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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: 2) by MostCynical on Sunday November 04 2018, @09:25PM
even with the slightly florid and old-fashioned prose, what amazes me with Foundation is the scale and scope of the story that Asimov had in his head, before he wrote any of it.
The amount of time and the societal changes he imagines are so much larger than many (most?) other writers.
You cna forgive the smoking and the computer-equivalent weirdnesses.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex