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 Summer 2024 are:
January 2: Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (book review)
January 30: The Daughter of Dr. Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (book review)
February: The Future by Naomi Alderman (book review)
March: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (book review)
April: The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang (book review)
May: Victory City by Salman Rushdie (book review)
June: The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei (book review)
July: Even though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk (book review)
August: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (book review)
Previous selections include:
Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi
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
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin
The World We Make, N. K. Jemisin
Pym, Mat Johnson
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
How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu
Notes from the Burning Age, Claire North
Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy
The Overstory, Richard Powers
New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson
The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russel
The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd
The Iron Dragon’s Daughter, Michael Swanwick
Zone One, Colson Whitehead
Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson
The Bird King, G. Willow Wilson