After World: A Novel

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Synopsis
One of Booklist's Top 10 SF/Fantasy and Horror Debuts: 2024 One of Los Angeles Times&’s Best Tech Books of 2023 One of San Francisco Chronicle&’s Favorite Books of 2023 A Climate Reality Project Book Club Pick An &“intelligent, defiant&” (San Francisco Chronicle) debut that follows an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novel—only for it to fall in love with the novel&’s subject, Sen, the last human on Earth.Faced with the uncontrolled and accelerating environmental collapse, humanity asks an artificial intelligence to find a solution. Its answer is simple: remove humans from the ecosystem. Sen Anon is assigned to be a witness for the Department of Transition, recording the changes in the environment as the world begins to rewild. Abandoned by her mother in a cabin somewhere in upstate New York, Sen will observe the monumental ecological shift known as the Great Transition, the final step in Project Afterworld. Around her drones buzz, cameras watch, microphones listen, digitizing her every move. Privately she keeps a journal of her observations, which are then uploaded and saved, joining the rest of humanity on Maia, a new virtual home. Sen was seventeen years old when the Digital Human Archive Project (DHAP) was initiated. 12,000,203,891 humans have been archived so far. Only Sen remains. [storyworker] ad39-393a-7fbc&’s assignment is to capture Sen&’s life, and they set about doing this using the novels of the 21st century as a roadmap. As Sen struggles to persist in the face of impending death, [storyworker] ad39-393a-7fbc works to unfurl the tale of Sen&’s whole life, offering up an increasingly intimate narrative until they are confronted with a very human problem of their own. After World is a &“riveting, creepy…dazzling,&” (Kimberly King Parsons, award-winning author of Black Light) novel about what it means to be human in a world upended by AI and the bonds we forge with technology.
Copyright:
2023

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
368 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781668023471
Related ISBNs:
9781668023464
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
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Copyrighted By:
Debbie Urbanski
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Bookshare Staff
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