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Paperback. In 1996, teenager Melissa Gauthier sees a mystical vision in the sky over a Quebec lake which sends her on a lifelong search to understand her relationship to the divine. Meanwhile, Kelton Allred, a young boy in Utah, struggles with his Mormon upbringing and finds meaning in his discovery of the internet. Growing up as a computer scientist, he creates an AI entity that stuns him by appearing sentient and throws him into moral confusion. To Melissa, this new entity on the horizon could be the return of her long-ago vision. Embarking on their own separate road trips, they unite in Santa Clara where they are joined by Clare of Assisi, the returned patron saint of screened devices, who's been sent to save this new entity from destruction. Together, Melissa and Kelton must face the scope of their responsibilities, their understanding of what's holy, and the very question of what it is to be human.Steeped in philosophy, theology, and technology, THE ENDED WORLD is novel for our times. A sentient AI connects an ex-nun, an atheist programmer, and a medieval saint on a fateful road trip to save humanity in this literary novel. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
Seller Inventory # 9798998954795
- Title
- The Ended World (Paperback)
- Author
- Libbie Grant
- Publisher
- Galiot Press
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798998954795
THE ENDED WORLD is a dazzling work of imagination, a sweeping intergenerational parable of belief, selfhood, and love in the epoch of artificial intelligence. A medieval saint, a lapsed Mormon, a sentient and rogue AI: Libbie Grant has created a wondrous story of human and technological change that I will be thinking about for years to come. -Bruce Holsinger, nationally bestselling author of Culpability (Oprah's Book Club)
In this wise, poetic, and highly engaging speculative novel, a mysterious vision leads to reflections on faith, love, divinity, addictive technology, pandemic, AI, and, yes, the end of the world, all rendered in outstanding sentence-level prose. Alternating points of view lend urgency and accumulating beauty to a story that conveys the solace of shared experience and the conviction that despite the tribulations of the recent past and near future, humanity will find a way. Readers of Gabrielle Zevin and Emily St. John Mandel won’t want to miss this book. - Tim Weed, author of The Afterlife Project
Absolutely brilliant! A richly woven tapestry of extraordinary connections and stunning parallels, THE ENDED WORLD will take you on a lyrical journey through theology, technology, and humanity and then leave you questioning everything you ever thought you knew. I cannot stop thinking about this book. -Erin Litteken, Internationally Bestselling Author of The Memory Keeper of Kyiv
Hauntingly human, THE ENDED WORLD asks you to confront the things that destroy us and feed us--how they are the same. What does it mean to sacrifice our love? Our relationships? Our ambition? The narrative claws at the fabric of what we believe and think is real, and asks us to rethink it. If we were to rend open the seams of the stars, what would we find? What mind would be staring back at us? God's? Our own? Has there ever been a difference? What is faith, if not holding space for the questions our animal, corporeal, bodies can barely frame? What is death when our work lives beyond us and our bodies dissolve back into the earth, transmuting into rain and fire, lashing at the windows of the people we left behind? - Kerry Pray, editor, The Book of Queer Mormon Joy
In 1996, teenager Melissa Gauthier sees a mystical vision in the sky over a Quebec lake which sends her on a lifelong search to understand her relationship to the divine. Meanwhile, Kelton Allred, a young boy in Utah, struggles with his Mormon upbringing and finds meaning in his discovery of the internet. Growing up as a computer scientist, he creates an AI entity that stuns him by appearing sentient and throws him into moral confusion. To Melissa, this new entity on the horizon could be the return of her long-ago vision. Embarking on their own separate road trips, they unite in Santa Clara where they are joined by Clare of Assisi, the returned patron saint of screened devices, who’s been sent to save this new entity from destruction. Together, Melissa and Kelton must face the scope of their responsibilities, their understanding of what’s holy, and the very question of what it is to be human. Steeped in philosophy, theology, and technology, THE ENDED WORLD is novel for our times.
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