Fiction Lab - May 2023

Jennifer Rohn of Lablit.com hosts the monthly book club dedicated to great fiction books with a science theme.

A bookcase filled with books
Jennifer Rohn

Jennifer Rohn of Lablit.com hosts the monthly book club dedicated to great fiction books with a science theme. If you're an interested reader who has something to say, then come join us!

Since in onset of COVID-19, Fiction Lab is now both in-person and virtual. To join online for this discussion, please contact Jennifer to get a link to the video call.

This month's book

The Unseen World, by Liz Moore

Ada Sibelius is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who directs a computer science lab in 1980s-era Boston. Home-schooled, Ada accompanies David to work every day; by twelve, she is a painfully shy prodigy. The lab begins to gain acclaim at the same time that David's mysterious history comes into question. When his mind begins to falter, leaving Ada virtually an orphan, she is taken in by one of David's colleagues. Soon she embarks on a mission to uncover her father's secrets: a process that carries her from childhood to adulthood. What Ada discovers on her journey into a virtual universe will keep the reader riveted until The Unseen World's heart-stopping, fascinating conclusion.

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