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"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." -San Francisco Chronicle

A groundbreaking debut that follows the story of an Artificial Intelligence tasked with…

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2 authors picked After World as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Sometimes slow is actually fast.

I love a story about machine intelligences getting all up in their feelings, especially when it’s approached seriously. And this book is as serious as the extinction of all human life. Sad, weird, often dizzyingly confusing, this books made me feel things and think deeply about uncomfortable but important questions. I have never read anything quite like this before and if this sounds at all like something you’d want to read, run to go get it.

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