JMB book club with The Future by Naomi Alderman

“That is the real problem. We can imagine the future. And once we've imagined them, we can't stop. ”

Read and join the discussion! Inspired by Naomi Alderman's science fiction novel, we explore social models of the immediate future.

When Martha Einkorn fled her father's closed community in Oregon, she never thought she'd work for a powerful social media mogul. She is now surrounded by rock-rich companies that develop private weather and secret weapons while announcing technological prophecies. Martha may have left the sect, but when the apocalyptic visions in her father's sermons slowly come true, how much future is actually left? With a handful of friends, she plans a daring coup to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.

“Alderman is one of the most imaginative contemporary British authors; she combines literary and historical scholarship with a sense of narrative pace that she has honed in her parallel career as an author of video games.” — The Guardian

Moderation: Monika Sommerer, director of the JMB library, and Lena Kugler, writer and literary and cultural scholar