Under the Blue

Metro Best New Books to Read in Spring PickGlossary Magazine Highly Anticipated Fiction Pick'Highly readable and hugely important ­- an apocalyptic road trip into our near future informed and shaped by the most pressing issues of our present' Owen Sheers, author of ResistanceA road trip beneath clear blue skies and a blazing sun: a reclusive artist is forced to abandon his home and follow two young sisters across a post-pandemic Europe in search of a safe place. Is this the end of the world?Meanwhile two computer scientists have been educating their baby in a remote location. Their baby is called Talos, and he is an advanced AI program. Every week they feed him data, starting from the beginning of written history, era by era, and ask him to predict what will happen next to the human race. At the same time they're involved in a increasingly fraught philosophical debate about why human life is...