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001			on1410895276
003			OCoLC
005			20240115164230.0
008			231129t20232023nyud b 000 f eng d
020			_a9781668023457 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1668023458 _q(hardcover)
020			_z9781668023471 _q(ebook)
035			_a(OCoLC)1410895276 _z(OCoLC)1384412464
040			_aIMmBT _beng _erda _cCG4 _dCG4 _dCHY _dACN _dOCO _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ _dYDX _dBDX _dIOU _dMJ8 _dDYJ _dMWD _dDWP _dYDX _dRB0
050		4	_aPS3621.R343 _bA48 2023
082	0	4	_a813/.6 _223/eng/20231128
100			_aUrbanski, Debbie, _eauthor. _954531
245	1	0	_aAfter world : _ba novel / _cDebbie Urbanski.
246	3		_aAfterworld
250			_aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
260			_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _c2023.
300			_a358 pages : _bchart ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 355-356).
520			_aA sentient AI determines that all humans must be eliminated as the root of climate change and leaves a woman named Sen as a "witness" to record her observations on the end of humanity as the world begins to rewild.
520			_aA groundbreaking debut that follows the story of 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 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 Sen was seventeen years old when the Digital Human Archive Project (DHAP) was initiated. 12,000,203,891 humans have been archived so far.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. [storyworker] ad39-393a-7fbc's assignment is to capture Sen's life, and they set about doing this using the novels of the 21st century as a roadmap. Their 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, empathy, insubordination, hallucinations. Keywords: mothers, filter, woods, road, morning, wind, bridge, cabin, bucket, trying, creek, notebook, hold, future, after, last, light, silence, matches, shattered, kitchen, body, bodies, rope, garage, abandoned, trees, never, broken, simulation, gone, run, don't, love, dark, scream, starve, if, after, scavenge, pieces, protect. As Sen struggles to persist in the face of impending death, [storyworker] ad39-393a-7fbc works to unfurl the tale of Sen's whole life, offering up an increasingly intimate narrative, until they are confronted with a very human problem of their own.
650		0	_aArtificial intelligence _vFiction. _913342
650		0	_aClimatic changes _vFiction. _912524
650		0	_aWitnesses _vFiction. _92833
650		7	_aDrone aircraft _vFiction. _2sears _928343
650		7	_aArtificial intelligence _vFiction. _2sears _913342
655		7	_aScience fiction. _2lcgft _998
655		0	_aApocalyptic fiction. _937114
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