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Thomas R. Weaver – Artificial Wisdom

Thomas R. Weaver Artificial Wisdom review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de dystopische thriller over AI. Op 14 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Bantam de dystopische toekomstthriller en sciencefiction van Thomas R. Weaver, de Amerikaanse schrijver. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Thomas R. Weaver Artificial Wisdom review en recensie

  • A stunning story and a remarkable vision, all incredibly well told. As modern as tomorrow and even more frightening. Be afraid – very afraid – of where we are and of what is coming.” (Terry Hayes)
  • A richly-imagined, fast-paced exploration of an uncertain future where technology promises to serve as our saviour and rule as our master. An all too human story of a desperate man in search of the truth.” (Michael Cordy)

Thomas R. Weaver Artificial Wisdom

Artificial Wisdom

  • Auteur: Thomas R. Weaver (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse dystopische thriller, sciencefiction
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgave: Bantam / Del Rey Books
  • Verschijnt: 14 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 432 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de dystopische sciencefictionthriller van Thomas R. Weaver

Who would you trust with the future?

The year is 2050. In the teeth of a climate catastrophe, the world is left with a drastic solution: one global leader to steer it through the coming apocalypse.

The final two candidates are ex-US President Lockwood, and Solomon, the world’s first political artificial intelligence.

As whispers of a global conspiracy emerge, investigative journalist Marcus Tully find himself at the centre of it – when Solomon’s creator turns up murdered.

Overnight, one investigation becomes two, and it’s not just the result of the election that’s at stake but the future of the species. Suddenly humanity must make an impossible choice – between salvation, or freedom.

Thomas R. Weaver writes stories about tomorrow to help make sense of today. A tech entrepreneur turned author, he holds a degree in Computer Science but never expected to actually use it in his career. After spending years exploring how technology could transform experiences in the places outside of the home and the office, he founded a tech startup in the restaurant hospitality space, which was later acquired by Just Eat Takeaway. Exiting in 2018–2019 left him with no more excuses not to pursue a long-held dream: writing fiction. Despite vowing he had enough grey hair already and he’d never to run another startup, he continues to build a portfolio of interesting new ideas with his former cofounder, backed by a major Silicon Valley tech accelerator. Outside of spending time with his family, he loves to cook, draw, paint and lose at online bullet chess. He loves a great movie or TV series, and collects more books than time allows to read.

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Lincoln Michel – Metallic Realms

Lincoln Michel Metallic Realms review, recensie en informatie nieuw sciencefictionboek van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 13 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Atria Books de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse sciencefictionschrijver Lincoln Michel. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Lincoln Michel Metallic Realms review en recensie

  • “Like any good book-within-a-book, Lincoln Michel’s latest is a complex tale that also finds intimacy and depth in its characters at every turn. The brilliance of Metallic Realms will burn your senses.” (The Chicago Review of Books)
  • “A brilliant, funny, and pulpy homage to the golden age of science fiction.” (Esquire)
  • “A sci-fi masterpiece. The story soars across galaxies but finds its emotional heft in a deft portrait of literary lives in New York and the many dramas of their mingled ambitions and disappointments.” (LitHub)

Lincoln Michel Metalic Realms

Metallic Realms

  • Auteur: Lincoln Michel (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse sciencefiction
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria Books
  • Verschijnt: 13 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 25,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het nieuwe sciencefictionboek van Lincoln Michel

Fantastic universes and personal dramas collide as a group of friends blur the line between real life and fiction with delightfully disastrous results from the acclaimed author of the timeless and original.

Perennially single, socially awkward, and drowning in debt, Michael Lincoln finds his life has turned out nothing like the intergalactic lives of the pulp heroes of his youth. But these are pedestrian concerns—he has a higher calling, and that is to preserve for all posterity the greatest series in the history of the written word: The Star Rot Chronicles.

Written collectively by Michael’s best (and perhaps only) friend Taras K. Castle and his misfit science fiction writing group, the Orb 4, the stories follow Captain Baldwin and his fearless crew on their mind-bending adventures across the Metallic Realms, from solar whales swallowing suns at the edge of spacetime to extraterrestrial romances and interstellar wars. These masterpieces have gone tragically unpublished—until now.

But the most urgent story Michael must tell takes place in the more intimate (if no less dramatic) confines of literary Brooklyn. Behind the greatest universe ever created, there are the all-too-mortal people who wrote it. As Michael chronicles the personal melodramas of the Orb 4 as well as the fun house reflections in their fiction, the line between real and unreal becomes dangerously thin, and the true reasons for the group’s fallout begin to emerge. As he labors away in hiding, Michael has just one mission: to bring the Metallic Realms to the world. No matter the cost.

Lincoln Michel was born in 1982 in Virginia. His previous books are the story collection Upright Beasts and the novel The Body Scout, which was named one of the 10 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021 by The New York Times and one of the 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time by Esquire. His writing has appeared in The Paris ReviewMcSweeney’sLightspeedGrantaThe New York TimesThe Guardian, and other publications. He runs the popular literary newsletter Counter Craft and coedited the anthologies Tiny Crimes and Tiny Nightmares. He was born in Virginia and lives in Brooklyn.

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