Urbanski Debbie - After World A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 Sen was seventeen years old when the Digital Human Archive Project (DHAP) was initiated. 12,000,203,891 humans have been archived so far.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 ad 39 - 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 ad 39 - 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.
Title: After World A Novel
Author(s): Urbanski Debbie
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781668023464
Pages: 368 Pages, B-W Charts T-O;
Publication Date: 9/24/2024
Category: Science Fiction