# Event Details - **Event Name**: March Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club: The Iron Garden Sutra - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 27 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Fri, 27 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for a discussion of our March Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club pick: The Iron Garden Sutra by A D SuiAbout this EventOld Town Books' Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club is free and open to the public. While buying the book at OTB is not required to attend, we would greatly appreciate it to help keep our free literary programming sustainable! Buy your copy of The Iron Garden Sutra by A D Sui at the shop or online and note "book club" to get 10% off.By attending any and all Old Town Books events you are agreeing to our code of conduct.Old Town Books is committed to creating accessible events and spaces for the widest possible audience. Please reach out to us at events@oldtownbooks.com for reasonable accessibility accommodations.About the book:Klara and the Sun meets S. A. Barnes’s Dead Silence with a touch of Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built in Nebula Award-winning author A.D. Sui’s darkly philosophical M**der mystery, as a death monk and a team of researchers trapped onboard a spaceship of the dead encounter something beyond human understanding…Vessel Iris has devoted himself to the Starlit Order, performing funeral rites for the dead across the galaxy, guiding souls back into the Infinite Light. Despite the meaning he finds in his work and the comfort of AI companionship, his relationships with the living leave him longing for deeper connection.The spaceship Counsel of Nicaea has been lost for more than a thousand years, its passengers reduced to dust and bone. A relic of Earth’s dying past, its sudden appearance has attracted a team of academics eager to investigate its archeological history. And Iris has been assigned to bring peace to the crew’s long departed souls.Carpeted in moss and intertwined with vines, Nicaea is more forest than ship. Iris’s religious rituals are met with bemusement by the scientists—and outright hostility by engineer Yan Fukui.But the plant life isn’t the only sentience to have survived in the past millennia. Something onboard is stalking the explorers one by one. And Iris with his AI enhancement may be their only hope for survival. . .IN OUTER SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOUR PRAYERS - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/alexandria/march-sci-fi-and-fantasy-book-club-the-iron-garden-sutra/100001977034863497 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, performances, it, entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Alexandria - **state**: VA - **country**: United States - **location**: Old Town Books - **lat**: 38.80359139999999 - **long**: -77.04368099999999 - **full address**: Old Town Books, 130 South Royal Street, Alexandria, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: March Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club: The Iron Garden Sutra - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/03a8e26bdf9070be2bcac2e29c7dd85adfe269a8b08fa815521e36bc897a8585-rimg-w1200-h600-dce1c198-gmir.jpg?v=1765460115 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is March Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club: The Iron Garden Sutra being held? - **A:** March Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club: The Iron Garden Sutra takes place on Fri, 27 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Fri, 27 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Old Town Books, 130 South Royal Street, Alexandria, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing March Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club: The Iron Garden Sutra? - **A:** March Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club: The Iron Garden Sutra is organized by Old Town Books. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "March Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club: The Iron Garden Sutra", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/03a8e26bdf9070be2bcac2e29c7dd85adfe269a8b08fa815521e36bc897a8585-rimg-w1200-h600-dce1c198-gmir.jpg?v=1765460115", "startDate": "2026-03-27", "endDate": "2026-03-27", "url": "https://allevents.in/alexandria/march-sci-fi-and-fantasy-book-club-the-iron-garden-sutra/100001977034863497", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Old Town Books", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "130 South Royal Street", "postalCode": "22314", "addressLocality": "Alexandria", "addressRegion": "VA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "38.80359139999999", "longitude": "-77.04368099999999" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us for a discussion of our March Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club pick: The Iron Garden Sutra by A D Sui", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-08", "availabilityEnds": "2026-03-27", "validFrom": "2026-04-08", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/alexandria/march-sci-fi-and-fantasy-book-club-the-iron-garden-sutra/100001977034863497" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-08", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-08", "url": "https://allevents.in/alexandria/march-sci-fi-and-fantasy-book-club-the-iron-garden-sutra/100001977034863497", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Old Town Books", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/old-town-books/22517177", "description": "Old Town Books is a new independent bookstore in Alexandria, VA. 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