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Ray Bradbury: 1920-2012

Submitted by Beth Krippel on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 8:43am

Another of the great SF authors has passed away.  Ray Bradbury (August 22, 1920 — June 5, 2012) is the author of SF classics such as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and

Do you have your towel?

Submitted by Beth Krippel on Fri, 05/25/2012 - 9:02am

It is May 25th and time to celebrate Towel Day!  Started in 2001, two weeks after the death of author Douglas Adams, this day honors the author of SF classics including The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  It is that story, and its many other installments, that introduces us to the towel as the "most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have."  Read Chapter 3 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to find out why.

Nebula Award Winners

Submitted by Beth Krippel on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 3:38pm

The Nebula Awards® are voted on and presented by the active members of SFWA for outstanding science fiction and fantasy published in 2011.

The full list of winners this year can be found on the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America page.

Novel Winner: Among Others by Jo Walton

 

 

Novel Nominees:

 

Summer Reading is Coming!

Submitted by Beth Krippel on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 1:02pm

FOAL Annual Meeting: May 1 at 7:00 PM

Submitted by Beth Krippel on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 11:07am

The Friends of the Atascocita Library Annual Meeting will be held Tuesday, May1, at 7:00PM at the Atascocita Library.There will be a short business meeting, which will include election of officers and presentation of the budget for 2012 – 2013. Harris County Precinct 4 Commissioner R. Jack Cagle will be the guest speaker. He has spent more than 20 years working with and serving the citizens of Harris County Precinct 4 as an attorney, as an elected judge and now serving as county commissioner.

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