Science fiction and fantasy fans are invited to join UUCSV’s Speculative Spiritualities Book Club, dedicated to reading and discussing works at the intersection of speculative fiction and religious contemplation. All are welcome!
The Book club meets about once a month, usually on the last Tuesday; at present meetings are held on Zoom. Contact us for more information, including meeting dates and Zoom links.
Selections through March 2025 are:
October 2024: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (book review)
November 2024: Bitch Planet Volume 1 (graphic novel), by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro (book review)
December 2024: Speed of Dark, by Elizabeth Moon (book review)
January 2025: Shubeik Lubeik, (graphic novel, e-book) by Deena Mohamed (book review)
February 2025: Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng (book review)
March 2025: Exit West, by Moshin Hamid (book review)
Previous selections include:
Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi
Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Future, Naomi Alderman
The Power, Naomi Alderman
The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov
The City Inside, Samit Basu
Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers
The Story of the Hundred Promises, Neil Cochrane
The Women Could Fly, Megan Giddings
The Water Outlaws, by S. L. Huang
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin
The World We Make, N. K. Jemisin
Pym, Mat Johnson
The Deep Sky,Yume Kitasei
The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence, R. F. Kuang
The Dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin
The Unbalancing: A Birdverse Novel, R. B.Lemberg
The Wandering Earth, Cixin Liu
The Factory Witches of Lowell, C. S. Malerich
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
The Daughter of Dr. Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu
Notes from the Burning Age, Claire North
Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy
Even though I Knew the End, C. L. Polk
The Overstory, Richard Powers
New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson
Victory City, Salman Rushdie
The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russel
The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi
The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd
The Iron Dragon’s Daughter, Michael Swanwick
Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh
Zone One, Colson Whitehead
Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson
The Bird King, G. Willow Wilson