Monthly Archives: February 2018

Public Screening of “Finest Kind: The New Bedford Fishing Industry”

The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives, in collaboration with the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, will hold a public screening and discussion of the documentary film Finest Kind: The New Bedford Fishing Industry.

When: Thursday, March 1st at 12:30 pm
Where: Prince Henry Society Reading Room of the Archives (mezzanine floor of the Claire T. Carney Library – parking lot 13)

For more information, contact Sonia Pacheco (spacheco@umassd.edu)

A flyer for the Brown Bag Screening of Finest Kind; The New Bedford Fishing Industry

SciFi Book Club to discuss “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”

The Science Fiction Book Club has selected Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick as their first read of the Spring semester. The book takes place in 2021, years after the war to end all wars has made Earth practically uninhabitable and most people have moved to Mars. To encourage people to move, each person gets their very own human-like android, but some androids are escaping back to Earth. The main character, Rick, hunts down these rogue androids in the hopes of getting enough money for a real animal, which is now a serious status symbol.

If this plot seems slightly familiar, perhaps you’re thinking of the 1982 movie Blade Runner (or the recent sequel Blade Runner 2049) that’s based on this book! Not only is the title different, but the book and movie are quite different, too, so you won’t spoil too much by watching the movie first.

Many of Philip K. Dick’s works have been adapted to the screen, such as Minority Report, We Can Remember it for you Wholesale (as Total Recall in 1990 and 2012), and The Man in the High Castle (the book club read this one 2 years ago!). There’s also a graphic novel adaptation of Do Androids Dream… for those of you who enjoy sequential art.

To find Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? check at your public library or request the book from our library via interlibrary loan.

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday, February 21st at 1pm in Library 314 to discuss Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?