What Birds Have Vanished
May 2027 · Bloomsbury Publishing
Ebook
368
Pages
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From the award-winning author of the Dandelion Dynasty series, Ken Liu returns with the sequel to ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM, the next electrifying novel in the Julia Z series - where love, identity, and immortality collide.
What price is too high in our war against death?
This isn't the distant future. It's tomorrow - just one breath away.
Every street corner watches. Every camera feeds a stream. Every stream ends in an AI. Nothing escapes their regard. Everything is captured, ingested and dissected.
From this torrent of data, new realities are conjured, indistinguishable from truth. The line between real and virtual isn't blurred.
It's gone.
Julia Z walks this vanished line. She understands the ebb and flow of information, she can see the world as the AIs see it. Like a priest of old, she can work with the new gods.
But she is not alone.
Others walk the same path. And for some of them, humanity is not sacred, it is substrate - raw material to be exploited.
For Julia Z, What Birds Have Vanished begins with a gift of love. It ends in a decades-long conspiracy of genes, brain scans, and forbidden research.
For the reader, it's a razor-edged technothriller - a story of surveillance, sacrifice, and the soul.?
Because when the gods are algorithms, the question isn't just what's real.
It's whether you're still human.
What price is too high in our war against death?
This isn't the distant future. It's tomorrow - just one breath away.
Every street corner watches. Every camera feeds a stream. Every stream ends in an AI. Nothing escapes their regard. Everything is captured, ingested and dissected.
From this torrent of data, new realities are conjured, indistinguishable from truth. The line between real and virtual isn't blurred.
It's gone.
Julia Z walks this vanished line. She understands the ebb and flow of information, she can see the world as the AIs see it. Like a priest of old, she can work with the new gods.
But she is not alone.
Others walk the same path. And for some of them, humanity is not sacred, it is substrate - raw material to be exploited.
For Julia Z, What Birds Have Vanished begins with a gift of love. It ends in a decades-long conspiracy of genes, brain scans, and forbidden research.
For the reader, it's a razor-edged technothriller - a story of surveillance, sacrifice, and the soul.?
Because when the gods are algorithms, the question isn't just what's real.
It's whether you're still human.
From the award-winning author of the Dandelion Dynasty series, Ken Liu returns with the sequel to ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM, the next electrifying novel in the Julia Z series - where love, identity, and immortality collide.
What price is too high in our war against death?
This isn't the distant f...
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About the author
Ken Liu is the author of the epic fantasy series The Dandelion Dynasty, as well as short story collections The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and other top genre awards around the world for his fiction. A programmer and lawyer, he speaks and consults on futurism, technology history, and sustainable storytelling.
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Ken Liu is the author of the epic fantasy series The Dandelion Dynasty, as well as short story collections The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and other top genre awards around the world for his fiction. A progra...
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