June's Sci-Fi Book at Koelbel Library: In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

Please note this is on Saturday with a new location and different time!

Join us for June's sci-fi book club meetup to discuss 'In Ascension' by Martin MacInnes.

Our meetings start loosely, hanging out with new and old friends while everyone arrives. After most people arrive, there are introductions and the main group discussion about the book. As that runs out of steam, everyone drifts into whatever groups and topics make them happy.

This is our first event held at Koelbel Library. We have 'Meeting Room C' reserved, which is found at the back of the library's cafe. It has sofas, easy chairs, and a variety of tables with stools. The library cafe will be open for the first half hour. "Light snacks and covered drinks" are also allowed in the space but alcohol is not.

We will have to leave the building at 5 PM, but there is a nice patio area to linger outside. I know I'll want to continue talking, so there are also a couple restaurants across the street and it is only a couple blocks to the large variety of DTC. My recommendation this time is we try Parry's Pizzeria & Taphouse which is at the same intersection with the library.

Note - on this day, there's a long event in the room before us to 3:30 PM. Hopefully they will wrap up early, but please feel free to enjoy the library cafe if they run up to the last minute.

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Please vote in the poll for July's book!
July's Sci-Fi Novel Poll

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Previous Poll Info

Can't wait to see you all!

**Please update your RSVP if you change your plans about attending.**

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June's book description:
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes (2023) - 496 pages
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Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, traveling the globe to study ancient organisms.

When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms - what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings.

Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency. Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding.