Anthropocene Rag

In the future United States, our own history has faded into myth and traveling across the country means navigating wastelands and ever-changing landscapes.

The country teems with monsters, and artificial intelligences try to unpack their own becoming by re-creating myths and legends of their human creators. Prospector Ed, an emergent AI who want to understand the people who make him, assembles a ragtag team to reach the mythical Monument City.

In this nanotech Western, Irvine infuses American myth-making with terrifying questions about the future and who we will become.