Let's Speculate Book Club Subscription
Let's Speculate Book Club Subscription
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Happy reading, nerds! If you would like to guarantee you have a copy of our book club picks in your hot little hand the moment they are announced, or if you're avidly reading from home because you love everything we pick, this is the subscription box for you. Bonus: it comes with a book club discount!
Each month you will receive a copy of the book we are reading with a 25% discount.
A little bit about the book club: one of our newest clubs, that combines Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Dystopian & Utopian, Magical Realism, Alternate History, and Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic together into the genre "Speculative Fiction." These reads are a departure from reality and take readers to fantastical, supernatural, futuristic, and other highly imaginative realms. Each month we will select a book that whisks you away to another world and asks the question, what if?
This subscription box goes out the third week of every month.
The next club meeting is August 20, 2026 at 7:00pm.
The book pick is Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep by
Paul Tremblay.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state—one with proprietary AI implanted in his head—from California to the East Coast.
To sum up in Julia’s own words: “You want me to remote control this dead dude across the country.” In a word, yes. But he’s not dead dead.
Meet a middle-aged man who wakes within a disorienting hellscape filled with monstrous grotesqueries. Worse than the fluid, morphing reality in which he’s trapped, he has no memory of who he is. He certainly doesn’t remember getting the rabbit tattoo on his arm. He only knows that he must find a certain person. Who? He can’t remember.
Using a cell phone modeled after a video game controller, Julia fumblingly navigates the man she calls “Bernie” from the company campus and onto planes and through one of the largest airports in America. All the while, the man endures an ever-changing and worsening nightmare that offers clues as to who he was—and who he must track down. And as their two lives intertwine, Julia and Bernie become unlikely allies and fugitives on a collision course with reality.
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep is a heady, horrific genre-bender from one of the most groundbreaking voices in fiction today.
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