Sci-Fi Book Club - After the Fall by Edward Ashton (April 17th)

Name: Sci-Fi Book Club - After the Fall by Edward Ashton (April 17th)
Start: 2026-04-17T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 125 Broadway, Hanover, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 17331

Schedule

Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

125 Broadway, Hanover, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 17331 | Hanover, PA

Welcome to our Little Fox Sci-Fi Book Club !! Each month we read a book and then meet monthly to discuss this month's book! New members are always welcome. All of our book clubs are very low key - with a goal of creating community and connecting with others that have a love of reading. RSVP to reserve your spot as space is limited to 12 people. This book is not released until February 26th, so pre-order yours on bookshop.org or pick up a copy in store on its release date!

Book Description:
Part alien invasion story, part buddy comedy, and part workplace satire, After The Fall by Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7 (inspiration for the film Mickey 17), asks an important question: would humans really make great pets?

Humans must be silent. Humans must be obedient. Humans must be good.

All his life, John has tried to live by those rules. Most days, it’s not too difficult. A hundred and twenty years after The Fall, and a hundred years after the grays swept in to pick the last dregs of humanity out of the wreckage of a ruined world, John has found himself bonded to Martok Barden nee Black Hand, one of the "good" grays. Sure, Martok is broke, homeless, and borderline manic, but he’s always treated John like an actual person, and sometimes like a friend. It’s a better deal than most humans get.

But when Martok puts John’s bond up as collateral against an abandoned house in the woods that he hopes to turn into a wilderness retreat for wealthy grays, John learns that there are limits to Martok’s friendship. Soon he finds himself caught between an underworld boss who thinks Martok is something that he very much is not, a girl who was raised by feral humans and has nothing but contempt for pets like John, and Martok himself, whose delusions of grandeur seem to be finally catching up with him.

Also, not for nothing, something in the woods has been killing people.

John has sixty days before Martok’s loan comes due to unravel the mystery of how humans wound up holding the wrong end of the domestication stick and find a way to turn Martok’s half-baked plans into profit enough to buy back his life, all while avoiding getting butchered by feral humans or having his head crushed by an angry gray. Easy peasy, right?