This Weightless World Audiobook Libro.fm

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A literary debut subverting classic scifi tropes set in gentrified Chicago Silicon Valley and across the vastness of the cosmosFrom the streets of gentrified Chicago to the tech boom corridors of Silicon Valley This Weightless World follows a revolving cast of characters after alien contact upends their livesWe are introduced to Sevi a burnedout music teacher desperate for connection Ramona his onagain offagain computer programmer girlfriend and Sevis cello protg Eason struggling with the closure of his high school after a mysterious signal arrives from outer space When the signalat first seen as a sign of hopestops as abruptly as it started they are all forced to reckon with its aftermath In San Francisco Sevi fights to find meaning in rekindled love and Ramonadetermined to build an AI to prevent mankinds selfdestructionbegins to feel the weight of past mistakes And in Chicago Eason measures his commitment to an estranged childhood friend against the chance of escaping neighborhood troublesA dazzling deconstruction of science fiction tropes This Weightless World looks to the past for a vision of the future