Science Fiction Reading Group

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD AT JOSEPH PEARCE, 23 ELM ROW - JUST A SHORT WALK DOWN THE ROAD FROM THE BOOKSHOP!

Now moving towards the end of 2025, we’ll be continuing our Fantasy and Science Fiction reading group, exploring worlds both fantastical and horrific, monstrous and utopian. Whether your interests lie in exploring the ruins of a lost civilization, challenging fiends to save the world from ruin or delicately navigating the politics of a corporate interstellar McEmpire™ (Ask about our franchising options and get a free McNuke™!), I do hope you’ll join us.

For the eleventh reading group of 2025, we'll be heading to the stars. There a being that was once a mighty warship, now just a single human being, finds herself embroiled in a vast conspiracy that grips the nation she fought for.

The Radch are conquerors to be feared – resist and they’ll turn you into a ‘corpse soldier’ – one of an army of dead prisoners animated by a warship’s AI mind. Whole planets are conquered by their own people.

The colossal warship called The Justice of Toren has been destroyed – but one ship-possessed soldier has escaped the devastation. Used to controlling thousands of hands, thousands of mouths, The Justice now has only two hands, and one mouth with which to tell her tale.

But one fragile, human body might just be enough to take revenge against those who destroyed her.