In richly imagined new science fiction novels, Erika Swyler and Stacy Nathaniel Jackson bring us detailed future cities devastated by cataclysm and natural disaster, where human endurance is marked by attention to art, archives, and encroaching AI. A bio-prosthetist fears the end of her specialized work. A young archivist curating African American ephemera slowly loses touch with reality. Is AI friend or foe? What becomes of their life’s work when machines intervene?
