If You Exist Featured on TheHumanist.com
Thank you to TheHumanist.com for featuring my forthcoming book, If You Exist! Below is a preview and a link to the full article.
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BOOK PREVIEW | If You Exist: In Search of a Reader Deep in the Future
If You Exist is a personal message written, not to currently living, but rather future descendants, who may find it many generations in the future. The aging narrator faces her own mortality, while at the same time, she faces the possibility of thousands more species, including her own, becoming extinct. She speaks, in very humanist terms, of her concerns about the future of Homo sapiens and the survival of life on our planet.
As a private heartfelt message to someone who may never exist, the writer likens her missive to “a note in a bottle set to sea in hopes of reaching you, if you exist in the future on some unfathomable shore.” The narrator shares her personal take on where humanity is now and where we might be heading depending on what choices we will make. Wishing that her imagined reader could answer questions about whether the writer’s anxieties have ever been resolved, she writes about climate change and such topics as human migration, racism, and the pandemic, as well as her projected concerns about the possibilities of unbridled technical advancement and human redesign.
After offering her perspective on where hope could lie, the writer ends her note with “the stuff of fairy tales,”—her positive fantasy in the final chapter called, “If We Could Meet.”
The publication date for If You Exist is August 23, 2021. Pre-orders are now available at Amazon.com or through the distributor, Itasca Books.
Read the full feature here:
https://thehumanist.com/magazine//art...
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BOOK PREVIEW | If You Exist: In Search of a Reader Deep in the Future
If You Exist is a personal message written, not to currently living, but rather future descendants, who may find it many generations in the future. The aging narrator faces her own mortality, while at the same time, she faces the possibility of thousands more species, including her own, becoming extinct. She speaks, in very humanist terms, of her concerns about the future of Homo sapiens and the survival of life on our planet.
As a private heartfelt message to someone who may never exist, the writer likens her missive to “a note in a bottle set to sea in hopes of reaching you, if you exist in the future on some unfathomable shore.” The narrator shares her personal take on where humanity is now and where we might be heading depending on what choices we will make. Wishing that her imagined reader could answer questions about whether the writer’s anxieties have ever been resolved, she writes about climate change and such topics as human migration, racism, and the pandemic, as well as her projected concerns about the possibilities of unbridled technical advancement and human redesign.
After offering her perspective on where hope could lie, the writer ends her note with “the stuff of fairy tales,”—her positive fantasy in the final chapter called, “If We Could Meet.”
The publication date for If You Exist is August 23, 2021. Pre-orders are now available at Amazon.com or through the distributor, Itasca Books.
Read the full feature here:
https://thehumanist.com/magazine//art...
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