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A Monthly Book Club Discussing New Science Fiction Literature
Starting in 2025 the Takoma Park DC Library will host the ‘Science Friction’ Sci-fi Book Club. Science Friction will meet every third Thursday of the month to discuss recent publications of science fiction.
Science and speculative fiction began as a genre of experimentation, where authors used the genre as a sandbox to play with imagined realities of what our world could be. Our club reads stories that keep the spark of this imagination, and use it to challenge how we think about the world today.
Meetings are In-Person at the Takoma Park Neighborhood Library in the downstairs meeting room. We meet every third Thursday of the month through the October 2026 from 6:30pm to 7:45pm. November and December meetings will take place in the same time slot on the third Thursday of the month to accommodate for holiday closures.
All materials are available through the DCPL Catalog in a variety of formats.
Audience: Adults (20+)
January 22nd - Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko and Sergey Dyachenko
February 26th - Harriet Tubman Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen
March 26th - Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta
April 23rd - The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
May 28th - The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara
June 25th - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
July 23rd - All Systems Red by Martha Wells
August 27th - The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
September 24th - Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
October 22nd - Red Dust by Yoss
November 19th - Future Home of a Living God Louise Erdrich
December 17th - Kraken by China Mieville
