Publisher's Synopsis
For fans of Station Eleven, this groundbreaking debut follows the story of an AI tasked with writing a novel, only for it to fall in love with its subject, the last human on Earth.Update on Project Afterworld Number of humans archived: 10,000,203,891 Number of humans remaining: 1 Prompt for [storyworker]: Capture the life of the last human on Earth. Framing device, novels of the 21st century. Subject: Human 2272696176 of Onondaga County, New York, United States of America, North America, Northern Hemisphere. Birth name, Sen. Abstract: Sen was seventeen years old when the Digital Human Archive Project (DHAP) was initiated. Her city closes down in the resulting chaos, and she travels with one of her mothers to a cabin south of Syracuse where she will remain to bear witness to monumental ecological shift known as the Great Transition. Keywords: mothers, filter, woods, road, morning, wind, bridge, cabin, bucket, trying, creek, notebook, hold, future, after, last, light, silence, matches, Maia, shattered, kitchen, body, bodies, rope, garage, abandoned, trees, never, broken, simulation, gone, run, don't, love, dark, scream, starve, if, after, scavenge, drones, pieces, protect, Sen Anon Source files: 3.72TB of personal data, including images, archival records, log files, security reports, location tracking, purchase histories, biometrics, geo-facial analysis, and feeds Potential fatal errors: underlying hardware failure, unexpected data inconsistencies, inability to follow DHAP procedures, caring, insubordination, unsafe hallucinations
