Geek Out! Book Club for October 2023. Geek Out! Book Club is for adults 18+. We read fantasy, science fiction and other unique genres.
"Senlin Ascends" is the first book (of four) in the "Books of Babel" series. Paper copies are available to check out now at the circulation desk. If you live in the city of Dubuque and have a regular status library card, the library owns an ebook and eaudio copy to check out or request on Libby. Registration for the book club is encouraged.
About the book:
The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds unnumbered ringdoms, warring and peaceful, stacked one on the other like the layers of a cake. It is a world of geniuses and tyrants, of airships and steam engines, of unusual animals and mysterious machines.
Soon after arriving for his honeymoon at the Tower, the mild-mannered headmaster of a small village school, Thomas Senlin, gets separated from his wife, Marya, in the overwhelming swarm of tourists, residents, and miscreants.
Senlin is determined to find Marya, but to do so he'll have to navigate madhouses, ballrooms, and burlesque theaters. He must survive betrayal, assassins, and the long guns of a flying fortress. But if he hopes to find his wife, he will have to do more than just endure.
This quiet man of letters must become a man of action.