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UnWorld

A Novel

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UnWorld

By: Jayson Greene
Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin, Cindy Kay, Imani Jade Powers, Andi Arndt
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NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST • From the author of Once More We Saw Stars comes a gripping novel about four intertwined lives that collide in the wake of a mysterious tragedy. Set in a near-future world where the boundaries between human and AI blur, the story challenges our understanding of consciousness and humanity.

Anna is shattered by the violent death of her son, Alex, and tormented by the question of whether it was an accident or a suicide. Samantha is Alex’s best friend, and the only eyewitness to his death. She keeps returning to the cliff where she watched him either jump or fall, trying to sift through the shards. Aviva is an “upload,” a digital entity composed of the sense memories of a human tether. But she’s “emancipated,” having left her human behind. Set free from her source and harboring a troubling secret, she finds temporary solace in the body of Cathy, a self-destructive ex-addict turned AI professor and upload-rights activist.

With UnWorld, Jayson Greene envisions a grim but eerily familiar near-future where all lines have blurred—between visceral and digital, human and machine, real and unreal. As Anna, Cathy, Sam, and Aviva’s stories hurtle toward each other, the stakes of UnWorld reveal themselves with electrifying intensity: What happens to the soul when it is splintered by grief? Where does love reside except in memory? What does it mean to be conscious, to be human, to be alive? Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Metaphysical & Visionary Science Fiction Consciousness Tearjerking
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I like stories from multiple perspectives. This one includes the perspective of an uploaded data replicant. I found the story captivating, and I like the way it unfolds, but I somehow wanted more depth. The book left me wanting more. Maybe that’s a good thing.

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Liked his memoir, was bored by this. I made it halfway through and gave up.

It's very character driven, very much focused on the characters' internal thoughts and neither interested me,

DNF

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