MAC'S BACKS SCI FI BOOK CLUB DISCUSSES AUTONOMOUS

Thursday, December 17, 2020 - 7:00pm

Mac's Backs Sci Fi Book Club discusses Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can't otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane.

Hot on her trail, an unlikely pair: Eliasz, a brooding military agent, and his robotic partner, Paladin. As they race to stop information about the sinister origins of Jack's drug from getting out, they begin to form an uncommonly close bond that neither of them fully understand.

And underlying it all is one fundamental question: Is freedom possible in a culture where everything, even people, can be owned?

ANNALEE NEWITZ is an American journalist, editor, and author of fiction and nonfiction. They are the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, and has written for Popular ScienceThe New Yorker, and the Washington Post. They founded the science fiction website io9 and served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008-2015, and subsequently was Editor-in-Chief at Gizmodo and Tech Culture Editor at Ars Technica. Their book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize in science. Their first novel, Autonomous, won a Lambda award, and their new novel The Future of Another Timeline is out Sept. 2019.

Autonomous is to biotech and AI what Neuromancer was to the Internet.--Neal Stephenson

Something genuinely and thrillingly new in the naturalistic, subjective, paradoxically humanistic but non-anthropomorphic depiction of bot-POV--and all in the service of vivid, solid storytelling.--William Gibson

In accordance with social distancing guidelines, this meeting will take place via Zoom. Contact us for the link.

The book will be available at Mac's Backs or through our website at the 20% book club discount.

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1820 Coventry Rd.
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Books: 
Autonomous: A Novel By Annalee Newitz Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780765392084
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Tor Books - September 4th, 2018