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November: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin.
December: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
A poll for the January 2019 book will be around the 15th, unless you want it sooner (not sooner than the U.S. midterms).
Discuss Foundation by Isaac Asimov in the comments below.
As for Liu Cixin's best known novel:
"Wildly imaginative, really interesting." ―President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy
The English translation for The Three-Body Problem was published in 2014 by Ken Liu under Tor Books.
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(Score: 1) by pD-brane on Sunday November 04 2018, @08:26PM
I started reading the book more than a month ago, but stopped, at around 3/4 of the book. Ten days or so later I picked it up again, but I couldn't completely remember the story line, and decided to restart halfway or so, where I still understood the story. As of yet, I haven't reached the 3/4 again.
It is a great story about big politics. Part I about the psycho-historians is intriguing—the idea that a combination of psychology, history and statistics (big numbers) would result in an actual science may be preposterous, but the way Asimov uses this essential element is more than bearable, even (or especially) for scientists. Part II about the encyclopedists is also fun—exciting twist in the story (though possibly other readers saw this coming—I don't read a lot of science fiction).
From part III onward it slowly starts to become more difficult to follow for me. That may be because I don't always find the patience and time to read fiction, but I'm sure I wouldn't get through Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire either—politics get interesting when there are large-scale changes (like the collapse of an empire), but it is also very complicated!