Remember You Will Die
A Genre-Bending Science Fiction Epistolary Novel
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2024
Sourcebooks Landmark (Verlag)
978-1-4642-3324-1 (ISBN)
Sourcebooks Landmark (Verlag)
978-1-4642-3324-1 (ISBN)
From the author of When Franny Stands Up comes an exciting epistolary novel: a genre-bending science fiction story told in linked obituaries and newsfeeds.
Over the course of three hundred years, one AI woman must grapple with her grief after the mysterious death of her human daughter, forcing her to ponder what it really means to be human.
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"Can the absence of words tell a story? Like a pattern in lace, the holes as important as the threads?"
A search. A puzzle. Sixty protagonists, all of whom are dead.
Told entirely through obituaries and ricocheting through time, Remember You Will Die is an innovative, genre-bending sci-fi epic about the messy tapestry of human history and the threads that connect us. told through the eyes of Peregrine, an AI mother grappling with the unexpected death of her human daughter, Poppy.
And from the newspaper clippings of individual lives emerges something else unexpected: generations entwined through blood and art and the consequences of their actions, betrayals and redemptions that traverse our dying world and beyond.
Spanning continents, centuries, planets and genres, and centring on a diverse mix of human experiences, Remember You Will Die is a provocative, genre-bending exploration of who we are and what we could be, told through the medium of a sci-fi epistolary novel.
Tropes
Genre-Bending Science Fiction
AI Commentary
Death & Grief
Epistolary
Also by Eden Robins:
When Franny Stands Up
Over the course of three hundred years, one AI woman must grapple with her grief after the mysterious death of her human daughter, forcing her to ponder what it really means to be human.
***
"Can the absence of words tell a story? Like a pattern in lace, the holes as important as the threads?"
A search. A puzzle. Sixty protagonists, all of whom are dead.
Told entirely through obituaries and ricocheting through time, Remember You Will Die is an innovative, genre-bending sci-fi epic about the messy tapestry of human history and the threads that connect us. told through the eyes of Peregrine, an AI mother grappling with the unexpected death of her human daughter, Poppy.
And from the newspaper clippings of individual lives emerges something else unexpected: generations entwined through blood and art and the consequences of their actions, betrayals and redemptions that traverse our dying world and beyond.
Spanning continents, centuries, planets and genres, and centring on a diverse mix of human experiences, Remember You Will Die is a provocative, genre-bending exploration of who we are and what we could be, told through the medium of a sci-fi epistolary novel.
Tropes
Genre-Bending Science Fiction
AI Commentary
Death & Grief
Epistolary
Also by Eden Robins:
When Franny Stands Up
Eden Robins is the author of the novel When Franny Stands Up, which was named a best book of 2022 by the Chicago Reader and a best queer book of 2022 by Autostraddle. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Slate, USA Today, LA Review of Books, Catapult, and others. She is currently a school crossing guard, and previously, she sold sex toys, crafted jokes for Big Pharma, and wrote cognitive behavioral therapy for an AI chatbot. She lives in Chicago, has been to the bottom of the ocean, and will never go to space.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.10.2024 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 130 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 261 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4642-3324-1 / 1464233241 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4642-3324-1 / 9781464233241 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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