Attention Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror lovers! The Outer Edge Book Club will be discussing monthly selections of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books. The discussion is typically held on the third Monday of the month at 6:00pm. Please contact Library Assistant Katlynn at kclardy@chathamlib.org for more information.

This month's selection is: Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Book Description:

Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way.

But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she’s an adult (albeit barely) and although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it).

But Elder Nyr isn’t a sorcerer, and he is forbidden to help, for his knowledge of science tells him the threat cannot possibly be a demon…