GNU Book Discussion

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Calling all Geeks, Nerds, and U!  Do you love getting lost in books about alternate universes?  Space?   Time travel? Anything science fiction related?  Then this GNU Book Discussion is for U!  

This month's book is Saturn Run by John Sandford and Ctein.  Text and book-on-CD copies are available in-Library and both text and audio versions are available through our Libby service.

GNU will meet in a hybrid mode until further notice.

May the fourth (Wednesday) be with US!

 

Saturn Run synopsis:

The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope--something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don't decelerate. Spaceships do. A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built that ship is at least one hundred years ahead in hard and soft technology, and whoever can get their hands on it exclusively and bring it back will have an advantage so large, no other nation can compete. A conclusion the Chinese definitely agree with when they find out. The race is on, and a remarkable adventure begins...