Bailey Cove Science Fiction

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: At the Mountains of Madness

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, November 7, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness.

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: Ringworld

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, September 5, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Two humans and two aliens, who are traveling to distant reaches of space to prevent a future catastrophe, crash on a ringworld apparently created by superior technologies. Tom Parker captures the personalities of the travelers through individual vocalization and provides smooth, expressive narration. The listener is soon caught up in the adventures of these vivid characters as they struggle to survive.

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: Left Hand of Darkness

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, August 1, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Note: This meeting of the Bailey Cove Science Fiction Book Club will take place in "The Reading Room" instead of the general meeting room.

The old fairy stories live again, subtly altered. By the prize-winning author of "Wise Children", "Nights at the Circus", "American Ghosts and Old World Wonders" and "Expletives Deleted".

 

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: Some Kind of Fairy Tale

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Joyce's mesmerizing new novel centers around the disappearance of a young girl from a small town in the heart of England. Her sudden return 20 years later, and the mind-bending tale of where she's been, will challenge perceptions of truth.

 

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: Falling Free

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: min your own business, fix what’s wrong and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Could you just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation?

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: Fair game: an Alpha and Omega novel

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Patricia Briggs, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson novels, "always enchants her readers." (Lynn Viehl, New York Times bestselling author) Now her Alpha and Omega series-set in a world of shifting shapes, loyalty, and passion- brings werewolves out of the darkness and into a society where fear and prejudice could make the hunters prey.

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: The Year of the Flood

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

When a natural disaster predicted by God's Gardeners leader Adam One obliterates most human life, two survivors trapped inside respective establishments that metaphorically represent paradise and hell wonder if any of their loved ones have survived.

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: The Wave

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, February 7, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Join us as we discuss The Wave by Walter Mosley.

Receiving a bizarre prank call from someone claiming to be his dead father, Errol visits the graveyard where his father is buried and makes an astonishing discovery about a supernatural presence that is spreading throughout the planet.
 

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: Cat's Cradle

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb.
 

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