Sci Fi Story Club: "The Toynbee Convector" and "The Lady Astronaut of Mars"

Join us on Zoom Wednesday March 25th at 6:00 p.m. PST 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 [email protected] for the reading selection and for the Zoom link to attend.

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