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.
Consider using <spoiler>text</spoiler> wherever you feel the need to do so.
Previously: Announcement post • Mars, Ho!
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Monday November 05 2018, @02:05AM
Do you not know that Foundation is a loosely reskinned history of Europe from the last days of the Roman Empire through the Dark Ages and on? The Galactic Empire is Rome. The Foundation adopts the strategies of the Medieval church, then shifts to become like merchant powers such as Venice, and so on.
The Dark Ages was definitely not a time of optimism.