The Future
By Naomi Alderman
- Release Date: 2023-11-07
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Description
A Most Anticipated Book of Fall at Associated Press, Booklist, Chicago Tribune, Goodreads, Good Housekeeping, Literary Hub, Time, The Week, and W Magazine
The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.
When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she’s surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her father’s fox and rabbit sermon—once a parable to her—are starting to come true, how much future is actually left?
Across the world, in a mall in Singapore, Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, flees from an assassin. She’s cornered, desperate and—worst of all—might die without ever knowing what's going on. Suddenly, a remarkable piece of software appears on her phone telling her exactly how to escape. Who made it? What is it really for? And if those behind it can save her from danger, what do they want from her, and what else do they know about the future?
Martha and Zhen’s worlds are about to collide. An explosive chain of events is set in motion. While a few billionaires assured of their own safety lead the world to destruction, Martha’s relentless drive and Zhen’s insatiable curiosity could lead to something beautiful or the cataclysmic end of civilization.
By turns thrilling, hilarious, tender, and always piercingly brilliant, The Future unfolds at a breakneck speed, highlighting how power corrupts the few who have it and what it means to stand up to them. The future is coming. The Future is here.
Reviews
Can’t wait for the tv series!
5By lizlinnPage turning, familiar yet foreign enough that kept you gripped. This would make for a great tv series one day.Future
2By ursabearA great vocabulary describing but do you have to include so many F words? I don’t like that. There are other choice words that can be used and don’t have the excuse that in today’s world people talk like that. Don’t let yourself be pulled down to their level.Interesting Prospect
4By DWRothProbably a lot of what we actually need right now to correct our course, removing power from those who don’t care.Absolutely wild! Dystopia at its best
5By kaykaybean13I am stunned by the extraordinary imagination and the creative power that was injected into this novel and the narrative that always rang true regardless of how fantastically outrageous many of the plot points and twists were. I was so impressed by the climactic nature of the ending and what was revealed to the reader and between the two characters that were conversing to one another about their respective ownership in the situation that had happened. I will say, truthfully, I was getting lost by some of the more dynamic aspects of the storyline and the twists that would come with such intensity that it was hard to keep up with the rest of the series events however upon rereading several paragraphs after I’d finished and having the opportunity to see the whole story versus the sum parts of it I was better able to understand and navigate through the complex aspects of each characters part in the coup and how they all came together once I had a good understanding of what each character had done. Incredible work! Massively talented
