Панспермия

The book presents itself as a reader's blog: a series of critical reviews of forty imagined books that have never been written but might be. Characters wander from one review to the next, most often Simon Logos and Polin, and through them a story takes shape across the whole collection. Bit by bit an artificial intelligence enters these reviewed books, first replacing people and then shoving them aside, while humans do much of the work of their own disappearance. Real and imagined worlds keep trying and failing to merge, with comic, frightening and sad results. Under its scientific and serious disguises the book asks how we got here, whether authorship and the printed book are coming to an end, and whether life's spores will find new ground somewhere beyond.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

236 pages in the original

First published

2024 by Janet 45

ISBN

9786191869206 (original)