“The Last Astronaut” by David Wellington

Hi all,

**Big Announcement!**
We at TSFBC are going to evolve our selection and meeting schedule based on some recent conversation with membership. Moving forward, we will identify multiple books at a time when we poll for the Book of the Month (our flip flop between classic and contemporary selections will stay in place). This development will allow you to plan in advance a bit more and gives us all an opportunity to reserve, save up for, or hunt at local book shops for the selections in advance.

I will post our July and September events once we pick our classics at the end of June.

**Book of the Month**
*The Last Astronaut – David Wellington (2019)*

Based on this month’s contemporary novel survey, we are reading *’The Salvage Crew’* for June and will read David Wellington’s 2019 release *’The Last Astronaut’* in August.

This one is a little bit of a dark horse but is an interesting concept so happy to get into it. Nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award (and an Audie for the audiobook production) in 2020, *’The Last Astronaut’* follows a disgraced astronaut and her shot at redemption. Based on what I gather from the review below (beware spoilers), it is one part space adventure, one part alien contact, and has sprinkles of horror and suspense.

https://thetattooedbookgeek.wordpress.com/2019/08/07/the-last-astronaut-by-david-wellington-book-review-bookblogger

*’The Last Astronaut’* was shortlisted as one of the most interesting new sci fi novels on a couple of the sites I go to for my research. Let’s see what we uncover!

Cheers,
Jon