It's officially time for our April/May discussion in the Speculative Ethics Book Club! The book is ANCILLARY JUSTICE & you can join in the discussion with #SEBC for the next 2 months! This thread has both logistical details and some discussion questions to kick us off! 
How do you participate? Just follow & tweet to #SEBC - you can share any thoughts you have about the book, pose discussion questions, or respond to others. There's also discussion on Slack for something more synchronous and less public: specethicsbookclub.slack.com/join/shared_in…
There are a few rules/procedures on this page, but in general, just be thoughtful & respectful! And if you are reading the book but haven't finished yet, you may want to mute #SEBC until you're done in case some tweets include spoilers (& then come back!) internetruleslab.com/bookclub
To kick off discussion, I'm posing some very general/open questions in this thread! Feel free to respond and also poke around to engage with others as well. And don't forget to move beyond this thread & check out all of #SEBC to see what questions & thoughts others are sharing!
#SEBC Q1: What are your thoughts on the future described in Ancillary Justice? e.g., the AI, the ships, the space travel, the societies, etc. What was cool, what was bleak, what seems most plausible or most out of reach? Can you see how we could get from here to there?
#SEBC Q2: For you, what was a particularly compelling or important ethical/moral/social issue raised in Ancillary Justice? How does it relate to the ethical dilemmas we are facing now?
#SEBC Q3: This book really grapples with issues of identity, justice, and ethics. How do you react when you, or someone you see as like you or on your side, does something you perceive as wrong? Does that shape your identity? What parallels do you see to this in today's world?
#SEBC Q4: What do you think the worldbuilding in this novel suggests about the relationship between technology and societal structures? How did technology shape culture, and vice versa?
#SEBC Q5: One of the unique aspects of Ancillary Justice is that it presents a post-gender-binary universe. As you read, how did you think of this world in comparison to our own?
#SEBC Q6: Ancillary Justice grapples with deep social questions around, for example, what it means to be civilized and the kinds of biases that we hold that impact how we react to people different from us. What parallels do you see to today's world?
#SEBC Q7: What real-world, present-day issues do you MOST connect Ancillary Justice to? What non-fiction readings would you suggest for people who enjoyed this book and want to learn more? (Books, journal articles, news stories, etc.!)
That's all of my questions about Ancillary Justice, to seed the discussion! If you have ideas for more, please reply and pose a question for other readers, and I'll RT. :) #SEBC Happy reading! And remember, our next book (for June 1) is @nealstephenson's Snow Crash.
