To uncover the truth, Con is retracing the last days she can recall, crossing paths with a detective who’s just as curious. The secrets of Con’s disorienting new life are buried deep. When Con wakes up in the clinic, it’s eighteen months later. For young Constance “Con” D’Arcy, who was gifted her own clone by her late aunt, it’s terrifying.Īfter a routine monthly upload of her consciousness―stored for that inevitable transition―something goes wrong. To anticloning militants, it’s an abomination against nature. For the wealthy, cheating death is the ultimate luxury. In the near future, advances in medicine and quantum computing make human cloning a reality. “In this fast-paced novel, rapid and catastrophic changes to human reproduction make the survival of the race uncertain…Erdrich imagines an America in which winter is a casualty of climate change, borders are sealed, men are ‘militantly insecure,’ and women’s freedom is evaporating…Vivid…Compelling.” It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe. A stranger answers the phone when she calls her adoptive parents, who have vanished without a trace. The streets of her neighborhood have been renamed with Bible verses. Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot. Of a registry, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in. There are rumors of martial law, of Congress confining pregnant women. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity. Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation, to understand both her and her baby’s origins. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on Earth. “Chilling and all too convincing, this brilliant, nightmarish take on the future of cyber-consciousness is one of the few thrillers that truly thrills-while raising questions that should unsettle every one of us.” As the pursuit of Dorothy converges on a deserted house on the coast of Northern California, Ford must face the ultimate question: is rescuing Dorothy the right thing? Is the AI bent on saving the world, or on wiping out the cancer that is humankind? Traumatized, angry, and relentlessly hunted, Dorothy has an extraordinary revelation―and devises a plan. And they’re not the only ones looking for the wayward software: the AI is also being pursued by a pair of Wall Street traders, who want to capture her code and turn her into a high-speed trading bot. As Ford and Shepherd search for Dorothy, they realize that her horrific experiences in the wasteland of the internet have changed her in ways they can barely imagine. When miscalculations lead to a catastrophe during testing, Dorothy flees into the internet.įormer CIA agent Wyman Ford is tapped to track down the rogue AI. To this end, Melissa Shepherd, a brilliant programmer, has developed “Dorothy,” a powerful, self-modifying AI whose true potential is both revolutionary and terrifying. It is one of the most promising habitats for extraterrestrial life in the solar system, but the surface is unpredictable and dangerous, requiring the probe to contain artificial intelligence software. NASA is building a probe to be splashed down in the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn’s great moon, Titan. Note that this is Book 4 of Wyman Ford Series, but it can be read on its own.
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