A collection of affecting and unsettling Irish science fiction from the Booker-listed author of For fans of Ted Chiang, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Jorge Luis Borges, near-future speculative stories that explore life, death, memory, and consciousness in an Ireland transformed by surveillance technologies, virtual communities, and artificial intelligence. Mike McCormack’s new collection is set in an Ireland filled with sentient AIs and clones, and, in one story, avatars replicating endlessly after the death of the human. The stories in The last and title story,

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Mike McCormack is a novelist and short story writer from the West of Ireland. His novel Solar Bones won the Goldsmiths Prize, the BGE Irish Book of the Year Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. His other works are This Plague of Souls, Notes from a Coma, Crowe’s Requiem, Forensic Songs, and Getting It in the Head, which was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He lives in Galway.