Pure Speculation Book Club
Location:
Zoom
Challenging our past, present and future with a diverse selection of authors and genres under the specultive fiction umbrella. We will explore how our world could be different if only for some slight, or drastic, changes.
The Pure Speculation Book Club meets online via the Zoom platform on the third Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m.
Unfortunately, this book club is full and not accepting new members.
Book Club Liaison: Abby Williams
Current Selection
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Previous Selections
Thistlefoot by Gennarose Nethercott
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby van Pelt
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
Fledgling by Octavia Butler
American War by Omar El Akkad i
Light Years from Home by Mike Chen
How High We Go In the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull
The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei
The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio de Maria
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Kindred by Octavia Butler
The Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Roadside Picnic by Arcady and Boris Strugatsky
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Master Class by Christina Dalcher
The Preserve by Ariel S. Winter
Bloodchild by Octavia Butler
After the Flood by Kassandra Montag
The Circle by Dave Eggars
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King
Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
American Judas by Mickey Dubrow
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley. Foreword by Christopher Hitchens.
