![]() Death isn't the end when you're joined after your body gives out, your consciousness lives on in the collective. Their newest addition is a college student named Javier who's just been diagnosed with terminal cancer. In a future United States ravaged by megastorms and coastal flooding, Chance is a join - a network of three men and two women sharing five bodies but single, collective consciousness. And while that background gives Toutonghi a unique perspective on the way humans interact with technology, Join - as enthralling as it is - suffers from a few disappointing glitches in execution. Toutonghi is well qualified to speculate on such a premise a tech worker with Silicon Valley credentials, he also has a degree in anthropology. Through surgery and science, two or more people are able to fuse their psyches into a single, shared identity, called a join. In Steve Toutonghi's debut novel Join, he probes those technological connections between individuals in a science-fiction setting, a vision of America where citizens routinely connect to each other using a medium called the quantum personality matrix. How?Įvery day, people get more and more connected - thanks mostly to technology, which has increasingly drawn humanity together in a way that's both heartening and not. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Join Author Steve Toutonghi ![]()
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