The Long Island Fantasy and Science Fiction Book Club

Make sure you read the first book of the series: The Infinity Gate (we read this as a group previously).

https://www.amazon.com/Infinity-Gate-Pandominion-M-Carey/dp/0316504386/ref=pd_bxgy_thbs_d_sccl_1/130-9012737-6769705?pd_rd_w=9oGpt&content-id=amzn1.sym.c51e3ad7-b551-4b1a-b43c-3cf69addb649&pf_rd_p=c51e3ad7-b551-4b1a-b43c-3cf69addb649&pf_rd_r=6VT0HV12VAE48VH1P4VZ&pd_rd_wg=ISPJS&pd_rd_r=bdace26e-a7bb-4871-8ac2-dd34516b6089&pd_rd_i=0316504386&psc=1

From the author of the bestselling The Girl With All the Gifts comes the thrilling conclusion to the spectacular Pandominion duology, an exhilarating science fiction story perfect for fans of The Space Between Worlds, The Long Earth and Children of Time.

Two mighty empires are at war - and both will lose, with thousands of planets falling to the extinction event called the Scour. At least that's what the artificial intelligence known as Rupshe believes.
But somewhere in the multiverse there exists a force - the Mother Mass - that could end the war in an instant, and Rupshe has assembled a team to find it. Essien Nkanika, a soldier trying desperately to atone for past sins; the cat-woman Moon, a conscienceless killer; the digitally recorded mind of physicist Hadiz Tambuwal; Paz, an idealistic child and the renegade robot spy Dulcimer Coronal.

Their mission will take them from the hellish prison world of Tsakom to the poisoned remains of a post-apocalyptic Earth, and finally bring them face to face with the Mother Mass itself. But can they persuade it to end eons of neutrality and help them? And is it too late to make a difference?

Because the Pandominion's doomsday machines are about to be unleashed - and not even their builders know how to control them.

https://www.amazon.com/Future-Naomi-Alderman/dp/166802568X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=RHJULHILAT3I&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FDro3pgfagiN4dXkRExJ_R8PE0bprsvv9FD0kZ2XAL7JTkpHjEldZ7uZWSbvN9avJ938IY_q3tSi11S7cfsMdSGHWbCtfUgRmI9YmY-tFKFXsO1KDoBiH0TYBIEzVNc5706UjHtNA0mt03uEKoQqoD96JkYt1omGqLGKjtIRJgYAkvmYdgQ4pz1bff8g7p576uKBGquBga0Hi2J3gK8gsHIPIaZpE6T_fwrG3T1oxIk._KSLumZwEp1jRaRldATzEnD_gy0LtBp-qqXfU3vNxZI&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+future&qid=1720643013&s=books&sprefix=The+future%2Cstripbooks%2C71&sr=1-1

A Most Anticipated Book of Fall at Associated Press, Booklist, Chicago Tribune, Goodreads, Good Housekeeping, Literary Hub, Time, The Week, and W Magazine

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Powerdelivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.

When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she’s surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her father’s fox and rabbit sermon—once a parable to her—are starting to come true, how much future is actually left?

Across the world, in a mall in Singapore, Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, flees from an assassin. She’s cornered, desperate and—worst of all—might die without ever knowing what's going on. Suddenly, a remarkable piece of software appears on her phone telling her exactly how to escape. Who made it? What is it really for? And if those behind it can save her from danger, what do they want from her, and what else do they know about the future?

Martha and Zhen’s worlds are about to collide. An explosive chain of events is set in motion. While a few billionaires assured of their own safety lead the world to destruction, Martha’s relentless drive and Zhen’s insatiable curiosity could lead to something beautiful or the cataclysmic end of civilization.

By turns thrilling, hilarious, tender, and always piercingly brilliant, The Futureunfolds at a breakneck speed, highlighting how power corrupts the few who have it and what it means to stand up to them. The future is coming. The Future is here.

https://www.amazon.com/Someone-You-Can-Build-Nest/dp/0756418852/ref=sr_1_1?crid=IM3S2VJUWI6N&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.V7SmldnhcECh_R5mn8YYaLMfE7txPlSIa-0wEvZxCl4cA9YvAlx2HVA1DppHEOoSb3df5OqyZUCw1uY-M7gkDE_25qWYQN3BXJPDL89mgKU.SMrmSAUygayZH0NV1ngrXMDgON710Xq1oF18EAIFA90&dib_tag=se&keywords=someone+you+can+build+a+nest+in&qid=1720643211&s=books&sprefix=someone+%2Cstripbooks%2C80&sr=1-1

One of the Best Books of the Year So Far from: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Polygon

A Most-Anticipated Book of 2024 from: Amazon, Polygon, io9, Apple Books, Goodreads, Reactor, Book Riot, Writer’s Digest, and Nerd Daily
“This unusual queer romance is a heartfelt fable about disability and the possibility of reconciling conflicting needs through love and understanding.” —The Guardian
"Sweetly furious, darkly funny, and gruesomely wholesome. It's a love story for the unloved, a happily-ever-after with a higher-than-average body count. I just adored it." —Alix E. Harrow, New York Times-bestselling author of Starling House
Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—by Nebula Award-winning debut novelist John Wiswell
Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she's fallen in love.
Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body from the remains of past meals: a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, and a bear trap as an extra mouth.
However, the hunters chase Shesheshen out of her home and off a cliff. Badly hurt, she’s found and nursed back to health by Homily, a warm-hearted human, who has mistaken Shesheshen as a fellow human. Homily is kind and nurturing and would make an excellent co-parent: an ideal place to lay Shesheshen’s eggs so their young could devour Homily from the inside out. But as they grow close, she realizes humans don’t think about love that way.
Shesheshen hates keeping her identity secret from Homily, but just as she’s about to confess, Homily reveals why she’s in the area: she’s hunting a shapeshifting monster that supposedly cursed her family. Has Shesheshen seen it anywhere?
Eating her girlfriend isn’t an option. Shesheshen didn’t curse anyone, but to give herself and Homily a chance at happiness, she has to figure out why Homily’s twisted family thinks she did. As the hunt for the monster becomes increasingly deadly, Shesheshen must unearth the truth quickly, or soon both of their lives will be at risk.
And the bigger challenge remains: surviving her toxic in-laws long enough to learn to build a life with, rather than in, the love of her life.

Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time.

To fix the world they must first break it, further.

Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service.

When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away.

Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.

Sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming.

https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Service-Model/dp/B0CMYJRJPB/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EFVIME79ZPV6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.A9j8tf16VZ98z3pnPthUytqBGCFcvU7SBglSL3fdXt9iHzV2zMb37rNwO870ECFmYF9SVxPqUZTVJtwEzoF_cVtzCY5uQIzDh-qjNLPnmqkVNUR7fVGYggYg3ckPgkEC7p6ChctPvRQBpGirxCDXRzVjL5eOGFHUjzwCJIDbXrwq4aOiFnVaFIzKMZh2S42sr9c1F7LGuiib2JtkZbMbqI8Cx6E1aevCX172n54WDCM.ZHwlWv__ndJNx-DcyMOw2BwhtW5GxBabm_w56em9RM4&dib_tag=se&keywords=service+model+adrian+tchaikovsky&qid=1720197088&s=books&sprefix=serv%2Cstripbooks%2C84&sr=1-1