Georg Koszulinski

FUTURE X

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Future X is set seventy years into the future, where ecological collapse, civil war, and privatized moon colonization for corporate elites have become reality. Decades before a deadly virus wipes out humanity, global communication is compromised by "the feed," an advanced A.I. system that blurs the lines between conspiracy and truth-making reality itself indistinguishable. The protagonist, Jane Ballard, is a young African American woman and former marine from the Californian Republic Armed Forces where she served in drone intelligence operations before being demoted and stationed at a remote prison camp in Eastern Colorado. The story begins over a decade later, when Jane appears to be the lone survivor of a cataclysmic plague known as Virus (x). Set near the end of the 21st century, the story explores themes reminiscent of Octavia Butler, J.G. Ballard, and Kim Stanley Robinson, and the moral, philosophical, and ecological implications of artificial intelligence The central drama of FUTURE X is one of transmission: the story revolves around an ex-marine who wanders a post-apocalyptic landscape in search of other survivors and happens upon the Dead Man's writings, which are part media and narrative theory, part descriptions of his work in "archeopsychic extractions." The protagonist, Jane Ballard, and a small group of survivors receive a radio message broadcast from the southern hemisphere from others who have likewise made it through multiple overlapping extinction events. And we, the readers, are receiving Jane's transmission in a twenty-second-century future defined by the historical events she lived through and also the conditions today for the transmission of information and disinformation, knowledge and viral stupidity, and wisdom and world-crashing data. Appropriately, FUTURE X explores a mash-up of genres best suited to engage realistically and speculatively with the challenges of storytelling at a time of species-level existential danger: the expository mode, journal entry, memoir, notes, encyclopedia preface, court document, historiographic timeline, and aphorism. At this moment in history, Koszulinski's novel brings together all the Xes influencing what the Dead Man describes as "our collective failure to imagine our way out of this world and into another."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Raven Chronicles
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9798991403214
• Artikelnr.: 75472241

Autorenporträt

Georg Koszulinski is an award-winning writer/director who has been producing films since 1999. His work spans a wide range of forms and styles, from feature-length narratives and social justice documentaries to short experimental films. His documentary work has enabled him to collaborate with a broad range of communities, including oceanographers and mariners studying climate change, Haida and Kwakwaka'wakw communities of the Pacific Northwest, migrant farmworkers in Florida, and Vodou practitioners in rural Haiti. Georg's forthcoming feature documentary A Map of the World in Time, filmed 34 days at sea in the Arctic Circle, was funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the European Geosciences Union, the latter awarding him the 2023 EGU Journalism Award. Georg recently wrote and directed the award-winning feature film, Red Earth (2023). The film won a juried prize at the Atlanta Film Festival, Best Feature Film at the New York Sci Fi Film Festival, and is available on a variety of streaming platforms. www.georgkoszulinski.com