Under the Moontower Sci-Fi/Fantasy Club

• S3.E13 ∙ The Firebending Masters
• S3.E14 ∙ The Boiling Rock: Part 1
• S3.E15 ∙ The Boiling Rock, Part 2

Didn't catch any of the other episodes with us? That's okay! Avatar is easy to jump into and get your bearings. Plus, we can watch the "previously on" section of show to ensure you get a summary on what the gang got up to last time.

Where is it taking place? This event will take place on our Discord server, in the Watch Party voice channel. I will share the link with attendees the day of the event via email. On Discord, I will share my screen and make the magic happen.

I'm on the waitlist... Now what? Day of the event, we tend to see some folks update their RSVP to no. You could get access to the event as a result. If you do, feel free to leave a comment here and ask for the Discord link. I'll message you.

Are there any content warnings? Check content warnings on IMDB.

How often does this watch party happen? It happens every month. Sometimes we watch the same series–sometimes we switch it up. Right now, we're on an Avatar: The Last Airbender kick.

What is this group? Check out our story on the group’s main page.

Have questions? Feel free to ask them in the comment section or chat for this event.

Here's a description of from the publisher's website:

Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.
1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel.

Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization.

For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide…

Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?

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We hope you will join us for this meeting. Read the books or don't, we look forward to seeing you there for a good discussion!

Here's a description of from the author's website:

Two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's library of magical books must work together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection -- a tale of familial loyalty and betrayal, and the pursuit of magic and power.

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We hope you will join us for this meeting. Read the books or don't, we look forward to seeing you there for a good discussion!

About The Seep from the publisher's website:
Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a fifty-year-old trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—but nonetheless world-changing—invasion by an alien entity called The Seep. Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls, hierarchies and barriers are broken down; if something can be imagined, it is possible.
Trina and her wife, Deeba, live blissfully under The Seep’s utopian influence—until Deeba begins to imagine what it might be like to be reborn as a baby, which will give her the chance at an even better life. Using Seeptech to make this dream a reality, Deeba moves on to a new existence, leaving Trina devastated.
Heartbroken and deep into an alcoholic binge, Trina follows a lost boy she encounters, embarking on an unexpected quest. In her attempt to save him from The Seep, she will confront not only one of its most avid devotees, but the terrifying void that Deeba has left behind. A strange new elegy of love and loss, The Seep explores grief, alienation, and the ache of moving on.

About Severance from the publisher's website:
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend.
So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost.
Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers?
A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale, and a hilarious, deadpan satire. Most important, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.

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We hope you will join us for this meeting. Read the books or don't, we look forward to seeing you there for a good discussion!