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Unworld / Jayson Greene.
"Anna is shattered by the violent death of her son, Alex, and tormented by the question of whether it was an accident or a suicide. Samantha is Alex's best friend, and the only eyewitness to his death. She keeps returning to the cliff where she watched him either jump or fall, trying to sift through the shards. Aviva is an "upload," a digital entity composed of the sense memories of a human tether. But she's "emancipated," having left her human behind. Set free from her source and harboring a troubling secret, she finds temporary solace in the body of Cathy, a self-destructive ex-addict turned AI professor and upload-rights activist. With UnWorld, Jayson Greene envisions a grim but eerily familiar near-future where all lines have blurred -- between visceral and digital, human and machine, real and unreal. As Anna, Cathy, Sam, and Aviva's stories hurtle toward each other, the stakes of UnWorld reveal themselves with electrifying intensity: What happens to the soul when it is splintered by grief? Where does love reside except in memory? What does it mean to be conscious, to be human, to be alive?"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593802182 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 213 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. |
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| Subject: | Artificial intelligence > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. Memory > Fiction. Sons > Death > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Science fiction. Novels. |
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- B & T Entertainment
In a near-future where digital and human consciousness blur, a grieving mother, a traumatized witness, an AI professor, and a rogue digital entity confront the mystery of a young manâs death, unraveling questions of memory, identity and what it means to be alive. - Baker & Taylor
"An electrifying debut novel about AI that imagines a tantalizing vision of the future"-- - Baker & Taylor
In a near-future where digital and human consciousness blur, a grieving mother, a traumatized witness, an AI professor, and a rogue digital entity confront the mystery of a young manâs death, unraveling questions of memory, identity, and what it means to be alive. - Random House, Inc.
From the author of Once More We Saw Stars comes a gripping novel about four intertwined lives that collide in the wake of a mysterious tragedy. Set in a near-future world where the boundaries between human and AI blur, the story challenges our understanding of consciousness and humanity.
Anna is shattered by the violent death of her son, Alex, and tormented by the question of whether it was an accident or a suicide. Samantha is Alexâs best friend, and the only eyewitness to his death. She keeps returning to the cliff where she watched him either jump or fall, trying to sift through the shards. Aviva is an âupload,â a digital entity composed of the sense memories of a human tether. But sheâs âemancipated,â having left her human behind. Set free from her source and harboring a troubling secret, she finds temporary solace in the body of Cathy, a self-destructive ex-addict turned AI professor and upload-rights activist.
With UnWorld, Jayson Greene envisions a grim but eerily familiar near-future where all lines have blurredâbetween visceral and digital, human and machine, real and unreal. As Anna, Cathy, Sam, and Avivaâs stories hurtle toward each other, the stakes of UnWorld reveal themselves with electrifying intensity: What happens to the soul when it is splintered by grief? Where does love reside except in memory? What does it mean to be conscious, to be human, to be alive?
