Speculative Spiritualities

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 first Tuesday; at present meetings are held on Zoom. Contact us for more information, including meeting dates and Zoom links.

Current selections through May 2026:

May 2026: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

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
  • Dawn, Octavia Butler
  • Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
  • A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers
  • The Story of the Hundred Promises, Neil Cochrane
  • Bitch Planet, Vol. 1, Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro
  • The Women Could Fly, Megan Giddings
  • Exit West, Moshin Hamid
  • Starling House, by Alex E. Harrow
  • Orbital, Samantha Harvey
  • 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 Book of Love, Kelly Link
  • The Wandering Earth, Cixin Liu
  • The Factory Witches of Lowell, C. S. Malerich
  • Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
  • Prophet, Helen MacDonald and Sin Blanche
  • Shubeik Lubeik, Deena Mohamed
  • The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon
  • The Daughter of Dr. Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu
  • Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng
  • 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
  • Atmosphere, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Victory City, Salman Rushdie
  • The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russel
  • Him, Geoff Ryman
  • The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi
  • The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd
  • The Iron Dragon’s Daughter, Michael Swanwick
  • Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, Sheri S. Tepper
  • Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh
  • The Martian, Andy Weir
  • Murder Bot: All Systems Red, by Martha Wells
  • Zone One, Colson Whitehead
  • The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wicker
  • To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
  • Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson
  • The Bird King, G. Willow Wilson