April 2025: Leading Lady Lez Sci-fi/Fantasy Book Club

Leading Lady Lez Sapphic Book Club
We are a book club dedicated to reading sci-fi and fantasy novels that feature a significant sapphic love story. Each month, we explore bold, imaginative, and emotionally rich stories that center queer women in speculative worlds.

### April Pick: Escaping Exodus

📖 Author: Nicky Drayden
📖 Pages: 300 pages (paperback)

Escaping Exodus is a story of a young woman named Seske Kaleigh, heir to the command of a biological, city-size starship carved up from the insides of a spacefaring beast. Her clan has just culled their latest ship, and the workers are busy stripping down the bonework for building materials, rerouting the circulatory system for mass transit, and preparing the cavernous creature for the onslaught of the general populous still in stasis. It’s all a part of the cycle her clan had instituted centuries ago—excavate the new beast, expand into its barely-living carcass, extinguish its resources over a decade, then escape in a highly coordinated exodus back into stasis until they cull the next beast from the diminishing herd.

And of course, there wouldn’t be much of a story if things didn’t go terribly, terribly wrong.