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AI and human connection
artificial intelligence and humanity
Author_Yoav Avni
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contemporary science fiction
cross-genre literary fiction
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for readers of Kazuo Ishiguro and David Mitchell
forthcoming
humorous speculative fiction
literary fiction with historical elements
literary sci-fi novel
literary speculative fiction
love across time
modern Israeli fiction
modern literary fantasy
novels about time and memory
philosophical mystery novel
psychological fiction with suspense
stories of second chances
technology and emotion in fiction
Tel Aviv novel
time loop story
time travel adventure
Yoav Avni novel
Product details
- ISBN 9781917704311
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 29 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Collective Ink
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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When Boaz is summoned to a furious dismissal meeting at the company where he has spent years developing FocalAI, better known as the nation’s AI, everything in his familiar, comfortable office feels like a personal possession -even the door, the window, the air, the time that had passed. By nightfall, he is cast out into the desolate industrial zone outside his office, stripped of his phone, his car, and perhaps soon his relationship. The future looms, threatening and uncertain. Then, three strangers appear, raising questions not about the future but about the past: a police officer who lost her memory in the '80s (and maybe it is just as well); a flamboyant French dandy from the nineteenth century; and a wounded shepherd from biblical times, clad in armor and tassels. As his own life unravels, Boaz feels compelled to discover why these three have arrived at his side. Why now and why him? What role do they play? And what role might he have? As their stories unfold, Boaz realizes he holds three fragile threads, with only one chance to weave them together - through a single loop in time. By their side, the present grows more surprising by the moment.
Yoav Avni is an Israeli author and translator, winner of two Geffen Awards and a national bestseller. He has published seven novels with Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan and Keter, blending speculative fiction with sharp prose. His latest book, Time Clocks, was published in December 2024.
