58% Too Far

<p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(13 13 13 1)><em>Noordermeer's impressive debut is mind-expanding anthropological SF... This heady SF yarn satisfyingly explores a cave-full of human dilemmas and evolves surprisingly well.</em> - <em>KIRKUS REVIEWS</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>_______________________________________________________________________</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><h3 class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(13 13 13 1)>They invited it in-without asking what it would replace.</strong></h3><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(13 13 13 1)>Seven years. Countless sacrifices. And now anthropologist Zadie Thornton's doctoral work on how humanity might adapt to AI is already obsolete. With her PhD in jeopardy she accepts her uncle's mysterious offer to glimpse AI's future expecting a top-secret research facility. Instead she wakes up on another planet.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(13 13 13 1)>Mushēški is home to the Anunnaki descendants of ancient Sumerians who merged AI into their DNA five millennia ago. The result? Superhuman cognition... but at a cost. Their emotions have dulled. Their thoughts have grown uniform. They believed they'd reached the pinnacle of evolution until a destabilizing disorder called </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(13 13 13 1)>Quantum Psychosis</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(13 13 13 1)> began stripping away the last traces of who they were. In pursuit of a solution the Anunnaki have recreated extinct human species in vast biodomes.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(13 13 13 1)>For Zadie it's the opportunity of a lifetime. The chance to observe what humanity once was while living among what her people could one day become. As fascination battles unease she agrees to stay. To revive her career and maybe even stop Earth from making the same mistakes.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(13 13 13 1)>But as the disorder spreads the Anunnaki's noble intentions give way to increasingly unethical measures forcing Zadie to confront the true cost of progress-and what it </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(13 13 13 1)>really</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(13 13 13 1)> means to be human.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(13 13 13 1)>58% Too Far</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(13 13 13 1)> is a cerebral emotionally rich and chillingly plausible exploration of our future evolution where the fusion of AI and humanity leads not to transcendence but to slow erasure. Perfect for readers who appreciate the speculative urgency of Blake Crouch the philosophical insight of Ted Chiang and the haunting emotional resonance of Kazuo Ishiguro.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p>