Charlotte Sci-Fi Book Club

This month's book is Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Get it here: https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Strange-Land-Robert-Heinlein/dp/198480278X

This event will be in person and is tentatively planned for Divine Barrel Brewing depending on availability

Description:

Valentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while teaching them his own fundamental beliefs in grokking, watersharing, and love.

This month's book is Deal with the Devil by Kit Rocha

Get it here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250209366/

Description:

Nina is an information broker with a mission--she and her team of mercenary librarians use their knowledge to save the hopeless in a crumbling America.

Knox is the bitter, battle-weary captain of the Silver Devils. His squad of supersoldiers went AWOL to avoid slaughtering innocents, and now he's fighting to survive.

They're on a deadly collision course, and the passion that flares between them only makes it more dangerous. They could burn down the world, destroying each other in the process...

Or they could do the impossible: team up.

This month's book is The Last Gifts of the Universe by Riley August

Get it here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1335081798/

Description:

When the Home worlds finally achieved the technology to venture out into the stars, they found a graveyard of dead civilisations. What befell them is unknown. All Home knows is that they are the last ones left – and whatever came for the others will one day come for them.

Scout is an Archivist who scours the dead worlds of the cosmos for their last gifts: interesting technology, cultural rituals – anything left behind that might be useful to Home and their survival. During an excavation on a lifeless planet, Scout unearths something unbelievable: a surviving message from an alien who witnessed the world-ending entity thousands of years ago.

Now Scout, their brother and their sometimes-fearless, space-faring cat, Pumpkin, must race to save what matters most.