Portland Intersectional Genre Fiction Book Club

Going forward, you can find our book club at https://bookclubs.com/portland-intersectional-sci-fi-and-fantasy-book-cl/meetings. You will need to create an account, but signing up for and attending book clubs is free. An app is available for Apple and Android.

~430 pages

Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain.

Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary’s got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs—an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the universe.

Going forward, you can find our book club at https://bookclubs.com/portland-intersectional-sci-fi-and-fantasy-book-cl/meetings. You will need to create an account, but signing up for and attending book clubs is free. An app is available for Apple and Android.

~450 pages

This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time.

It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.

This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

Going forward, you can find our book club at https://bookclubs.com/portland-intersectional-sci-fi-and-fantasy-book-cl/meetings. You will need to create an account, but signing up for and attending book clubs is free. An app is available for Apple and Android.

~250 pages

synopsis:
Lilith Ayapo is in the remote Andes, mourning the death of her husband and son, when nuclear war destroys the world. Centuries later, she revives, held captive aboard a starship.

Miraculously powerful and hideously grotesque galactic beings, the Oankali have rescued the planet and the war’s victims out of an irresistible need to heal and a greater need to change all they touch. For the Oankali survive by merging genetically with primitive peoples — without their permission.
Lilith’s children will inherit the Earth and stars. But they will be more — and other — than human.