SF&F Book Club

Date

Repeats every 4 weeks every Saturday.
Saturday, November 2, 2024 - 3:30pm

Meets one Saturday every month at 3:30PM. Interested in joining? Contact Robert for information: LanxonR@milwaukieoregon.gov

Upcoming Books:

JANUARY 6 – Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

A man who is marooned on Mars and raised by Martians for 25 years returns to earth and navigates strange and different cultures.

FEBRUARY 3 – Black Prism by Brent Weeks

A fantasy in a world of magic and simple technology where brothers are at odds and a previously unknown son puts everyone in danger.

MARCH 2 – Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

A Chinese astrophysicist invites aliens to come to earth to help with humanities problems.

MARCH 30 – Shattered Realms: Flamecaster by Cinda Williams Chima

Book 1 of the Shattered Realms series about a healer bent on revenge and a young woman who is being hunted because of a magemark on the back of her neck.

APRIL 27 – Borrowed Man by Gene Wolfe

E. A. Smithe is the clone of a dead mystery writer and lives on a shelf in the library.

MAY 18 – Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch

A probationary Constable who can speak to the recently dead fights to solve a mystery and defeat an evil power.

JUNE 15 – Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

Twelve year old Ridley Walker lives in an iron age post-apocalyptic world 1000 years after a devastating nuclear war.

JULY 13 – Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

A steampunk fantasy world where a scientist attempts to help a member of an avian species regain flight and in the process unleashes a flying monster.

AUGUST 10 – Glory Road by Robert Heinlein

A war veteran accepts a quest to find the Egg and travels along the Glory Road.

SEPTEMBER 7 – Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro

In a universe far in the human factions fight for supremacy with a fighter pilot involved in intricate plots and in love with the heir to the enemy empire.

OCTOBER 5 – A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

A professor at Yale University must accept her magical blood and learn how to be a witch after denying that aspect of herself.

NOVEMBER 2 – Provenance by Ann Leckie

An ambitious young woman has just one chance to secure her future and reclaim her family's priceless lost artifacts.