[nesfa-reading-group] book suggestions for December

[R. Luoma]

The Einstein Intersection
by Samuel R. Delany
1967
https://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Intersection-Samuel-R-Delany/dp/0819563366
A nonhuman race reimagines human mythology.
The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967.
The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey,
has assimilating the mythology of earth, where his kind have settled among
the leftover artifacts of humanity. The deeper tale concerns, however,
the way those who are "different" must deal with the dominant cultural ideology.
The tale follows Lobey's mythic quest for his lost love, Friza. In luminous and
hallucinated language, it explores what new myths might emerge from the detritus
of the human world as those who are "different" try to seize history and the day. 

Sourdough: A Novel
by Robin Sloan
2017
from https://www.robinsloan.com/books/sourdough/ -
This book is about Lois Clary, a talented young programmer from Michigan
who follows a job to California, only to be drawn into the weird world of food
that waits there. It's about work and eating, robots and microbes, independence
and ambition, and I believe it is the first novel in English to feature,
as a key supporting character, a sentient sourdough starter.

The Ten Percent Thief
by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
2023
https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Percent-Thief-Lavanya-Lakshminarayan/dp/1786188538
A bold, bitingly satirical near-future mosaic novel about a city
run along 'meritocratic' lines, the injustice it creates, and the revolution that will destroy it.
Nothing has happened. Not yet, anyway. This is how all things begin.