Toward Eternity: A Novel

Negotiating the terrain of Kazuo IshigurosKlara and the Sunand Emily St. John MandelsSea of Tranquility, a brilliant, haunting speculative novel from a #1New York Timesbestselling translator that sets out to answer the question: What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology?

In a near-future world, a new technological therapy is quickly eradicating cancer. The bodys cells are entirely replaced with nanitesrobot or android cells which not only cure those afflicted but leaves them virtually immortal.

Literary researcher Yonghun teaches an AI how to understand poetry and creates a living, thinking machine he names Panit, meaning Beloved, in honor of his husband. When Yonghunhimself a recipient of nanotherapymysteriously vanishes into thin air and then just as suddenly reappears, the event raises disturbing questions. What happened to Yonghun, and though hes returned, is he really himself anymore?

When Dr. Beeko, the scientist who holds the patent to the nanotherapy technology, learns of Panit, he transfers its consciousness from the machine into an android body, giving it freedom and life. As Yonghun, Panit, and other nano humans thriveand begin to replicatetheir development will lead them to a crossroads and a choice with existential consequences.

Exploring the nature of intelligence and the unexpected consequences of progress, the meaning of personhood and life, and what we really have to fear from technology and the future,Toward Eternityis a gorgeous, thought-provoking novelthat challenges the notion of what makes us humanand how lovesurvives even the end of that humanity.