What happens in a world where robots are employed to do everything mankind needs? This is the imaginary world where Jay Solomon leads us in Singularity Heights. While the Parliament in Washington argues on increasing security measures and the national wage, the destinies of three characters intertwine: Deshay, Sunny, and Jaden meet in the only place ran by humans, in a world where humans don’t work anymore because bots do everything humanity needs for them. Bots and humans live side by side, mostly in a peaceful way, although there are extremists who think to know better. They protest against the legislation approved after the Big War that caused poisonous radiation and almost annihilated the world population. At least, according to the official version of history. A legislation that keeps the divide between the unemployed 98% of the American population and the 2% rich one.
Singularity Heights is a perfect summer read with an interesting window on a future after a nuclear war. But the war is not at the centre of the story, just part of the background of this future. In this novel, Jay Solomon deals with the long-standing issue of labour mechanisation. In a future where no one works, what will people do? How they will survive. The characters in this story don’t fare as badly as in other dystopian books I’ve read, but the system they live is rigged and some of them want to understand what is beyond the reality bots and politicians feed them every day with. The author handles delicate matters with wit and humour. Funny scenes appear here and there to light up dark moment of the story. A recommended book.
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