The Bottom Line
by Söphie Edwards
Release Date: Autumn 2024
Dreams, robots and revolution collide when a crane operator’s co-workers get paid to be obsolete.
In the glittering solarpunk metropolis of Toronto 2045, astral projecting crane operator Auden Black clings to a world increasingly dominated by machines. As robot aloos replace his fellow workers and friends are bottom lined, paid to be replaced, Auden's crane becomes both refuge and watchtower. Witness a future where ad-projecting systems blur reality, virtual lives offer escape from unemployment, and the human spirit is tested against the relentless march of progress.
Through Auden's eyes, experience life suspended between techno-optimistic utopia and dystopian horror at losing one’s purpose, where every sunrise brings new challenges to what it means to be human in an automated age.
After all, what are we if we don’t work?
by Söphie Edwards
Release Date: Autumn 2024
Dreams, robots and revolution collide when a crane operator’s co-workers get paid to be obsolete.
In the glittering solarpunk metropolis of Toronto 2045, astral projecting crane operator Auden Black clings to a world increasingly dominated by machines. As robot aloos replace his fellow workers and friends are bottom lined, paid to be replaced, Auden's crane becomes both refuge and watchtower. Witness a future where ad-projecting systems blur reality, virtual lives offer escape from unemployment, and the human spirit is tested against the relentless march of progress.
Through Auden's eyes, experience life suspended between techno-optimistic utopia and dystopian horror at losing one’s purpose, where every sunrise brings new challenges to what it means to be human in an automated age.
After all, what are we if we don’t work?
by Söphie Edwards
Release Date: Autumn 2024
Dreams, robots and revolution collide when a crane operator’s co-workers get paid to be obsolete.
In the glittering solarpunk metropolis of Toronto 2045, astral projecting crane operator Auden Black clings to a world increasingly dominated by machines. As robot aloos replace his fellow workers and friends are bottom lined, paid to be replaced, Auden's crane becomes both refuge and watchtower. Witness a future where ad-projecting systems blur reality, virtual lives offer escape from unemployment, and the human spirit is tested against the relentless march of progress.
Through Auden's eyes, experience life suspended between techno-optimistic utopia and dystopian horror at losing one’s purpose, where every sunrise brings new challenges to what it means to be human in an automated age.
After all, what are we if we don’t work?
ISBN 978-1-988034-49-2 (Paperback); 978-1-988034-51-5 (Hardcover); 978-1-988034-50-8 (Digital)
Genre Solarpunk, Near Future Sci-Fi, Humans-AI Coexistence
Release Date December 1st, 2024
