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After World


A Dystopian Novel


Subgenres:

  • Climate Fiction,
  • Artificial Intelligence,
  • Post-Apocalyptic
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • AI narrators catching feelings for their human subjects
  • Solitude in a post-human wilderness with only tech for company
  • Journals and digital archives as the last traces of humanity
Publisher Description

A Climate Reality Project Book Club Pick

An intelligent, defiant 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Sen was seventeen years old when the Digital Human Archive Project (DHAP) was initiated. 12,000,203,891 humans have been archived so far.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.

After World is a novel about what it means to be human in a world upended by AI and the bonds we forge with technology.

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