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Science Fiction Book Club on Accessible World. Meets the second Thursday of each month at 9pm Eastern. Facilitator leads the discussion and that month's attendees share a science fiction book they've recently read. Sponsored by Helping Hands for the Blind.

Science Fiction Club The Object by Joshua Calvert DB126013. 11/13/2025
Today at 1:11 PM

available from BARD.

https://nlsbard.loc.gov/bard2-web/search/DB126013/?prevPage=search_books&from=%2Fsearch%2Fresults%2F%3Ftype%3Dbook%26initialFormat%3Dall%26search%3Dthe%2Bobject%26initialLanguage%3Den

The object DB126013

Author: Calvert, Joshua T.

Reading Time: 15 hours, 4 minutes

Read by: Shelton, Jessie

Subject: Science Fiction

“Deep space holds secrets… and one astronomer for NASA has found a big one. But it’s not what she thinks. Dr. Melody Adams, a physicist and the Gemini North Observatory, was studying Pluto in the telescope data and it struck...


Science Fiction Club 10/09/2025
10/15/2025

Hey Guys,

 

It’s bring your own book for this meeting, but please also bring any ideas you may have for our group read for November. We have five weeks this time, so don’t worry about length.

 


Science Fiction Club Meeting. 09/18/2025
10/06/2025

Science Fiction Club meeting.

 

 


Science Fiction Club Meeting. 08/14/2025
09/30/2025

Science Fiction Club Meeting.


Science Fiction Club Meeting 07/10/2025
07/18/2025

Science Fiction Club Meeting


Science Fiction Club Meeting. 06/12/2025
06/29/2025

Science Fiction Club Meeting.


Science Fiction Club Meeting. 05/08/2025
05/17/2025

Science Fiction Club Meeting.


Science Fiction Club Discussing The taking DB58300 by Dean Koontz. 04/17/2025
04/24/2025

The taking DB58300

Author: Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)

Reading Time: 9 hours, 8 minutes

Read by: Michele Schaeffer

Subjects: Bestsellers, Occult and Horror Fiction, Suspense Fiction

 

Twenty-eight-year-old Molly Sloan and her husband, Neil, awaken to terrifying news of impending global disaster. As they lose all communication and watch an eerie fog settle on their small California town, Molly, Neil, and their neighbors brace themselves against the onslaught of evil. Violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2004.

 

New York : Bantam Books, c2004.

 

Here is...


Science Fiction club Meeting 03/13/2025
03/23/2025

Science Fiction club Meeting.


Science Fiction Club Discussing The Engines of God DB41883 by Jack McDevitt. 02/13/2025
03/02/2025

Hello Folks,

At our most recent Science Fiction club meeting, we agreed to read the book The Engines of God, by Jack McDevitt, for our February 13 meeting.

It is available from BARD:

https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB41883

The NLS synopsis reads:

Early in the twenty-third century, young Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins serves as a space pilot for a team of archaeologists investigating a long-extinct galactic civilization. Marvelling at the monuments left on distant planets, Hutch and her colleagues confront the natural hazards of new worlds and stay...


Science Fiction Club. 01/09/2025
01/18/2025

Science Fiction Club meeting.


Science Fiction Club to discuss Inverted world DB69875 by Christopher Priest. 12/12/2024
12/20/2024

Hello Folks,

It’s time once again at the Science Fiction club for a group read.

For December’s meeting, we’ve selected Inverted world by Christopher Priest.

There are copies on both BARD”

https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB69875

and two Publisher Quality versions on Bookshare:

https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/1020411

and

https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/4162792

The NLS annotation reads as follows:

The walled metropolis sits upon tracks, pulled along by a giant wi...


Science Fiction Club Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club. 11/14/2024
11/21/2024

Science Fiction Club Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club.


Science Fiction Club. 10/10/2024
10/18/2024

Science Fiction Club.


Science Fiction Club. 08/08/2024
08/13/2024

Science Fiction Club


Science Fiction Club. 07/11/2024
07/23/2024

Science Fiction Club


Science Fiction Group 06/13/2024
06/23/2024

Science fiction Group


Mystery Book Discussion Group to discuss The raging storm DB116366 by Ann Cleeves. 05/26/2024
05/29/2024

The NLS annotation follows:

 

The raging storm DB116366

Cleeves, Ann Reading time: 9 hours, 50 minutes.

Jack Holden

 

Suspense Fiction

LGBTQ+

Mystery and Detective Stories

 

“When Jem Rosco—sailor, adventurer, and legend—blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. But just as abruptly as he arrived, Rosco disappears again, and soon his lifeless body is discovered in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, a place wit...


Science Fiction Club Meeting. 05/09/2024
05/15/2024

Science Fiction Club Meeting.


Science Fiction Club Meeting 04/11/2024
04/17/2024

Science Fiction Club Meeting


Science Fiction Club 03/15/2024
03/29/2024

Science Fiction Club


Science Fiction Club 02/08/2024
02/14/2024

Science Fiction Club.


Science Fiction Club 12/14/2023
12/24/2023

Science Fiction Club.


Science Fiction Club 11/09/2023
11/20/2023

Science Fiction Club


Science Fiction Club 10/12/2023
10/30/2023

Science Fiction Club


Science Fiction Club 09/14/2023
09/20/2023


Science Fiction Club 08/10/2023
08/15/2023


Science Fiction Club. 07/13/2023
08/08/2023


Science Fiction Club. 06/08/2023
06/14/2023


Science Fiction Club Meeting 05/11/2023
05/16/2023

Science Fiction Club Meeting


Science Fiction Club 04/13/2023
04/17/2023

Hello Folks,

Another meeting of the Science Fiction club is coming around again.

Bring a Science Fiction book you’ve just read, or one you read a long time ago and tell us about it. Whether you liked it or loathed it doesn’t matter. We’d just like to hear about it.


Science Fiction Club Meeting 03/09/2023
03/13/2023

Hello Folks,

Another meeting of the Science Fiction club is coming around again.

Bring a Science Fiction book you’ve just read, or one you read a long

time ago and tell us about it. Whether you liked it or loathed it

doesn’t matter. We’d just like to hear about it.


Science Fiction club 02/10/2023
02/16/2023

Hello Folks,

It’s time once again for another meeting of the Science Fiction club, the second of 2023.

Bring any Science Fiction book you’ve read, or even started, and tell us about it.


Science Fiction club 01/12/2023
01/20/2023

Hello Folks,

It’s time once again for another meeting of the Science Fiction club, the first of 2023.

Bring any Science Fiction book you’ve read, or even started, and tell us about it.


Science Fiction Club 12/08/2022
12/21/2022

Hello Folks, Another meeting of the Science Fiction club meeting. This is the last one in 2022.


Science Fiction Club Meeting 11/10/2022
11/12/2022

Hello Folks,

Another meeting of the Science Fiction club is coming around again.

Bring a Science Fiction book you’ve just read, or one you read a long

time ago and tell us about it. Whether you liked it or loathed it

doesn’t matter. We’d just like to hear about it.


Science Fiction club 10/13/2022
10/17/2022

Hello Folks, It’s come around again, another meeting of the Science Fiction club. Bring a book that you’ve read, whether yesterday, or decades ago, or anytime in between, and tell us what you thought about it.


Science Fiction club 09/08/2022
09/10/2022

Hello Folks,

It’s come around again, another meeting of the Science Fiction club. Bring a book that you’ve read, whether yesterday, or decades ago, or anytime in between, and tell us what you thought about it.


Science Fiction club 09/08/2022
09/10/2022

Hello Folks, It's come around again, another meeting of the Science Fiction club. Bring a book that you've read, whether yesterday, or decades ago, or anytime in between, and tell us what you thought about it.


Science Fiction Club 08/11/2022
08/20/2022

Hello Folks,

It’s come around again, another meeting of the Science Fiction club. Bring a book that you’ve read, whether yesterday, or decades ago, or anytime in between, and tell us what you thought about it.