This month's theme is Sci-Fi.
Try to have any one of these stories read by next meeting. The date of is tbd.
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
- 145 pages; A scientists finds a way to turn himself invisible, but things get crazy real fast.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- 77 pages; A scientist meddles with science and finds a dark side.
A Martian Odyssey by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
- 34 pages; A mission to Mars in the 21st century goes wrong. A scientist has to travel on Mars to get back to safety.
Space Platform by Murray Leinster
- 164 pages; An "exciting adventure" that tells of man's first step into outer space and of the difficulties and dangers of reaching for the stars.
The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 108 pages; "They dared enter a forbidden hemisphere!"
"Uh oh, we are meeting tomorrow and I haven't read my book. What do I do?"
Read these very short stories:
The 4-D Doodler by Graph Waldeyer
- 24 pages; " Do you believe, Professor Gault, that this four dimensional plane contains life--intelligent life?"
Beyond lies the Wub by Philip K. Dick
- 26 pages; "The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools."
"The Red Thread” by Sofia Samatar
- n/a; A young girl wanders the Dakotas with her mother, trying to get in contact with a boy from her past.