Scheduled Meetings

Our meetings are open to the public at no charge, although donations to help cover the costs are appreciated.

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July 30, 2008

• Guest/program: author David J. Williams
  
  David has just published his first novel The Mirrored Heavens
  
  From one of the reviews on amazon.com: "A crackling cyberthriller. This is Tom Clancy interfacing Bruce Sterling. David Williams has hacked into the future." - Stephen Baxter, author of the Manifold series
  
  David is coming in from the east coast and we look forward to hearing from him.
  
  
• READING ORBIT- OCSFC Book Club:
  This month's book is "The Anubis Gates" by Tim Powers (400 pages)
  
  Author Tim Powers evokes 17th-century England with a combination of meticulously researched historic detail and imaginative flights in this sci-fi tale of time travel. Winner of the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award. Steeping together in this time-warp stew are such characters as an unassuming Coleridge scholar, ancient gods, wizards, the Knights Templar, werewolves, and other quasi-mortals, all wrapped in the organizing fabric of Egyptian mythology.
  
  Availability: Amazon $13.95, paperback, may have trouble finding a library

August 27, 2008

• Guest/program: author Gregory Urbach
  
  Gregory is the author of the Waters of the Moon series, the first of which Waters of the Moon: Book One: Tranquility's Child published in hardback in 2001.
  
  Per Gregory: Seems like it should be for kids but actually good for anybody, like Tom Sawyer on the moon. The author (that's me)has used a variation of Tarzan of the Apes to tell a compelling story about growing up under difficult circumstances.
  
  
• READING ORBIT- OCSFC Book Club:
  This month's book is Nebula Award winner "Stations of the Tide" by Michael Swanwick
  
  As the planet Miranda slowly drowns under the weight of its own tides, a bureaucrat from the Division of Technology Transfer conducts an investigation into the life of a local celebrity, a "magician" who possesses proscribed technology and whose personal powers hold much of the dying planet in thrall. Swanwick demonstrates his mastery of understated drama in a novel that brings a surrealistic approach to "hard" sf.
  
  Availability: Amazon paperback, In libraries 252 pages Published 1991

September 24, 2008

• Guest/program: TBD
  
  TBD.
  
  
• READING ORBIT- OCSFC Book Club:
  This month's book is "Nightwings" by Robert Silverberg (240 pages)
  
  This is a classic Silverberg fantasy, considered his best work.
  
  Availability: Amazon paperback, ICurrent paperback, may have trouble finding it in libraries.

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