{"product_id":"after-world-hardcover","title":"After World - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDebbie Urbanski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Tech Books of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e's Favorite Books of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"An intelligent, defiant novel, akin to any of Annalee Newitz's writings while also brushing shoulders with some of the great questions of identity and consciousness brought up in the works of William Gibson.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking debut that follows the story of 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFaced with uncontrolled and accelerating environmental collapse, humanity asks an artificial intelligence to find a solution. Its answer is simple: remove humans from the ecosystem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSen 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 Sen was seventeen years old when the Digital Human Archive Project (DHAP) was initiated. 12,000,203,891 humans have been archived so far.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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e[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. Their source files: 3.72TB of personal data, including images, archival records, log files, security reports, location tracking, purchase histories, biometrics, geo-facial analysis, and feeds. Potential fatal errors: underlying hardware failure, unexpected data inconsistencies, inability to follow DHAP procedures, empathy, insubordination, hallucinations. Keywords: mothers, filter, woods, road, morning, wind, bridge, cabin, bucket, trying, creek, notebook, hold, future, after, last, light, silence, matches, shattered, kitchen, body, bodies, rope, garage, abandoned, trees, never, broken, simulation, gone, run, don't, love, dark, scream, starve, if, after, scavenge, pieces, protect. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDebbie Urbanski's stories and essays have been published widely in such places as \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Best American Experimental Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Orion\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Junior Great Books\u003c\/i\u003e. A recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, she can often be found hiking with her family in the hills south of Syracuse, New York. Her favorite organisms are Green Wood Cups and Pixie Cup Lichens, her favorite forest is Morgan Hill State Forest, and her favorite hike is the Onondaga Branch of the Finger Lakes Trail. She is eternally grateful to the Department of Environmental Conservation's forest rangers for not only protecting New York's natural areas but also for airlifting her from Algonquin Mountain after a hiking accident. \u003ci\u003eAfter World\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.34 x 9.06 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47255419519225,"sku":"9781668023457","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/WKvO9JDd379781668023457.webp?v=1768721655","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/after-world-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}