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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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DESCRIPTION:Madison Speculative Society\n**The Master and Margarita by Mik
 hail Bulgakov**\n\nAn audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Ponti
 us Pilate\, *The Master and Margarita* is recognized as one of the essenti
 al classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet lif
 e in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published d
 uring its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the
  1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of th
 e common Russian speech.\n\nOne hot spring\, the devil arrives in Moscow\,
  accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an imm
 ense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors q
 uickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Sata
 n. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master\
 , a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius 
 Pilate\; the other is Margarita\, who loves the Master so deeply that she 
 is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inex
 haustible energy\, humor\, and philosophical depth\, a work whose nuances 
 emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor
 's splendid English version.
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: The Ministry for the Future
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DESCRIPTION:Madison Speculative Society\n**The Ministry for the Future by 
 Kim Stanley Robinson**\n\nEstablished in 2025\, the purpose of the new org
 anization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and t
 o protect all living creatures\, present and future. It soon became known 
 as the Ministry for the Future\, and this is its story.\n\nFrom legendary 
 science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate chan
 ge unlike any ever imagined.\n\nTold entirely through fictional eye-witnes
 s accounts\, *The Ministry for the Future* is a masterpiece of the imagina
 tion\, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades
  to come.\n\nIts setting is not a desolate\, post-apocalyptic world\, but 
 a future that is almost upon us—and in which we might just overcome the 
 extraordinary challenges we face.\n\nIt is a novel both immediate and impa
 ctful\, desperate and hopeful in equal measure\, and it is one of the most
  powerful and original books on climate change ever written.
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
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DESCRIPTION:Madison Speculative Society\n**The Final Girl Support Group by
  Grady Hendrix**\n\n**In horror movies\, the final girls are the ones left
  standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of t
 heir lives…but what happens after?**\n\nFrom chain saws to summer camp s
 layers\, The Final Girl support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts o
 ur most popular horror films—movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre\, A
  Nightmare on Elm Street\, and Scream.\n\nLynnette Tarkington is a real-li
 fe final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade\, she’s be
 en meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support gr
 oup for those who survived the unthinkable\, working to put their lives ba
 ck together. Then one woman misses a meeting\, and their worst fears are r
 ealized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their liv
 es apart again\, piece by piece.\n\nBut the thing about final girls is tha
 t no matter how bad the odds\, how dark the night\, how sharp the knife\, 
 they will never\, ever give up.
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker
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DESCRIPTION:Madison Speculative Society\n**Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Ba
 ker**\n\n**In this lyrical\, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with
  Japanese mythology\, two people living centuries apart discover a door be
 tween their worlds.**\n\n**October\, 2026:** Lee Turner doesn’t remember
  how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bl
 oody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that
  might offer refuge—his father’s new home in Japan\, a house hidden by
  sword ferns and wild ginger. But something is terribly wrong with the hou
 se: no animals will come near it\, the bedroom window isn't always a windo
 w\, and a woman with a sword appears in the yard when night falls.\n\n**Oc
 tober\, 1877:** Sen is a young samurai in exile\, hiding from the imperial
  soldiers in a house behind the sword ferns. A monster came home from war 
 wearing her father’s face\, but Sen would do anything to please him\, ev
 en turn her sword on her own mother. She knows the soldiers will soon slau
 ghter her whole family when she sees a terrible omen: a young foreign man 
 who appears outside her window.\n\nOne of these people is a ghost\, and on
 e of these stories is a lie.\n\nSomething is hiding beneath the house of s
 word ferns\, and Lee and Sen will soon wish they never unburied it.
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
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DESCRIPTION:Madison Speculative Society\n**Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Di
 nniman**\n\n**The apocalypse will be televised! Welcome to the first book 
 in the wildly popular and addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series—now with
  bonus material exclusive to this print edition.**\n\nYou know what’s wo
 rse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winn
 ing show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion\, t
 he destruction of all man-made structures on Earth\, and the systematic ex
 ploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show. Th
 at’s what.\n\nJoin Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat\, 
 Princess Donut\, as they try to survive the end of the world—or just get
  to the next level—in a video game–like\, trap-filled fantasy dungeon.
  A dungeon that’s actually the set of a reality television show with cou
 ntless viewers across the galaxy. Exploding goblins. Magical potions. Dead
 ly\, drug-dealing llamas. This ain’t your ordinary game show.\n\nWelcome
 \, Crawler. Welcome to the Dungeon. Survival is optional. Keeping the view
 ers entertained is not.
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang
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DESCRIPTION:Madison Speculative Society\n**Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L.
  Wang**\n\nFor twenty years\, Sciona has devoted every waking moment to th
 e study of magic.\n\nWhen she finally achieves her ambition to become the 
 first woman admitted to the High Magistry at the University of Magics and 
 Industry\, she finds herself undermined at every turn. Instead of a lab as
 sistant\, she’s paired with a janitor\, putting her crucial research at 
 risk.\n\nBut Thomil wasn’t always a janitor. Once a nomadic hunter from 
 the wild plains outside the city\, he now sees a chance to understand the 
 forces that decimated his tribe and drove him from his homeland.\n\nTogeth
 er they will uncover an ancient secret that could change the course of mag
 ic forever – if it doesn’t get them killed first.
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: Randomocracy!
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DESCRIPTION:Madison Speculative Society\nFor this meeting\, we will be rea
 ding the book that wins in a random selection.\n\nBring your suggestions t
 o the November 19th meeting. We will write each suggestion on a slip of pa
 per\, and then we will randomly select one book. After we choose our book\
 , we'll update this meeting with the details.
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 -book-club/events/316235529/
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: The Will of the Many by James Islington
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DESCRIPTION:Madison Speculative Society\n**The Will of the Many by James I
 slington**\n\nThe Catenan Republic – the Hierarchy – may rule the worl
 d now\, but they do not know everything.\n\nI tell them my name is Vis Tel
 imus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago\,
  and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most pres
 tigious school. I tell them that once I graduate\, I will gladly join the 
 rest of civilised society in allowing my strength\, my drive and my focus 
 – what they call Will – to be leeched away and added to the power of t
 hose above me\, as millions already do. As all must eventually do.\n\nI te
 ll them that I belong\, and they believe me.\n\nBut the truth is that I ha
 ve been sent to the Academy to find answers. To solve a murder. To search 
 for an ancient weapon. To uncover secrets that may tear the Republic apart
 .\n\nAnd that I will never\, ever cede my Will to the empire that executed
  my family.\n\nTo survive\, though\, I will still have to rise through the
  Academy’s ranks. I will have to smile\, and make friends\, and pretend 
 to be one of them and *win.* Because if I cannot\, then those who want to 
 control me\, who know my real name\, will no longer have any use for me.\n
 \nAnd if the Hierarchy finds out who I truly am\, they will kill me.
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: 2 Novellas (See Details)
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DESCRIPTION:Madison Speculative Society\nWe will be reading\n**A Short Sta
 y in Hell by Steven L. Peck (108 pages)**\n**The Language of Liars by S.L.
  Huang (160 pages)**\n\n**A Short Stay in Hell**\nAs a faithful Mormon\, S
 oren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunited with his loved ones
  after death in an eternal hereafter. Then\, he dies. Soren wakes to find 
 himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions h
 e can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the 
 book that contains the story of his life.\n\n**The Language of Liars**\nJu
 mping into a Star Eater's mind in the first place requires a moment of per
 fect psychic connection\, and he has studied all his life to comprehend th
 eir species. Admires them\, respects them\, is reverent at the idea of bei
 ng one of them—the only species physiologically capable of mining the el
 ement needed for lightyear-spanning space travel. The species all others c
 rave to know more of\, but who have notoriously shared so very little. The
  species Ro's own small civilization\, with its dwindling resources and wi
 thering reach\, *needs* to know more about.
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 -book-club/events/316235572/
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: Witch King by Martha Wells
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DESCRIPTION:Madison Speculative Society\n**Witch King by Martha Wells**\n\
 n"I didn't know you were a... demon."\n\n"You idiot. I'm *the* demon."\nKa
 i's having a long day in Martha Wells' *Witch King*...\n\nAfter being murd
 ered\, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time while 
 confined in an elaborate water trap\, Kai wakes to find a lesser mage atte
 mpting to harness Kai’s magic to his own advantage. That was never going
  to go well.\n\nBut why was Kai imprisoned in the first place? What has ch
 anged in the world since his assassination? And why does the Rising World 
 Coalition appear to be growing in influence?\n\nKai will need to pull his 
 allies close and draw on all his pain magic if he is to answer even the le
 ast of these questions.\n\nHe’s not going to like the answers.
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