The Future by Naomi Alderman -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Epigraph Part 1: The Essential Problem

North California, November

Lenk Zimri Ellen Lenk

Part 2: The Thing That Is Coming

Zhen

1. Seasons Time: It’s Your Time 2. Simulacrum of Surprise 3. Not Even That Hot 4. The Marked Environment 5. A Soft, Glittering Mound of Crystals 6. Demonstrate Your Game 7. Three Things Happened at Once 8. Like a Fucking Stalker 9. Pretty Fruity 10. Enclosures 11. Snowflake Accident

Part 3: The Last Good Man in Sodom

Martha

1. Guinea Pig Castle 2. A Million Beautiful Things 3. A Broken World 4. The Unbearable Impossibility of Going It Alone 5. A Sharp Crunch 6. He’s Never Killed Anyone Directly 7. The Faint Scent of Apples 8. I Don’t Trust Myself to Be in That Kind of Situation 9. Don’t Look Back 10. How We Get Life 11. A Special Kind of King 12. So Many Stupid Songs

When To Go

1. Twenty-Eight Squeeze Packs of Peanut and Almond Butter

Zhen

2. The Pixels in the World

Martha

3. Menace

Zhen

4. Weaponized Poetry

Martha

5. Entente Cordiale

Zhen

6. If It Was Really Bad, There’d Have Been an Alert

Martha

7. The Right Level of Failure

Zhen

8. Bones and Plastic Packaging

Martha

9. The War of All Against All

Zhen

10. An Invisible Tipping Point

Zhen

Part 5: Nothing Is Ever Really Over

1. The First Desire Is the Desire for Freedom 2. Island Time 3. The Last News There Will Ever Be 4. I See You Coming, Loneliness 5. Where Fortune Decrees Escape from this Miserable Burden 6. The Particular Bargains 7. Eight Hours and Around Four Thousand Miles from the Action Now! Ecological Convention 8. That Night, They Went to Sleep as Normal 9. Things Have a Tendency to Escalate 10. A Plastic Drawer Full of Tiny Green Pieces 11. You’re Not Going to Believe This 12. The Shelter of a Cave 13. Impact Assessments 14. What Are You Looking At 15. Yeah! Justice! 16. You Can’t Find Her, No One Can 17. Another Weak Sauce Event 18. Some Parts You Can Fake, But Some Parts Have to Be Real 19. Humans Use the Past to Predict the Future; In Other Words, We Imagine Things That Are Not There 20. We Intuit Motives and Assess Character; This Is Our Evolutionary Advantage 21. Lacking Sharp Claws or Warm Fur or Tearing Teeth or Tremendous Speed, What We Have Is Brain 22. Nothing Is Ever Really Over

Part 6: How to Know for Sure

1. The Most Parsimonious Solution 2. We Will Never Know the Whole Story 3. A Mechanical Centaur 4. This Was Not Supposed to Happen 5. An Extended Sabbatical 6. Whether There Might Be One Good Man in Sodom 7. Just Remember That You Can 8. One Last Right Thing 9. It Felt Like Danger But She Knew It Wouldn’t Kill Her 10. It’ll All Have to Be Incredibly Real 11. We Have to Get There As Fast As We Can

Acknowledgments Many, Many Years Later About the Author About the Type Copyright