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After World by Debbie Urbanski

Hosted by debbieurbanski

19 Apr 2025 - 18 May 2025

Prizes: Print (5 copies) — Available in United States

fiction literary science fiction
challenging dark sad medium-paced

368 pages | first published 2023

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Hi! In celebration of Earth Day (April 22), I thought I'd run a giveaway for my climate AI novel After World, which was named a best book of the year by Strange Horizons, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Booklist, and Engadget. This book would be a good fit for readers who are looking for post-apocalyptic experimentation, occasional dark humor, and intensity. (Think House of Leaves more than Station Eleven.) This will not be an easy escapist read, as the themes of After World--species extinction, climate catastrophe, and the existential risk of AI--feel like they're becoming more and more relevant with each news cycle. But if you want a book that will both haunt and challenge you, requiring your deep participation as a reader, After World is for you.  

Book description

An “intelligent, defiant” (San Francisco Chronicle) 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 accele...

Prizes

Format: Print

Number of copies: 5

Delivery: The paperbook books will be mailed.

Eligible countries: United States

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