New UA Press synthesis book club selections for summer 2021

June 7, 2021

University Relations

The UA Press Book Club is going strong and headed into its third consecutive year of activity.

Beginning Tuesday, June 8, at 7 p.m., the book club will discuss its new concurrent selections:

• "Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures" (2020), a nonfiction book on mycology by English biologist Merlin Sheldrake, and


• The Sea and Summer (1987), Australian science fiction novelist George Turner's Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel of climate change in the not-too-distant future.

You can join the book club Slack space by clicking here, or email UA Press director Nate Bauer at nate.bauer@alaska.edu.

The club meets on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. on Zoom (meeting link available on request), and occasionally in person too.

The reading schedule* through July will be:

• June 8: Sheldrake intro and section 1 (A Lure) / Turner Intro and chapter 1 through part 4 (p. 49)


• June 15: Sheldrake section 2 (Living Labyrinths) / Turner thru chapter 5 (Nola Parkes AD 2050)


• June 22: Sheldrake section 3 (The Intimacy of Strangers) / Turner thru chapter 8 (Captain Nikopoulos AD 2044)


• June 29: Sheldrake section 4 (Mycelial Moods) / Turner thru chapter 12 (Alison AD 2044-2047)


• July 5: Sheldrake section 5 (Before Roots) / Turner thru chapter 16 (Teddy AD 2050) part 3 (p 231)


• July 13: Sheldrake section 6 (Wood Wide Webs) / Turner thru chapter 20 (Nick AD 2051)


• July 20: Sheldrake section 7 (Radical Mycology) / Turner thru chapter 21 (Teddy AD 2051)


• July 27: Sheldrake section 8 (Making Sense of Fungi) and Epilogue / Turner thru postscript

*subject to change; additional short genre selections (provided) TBD by week