What if you could live multiple lives
simultaneously, have constant, perfect companionship, and never die?
That’s the promise of Join, a revolutionary technology that allows small groups of minds to unite, forming a single consciousness that
experiences the world through multiple bodies. But as two best friends
discover, the light of that miracle may be blinding the world to its
horrors.
Chance and Leap are jolted out of their professional
routines by a terrifying stranger — a remorseless killer who freely
manipulates the networks that regulate life in the post-Join world.
Their quest for answers — and survival — brings them from the networks and
spire communities they’ve known to the scarred heart of an
environmentally ravaged North American continent and an underground
community of the “ferals” left behind by the rush of technology.
In the storytelling tradition of classic speculative fiction from writers like David Mitchell and Michael Chabon, Join offers a pulse-pounding story that poses the largest possible
questions: How long can human life be sustained on our planet in the
face of environmental catastrophe? What does it mean to be human, and
what happens when humanity takes the next step in its evolution? If the
individual mind becomes obsolete, what have we lost and gained, and what is still worth fighting for?
