The Club: Sci Fi
Schedule
Thu Jun 11 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Remis Arcane Exchange | Muscatine, IA
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Each month, we’ll be running four different book clubs, one for each Thursday of the month: fantasy, sci-fi, romance/fantasy romance, and horror/thriller.This month's June Sci Fi Pick is: Annihilation: Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 1
The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that “reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world” (Kim Stanley Robinson).
If J. J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a novel … it might be this awesome.
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.
This is the twelfth expedition.
Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist, a surveyor, a psychologist—the de facto leader—and a biologist, who is our narrator. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life-forms that surpass understanding—but it's the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.
**Join The Club (tell the Remis employee at checkout), and get 10% off your copy of our monthly pick(s) when you buy your copy from Remis! We’ll have some sweet treats in store for you at Club meetings as well. 😉 So join us to chat about books!**
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Remis Arcane Exchange, 810 Park Ave, Muscatine, IA 52761-5034, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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