"But she's drawn into danger when she agrees to help a man whose wife, an artist skilled in the new art of vivid dreaming using AI and virtual reality to allow her live audience into her stories has disappeared. He has seen a video from someone claiming to have kidnapped her and hopes Julia can tell him who sent it."
"Like Swift's previous novel, The Coral Bones, this book is powered by a passionate love of nature and deep concern for the planet's future. Beginning with the character-forming effects of major events during the childhoods of the two main characters Covid lockdowns for Lucy, the Chornobyl disaster for Hester the novel tracks their separate journeys in climate activism and documentary film-making as both make their own contribution towards a better world, until 2070, when they meet at last."
All That We See Or Seem follows Julia Z, a former teenage hacker who agrees to help a man find his missing wife, an artist who creates vivid dreaming experiences using AI and virtual reality. A threatening video prompts Julia to trace its origin, pulling her into danger and probing potential developments in AI, social media, and immersive storytelling. When There Are Wolves Again traces the lives of two protagonists shaped by childhood crises—Covid lockdowns and the Chornobyl disaster—whose decades of climate activism and documentary filmmaking culminate in 2070 and advocate rewilding in Britain. The White Octopus Hotel centers on Eve, haunted by her sister's death and drawn into a mysterious obsession after receiving a small white octopus ornament.
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