Emily Eternal
A compelling science fiction novel from an award-winning author
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Publisher Description
Meet Emily - she can solve advanced mathematical problems, unlock the mind's deepest secrets and even fix your truck's air con, but unfortunately, she can't restart the Sun.
Emily Eternal feels like hope in the face of the end of the world'CultureFly
Emily is an artificial consciousness, designed in a lab to help humans process trauma, which is particularly helpful when the sun begins to die 5 billion years before scientists agreed it was supposed to.
So, her beloved human race is screwed, and so is Emily. That is, until she finds a potential answer buried deep in the human genome. But before her solution can be tested, her lab is brutally attacked, and Emily is forced to go on the run with two human companions - college student Jason and small-town Sheriff, Mayra.
As the sun's death draws near, Emily and her friends must race against time to save humanity. But before long it becomes clear that it's not only the species at stake, but also that which makes us most human.
PRAISE FOR EMILY ETERNAL
'A visionary work of science fiction' Blake Crouch, author of DARK MATTER
'A top-class, high-tech thriller. Emily is a true heroine: warm, funny, brilliant and more human than a lot of humans. You'll be cheering for her to the end' Daily Mail
'Remarkably clever and engrossing . . . It's hard not to be won over by Emily's benign narrative voice and thrilled by the race-against-time plot, even as the book explores weighty questions of self and soul' Financial Times
'Sparsely drawn, but vivid and likeable . . . M.G. Wheaton writes his lead character with charming warmth' SFX
'Captivating . . . a unique portrayal of the end of the world and a taste of what comes after it. If this is all we see of Emily it will be a bittersweet disappointment' British Fantasy Society
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Before the sun explodes and destroys life on Earth, a socially and morally inclined computer program hopes to preserve humankind in this disjointed apocalyptic thriller set in the very near future. Wheaton's debut follows the perspective of Emily, an AI who can appear to people wearing interface chips and read their thoughts and memories. After her creator, Dr. Nathan Wyman, is assassinated and her servers at MIT are destroyed by a mysterious organization, Emily survives only on the interface chip of her human crush, Jason Hatta, an engineering PhD student. While searching for a way to rescue humans from impending disaster, Emily and Jason develop an unconventional relationship. Wheaton tries to emphasize compassion and trust through Emily's growing understanding of human nature, but technological revelations dictate the path of the story, creating an action-driven plot that feels mechanical. This trite exploration of what makes humans human and the ethics of AI will feel familiar to cyberpunk fans.
