If the hero of Robinson Crusoe were a hot-tempered engineer at the Earth Crisis Response Agency who could fix quantum toilets, and his castaway companion were a gloriously stupid AI, this would be the interstellar Plus edition of his story.
Highlights:
- Hardcore survival: From making a water purifier out of a silicon-based lizard's bladder to teaching an AI to fight a mechanical revolt with viral pop songs, every chapter is a cyberpunk version of Man vs. Wild.
- Dark humor: When a clone spells out “Lin Xia was here and took a dump” in the sand, and an AI reads aloud your 108 ways to die in a radio announcer's voice, laughing your way through is the ultimate lesson.
- Philosophical musings: While counseling a robot and counting his 521st fallen hair, he comes to understand that “humanity is the universe's paramecium.”
Enthusiastically recommended by a Kepler-22b nightclub DJ and the Earth Crisis Response Agency (ECRA)!
Recommended for:
- Time-management gurus who want to learn how to carve a sundial with a radioactive scorpion's tail stinger
- Martyrs trying to teach an AI to understand “Crazy Thursday literature”
- Construction fanatics who firmly believe that “building toilets is the first productive force of civilization”
It's very imaginative and fun to write.