I also enjoy books with an epistolary element diary entries, communications, and little monologues from the Thunderhead combine to give context and texture. To that effect, I would recommend this book for people 14+ who can stomach a decent dose of stylised violence. In my opinion, The Arc of the Scythe story does an excellent job exploring them - especially in an accessible way for younger readers. Many authors have combined the themes of death, violence, artificial intelligence, humanity and justice. The Toll (Third instalment) gets pretty convoluted, its quite difficult to explain this one as by now we are shoulder deep in this universe already! There are some very disturbing revivals, an island explodes, and lots of important people become shark food. Pretty much the opposite of how they started. Citra meanwhile grows into a consummate politician. Without giving too much away, I can say that Thunderhead(the second book) sees Rowan becoming more serially murderous than ever before as he goes rogue on the psychopathic elements of the killing society. There is a kind of perverse justice to it: Would humans take kindly to a glorified algorithm telling us when to lie down? So these Scythes get to wear(mostly pastel) robes and go around “gleaning” people - essentially planned murder.Ĭue: Political drama, teenage angst and hormone-driven romance, an adrenaline-seeking suicidal best-friend and a series of impossible choices for our protagonists. As AI takes care of keeping humans alive, this human society is in charge of human death.
As you can imagine, in a deathless world, with almost no consequence, population increase overwhelming world supplies is a real threat.Įnter: the Scythedom. People still neglect their kids, lack motivation and generally coast along at aimless jobs while the Thunderhead deals with everything. Humans are still assholes, so being immortal doesn’t really help anyone. The Arc of the Scythe is a trilogy based on a world where artificial intelligence(named the Thunderhead)has gotten so efficient and powerful that natural death is eradicated(as long as you have a generally functional body to revive at death). Having read the next two books in the series, those covers make for a stunning trio on the bookshelf. Not going to lie the distinctive cover art by Kevin Tong was the first thing that caught my eye. One of my finds in these treasure boxes was “ Scythe”(2016), written by Neal Shusterman. Where I live, we have a lot of “ Street libraries”, which are just awesome. I generally try not to spend too much money on buying books.
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