From the author of Once More We Saw Stars, an electrifying debut novel about AI that calls to mind Never Let Me Go and The Candy House's tantalizing vision of the future.Missy Takes Command: Book XVII
After more than a year as executive officer for her Special Forces unit, Missy is chosen to replace her commander when he is promoted and leaves for his next assignment. She must now take on more responsibility while continuing to lead her team members on top-secret missions.
Her responsibilities as a businesswoman in Moscow also increase making her role as a supernatural spy even more demanding. Fortunately, the SOD Group is able to support her as she continues to meet with high level leaders in the Russian regime.
Can she manage to return home to her husband Mike and her werewolf pack almost every month for a day or two? That’s becoming more and more of a challenge but with some help from the Fabulous Fates, she’s hoping that might still be possible!
Four interconnected souls grapple with an inexplicable tragedy.
Anna is shattered by the violent death of her son, Alex, and tormented by the question of whether it was an accident or a suicide. Samantha is Alex’s best friend, and the only eyewitness to his death. She keeps returning to the cliff where she watched him either jump or fall, trying to sift through the shards. Aviva is an “upload,” a digital entity composed of the sense memories of a human tether. But she’s “emancipated,” having left her human behind. Set free from her source and harboring a troubling secret, she finds temporary solace in the body of Cathy, a self-destructive ex-addict turned AI professor and upload-rights activist.
With UnWorld, Jayson Greene envisions a grim but eerily familiar near-future where all lines have blurred—between visceral and digital, human and machine, real and unreal. As Anna, Cathy, Sam, and Aviva’s stories hurtle toward each other, the stakes of UnWorld reveal themselves with electrifying intensity: What happens to the soul when it is splintered by grief? Where does love reside except in memory? What does it mean to be conscious, to be human, to be alive?
