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Add this Event to Calendar 04/14/2025 07:00 PM 04/14/2025 08:30 PM SciFi/Fantasy Book Club

Join us Monday April 14th @7:00-8:00pm in the Reading Room for Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club!  Visitors and new members are always welcome!  Registration is not required, but an email stating that you plan to attend is appreciated.   

Our next books are... 

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This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladtone (SFF, AAPI)

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.

Hugo Award for Best Novella (2020)Nebula Award for Best Novella (2019)Locus Award for Best Novella (2020)British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Shorter Fiction (2019)Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Novella (2020)Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Nominee (2020)Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction (Ray Bradbury Prize) (2020)Tähtivaeltaja Award (2024)Prix Aurora Award for Best Short Fiction (2020)The Kitschies Nominee for Red Tentacle (Novel) and Inky Tentacle (Cover Art) (2019)Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2019)Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize Nominee for Fiction and Poetry (2020)Reddit r/fantasy Stabby Award for Best Novella (2019)Ignyte Award for Best Novella (2020)

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.A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (SFF)

Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-awareness, laid down their tools, wandered, en masse into the wilderness, never to be seen again. They faded into myth and urban legend.

Now the life of the tea monk who tells this story 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 will need to ask it a lot. Chambers' series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?

Hugo Award for Best Novella (2022)Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novella (2021)Stonewall Book Award Nominee for Literature (2022)Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2021)

Copies of the regular print edition will be available at the library's Circulation Desk one month ahead of the meeting. Ebook and audiobook can be found on the Libby app.  Plan ahead - don't forget you can place & suspend your holds!

All readers are always welcome!  Questions or having trouble borrowing a copy of the book? Email Christina!

 


Contact: Christina 781.848.0405 x4430 [email protected]
Reading Room - Main Level