Singularity - by Joshua T Calvert (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

This visionary portrait of a technology-dominated near future from the author of The Object asks: Is humanity engineering its own extinction?

By the end of the twenty-first century, cities are surrounded by rising oceans and society has fractured beyond repair. Half the population thrives, stretching their lifespans infinitely through medical marvels and relying on obedient AI-implanted assistants to handle the realities of a doomed world. The other half has become obsolete. At best they scrape by as cheap labor. Surplus humans in a world that no longer needs them.

James was born disposable. When he takes a position as a domestic servant for the elite, the best he can hope for is survival. Sacrificing his free will for a life of comfort may not seem like the best deal, but at least the view is nice. That all changes when his proprietor assigns him a seemingly impossible task: find his missing daughter, who disappeared in a VR simulation of his own design twenty years earlier.

As James descends deeper into a digital labyrinth, the boundaries between simulation and reality begin to dissolve--along with those between human and machine. And buried at the heart of it all lies a terrifying secret. One that calls into question not only Earth's future, but its entire past.

USA Today-bestselling author Joshua T. Calvert pushes the human race to its absolute limits in this epic cli-fi thriller that's perfect for fans of the Murderbot Diaries.

Review Quotes

Praise for The Object

"Nail-biting science fiction that you can't put down." --M.A. Rothman, USA Today-bestselling author of the Levi Yoder series

"A brainy and well-told hard-sci fi/first-contact yarn." --Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Joshua T. Calvert is a USA Today-bestselling science fiction author. His work is currently available in English, German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian, and he has sold more than two million copies of his books worldwide. In order to make his stories more immersive, Calvert travels the world, swimming among sharks and shipwrecks, patrolling with Sumatran jungle rangers, snowshoeing in the Arctic Circle, and flying into space with astronauts. He believes in living life to the fullest--and writing about it.