Sci Fi Story Club: The Toynbee Convector and The Lady Astronaut of Mars
About the Event
Join us on Zoom for the next gathering of the Sci Fi Story Club. We’ll be discussing two stories: The Toynbee Convector (1984) by Ray Bradbury and The Lady Astronaut of Mars (2012) by Mary Robinette Kowal.
In Bradbury’s story, a man living in our dystopian, polluted present builds a time machine and travels 100 years into the future, returning with glad tidings of the paradise that earth will become; over the next century, his inspiring prediction indeed comes to pass. On the centennial of his famous journey, the day his past self is set to arrive, a reporter is invited to interview the now 130-year-old traveller, and learns the truth of what really happened. Robinette Kowal tells the story of Elma York, a pioneering astronaut who led the first interplanetary mission. Now older and living on Mars, she faces a difficult choice: accept a final, one-way mission to a new planet, or stay on Mars with her ailing husband, who refuses to make the journey.
Email eden@lapl.org for the reading selection and for the Zoom link to attend.
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