There is a kind of perverse justice to it: Would humans take kindly to a glorified algorithm telling us when to lie down? So these Scythes get to wear(mostly pastel) robes and go around “gleaning” people - essentially planned murder.Ĭue: Political drama, teenage angst and hormone-driven romance, an adrenaline-seeking suicidal best-friend and a series of impossible choices for our protagonists. As AI takes care of keeping humans alive, this human society is in charge of human death.
As you can imagine, in a deathless world, with almost no consequence, population increase overwhelming world supplies is a real threat.Įnter: the Scythedom. People still neglect their kids, lack motivation and generally coast along at aimless jobs while the Thunderhead deals with everything.
Humans are still assholes, so being immortal doesn’t really help anyone. The Arc of the Scythe is a trilogy based on a world where artificial intelligence(named the Thunderhead)has gotten so efficient and powerful that natural death is eradicated(as long as you have a generally functional body to revive at death). Having read the next two books in the series, those covers make for a stunning trio on the bookshelf. Not going to lie the distinctive cover art by Kevin Tong was the first thing that caught my eye. One of my finds in these treasure boxes was “ Scythe”(2016), written by Neal Shusterman. Where I live, we have a lot of “ Street libraries”, which are just awesome. I generally try not to spend too much money on buying books.
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