Description: For readers of Jeff VanderMeer and Paul Tremblay, Wither is a propulsive, darkly funny literary sci-fi debut about technology, privacy, and humanity in transition.
Brief description: Dan Warner is a writer and documentary filmmaker from St. Louis, Missouri, where he lives with his wife and kids in an old home under perpetual repair.
Review Quotes:
"Wither is a cautionary tale that pleads with readers to better understand what they're doing by trusting AI while touching something relatable: the desire to make a difference and have a legacy worth leaving." --Booklist
"Wither is both frightening and provocative, a cautionary tale about technological utopias." --California Review of Books "A propulsive, grimly funny novel about technology, privacy, and humanity's growing reliance on algorithms." --Library Journal "Stories like this remind us of what we give up when we give ourselves over to machines." --Science magazine "As an act of gothic prophecy Wither is deliriously unsettling--as a work of satirical brilliance, Wither is a staggering achievement. Warner's debut is an irresistible enchantment of the bleakest, funniest kind." --Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of THE BRIEF AND WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO and THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER "Wither is superb. Absolutely captivating and brutally clear-eyed. What a horribly crisp mirror of a book. I loved it." --Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of SPREAD ME and MAKE ME BETTER "Wither hits the ground running and doesn't slow until it's chilling final words. Dan Warner has written a smart, timely thriller that explores the nature of identity in ways that left me deeply unsettled." --Dan Chaon, bestselling author of ILL WILL