about it.

Evan

J. R. Westmoreland, Group Facilitator
Email: jr at jrw.org

Date:  Thursday, February 11, 2009

Time:  6:00 PM PST, 7:00 PM MST, 8:00 PM CST, 9:00 PM EST,
           and elsewhere in the world Friday 2:00 GMT.

Approximately 15 minutes prior to the event start time; go to The Book Nook 
at:

http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e

Or, alternatively,

Select The Book Nook at: www.accessibleworld.org
Enter your first and last names on the sign-in screen.

If you are a first-time user of the Talking Communities online conferencing 
software, there is a small, safe software program that you need to download 
and then run. A link to the software is available on every entry screen to 
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