I've scheduled this early as it is not the 2nd Monday of the month, sorry! This being the last meeting of 2026 we will start earlier at 7pm so we an have a bite of food together and then discuss the last book of 2024. So, unusually, we ask that everyone who is aiming to come RSVPs by the week before so we can confirm the numbers with venue. The book is **"Appliance" by J.O. Morgan**. A finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022 "a highly inventive and and humane novel about our relationship with technology and our addiction to innovation. The first step to a new future. A future that will be easy and abundant. A future in which distance is no longer a barrier to human contact. And all it takes is a simple transport unit, in every home, every street, every town. Quick. Clean. Easy. A future driven by data, not emotion. And so begins the journey of a new technology that will soon change the world and everyone in it...." Available at the [library](https://brighton-hove.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/FULL/OPAC/BIBENQ/454877591/6192948,1), [kobo](https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/appliance?sId=7d092ea7-472b-41a7-9b87-8884c9a9a031&ssId=okyGcA3PHjXh_cBAfFDiP&cPos=1), and [kindle](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Appliance-J-Morgan-ebook/dp/B09GXK96PZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1351P89HOTJNF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.GU3oON3k_oZ2LsprVub9gg.6dS_GlDVzLXHpjdAU7LOLf3fsigObM2gXnJiTSziWVQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=appliance+j.o.+morgan&qid=1789590116&sprefix=appliance+j.o.+morgan%2Caps%2C150&sr=8-1) **Book Nominations** We will also perform the rite of the knapkin when you can make suggestions for next years book list from which I curate the schedule. Suggestions should be no longer than 450 pages, available in paperback and *Science Fiction (if in doubt could you convincingly defend it being SF to the group?)* . You can also make suggestions to me via Meetup if you won't be able to make the meeting.

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