Join
  • Published: 15 April 2017
  • ISBN: 9781616958039
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $36.00
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What if you could live multiple lives simultaneously, have constant, perfect companionship, and never die? In the tradition of classic speculative fiction from David Mitchell and Philip K. Dick, Join is a literary sci-fi thriller that brings to life the "future of the mind" in which humans can merge consciousnesses to form permanent "Joins," expanding life and the joins' very sentience--but at what cost?

What does it mean to be human, and what happens when humanity takes the next step in its evolution?
 
When Join arrived, it was hailed as a miracle: a technology that allowed humans to join consciousnesses. To experience perfect, constant companionship through multiple bodies. To never die.
 
But Chance and Leap—two joins of five and four respectively—discover a terrifying malfunction in the technology.
 
Chance and Leap must journey into the climate change–ruined heart of North America and the communities of never-joined “ferals” in search of the only ones who can dismantle the technology: the ones who created it.
  • Published: 15 April 2017
  • ISBN: 9781616958039
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $36.00
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Praise for Join

Praise for Join:

"[Toutonghi] combines smart, imaginative extrapolation about technology and a deep curiosity about civilization and the human condition. Along the way, he brings up head-spinning questions about individuality, society, ecology, euthanasia, aging, death, immortality, tech industry politics, class, polyamory, and gender identity... It's a chilling observation about the nature of the individual verses the nature of the group, and it lends Join a compelling urgency." --NPR

"Join is a high-concept, immersive science fiction thriller... a compelling cautionary tale that explores ethics and selfhood." --Shelf Awareness