In this award-winning science fiction saga, enter a world where artificial intelligence is thriving—and human culture is dying.
In the future, robots are more than machines. Autonomous “cyber-persons” with A.I. brains are now part of society, interacting with humans while developing their own culture. In fact, they may be surpassing humans, as biological homo sapiens have begun to die out and give way to robo sapiens. But are humans truly disappearing, or are robots becoming the newest form of humanity?
This millennia-spanning, speculative fiction manga of interconnected stories, both human and robotic, was awarded the Division Grand Prize at the 2020 Japan Media Arts Festival. Originally released in Japan as two volumes, get the complete manga series in English in this special omnibus edition.---from the publisher
304 pages 9781648275982 Ages 13 and up
Keywords: manga, short stories, robots, science fiction, love, sacrifice, 13 year old, 14 year old, 15 year old
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This is a collection of short stories that delivers all the powerful themes centering on robots and human beings. Imagine a robot assigned to guard a stored pile of nuclear waste - an assignment that will take 250,000 years to complete. Over the centuries visitors come to the place where the robot's life is being spent and they bring with them slices of the life of human beings in their era and all of the changes - enormous changes - that have taken place.
Recommended by: Barb Langridge, abookandahug.com
