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Established 2016

Fantasy & Science Fiction Book Club

​Fantasy & Science Fiction Discussion Group
Final Thursday Every Month
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January 2023

1/9/2023

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The January book club pick is The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach. We will be meeting on Thursday, January 26th at 6:30pm EST in an online video chat. You can find the link in the sidebar to the right (or the bottom of the page if you're on a phone browser)!

Sascha Stronach is a Māori author from the Kai Tahu iwi and Kati Huirapa Runaka Ki Puketeraki hapu. He is based in Wellington, New Zealand, and has also spent time in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore, which have all inspired parts of the fictional worlds he creates. A former tech writer, he first broke out into speculative fiction by experimenting with the short form. The Dawnhounds, his debut novel, won the Sir Julius Vogel Award at Worldcon 78.
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So, what's the book about?

Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this queer, Māori-inspired debut fantasy about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with protecting her city from an insidious evil threatening to destroy it.

The port city of Hainak is alive: its buildings, its fashion, even its weapons. But, after a devastating war and a sweeping biotech revolution, all its inhabitants want is peace, no one more so than Yat Jyn-Hok a reformed-thief-turned-cop who patrols the streets at night.

Yat has recently been demoted on the force due to "lifestyle choices" after being caught at a gay club. She's barely holding it together, haunted by memories of a lover who vanished and voices that float in and out of her head like radio signals. When she stumbles across a dead body on her patrol, two fellow officers gruesomely murder her and dump her into the harbor. Unfortunately for them, she wakes up.

Resurrected by an ancient power, she finds herself with the new ability to manipulate life force. Quickly falling in with the pirate crew who has found her, she must race against time to stop a plague from being unleashed by the evil that has taken root in Hainak.
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Finally, you can add the event to your calendar from ours (check the event page) to get reminders & updates about any changes to the event!
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​Reviews & Interviews

The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach, Read by Anna Coddington -- LitHub
Fungal Houses & Queer Paladins: The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach -- Every Book A Doorway

Episode 290: Māori Science Fiction and Being Joyously Weird (with Sascha Stronach) -- Spirits Podcast
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December 2022

12/2/2022

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The December book club pick is Artificial Condition by Martha Wells. We will be meeting on Thursday, December 29th at 6:30pm EST in an online video chat. You can find the link in the sidebar to the right (or the bottom of the page if you're on a phone browser)!

Martha Wells has written many fantasy novels, including  The Wizard Hunters, Wheel of the Infinite, the Books of the Raksura series (beginning with The Cloud Roads and ending with The Harbors of the Sun), and the Nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer, as well as YA fantasy novels, short stories, and nonfiction.

Her New York Times and USA Today-bestselling Murderbot Diaries series has won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards.


So, what's the book about?

Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling novella, All Systems Red.

It has a dark past--one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself "Murderbot". But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.

Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don't want to know what the "A" stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.

What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks...
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We are open to the public Mon-Sat from 11am-7pm so you can pickup orders at the register. However, you can also pickup your book using our pickup basket at the front door or the drive thru window. We're available for pickup Mon-Sat from 9am-7pm. We simply ask that you call ahead when coming to get your order!

We also offer free media mail shipping for orders $30+ and free local delivery (within Boone town limits). Getting your book to you as conveniently as possible is important to us! 
 
Finally, you can add the event to your calendar from ours (check the event page) to get reminders & updates about any changes to the event!
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​Reviews & Interviews

Martha Wells on writing an anxious, relatable killbot -- Transfer Orbit
Short Stories and Sad Endings: A Conversation with Martha Wells -- Clarksworld

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells -- SFBook Reviews
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November 2022

11/2/2022

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​The November book club pick is A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers. We will be meeting on Thursday, December 1st at 6:30pm EST in an online video chat. Things are slightly different this month to accommodate everyone's busy schedules during the Thanksgiving holiday!


Becky Chambers is the bestselling author of the Wayfarers series, the Monk and Robot novellas, and other standalone works of science fiction. She is a two-time Hugo Award winner, and has been nominated for the Nebula, the Locus, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Women's Prize for Fiction, among others. Her latest book is A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, the second installment of Monk and Robot.

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​Becky has a background in performing arts, and grew up in a family heavily involved in space science. She spends her free time playing video and tabletop games, watching bugs, and looking through her telescope. Having hopped around the world a bit, she has settled down (for the moment) in Humboldt County, California, where she lives with her wife. She hopes to see Earth from orbit one day.

​So, what's the book about?

It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend.
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One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered.

But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how.

They're going to need to ask it a lot.

Becky Chambers's new series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?
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If this sounds like something you would like to read, you can get your copy of the book from the store for 15% off when you order with us: in-store, online, over the phone (828.386.1219), or via email. Our booksellers will be happy to help you get the book in the format that you prefer!

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We are open to the public Mon-Sat from 11am-7pm so you can pickup orders at the register. However, you can also pickup your book using our pickup basket at the front door or the drive thru window. We're available for pickup Mon-Sat from 9am-7pm. We simply ask that you call ahead when coming to get your order!

We also offer free media mail shipping for orders $30+ and free local delivery (within Boone town limits). Getting your book to you as conveniently as possible is important to us! 
 
Finally, you can add the event to your calendar from ours (check the event page) to get reminders & updates about any changes to the event! ​

Reviews & Interviews

A Monk And A Robot Meet In A Forest...And Talk Philosophy In This New Novel -- NPR
The SFF Librarian Reviews: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 
​-- Ancillary Review of Books​
A Psalm for the Wild-Built -- BookPage
Interview With an Author: Becky Chambers -- Los Angeles Public Library
Important Strangers: A Conversation with Becky Chambers -- Clarkesworld
Is Becky Chambers the Ultimate Hope for Science Fiction? -- Wired.com
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August 2022

8/3/2022

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The August book club pick is Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan! We will be meeting on Thursday, August 25th at 6:30pm EST in an online video chat!

This month we're returning to our regular schedule of discussing one book per meeting. 

Brian K. Vaughan is an award-winning American comic book & television writer. He is best known for his work on graphic novels such as: Saga, Runaways, and
Y: The Last Man. He was also a writer & producer during seasons 3-5 of acclaimed television show, Lost. 

He lives in LA with his wife, their two children, and their pet Dachshund, Hamburger.

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​So, what's the book about?

In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smash-hit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood. This edition collects issues #1-5 and this is the first edition in a collection of six volumes. 
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If this sounds like something you would like to read, you can get your copy of the book from the store for 15% off when you order with us: in-store, online, over the phone (828.386.1219), or via email. Our booksellers will be happy to help you get the book in the format that you prefer!

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We are open to the public Mon-Sat from 11am-7pm so you can pickup orders at the register. However, you can also pickup your book using our pickup basket at the front door or the drive thru window. We're available for pickup Mon-Sat from 9am-7pm. We simply ask that you call ahead when coming to get your order!

We also offer free media mail shipping for orders $30+ and free local delivery (within Boone town limits). Getting your book to you as conveniently as possible is important to us! 
 
Finally, you can add the event to your calendar from ours (check the event page) to get reminders & updates about any changes to the event! 
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Reviews & Interviews

​The Paper Girls & The Alien Invaders -- Slate
Paper Girls: Book One -- The Comics Journal
Brian K. Vaughan on Taking Comics Where Hollywood Can't Go -- The Culture Vulture
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June 2022

6/17/2022

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This month's book club pick is The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern! We will be meeting on Thursday, June 30th at 6:30 in an online video chat!

​This month's meeting is slightly different than usual because we will only be discussing this book up to page 250. We will discuss the rest of the book during the July book club meeting!

Erin Morgenstern is a writer and multimedia artist who describes all her work as being "fairy tales in one way or another." She lives in Massachusetts. You can find more about Erin on her website.

So, what's the book about?

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Reves, and it is only open at night.

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway--a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love--a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus per­formers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.
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We are open to the public Mon-Sat from 11am-7pm so you can pickup orders at the register. However, you can also pickup your book using our pickup basket at the front door or the drive thru window. We're available for pickup Mon-Sat from 9am-7pm. We simply ask that you call ahead when coming to get your order!

We also offer free media mail shipping for orders $30+ and free local delivery (within Boone town limits). Getting your book to you as conveniently as possible is important to us! 
 
Finally, you can add the event to your calendar from ours (check the event page) to get reminders & updates about any changes to the event! 

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Reviews & Interviews

The Night Circus - NYT
The Night Circus - Publisher's Weekly
Erin Morgenstern Interview -- Bill Kenower YouTube
Erin Morgenstern: A Three-Ring Debut -- BookPage

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April 2022

4/1/2022

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UPDATE:​ This month's meeting is being pushed back to Thursday, May 5th due to a scheduling conflict that cannot be avoided. Thank you for your understanding & see you next week!
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This month's book club pick is The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson! We will be meeting in an online video chat on Thursday, April 28th at 6:30 pm!

G. Willow Wilson is the author of the acclaimed novel The Bird King (2019), co-creator of the Hugo and American Book Award-winning series Ms Marvel (2013-2018), and has written for some of the world’s best-known superhero comic book series, including The X-Men, Superman and Wonder Woman. Her first novel, Alif the Unseen, won the 2013 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, was a finalist for the Center For Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and was long-listed for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction. In 2015, she won the Graphic Literature Innovator Prize at the PEN America Literary Awards. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. She lives in Seattle.
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So, What's The Book About?

This is a stunning novel that tells the story of Fatima, a concubine in the royal court of Granada, the last emirate of Muslim Spain, and her dearest friend Hassan, the palace mapmaker.

Hassan has a secret--he can draw maps of places he's never seen and bend the shape of reality. When representatives of the newly formed Spanish monarchy arrive to negotiate the sultan's surrender, Fatima befriends one of the women, not realizing that she will see Hassan's gift as sorcery and a threat to Christian Spanish rule. With their freedoms at stake, what will Fatima risk to save Hassan and escape the palace walls?

As Fatima and Hassan traverse Spain with the help of a clever jinn to find safety, The Bird King asks us to consider what love is and the price of freedom at a time when the West and the Muslim world were not yet separate.
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Starting Monday, April 4th, we will be open to the public Mon-Sat from 11am-7pm so you can pickup orders at the register. However, you can also pickup your book using our pickup basket at the front door or the drive thru window. We're available for pickup Mon-Sat from 9am-7pm (starting April 4th). We simply ask that you call ahead when coming to get your order. We also offer free media mail shipping for orders $30+ and free local delivery (within Boone town limits). Getting your book to you as conveniently as possible is important to us! 
 
Finally, you can add the event to your calendar from ours (check the event page) to get reminders & updates about any changes to the event! 

​Reviews & Interviews

Building a Home of Stories in 'The Bird King' -- NPR.org
G. Willow Wilson Reimagines the Last Days of Moorish Spain -- The New York Times 
Author Talks: G. Willow Wilson with N.K. Jemisin -- NYPL
G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King -- Politics & Prose
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March 2022

2/28/2022

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This month's book club pick is The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers! We will be meeting in an online video chat on Thursday, March 31st at 6:30 pm!

Becky Chambers is a science fiction author based in Northern California. She is best known for her Hugo Award-winning Wayfarers series, which currently includes The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, A Closed and Common Orbit, Record of a Spaceborn Few, and Galaxy and the Ground Within. Her books have also been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Locus Award, and the Women's Prize for Fiction, among others.  Having hopped around the world a bit, she's now back in her home state, where she lives with her wife. She hopes to see Earth from orbit one day.
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So, What's The Book About?

Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space--and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe--in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star.

Rosemary Harper doesn't expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she's never met anyone remotely like the ship's diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain.

Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy--exactly what Rosemary wants. It's also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn't part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other.

​To survive, Rosemary's got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs--an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn't necessarily the worst thing in the universe.
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​If this sounds like something you would like to read, you can get your copy of the book from the store for 15% off when you order with us: in-store, online, over the phone (828.386.1219), or via email. Our booksellers will be happy to help you get the book in the format that you prefer!

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We are open to the public Mon-Sat from 11am-6pm so you can pickup orders at the register. However, you can also pickup your book using our pickup basket at the front door or the drive thru window. We're available for pickup Mon-Sat from 9am-6pm. We simply ask that you call ahead when coming to get your order. We also offer free media mail shipping for orders $30+ and free local delivery (within Boone town limits). Getting your book to you as conveniently as possible is important to us! 
 
Finally, you can add the event to your calendar from ours (check the event page) to get reminders & updates about any changes to the event! 


​Reviews & Interviews

The Joy of the Journey - Tor​
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: Book Review - The Lesbian Review
Interview: Becky Chambers on The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet & Writing Welcoming Science Fiction - The Mary Sue
A Q&A with Becky Chambers - Women's Prize for Fiction
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February 2022

1/28/2022

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​This month's book club pick is This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. We will be meeting on Thursday, February 24th at 6:30 in an online video chat. You can RSVP to the event & get the chat link here. 


Amal El-Mohtar is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism. Her stories and poems have appeared in magazines including Tor.com, Fireside Fiction, Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Apex, Stone Telling, and Mythic Delirium; anthologies including The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories (2017), The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (2016), Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories (2014), and The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (2011); and in her own collection, The Honey Month (2010). Her articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, NPR Books and on Tor.com. She became the Otherworldly columnist at the New York Times in February 2018, and is represented by DongWon Song of HMLA.

Max Gladstone is a fencer, a fiddler, and Hugo Award Finalist. He has taught English in China, Wrecked a bicycle in Angkor Wat, and been thrown from a horse in Mongolia. Max lives and writes in Somerville, Massachusetts, near Boston. He is the author of the Craft Sequence (Three Parts Dead, Two Serpents Rise, Full Fathom Five, Last First Snow, Four Roads Cross, and Ruin of Angels).

​So, what's the book about?

As agents Red and Blue travel back and forth through time, altering the history of multiple universes on behalf of their warring empires, they leave each other secret messages—at first taunting, but gradually developing into a flirtation and then love.
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We are open to the public again (Mon-Sat from 11am-7pm) so you can pickup orders at the register. However, you can also pickup your book using our pickup basket at the front door or the drive thru window. We're available for pickup Mon-Sat from 9am-6pm. We simply ask that you call ahead when coming to get your order. We also offer free media mail shipping for orders $30+ and free local delivery (within Boone town limits). Getting your book to you as conveniently as possible is important to us! 
 
Finally, you can add the event to your calendar from ours (check the event page) to get reminders & updates about any changes to the event! 

Reviews & Interviews

Letters Serve To Bond Time-Traveling Rivals In "This Is How You Lose the Time War" -- NPR.org 
Review: This Is How You Lose the Time War -- Elitist Book Reviews
Hugo Spotlight: A Love Letter To This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone -- Tor.com
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January 2022

12/23/2021

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This month's book club pick is  Parable of the Talents  by Octavia E. Butler. We will be meeting on Thursday, January 27th at 6:30 in an online video chat. You can RSVP to the event & get the chat link here. 

Octavia Butler was an acclaimed African American author who received a Macarthur "Genius" Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. Born in Pasadena in 1947, she was raised by her mother & grandmother and she died on February 24, 2006. She was the author of several award-winning books, including Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. Her work is known for her lean prose & strong protagonists, while exploring themes of global warming, Black injustice, women's rights, and political disparity. Her work is now taught at over 200 colleges & universities and her impact on literature cannot be understated.  ​

So, what's the book about?

Lauren Olamina's love is divided among her young daughter, her community, and the revelation that led Lauren to found a new faith that teaches "God Is Change". But in the wake of environmental and economic chaos, the U.S. government turns a blind eye to violent bigots who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat. And soon Lauren must either sacrifice her child and her followers -- or forsake the religion that can transform human destiny.

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Reviews & Interviews

Parable of the Talents -- Publisher's Weekly
Why So Many Readers Are Turning to Octavia Butler’s Apocalypse Fiction Right Now --Slate.com
VISIONS: IDENTITY; 'We Tend to Do the Right Thing When We Get Scared' -- nytimes.com
Review: Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler -- Utopia State of Mind
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December 2021

12/22/2021

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​This month's book club pick is All Systems Red by Martha Wells. We will be meeting on Thursday, December 30th at 6:30 in an online video chat. You can RSVP to the event & get the chat link here. 

Martha Wells has written many fantasy novels, including The Wizard Hunters, Wheel of the Infinite, the Books of the Raksura series (beginning with The Cloud Roads and ending with The Harbors of the Sun), and the Nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer, as well as YA fantasy novels, short stories, and non-fiction.

So, what's the book about?

A murderous android discovers itself in "All Systems Red," a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial intelligence.

​In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn't a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied 'droid -- a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as "Murderbot." Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.

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Finally, you can RSVP on the Facebook event to get reminders & updates about any changes to the event! Do that here! You can also add it to your personal calendar--check out the event page to see our Google event calendar where you can RSVP!

Reviews & Interviews

Sulky, Cynical 'Murderbot' Is One Of Sci-Fi's Most Human Characters -- NPR.org
Spending Time With a Murderbot: All Systems Red by Martha Wells -- tor.com
Exclusive Interview: “All Systems Red” Author Martha Wells -- paulsemel.com
Interview with Martha Wells -- Off the Shelf
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