Few survived the Destruction. Tech did, and the life of 2072 is experienced in non.life. Remotely suspended in their nanocradles, dispersed people around the globe connect in the metaverse, building a future, embodied in bots, and imagining... together.

Virtual lovers Rai and Art, biologist and cosmologist, create, theorise and attempt to make lives real, in a time of unwanted new tensions... while Xeen blips fifty times a day, reviewing all the best non.life spaces.

Nola, ex-Versality CEO, detects a dark, near-Pluto-scale interstellar object, dangerously heading straight into the Solar System. It does not conform to known laws of physics, inducing world-changing technological accelerations and connections.

A fast-paced, hemidemisemi-humorous, invention-laden, inter-generational, time-shifting tale of dystopia determinedly heading for unexpectedly universal utopia.

A novel by Rollo Carpenter, the creator of Cleverbot.

Meta Themes

• Love, work and play in a metaverse
• Minds, intelligence and sentience
• Representations and genders
• Music, collectiveness and digital connection
• Climate disaster and existential threats
• Nanobot swarms and lifeforms
• Time, space and going interstellar
• Tech, evolution and imagination