Journey to 2125
One Century, One Family, Rising to Challenges
by Gary F. Bengier
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Pub Date Sep 30 2024 | Archive Date Feb 28 2025
Description
From BookLife (Publishers Weekly) – an Editors' Pick –
"Sweeping, humane SF novel of one family, the next century, and all the change to come."
The story of a family facing our future
It’s 2125 when a long-separated grandson suddenly arrives on his doorstep looking for answers. Max MacGyver retells their family story and secrets, revealing a century of challenges that they’ve faced. Journey to 2125 is one family’s touching story, across generations, of adventure, rivalry, loss, survival, and resilience.
This is the story of a family facing our future. A small boy escapes war in Asia. A young woman flees catastrophe driven by climate change in Africa. Some family members build technology companies, while others deal with the trauma of jobs lost to automation. A young couple fight for privacy and democracy. Lives are positively transformed by biomedical science and threatened by it.
At its heart, Journey to 2125 is the story, told over a single day, of a young boy and his grandfather. Why did his parents decide to move to the Commune? What family secrets will his grandfather share?
Parts political drama, family saga, and hard-science speculative fiction, Journey to 2125 is the story of how humankind might collectively weather the tragedy and chaos that we can expect from accelerating change. What will it feel like to live during these next one hundred years? Take this journey with Max MacGyver and his grandson, as they reveal their family history, and the road ahead for you and yours.
"“One family’s consequential journey through the trials and triumphs...A must read for those who seek to understand how technology and humanity will shape the coming century.”
– Raissa D’Souz
Associate Dean, Professor of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Davis
Advance Praise
Sweeping, humane SF novel of one family, the next century, and all the change to come.
Sweepingly ambitious yet focused with intimate detail on one family, this forecast/call-for-action from Bengier (author of Journey to 2125) surveys the next century of life on Earth…. “You are here to save the planet,” an engineer tells grad students in the mid 21st century. Journey to 2125 explores how some could try.
—Publishers Weekly/BookLife Editors’ Pick
One family’s consequential journey through the trials and triumphs of the coming century, including climate change, medicine, AI, and the new world order as robots displace human labor, all while experiencing the multi-generational tug of family dynamics, and what it means to be a human. A must read for those who seek to understand how technology and humanity will shape the coming century.
—Raissa D’Souza
Associate Dean, Professor of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Davis; External Professor and member of the Science Board at the Santa Fe Institute
Personal and highly believable, the interesting family of characters in Journey to 2125 attempt to solve humanity's most pressing problems of the next century.
—Alex Filippenko
Distinguished Professor of Astronomy
University of California, Berkeley
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Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9781648861123 |
PRICE | $9.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 422 |
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