Greater Tacoma SFF Book Club
@greatertacomasffbook.club
Official bsky account of the Greater Tacoma SFF Book Club. Join us on Meetup! https://www.meetup.com/greater-tacoma-sci-fi-fantasy-book-club/
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December 19, 2025: THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh, Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**RSVPs for this event will close at the end of the day on December 18, so please RSVP early and add the Zoom link to your calendar!**
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Our next meetup will be on Zoom December 19, 2025 at 7pm Pacific time. We will discuss THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh
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Our next meetup will be on Zoom December 19, 2025 at 7pm Pacific time. We will discuss THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh
meetu.ps/e/PGXHl/3bwl...
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December 19, 2025: THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh, Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**RSVPs for this event will close at the end of the day on December 18, so please RSVP early and add the Zoom link to your calendar!**
Join us on Zoom in December to discu
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November 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Our next meetup will be on Zoom December 19, 2025 at 7pm Pacific time. We will discuss THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh
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Fun meetup! I think the consensus was that this was a little *too* much Cosmere. One for the dedicated fans, for sure
Our next event will be on Zoom Friday November 21 at 7pm Pacific time. We'll be discussing ISLES OF THE EMBERDARK by Brandon Sanderson
November 21, 2025: ISLES OF THE EMBERDARK by Brandon Sanderson, Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Join us on Zoom in November to discuss [ISLES OF THE EMBERDARK by Brandon Sanderson](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210300489-isles-of-the-emberdark). From Goodreads:
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November 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Fun meetup! I think the consensus was that this was a little *too* much Cosmere. One for the dedicated fans, for sure
Our next event will be on Zoom Friday November 21 at 7pm Pacific time. We'll be discussing ISLES OF THE EMBERDARK by Brandon Sanderson
November 21, 2025: ISLES OF THE EMBERDARK by Brandon Sanderson, Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Join us on Zoom in November to discuss [ISLES OF THE EMBERDARK by Brandon Sanderson](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210300489-isles-of-the-emberdark). From Goodreads:
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November 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Our next event will be on Zoom Friday November 21 at 7pm Pacific time. We'll be discussing ISLES OF THE EMBERDARK by Brandon Sanderson
Leech deserves all the love !!
Drawing from stories such as Hiron Ennes' Leech and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, author @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social reviews the popularity of medical horror, placing it alongside the return of dystopian fiction:
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Dystopian Medicine: Why Medical Horror Has a Hold on Us - Reactor
When society feels at its most unstable, we find ourselves turning to the darker genres of fiction...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Leech deserves all the love !!
Now reading!
October 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Now reading!
Our next meetup happens on Zoom Friday Oct 24th at 7pm Pacific time. We'll be discussing A SPINDLE SPLINTERED by Alix E. Harrow.
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October 24, 2025: A SPINDLE SPLINTERED by Alix E. Harrow, Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Join us on Zoom in October to discuss [A SPINDLE SPLINTERED by Alix E. Harrow](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56179356-a-spindle-splintered). From Goodreads:
*"It's Z
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September 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Our next meetup happens on Zoom Friday Oct 24th at 7pm Pacific time. We'll be discussing A SPINDLE SPLINTERED by Alix E. Harrow.
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Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction
September 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction
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I'm scared I will draw the Wrath of the Fanboys, but... this week on my newsletter I wrote about why I think the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" writers have so little appeal to a huge swathe of today's SF/F writers & readers.
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this is why we don't read the Golden Age anymore.
There are so many histories of the future.
Spinning through timespace, studying this apocalypse, a key part of my undercover mission is studying stories about the future. When and where and how were ...
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September 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I'm scared I will draw the Wrath of the Fanboys, but... this week on my newsletter I wrote about why I think the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" writers have so little appeal to a huge swathe of today's SF/F writers & readers.
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Opposite of teal deer (too short; need more?): you should read “Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism" ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/r...
Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism
Zachary Gillan I have been thinking, for obvious reasons, about living in a world of reactionary politics, and about the political valences of the irreal, and about ARB’s insistence upon the radica…
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August 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Opposite of teal deer (too short; need more?): you should read “Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism" ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/r...
Our next online meeting will be Friday September 26 at 7pm Pacific. We'll discuss STRANGE THE DREAMER by Laini Taylor
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September 26, 2025: STRANGE THE DREAMER by Laini Taylor, Fri, Sep 26, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Join us on Zoom in September to discuss [STRANGE THE DREAMER by Laini Taylor](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28449207-strange-the-dreamer). From Goodreads:
*"The drea
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August 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Our next online meeting will be Friday September 26 at 7pm Pacific. We'll discuss STRANGE THE DREAMER by Laini Taylor
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it's wild how you can go through life trying all these complicated and expensive ways to have fun, but then you read a good book and you're like "damn this is better than any of that stuff"
August 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
it's wild how you can go through life trying all these complicated and expensive ways to have fun, but then you read a good book and you're like "damn this is better than any of that stuff"
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quality of scrolling significantly damaged by the absence of @scumbelievable.bsky.social due to some bullshit suspension -- I just bought my copy of BLACK FLAME last night!
anyway you should buy one too: torpublishinggroup.com/black-flame/...
anyway you should buy one too: torpublishinggroup.com/black-flame/...
August 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
quality of scrolling significantly damaged by the absence of @scumbelievable.bsky.social due to some bullshit suspension -- I just bought my copy of BLACK FLAME last night!
anyway you should buy one too: torpublishinggroup.com/black-flame/...
anyway you should buy one too: torpublishinggroup.com/black-flame/...
I finished Jeff Vandermeer's "Authority" last night, and I wish I had someone to talk to about it. The whole book felt like the Tower from Area X -- I perceived it as one thing, but it was *something else* all along
August 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I finished Jeff Vandermeer's "Authority" last night, and I wish I had someone to talk to about it. The whole book felt like the Tower from Area X -- I perceived it as one thing, but it was *something else* all along
Look at this gorgeous book I found today! Can't wait to get started!
August 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Look at this gorgeous book I found today! Can't wait to get started!
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personally I do find it helpful to be occasionally reminded that basically everything I love in modern genre is the equivalent of the strange life that flourishes around a particular set of hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor
July 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
personally I do find it helpful to be occasionally reminded that basically everything I love in modern genre is the equivalent of the strange life that flourishes around a particular set of hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor
I'm tempted...
July 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I'm tempted...
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DWeb, DragonCon, RightsCon communities, and Strange Horizons have partnered with privacy activists and human rights experts to create The Stop Surveillance Tech Copaganda Toolkit to help combat surveillance:
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Strange Horizons and DragonCon Among Groups Launching Project to Fight Copaganda and Surveillance Tech - Reactor
Activists and authors are uniting to make a difference.
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July 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
DWeb, DragonCon, RightsCon communities, and Strange Horizons have partnered with privacy activists and human rights experts to create The Stop Surveillance Tech Copaganda Toolkit to help combat surveillance:
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The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction recognizes fiction that best reflects concepts and ideas found in Le Guin's work. Here is the 2025 shortlist–congratulations to the finalists!
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Here Is the Shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction - Reactor
Congratulations to all those selected!
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June 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction recognizes fiction that best reflects concepts and ideas found in Le Guin's work. Here is the 2025 shortlist–congratulations to the finalists!
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Just got from the library: Sorcery and Small Magics, by @maigadoocy.bsky.social . Thanks for the recommendation @willowtalksbooks.bsky.social !
June 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Just got from the library: Sorcery and Small Magics, by @maigadoocy.bsky.social . Thanks for the recommendation @willowtalksbooks.bsky.social !
Our next event is coming up June 27 at 7pm Pacific time. We'll be discussing John Scalzi's OLD MAN'S WAR
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June 27, 2025: OLD MAN'S WAR by John Scalzi, Fri, Jun 27, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Join us on Zoom to discuss [OLD MAN'S WAR by John Scalzi](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36510196-old-man-s-war). From Goodreads:
*"John Perry did two things on his 7
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June 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Our next event is coming up June 27 at 7pm Pacific time. We'll be discussing John Scalzi's OLD MAN'S WAR
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tfw you discover the author of this month's selection is a member of your book club
a cat with its mouth open is sitting on a couch .
Alt: a cat with its mouth open is sitting on a couch .
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May 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
tfw you discover the author of this month's selection is a member of your book club
This critique of the romantasy genre by Willow Talks Books makes some very good points -- what do you think?
Romantasy Books are Toxic, Lazy, Conservative Propaganda
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May 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This critique of the romantasy genre by Willow Talks Books makes some very good points -- what do you think?
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ebook sale is on for only three more days at pretty much any ebook retailer of your choice!
The ebook of my first novel, last year's Nebula and Ignyte-winning, Le Guin and Hugo-nominated THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS, is on sale at $2.99 right now across most ebook retailers! If you were holding out for a really good deal 👉🏾👉🏾 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Saint of Bright Doors
Check out The Saint of Bright Doors - <p><b>Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel!</b><br><b>A 2023 <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book</b><br><br><b>“The best book I've read all year. Protean, sin...
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May 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
ebook sale is on for only three more days at pretty much any ebook retailer of your choice!
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It's time for a QUEST! We're delighted to share an excerpt from The Witch Roads, a new fantasy novel from @kateelliottsff.bsky.social!
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Read an Excerpt From The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott - Reactor
Status is hereditary, class is bestowed, trust must be earned.
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May 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It's time for a QUEST! We're delighted to share an excerpt from The Witch Roads, a new fantasy novel from @kateelliottsff.bsky.social!
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Frankly shocked to not see Sarah Gailey's "The Echo Wife" on this list (banger novel btw)
We make back-up copies of valuable files–why not people? @jdnicoll.bsky.social looks at five SF novels that explore the many, many pitfalls of cloning or copying human beings...
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Five Books About Duplicating Human Beings - Reactor
For some reason, cloning or copying people never goes according to plan...
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May 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Frankly shocked to not see Sarah Gailey's "The Echo Wife" on this list (banger novel btw)