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Welcome to Middleburg Books’ Speculative Fiction Book Club! We’re thrilled to host readers at our jewel-box of a shop as we discuss a plethora of new fiction. Our novel for August is Starter Villain by John Scalzi.

We are offering two options for tickets:

1) You may purchase the book through us at a 10% discount and admission to the club is free.

2) If you would prefer to source the book yourself, admission is $10, and if you attend, you will receive a $5 gift card to be used towards your next purchase at Middleburg Books.

This event takes place in our shop at 17 South Madison Street.

Click here to sign up!

About Starter Villain

Charlie’s life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan.

Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie.

But becoming a supervillain isn’t all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they’re coming after Charlie. His uncle might have been a stand-up, old-fashioned kind of villain, but these are the real thing: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital.

It’s up to Charlie to win the war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with unionized dolphins, hyper-intelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying henchperson at his side, going bad is starting to look pretty good.

In a dog-eat-dog world…be a cat.