Thank You all for Coming!

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone that showed up for the first bookclub meeting! Everyone seemed really interested in discussing the story and practicing English! I hope to see you all next time on January 19th. We'll be talking about science fiction stories from A Window on the Universe.

Have a Merry Christmas! And a happy New Year!

hello

I read the book last week but I think I have to review it. Here you have a link to a website for downloading free books:
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

see you

i´ve read the story , and i remember there is a movie version, 1952, made of 4 short stories, i think the title was O´henry´s full house. Farley Granger and Jean Peters where the players, i think.

magi

I,ve just created my Google Account, but i´m not sure if it´s ok.

The Zero Hour, Part One

A Window on the Universe.

Our choice for next month is  A Window on the Universe.

It is a collection of short Stories by Ray Bradbury, Bill Brown, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Jerome Bixby, Isaac Asimov, Brian Aldiss, Roald Dahl, and John Wyndham.

The stories featured in the book are:

ZERO HOUR by Ray Bradbury

THE STAR DUCKS by Bill Brown

HUMAN IS by Philip K. Dick

IT´S A GOOD LIFE by Jerome Bixby

THE MACHINE THAT WON THE WAR by Isaac Asimov

WHO CAN REPLACE A MAN by Brian Aldiss

STICH IN TIME by John Wyndham

THE SOUND MACHINE by Roald Dahl

THE HAMMER OF GOD by Arthur C. Clarke

The book is NOT available for reading online or for free download in PDF but it can be bought second hand from Amazon at a very reasonable price.

Anyway , there’s lot of information on the Internet about the stories and the authors, and in some cases long excerpts, especially of  IT´S A GOOD LIFE by Jerome Bixby and THE MACHINE THAT WON THE WAR by Isaac Asimov.

If you feel like listening to a radio programme based on THE ZERO HOUR , click here:

Zero Hour" by Ray Bradbury. Suspense Radio. Originally aired April 5th 1955.