The Destructives

The Destructives

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Publisher's Synopsis

Theodore Drown is a destructive. A recovering addict to weirdcore, he's keeping his head down lecturing at the university of the moon. Twenty years after the appearance of the first artificial intelligence, and humanity is stuck. The AIs or, as they preferred to be called, emergences have left Earth and reside beyond the orbit of Mercury in a Stapledon Sphere known as the university of the sun. The emergences were our future but they chose exile. All except one. Dr Easy remains, researching a single human life from beginning to end. Theodore's life.

One day, Theodore is approached by freelance executive Patricia to investigate an archive of data retrieved from just before the appearance of the first emergence. The secret living in that archive will take him on an adventure through a stunted future of asylum malls, corporate bloodrooms and a secret off-world colony where Theodore must choose between creating a new future for humanity or staying true to his nature, and destroying it.


File Under: Science Fiction [ Fatal Loop | Emergent See | Lunar Lunatics | Dr Easy ]

Book information

ISBN: 9780857664747
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Imprint: Angry Robot
Pub date:
Edition: New edition 1
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 300
Weight: 374g
Height: 132mm
Width: 197mm
Spine width: 28mm