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TPL'S ONLINE SPECULATIVE FICTION BOOK GROUP!

Speculative Fiction? What's that? Do you like science fiction? That's speculative fiction. Fantasy? OK, that's speculative fiction too. Horror, magical realism, alternate history, slipstream, steampunk, cyberpunk, dystopias, apocalyptic tales, and stories that are just plain weird? Yep. Those are all on the speculative fiction menu! 

If exploring outside the lines of everyday life interests you, join our group as we widen our reading horizons. Tacoma Public Library's Other Worlds online book group might be what you're looking for.

The last Wednesday of each month, we meet online via Zoom to discuss intriguing, mind-expanding, speculative books across multiple genres.

July 2025 Selection:

Old Man's War by John Scalzi

Military science fiction in the tradition of Heinlein and Haldeman:

Enlisting in the army on his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins an interstellar war between Earth and alien enemies who would stake claims on the few existing inhabitable planets, unaware that the conflict involves much more than he understands. Action, humor, and a building sense of scope and awe. First in a series. 

Old Man's War