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“Enchanted Predestination” (title translated by AI)
Jonas Lüscher (born 1976)
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An Algerian soldier is caught in the first German poison gas attack, decides that someone has to stop this, stands up and walks away. In the Cairo of the future, a stand-up comedian watches a female android laugh at her jokes. A Bohemian weaver, replaced by an automated loom, steals a hammer and attacks the machine. And a writer goes on a research trip. Moving between times, places and narrators, the novel asks about humans and machines, sharpened by its author's survival of Covid with the help of the latest technology: what do we people of capitalism dream of, and what do our machines, increasingly rising against us, dream of?
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 347 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Speculative, War (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2025 by Carl Hanser Verlag
- Author's age
- 49 when first published
- ISBN
9783446283046 (original)
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