A01=Susan Finlay
artificial intelligence hive mind
Author_Susan Finlay
Black Mirror style book
book club speculative fiction
Category=FBA
Category=FL
climate and extinction anxiety
countercultural
crypto culture
digital age alienation
dystopian fiction
dystopian satire
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existential
forthcoming
psychedelic
Pynchonesque
space colonisation thriller
speculative fiction
speculative horror
techno-capitalism
venture capitalism
Product details
- ISBN 9781806950720
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Collective Ink
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Legal-high addict, gaming enthusiast, and principal shareholder of AstroLabs , Lex Rameses, has recently discovered and purchased Proserpina: a planet with a near-identical ecosystem to Earth s. Yet, although his humanistic, hipster pretensions mean that many people admire him, there is still one thing standing in the way of his space-colonization program: as of yet, there is no way to travel to Proserpina safely. Enter a cast of mad scientists, Astro Marxists, a neurorobotic AI hivemind, an extinction anxiety addict, the victims of an interrelated crypto-currency gaming scam, and a seemingly endless succession of ravers and gamers in search of the ultimate hallucinogenic, carcinogenic, ne -space-age high
Susan Finlay is the author of four, critically acclaimed 'art novels' and an anti-memoir. Her books have been named as White Review Books of the Year, Anti-Capitalist Resistance Books of the Year, and many UK independent and gallery bookstores' recommended reads. Her work has been published in POETRY, The Stinging Fly, LARB, TLS, Spike, Frieze, Art Review and Tate Etc. She was a founder member of MOIST Books.
