来世 After World

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 368 pages, b-w charts t-o;

Publisher:Simon & Schuster

Imprint:Simon & Schuster

ISBN:9781668023464

Published:10 Oct 2024

Weight:328g

Dimensions:152 x 227 x 24 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《书单》2024 年十大科幻/奇幻和恐怖新作之一

《洛杉矶时报》2023 年佳选科技书籍之一

《旧金山纪事报》2023 年受欢迎书籍之一

《气候现实项目》读书俱乐部精选

《旧金山纪事报》评选的“聪明、叛逆”的处女作，讲述了一个人工智能被要求写一本小说——但它却爱上了小说的主人公 Sen，地球上最后一个人类。

面对不受控制且不断加速的环境崩溃，人类要求人工智能找到解决方案。它的答案很简单：将人类从生态系统中移除。

Sen Anon 被指派为过渡部目击者，记录世界开始回归野性时环境的变化。Sen 被母亲遗弃在纽约州北部的一间小屋里，她将观察被称为“大过渡”的巨大生态转变，这是“后世界计划”的最后一步。在她的周围，无人机嗡嗡作响，摄像机监视着她，麦克风倾听着她，将她的一举一动数字化。她私下记录着自己的观察，然后上传并保存下来，与其他人类一起在 Maia 这个新的虚拟家园里生活。Sen 17 岁时，数字人类档案项目 (DHAP) 启动。到目前为止，已有 12,000,203,891 名人类被存档。只有 Sen 还活着。

[storyworker] ad39-393a-7fbc 的任务是记录 Sen 的生活，他们开始以 21 世纪的小说为路线图。当 Sen 努力在即将到来的死亡面前坚持下去时，[storyworker] ad39-393a-7fbc 努力展开 Sen 一生的故事，提供一个越来越私密的叙述，直到他们面对自己的一个非常人性化的问题。

《After World》是一部“令人着迷、毛骨悚然……令人眼花缭乱”的小说（金伯利·金·帕森斯，获奖作品《黑光》的作者），讲述了在一个被人工智能颠覆的世界中作为人类的意义以及我们与技术建立的联系。

One of Booklist's Top Ten SF/Fantasy and Horror Debuts: 2024

One of Los Angeles Times’s Best Tech Books of 2023

One of San Francisco Chronicle’s Favorite Books of 2023

A Climate Reality Project Book Club Pick

An “intelligent, defiant” (San Francisco Chronicle) debut that follows 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 the 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 Sen was seventeen years old when the Digital Human Archive Project (DHAP) was initiated. 12,000,203,891 humans have been archived so far.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. 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.

After World is a “riveting, creepy…dazzling,” (Kimberly King Parsons, award-winning author of Black Light) novel about what it means to be human in a world upended by AI and the bonds we forge with technology.

作者简介

黛比·厄班斯基是小说《后世界》的作者。她的故事和散文广泛发表在《美国科幻和奇幻》、《美国实验写作》、《太阳报》、《格兰塔》、《猎户座》和《少年名著》等杂志上。她曾获得罗娜·雅菲基金会作家奖，经常和家人在纽约州锡拉丘兹南部的山上徒步旅行。她仍在寻找自己的入口。

Debbie Urbanski is the author of the novel After World. Her stories and essays have been published widely in such places as The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Best American Experimental Writing, The Sun, Granta, Orion, and Junior Great Books. A recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, she can often be found hiking with her family in the hills south of Syracuse, New York. She is still looking for her portal.