Fiction – Science Fiction – Genetic Engineering – Dystopian – LGBTQ+ – Literary

RELEASE DATE: 7/9/2024 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER’S WAREHOUSE )

Negotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguros Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandels Sea of Tranquility, a brilliant, haunting speculative novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling translator that sets out to answer the question: What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology?

In a near-future world, a new technological therapy is quickly eradicating cancer. The bodys cells are entirely replaced with nanitesrobot or android cells which not only cure those afflicted but leaves them virtually immortal.

Literary researcher Yonghun teaches an AI how to understand poetry and creates a living, thinking machine he names Panit, meaning Beloved, in honor of his husband. When Yonghunhimself a recipient of nanotherapymysteriously vanishes into thin air and then just as suddenly reappears, the event raises disturbing questions. What happened to Yonghun, and though hes returned, is he really himself anymore?

When Dr. Beeko, the scientist who holds the patent to the nanotherapy technology, learns of Panit, he transfers its consciousness from the machine into an android body, giving it freedom and life. As Yonghun, Panit, and other nano humans thriveand begin to replicatetheir development will lead them to a crossroads and a choice with existential consequences.

Exploring the nature of intelligence and the unexpected consequences of progress, the meaning of personhood and life, and what we really have to fear from technology and the future, Toward Eternity is a gorgeous, thought-provoking novelthat challenges the notion of what makes us humanand how lovesurvives even the end of that humanity.

AUTHOR BIO:

Anton Hurwas born in Stockholm, Sweden, and was subsequently raised in six different countries on four different continents, including British Hong Kong, Ethiopia, the United States, and Thailand, but spent most of his time in Korea. He has worked as an interpreter and translator for more than two decades, and in 2022, was double-longlisted and shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, the first translator of color to do so. In 2023, his translation of Bora Chung’sCursed Bunnywas shortlisted for the National Book Awards. He divides his time between Seoul and the science fiction-y island of Songdo with his husband.

“Anton Hur emerges as one of the most exciting translators, and now authors, of our generation.Toward Eternitydevelops a surreal and subversive terrain of nanite swarms, exploding memories, and symphonic poetry. Hur unburies both familiar and ancient history, geography, and language–a sprawling, crystalline, and deftly crafted vision of a yet unimaginable future.”
—E. J. Koh, author ofThe Liberators