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Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club #84
For September’s Book Club we will be reading The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross. Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for The Laundry, a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob’s under a desk restoring lost data. None of them receive any thanks for the jobs they do, but
Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club #83
At August’s Book Club we will be reading The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar. The Winged Histories was published after A Stranger in Olondria, though Samatar considers it a “companion volume” rather than a sequel. In it, four women — a soldier, a scholar, a poet, and a socialite — are caught up on opposing
Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club #82
At July’s Book Club we will be reading Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen. An historian who speaks with the dead is ensnared by the past. A child who feels no pain and who should not exist sees the future. Between them are truths that will shake worlds. “Weird, wise, and worldly, Barsk:
The Great Science Fiction Fantasy Book Swap
Come one, come all, to the Evanston Public Library Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Swap, Saturday, May 14, 1-4 PM! The book swap will take place in the 3rd Floor Seminar Room at the Evanston Public Library (1703 Orrington Ave., Evanston, IL), as part of the Evanston Literary Festival. Bring your unwanted new or gently-used
Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club #81
For June’s Book Club we’ll be reading Central Station by Lavie Tidhar. A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper. But at Central Station, humans and machines continue to adapt,
Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club #80
For May’s Book Club we will be reading The United States of Japan by Peter Tieryas. Decades ago, Japan won the Second World War. Americans worship their infallible Emperor, and nobody believes that Japan’s conduct in the war was anything but exemplary. Nobody, that is, except the George Washingtons - a shadowy group of rebels
Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club #79
For April’s Book Club we will be reading The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin. Set on a world with supercharged geologic processes, some people here can steer these processes. Called orogenes, these individuals are harnessed by their government as soon as they’re discovered—or otherwise, ostracized or killed by the communities they live in. Join
Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club #78
For March’s Book Club we will be reading All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders. Childhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn’t expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during high school. After all, the development of magical powers and the invention of a two-second time
Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club #77
For February’s Book Club we’ll be reading Time Salvager by Wesley Chu. A fast-paced time travel adventure set in a toxic future Earth, Time Salvager follows a chronman—a criminal who travels into Earth’s past to recover items without altering the timeline. Despite being fated to die, Elise Kim travels forward with the chronman, turning them
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