Welcome to the ARC tour for Journey to 2125 by Gary F. Bengier. Read on for more details!
Journey to 2125
Expected Publication Date: September 30, 2024
Genre: Sci-Fi/ Dystopian
The story of a family facing our future
It’s 2125 when a long-separated grandson suddenly arrives on his doorstep looking for answers. Max MacGyver retells their family story and secrets, revealing a century of challenges that they’ve faced. Journey to 2125 is one family’s touching story, across generations, of adventure, rivalry, loss, survival, and resilience.
This is the story of a family facing our future. A small boy escapes war in Asia. A young woman flees catastrophe driven by climate change in Africa. Some family members build technology companies, while others deal with the trauma of jobs lost to automation. A young couple fight for privacy and democracy. Lives are positively transformed by biomedical science and threatened by it.
At its heart, Journey to 2125 is the story, told over a single day, of a young boy and his grandfather. Why did his parents decide to move to the Commune? What family secrets will his grandfather share?
Parts political drama, family saga, and hard-science speculative fiction, Journey to 2125 is the story of how humankind might collectively weather the tragedy and chaos that we can expect from accelerating change. What will it feel like to live during these next one hundred years? Take this journey with Max MacGyver and his grandson, as they reveal their family history, and the road ahead for you and yours.
“One family’s consequential journey through the trials and triumphs…A must read for those who seek to understand how technology and humanity will shape the coming century.”
Rating & Review
4 out of 5
A family saga crossing generational lines, and culminating in our future, this book is more journey than story. We get to see things from multiple POVs, and watch as people, technology, and the world change before our very eyes. I was very grateful for the glossary, so new technologies could be explained if the reader was interested, without adding a lot of extra exposition that can end up weighing down the story too much. The characters are well-developed, and feel real. Although it is a little surreal to see someone who was so young in the 21st century relating his early life to his grandchild ~100 years in the future. I like how within the first chapter we get some flashes into the family dynamic, and how far technology has evolved. It really helps draw you into the story and makes you want to know more. The author’s style didn’t quite click for me, although this was well-written and flows well. I’d recommend this to anyone who enjoys complex family dynamics with an interesting history.
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