Where the Axe Is Buried: A Novel Isabel Roxas

Isabel Roxas

A reassuring reality check

KIRKUS NONFICTION PRIZE FINALIST

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry

thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet’s ear

Where the Axe Is Buried: A Novel Isabel RoxasAll systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end. In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his mind to a succession of new bodies to maintain his grip on power. Meanwhile, on the fringes of a Western Europe that has renounced human governance in favor of ostensibly more efficient, objective, and peaceful AI Prime Ministers, an experimental artificial mind is