The Future
Books | Fiction / Literary
3.9
Naomi Alderman
The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a “page-turning” (Los Angeles Times), “propulsive” (The Boston Globe), “thrilling” (BookPage, starred review) tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.Martha Einkorn never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she’s surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry while spouting technological prophecy. Across the world, in a mall in Singapore, Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, flees from an assassin. Suddenly, a remarkable piece of software appears on her phone telling her exactly how to escape. Who made it? What do they know about the future that Zhen doesn’t? When Martha and Zhen’s worlds collide, an explosive chain of events is set in motion. While a few billionaires assured of their own safety lead the world to destruction, Martha’s relentless drive and Zhen’s insatiable curiosity could lead to something beautiful—or it could herald the cataclysmic end of civilization. By turns “playful, incisive, horribly relevant, and surprisingly hopeful” (Lauren Beukes, New York Times bestselling author of The Shining Girls), The Future unfolds at breakneck speed, highlighting how power corrupts the few who have it and what it means to stand up to them. The future is coming. The Future is here.
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Author
Naomi Alderman
Pages
432
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2023-11-07
ISBN
1668025701 9781668025703
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"I so wanted to love this book, as much as I loved The Power. This book was different in many ways, and not for the better. On the plus side, Alderman’s imagination is huge, but the tale itself is a concoction of the worst human behaviors among the worst people on the planet. A cabal of 5-10 billionaire tech and media CEOs believe the world is heading toward catastrophe, so they build their own escapes for themselves (only for themselves) on idyllic islands and mountains or underground lairs or even after plane crashes. Then they go about making money, more billions, from catastrophe.while human beings suffer. The story plays on our fears of climate crises and self-destruction and on the selfishness of the elites, but neither the story nor the people leading the cabal were the people I wanted to hear about. In fact, the story seemed to dissolve into inchoate concepts and incoherent religious babble. I do not recommend this book when there are so many other books to read."
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