Book Club: 'Unsong'

​Aaron Smith-Teller works in a kabbalistic sweatshop in Silicon Valley, where he and hundreds of other minimum-wage workers try to brute-force the Holy Names of God. All around him, vast forces have been moving their pieces into place for the final confrontation. An overworked archangel tries to debug the laws of physics. Henry Kissinger transforms the ancient conflict between Heaven and Hell into a US-Soviet proxy war. A Mexican hedge wizard with no actual magic wreaks havoc using the dark art of placebomancy. The Messiah reads a book by Peter Singer and starts wondering exactly what it would mean to do as much good as possible...

​The full text is free to read online, and there is an epub and a print edition if you would rather own it physically.

​Website: https://unsongbook.com/

​Epub: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zh0b8NnjpOQjomi4rrsGXN6dXRQzznE6/view?usp=sharing

​Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Unsong-Scott-Alexander/dp/B0D57BYS3Y/

​We will be located in the upper conference room of Minsky's in River Market. Tell the host you are here for the book club, or the conference room, and they will direct you.

​The room does get full waitstaff service, but has a max tab of 5. Be prepared to share a small tab with some people; bringing cash is easiest, Venmo is second-easiest.