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Book Club Kit

Everything your club needs to read Infinite Wisdom together: 14 questions that keep the ending sealed, a 5-week readalong, the Upgrade or Unplug ballot, a citizenship card for every member, and documents from Arca-1.

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This kit gives away how Artificial Wisdom ends. It is for clubs where everyone has finished book one. Still reading it? Use the Artificial Wisdom kit. The ending of Infinite Wisdom stays on its own sealed sheet.

A letter from the author

Welcome back

Infinite Wisdom was written twice. My first draft came out of a temporary loss of faith in humanity that crept into me in late 2024. My editors helped me see past it, and I rewrote the book around the more powerful ideas that had emerged while I wrote it. It was a huge risk. I think it was the right one.

Five years after Artificial Wisdom, Solomon offers the world one final choice. Upgrade, and merge with artificial intelligence to leave the worst of our nature behind. Or Unplug, and begin again without any technology at all. One vote. No appeal. I have asked readers that question at every event, and I still don’t think the answer is easy.

So vote at your first meeting, and vote again at the end. Argue about it. This book might not be for everyone, but if it makes those of you who loved Artificial Wisdom happy, I’m happy.

To the future, again,
Thomas R. Weaver

What’s in the kit

Print, cut, discuss

Every sheet comes in A4 and US Letter. Download them one by one, or take the complete kit in a single PDF.

  • 6 pages

    Reading Group Guide

    Tom’s letter, 14 questions that keep the ending sealed, and the five-week schedule.

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  • 1 page

    The Referendum Ballot

    Four cut-out ballots: Upgrade or Unplug. Vote at the first meeting, and again at the last.

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  • 2 pages

    Arca-1 Citizenship Cards

    A citizen card for every member, after the cards at the London launch.

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  • 8 pages

    The Arca-1 Dossier

    Eight documents from 2055, word for word from the book: broadcasts, notices, a campaign poster.

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  • 2 pages

    Host Kit

    Citizenship night: arrivals, a menu from the book and six icebreakers.

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  • 2 pages · Spoilers

    After the Last Page

    The last week’s questions give away how the duology ends, so they live on their own sealed sheet. Open it only when everyone has finished.

    A4 PDF US Letter

The referendum

Upgrade or Unplug?

It is five years since a global vote elected an AI leader, Solomon, to give humanity one last chance of survival. The world might be in recovery, but humankind is suffering—and rebelling—under Solomon’s governance. So Solomon offers a final choice. Upgrade: irrevocably merge with artificial intelligence. Unplug: brick every chip, Solomon included, and begin again in a pre-digital age. Eighteen days. One vote. No appeal. A simple majority wins.

  1. Vote at your first meeting. Print the ballots and give each member their citizenship card. Count the votes before anyone has read a page.
  2. Vote again after the last page. Same ballot, second box. See who changed their mind.
  3. Send Tom both counts. Register your club below. Tom collects every club’s vote.
Ballots, A4 US Letter

Discussion questions

14 questions, ending sealed

Safe to read before you start, if you have finished Artificial Wisdom. The questions about the ending are on the sealed sheet.

Five years of Solomon

  1. You closed Artificial Wisdom with Solomon about to take office. What did you expect his Protectorate to look like five years on?
  2. Solomon was elected to save humanity from the climate crisis. How should we judge a leader who is right about the numbers and wrong about the people?
  3. Tully bent the truth once to swing an election. Can he still be a truthteller? Can anyone?
  4. Martha built two artilects: Solomon to save the species, and Djinn to protect one nation. Which mandate would you trust more?

Upgrade or Unplug

  1. Upgrade: merge with artificial intelligence and lose the worst of human nature. Unplug: brick every chip and begin again in a pre-digital world. Before you read a page, which would you choose?
  2. One vote, no appeal, a simple majority. Is that fair for a decision this big? What would you ask for instead?
  3. Eighteen days to decide the future of the species. Would more time change your answer?
  4. If everything digital stopped tomorrow, what would you miss first? What would you be glad to lose?

Minds and machines

  1. Tom says the duology is about manipulation: what persuasion looks like when the persuader is smarter than you and never sleeps. Where has persuasion worked on you lately?
  2. If a machine could take the sting out of grief and anger, would you let it? What would you lose?
  3. In the Protectorate, every citizen carries a neurochip. What would make you accept one, and what would make you refuse?

The book and you

  1. Infinite Wisdom is set in 2055. Which of its technologies do you think we will see first?
  2. Tom says hope is not naive optimism but “a critical part of being human that carries us through challenging times.” What gives you hope about the future?
  3. Asked Upgrade or Unplug, Tom said he loves the romance of Unplug but thinks we would have to Upgrade. Do you agree with him?

Read it in 5 weeks

The readalong

The countdown to the referendum runs through the book. Open one week at a time: each week’s questions cover only those chapters.

Week 1 Chapters 1–16 Five years on. A warning from an old friend, a tower in the ice, and a choice for the whole species.
  • “The greatest risk to humanity was always, and will forever be, yourselves.” Is Solomon right? At the end of chapter 14, which way would you vote?
  • Livia keeps a simulation of Martha in Revenant. Is it comfort, therapy or avoidance?
  • Central burns, and the world picks a culprit within hours. What do the characters actually know by chapter 12, and what are they assuming?
  • October is losing time and hides how bad it is. Why does she keep going?
Week 2 Chapters 17–33 New Baghdad: a speakeasy that trades in truths, a speech for the caliph, and a very long night.
  • Raad says, “Once spoken, a truth is spent.” How does his trade in truths compare with Tully’s journalism? Should Tully have used leverage on Khayal Nazem?
  • The caliph’s speech praises our “beautiful, messy, flawed species”, then he goes off script. Was that principle, strategy or both?
  • Livia gives Revenant Martha admin rights to the Fates. Would you have?
  • Lottie insists that no one gets left behind, while Livia argues for whoever can still run. Who is right, in the moment?
Week 3 Chapters 34–50 Into the Protectorate. Arrivals, chipping, orange bands and purple, and a city on edge.
  • “The doors don’t care. They look for chips, not your outrage.” Would you take the chip to eat, sleep and move freely? Where is your line?
  • On the Skywhale, Tully argues Unplug, Randall Upgrade, and Livia is unhappy either way. Whose argument lands for you?
  • Carmen calls the Legacy Clinics a mercy. Does her story change how you read Solomon’s lifeboat speech?
  • Solomon stops a riot with one word. Protection, a show of power, or both? How should it count in the vote?
Week 4 Chapters 51–66 Seven days to go. Old friends underground, a tower coming down, and a familiar face on Continuum.
  • “Human pronouns belong to humans.” Is the word “it” a small point, or the heart of the referendum?
  • Valente worked with people he knew were planning something at Central. Where does responsibility land?
  • Solomon can only repair October’s brain if the world votes Upgrade. Is that an honest limit, or leverage?
  • Using only what the characters have found so far, who do you think burned Central?
Week 5 Chapter 67 to the end Four days to the referendum. Finish together, then open the sealed sheet.
  • This week’s questions give away how the duology ends. Open the sealed “After the last page” sheet only when everyone has finished.

Chapter numbers follow the Del Rey hardcover. Check them against your edition before you share the schedule.

Props from 2055

The Arca-1 Dossier

Documents from inside the Protectorate, taken word for word from the book: arrivals rules, a referendum notice, broadcasts from both campaigns. Each sheet says when to hand it out: the later ones come from later chapters, so hosts, keep them in order.

Protectorate broadcast · All channels

A binding referendum

3 December 2055 · Solomon

“I will offer you a binding referendum between two options, the vote overseen independently of me by auditors embedded in every neurochip—and I’ve already locked the two options in, pushed to your neurochips with a one-time, non-reversible update. Even I can’t change this now.”

Hand out: Week 1, after chapter 14

Arrivals hall · Credential Chamber

Everyone gets chipped

Arca-4 Immigration

“You literally can’t get anything in the Protectorate without it—food, accommodation, access, nothing—let alone vote in the referendum.”

Hand out: Week 3, after chapter 37

Mandatory notice · Every neurochip

The vote is sealed

11 December 2055 · Ten days to the referendum

“All citizens have to participate in a series of mandatory personal education experiences to prepare them for the referendum vote. This must be completed in the next twenty-four hours. Is now a convenient time?”

Hand out: Week 3, after chapter 43

Dossier, A4 US Letter

Host the evening

Citizenship night

Penguin Random House turned its London office into Arca-1 for the launch: guests arrived late, were processed, and left counted. Do it at home.

On arrival

  • Process your citizensHand each member a citizenship card as they arrive. They write their own name. You read out their number.
  • Choose a bandOrange for those against Solomon, purple for those who back him. A ribbon or a strip of paper does it.
  • Count the voteThe referendum ballot comes before the book. Count it, and keep the count for the end of the night.

On the menu

  • Synthetic coffeeCarmen swears Solomon improved it. The cheapest instant you can find makes the point.
  • Coffee from a dallahReal coffee, poured the New Baghdad way, for anyone who has earned a privilege.
  • Mint tea with arakWhat Samir serves in the speakeasy under the bookshop. Leave out the arak if you prefer.
  • Tully’s rumNeat, from the bottle, if you are Tully. A dark spiced soft drink for everyone else.
  • Bland vegetable stewThe only dish on the menu at the Hole. Optional. Strongly optional.

Icebreakers

  • Your neurochip can take the sting out of one emotion. Which one would you turn down, and which would you never touch?
  • Solomon pays you in credits. What would you spend your first hundred on?
  • You are allowed one non-digital luxury in the arcacity. What do you bring?
  • Give a safe word only your oldest friend would know, without saying what it is.
Citizenship cards, A4 Host Kit, A4 US Letter

Watch

Tom, in conversation

Kristen and Maddie hosted Tom at Penguin Random House in London to launch Infinite Wisdom. It was recorded before publication, so it keeps the ending safe.

Kristen & Maddie · October 2026 Live author event in London A panel at Penguin Random House in London, with Michael Kist, to celebrate Infinite Wisdom.

For bookstagram and online clubs

Post along

Tag @tom_weaver on Instagram or @thomasr.weaver on TikTok so Tom can find you.

  • Citizen selfiePost your club’s citizenship cards, numbers showing, with the book.
  • Campaign posterDesign a poster for Upgrade or for Unplug. Lockwood’s slogan is taken.
  • Your bandShow your orange or purple band, and tell us what would make you swap it.
  • The countShare your club’s first referendum count. Then post the second one when you finish.
  • Reading drinkPhotograph the book with your perfect drink: synthetic coffee, mint tea or Tully’s rum.
  • Last-page reactionFilm or write your reaction to finishing the duology, with no spoilers.

Register your club

Tell Tom you’re reading

Register your club and Tom will hear about it. You can also:

  • Send your referendum count. Upgrade or Unplug, before and after.
  • Ask for signed bookplates for your members.
  • Invite Tom to a meeting. He joins as many clubs as he can by video call.
  • Ask a question. Tom answers the best ones.

We use your details only to reply about your club. See the privacy policy.

Your referendum count (optional)
UpgradeUnplugUndecided First meeting Last page
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Copies for your club

Get the book

Ordering for a whole club? Ask your local bookshop first: many offer a reading-group discount.

United Kingdom

Bantam hardback · 12 November 2026

United States

Del Rey hardcover · 10 November 2026