The Destructives

The Destructives

Matthew De Abaitua
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Author:  Matthew De Abaitua
Condition:  New
Format:  Paperback
Pages:  300
Publisher:  Watkins Media
Year:  2016
ISBN:  9780857664747

Theodore Drown is a
destructive. A recovering addict to weirdcore, he's keeping his head down
lecturing at the university of the moon. Twenty years after the appearance
of the first artificial intelligence, and humanity is stuck. The AIs or, as
they preferred to be called, emergences have left Earth and reside beyond the
orbit of Mercury in a Stapledon Sphere known as the university of the sun. The
emergences were our future but they chose exile. All except one. Dr Easy
remains, researching a single human life from beginning to end. Theodore's
life.

One
day, Theodore is approached by freelance executive Patricia to investigate an
archive of data retrieved from just before the appearance of the first
emergence. The secret living in that archive will take him on an adventure
through a stunted future of asylum malls, corporate bloodrooms and a secret
off-world colony where Theodore must choose between creating a new future for
humanity or staying true to his nature, and destroying it.


File Under: Science Fiction [ Fatal Loop | Emergent See | Lunar Lunatics | Dr Easy ]

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