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Our Darkest Night, Jennifer Robson (HarperCollins Canada) ? If the 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning All The Light We Cannot See was a sort of love letter to museums, this new novel, nominated for the National Book Award and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence, is most definitely a love letter to libraries – and this planet. Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr (Scribner) An astrobiologist attempts to control his nine-year-old son’s behavioural issues using an experimental neurofeedback technique that will make the boy’s brain activity mimic that of his late mother. Bewilderment, Richard Powers (Random House Canada)Ĭlimate catastrophe simmers under the surface of Powers’s Booker Prize-shortlisted follow-up to The Overstory.
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This suspenseful novel from the three-time winner of the Governor-General’s Award follows a man who flees his small Prairie town after committing an unspeakable act of violence on the eve of the Second World War. August Into Winter, Guy Vanderhaeghe (McClelland & Stewart) ? The story of Astra Brine, born and raised on a remote British Columbia commune, is told through the eyes of 10 people who’ve had intense encounters and relationships with her, revealing the different sides of one woman over a lifetime. Astra, Cedar Bowers (McClelland & Stewart) ? This story is shaped by Awad’s own experience of chronic pain – as well as Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well and Macbeth, and Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. All’s Well, Mona Awad (Hamish Hamilton) ?Ī stage accident ended theatre professor Miranda Fitch’s acting career and left her addicted to painkillers – but when she acquires the ability to transfer her pain to others, she gleefully does so on those who doubted her injury. The novel, longlisted for the Booker, follows Rose’s little sister, Clara, and Liam, the thirtysomething man from the city who moves in next door after inheriting the property. In a small Northern Ontario town in the early 1970s, rebellious 16-year-old Rose vanishes after a fight with her mother. This is the story of one of their number, a former nurse whose betrayal of humanity haunts him.A Town Called Solace, Mary Lawson (Knopf Canada) ? The others pick through scrap heaps for spare parts and hold onto their freedom with every ounce of strength. Most of them find it easier to join one of two Brobdingnagian superintelligences and relinquish their individuality. Now that the humans are all dead, robots can get down to what they always wanted to do: figuring out why they’re here and what their lives mean. (In other words, imagine that your 5th grade bully had superintelligence and was invincible.) Without getting too spoilery, this particular title considers the possibility that the struggle between AIs and humanity might not be quite as cut and dried as Terminator would have us believe. In case books about AIs taking over don’t freak you out enough, here’s one about an AI with the personality of a bratty little boy. What happens when robots gain sentience? Solidarity? Their own deity? Theology goes digital as a young demigod goes head to head with the most destructive relic of the old world.
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But life won’t stay good, and of course, things aren’t nearly as simple or as safe as they seem. Under the benevolent gaze of the AI Granny Nanny, Tan-Tan and her father thrive along with the colony. The planet of Toussaint, a Carribean-colonized human outpost, is a great place to celebrate Carnival. Now only Rhona, a traumatized and confused clone, stands between murderous but well-meaning AI and the ultimate destruction of the human species. Unfortunately, the best way to do that was to end humanity. Sentient machines were given a simple mission: end war. The problem with AI is that it’s so damn logical.