Remember You Will Die: A Genre-Bending Science Fiction Epistolary Novel – Robins Eden (2024)

From the author of When Franny Stands Up comes an exciting epistolary novel: a genre-bending science fiction story told in linked obituaries and newsfeeds. Over the course of three hundred years, one AI woman must grapple with her grief after the mysterious death of her human daughter, forcing her to ponder what it really means to be human. "Can the absence of words tell a story? Like a pattern in lace, the holes as important as the threads?" A search. A puzzle. Sixty protagonists, all of whom are dead. Told entirely through obituaries and ricocheting through time, Remember You Will Die is an innovative, genre-bending sci-fi epic about the messy tapestry of human history and the threads that connect us. Told through the eyes of Peregrine, an AI mother grappling with the unexpected death of her human daughter, Poppy. And from the newspaper clippings of individual lives emerges something else unexpected: generations entwined through blood and art and the consequences of their actions, betrayals and redemptions that traverse our dying world and beyond. Spanning continents, centuries, planets and genres, and centring on a diverse mix of human experiences, Remember You Will Die is a…