Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club
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Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club
- Date:
- Wednesday, August 6, 2025
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:00pm
- Location:
- Innovation Lab
- Location:
- Main Library (300 N. Roxboro St)
- Audience:
- Adult Emerging Adult: 18-24 Year Olds
- Categories:
- Book Club
This month the Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club returns to the stars with an interstellar mystery in Arkady Martine's debut novel A Memory Called Empire.
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident―or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court.
Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion―all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret―one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life―or rescue it from annihilation.