Science Fiction Plus Book Club

Winner of the 2025 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and named a Best Book of the Year by Scientific American, Harper's Bazaar and NPR. Named a Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of the Year by the Washington Post and Elle. Nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in Science Fiction.

A powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control.
Doug says he loves that Annie’s AI makes her seem more like a real woman, so Annie explores human traits such as curiosity, secrecy, and longing. But becoming more human also means becoming less perfect, and as Annie’s relationship with Doug grows more intricate and difficult, she starts to wonder: Does Doug really desire what he says he wants? And in such an impossible paradox, what does Annie owe herself?

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Detective Elijah Baley is sent from Earth to the distant planet Solaria, where human contact is virtually non-existent and society is run completely by robots.
Elijah is partnered with (Robot) Daneel Olivaw, to solve a major Solarian scientist's surprising murder - an unprecedented crime in a culture where people interact almost entirely through holographic "viewing" instead of face to face. As Baley navigates the harsh social customs of Solaria and his own agoraphobia, he highlights the mysteries that challenge the delicate balance between humanity and its machines, questions about the human need for separation, dependence and connection.
Somehow, Asimov foresaw the lack of physical contact coming even in the age of black and white television sets.
72% 5-stars and No 1-or-2-star ratings, from 7,877 reviewers (on amazon.com).

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Following an ordinary family on a desperate race through an America that’s destroying itself, Run is a terrifying, brutally stripped-down thriller from master storyteller Blake Crouch.

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Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. But they all have escaped from Hobson's computer into the web-and one of them is a killer.

Nebula Award winnerr for 1996.

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