Emily Eternal

Paperback Published on: 05/03/2020
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Emily Eternal
Artifical intelligence and the end of the world (as we know it)
An interesting and emotive novel about A.I and the end of the world. A bit more romance than I expected but enjoyable none the less. Perhaps a little rushe... READ MORE
Penelope Bullock at Lancaster
Emily Eternal
A top notch sci-fi thriller
An absolutely brilliant AI adventure. Full of heart, humour and tough moral and scientific questions. Emily is wonderful, brave and loyal. She is the best ... READ MORE
Angie at Blackpool
Emily Eternal
Spectacular!
An absolute pleasure to read, so easy to lose track of time and just get ensnared in the narrative. I'm a huge fan of speculative fiction that focuses on A... READ MORE
Chrys - Plymouth

Synopsis

Meet Emily - she can solve advanced mathematical problems, unlock the mind's deepest secrets and even fix your truck's air con, but unfortunately, she can't restart the Sun.

Emily Eternal feels like hope in the face of the end of the world'CultureFly

Emily is an artificial consciousness, designed in a lab to help humans process trauma, which is particularly helpful when the sun begins to die 5 billion years before scientists agreed it was supposed to.

So, her beloved human race is screwed, and so is Emily. That is, until she finds a potential answer buried deep in the human genome. But before her solution can be tested, her lab is brutally attacked, and Emily is forced to go on the run with two human companions - college student Jason and small-town Sheriff, Mayra.

As the sun's death draws near, Emily and her friends must race against time to save humanity. But before long it becomes clear that it's not only the species at stake, but also that which makes us most human.

PRAISE FOR EMILY ETERNAL

'A visionary work of science fiction' Blake Crouch, author of DARK MATTER

'A top-class, high-tech thriller. Emily is a true heroine: warm, funny, brilliant and more human than a lot of humans. You'll be cheering for her to the end'Daily Mail

'Remarkably clever and engrossing . . . It's hard not to be won over by Emily's benign narrative voice and thrilled by the race-against-time plot, even as the book explores weighty questions of self and soul' Financial Times
'Sparsely drawn, but vivid and likeable . . . M.G. Wheaton writes his lead character with charming warmth'SFX

'Captivating . . . a unique portrayal of the end of the world and a taste of what comes after it. If this is all we see of Emily it will be a bittersweet disappointment' British Fantasy Society

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • ISBN: 9781473681972
  • Number of pages: 304
  • Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 24 mm
  • Weight: 220g
  • Languages: English

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Emily Eternal
Exceptional story about saving humanity when the sun goes out
This book really grabs you from the first line: “It’s dark, way too dark for the middle of the day. And that’s not where the sky’s supposed to be”. So, ap... READ MORE
Rosemary Standeven
Emily Eternal
An imaginative, pacy sci-fi with a twist of romance.
An imaginative and enjoyable sci-fi with some great characters and an interesting plot. I love the ideas that Wheaton conjures up, and found that the pages... READ MORE
Gem - Wigan
Emily Eternal
A very curious book!
AI seems to be of great interest at the moment, so I was intrigued to see what this take on it would be like – and I’m glad to say I think it’s a good addi... READ MORE
H is for Hazel
This reviewer received a free of charge product for review.
Emily Eternal
Foreshadowing of our future.. Meet Emily
3.75. Thank you to Hodder for gifting me with an arc in exchange for my honest review. . This book is all about an Artificial Conscience named Emily. The m... READ MORE
Emma Lucy Spence-Hirst
Emily Eternal
Taking AI to a new level
This was an unpredictable sci-fi about a suddenly changing earth in the face of the sun turning red giant and an artificial consciousness, Emily. Emily is ... READ MORE
Micky - bookphenomena