Nature / Environment Book Club: The Afterlife Project

Join us via Zoom as the Mr. & Mrs. F.L. Schlagle Library hosts a book club on titles related to nature, the environment, and/or climate every second Friday of the month from 1 pm - 2 pm (excluding the months of June and July).

Please get in contact with Kristen ([email protected]) in order to register for the program and to receive the title of this month's book.

Registration in advance is required. Participants will receive the Zoom link via email prior to each meeting.

December 2026

The Afterlife Project by Tim Weed

From Goodreads:

With humanity facing imminent extinction, the Centauri Project scientists use technology originally designed for interstellar travel to send a test subject ten millennia into Earth’s future. Marooned in an uninhabited wilderness, microbiologist Nicholas Hindman searches for evidence of remnant populations. He has a protocol to follow and is determined to do so to the bitter end―though he knows he’s probably searching in vain, stranded on an uninhabited planet silently orbiting the sun.

Meanwhile, back in 2068 AD, a devastating hyperpandemic has quelled all talk of interstellar travel and thrown the future of humanity into grave doubt. Four surviving members of the Centauri team board a vintage solar-powered sailing yacht for a harrowing and unlikely journey in search of a second test subject. Their destination is a small volcanic island north of Sicily rumored to harbor that rarest of creatures: a woman capable of getting pregnant, thereby ensuring this generation of Homo sapiens isn’t the last. But first they must make it halfway across the post-apocalyptic globe, risking heatwaves, oceanic megastorms, murderous gangs, deranged cult leaders, a volcanic eruption, and the dangerous microbes that continue to circulate through the planet’s atmosphere.