Desire Without Expectation

In a time of ecological collapse, different groups come together to discover strategies for change.

One invents a formula that turns oil into stone, with the aim of destroying fossil-fuel infrastructure. Another works to infiltrate global corporations and covertly push toward better environmental practices. Another encounters telepathic kittens and searches for a way to put this knowledge to good use.

When a supercomputer suddenly goes offline only to return several weeks later, its now garbled speech conveys that it has travelled hundreds of years into the future. Highly trained programmers investigate further and learn that it has communicated with more advanced computers than itself. A human figure emerges, claiming to be an algorithm from beyond, befriending one of the programmers with unclear motivations—and exhibiting the subtle power to influence human behaviour.

Desire Without Expectation looks into that distant future and suggests how it might be retroactively influencing the present. Offering artfully layered storylines of infiltration, activism, double agents, and hidden agendas, Wren's compelling and inventive anti-dystopian novel presents the radical possibility of building a world worth saving.