Hello Folks,
> Not quite as many people as usual made it to the meeting last night,
> (probably holiday preparations had something to do with that), but most
> of those who did make it did not much like the book we read this month,
> Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.
> For this month, we've selected something quite a bit shorter, a mystery
> set on Jupiter's moon Ganymede by one of the masters of the field. For
> the next meeting,, we're reading Against Infinity by Gregory Benford.

This month, we go back into the future for a new take on the perennial conflict between old and new. This time between old humanity on Earth and the evolving inhabitants in the rest of the solar system. We'll be reading The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley, available as a digital download from BARD at:

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.70472
 
Here's the NLS synopsis:

For this month, we shift focus from the far away in space and time to the very near
future America. The book we're reading for the next meeting is Empire by Orson Scott
Card.
This one's available from Bookshare at:
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/30304
and as a digital download from BARD at:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.66281
Here's the NLS synopsis: