Sci-Fi Book Club
Welcome to the Cleary's Bookstore Sci-Fi Book Club! This year we will be tucking in to the best this genre has to offer. On our list are books in the subgenres: afrofuturism, space westerns, supervillains, time travel, alternate history, apocalyptic, and more!
Book picks are announced at the end of each meeting and then the following day on social media and our website. Below you will find this year's schedule, a link to this book club's Story Graph, and our current pick.
2025 Sci-Fi Book Club Schedule
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Featuring an exclusive short story from the perspective of your favorite feline!
Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan.
Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie.
But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they're coming after Charlie. His uncle might have been a stand-up, old-fashioned kind of villain, but these are the real thing: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital.
It's up to Charlie to win the war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with unionized dolphins, hyper-intelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying henchperson at his side, going bad is starting to look pretty good.
In a dog-eat-dog world...be a cat.
