{"product_id":"stories-from-the-end-of-janine-shiota-9798996547920","title":"Stories From The End Of The World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSix lives. One signal beneath everything.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against a near-future of fractured nation-states, technocratic dynasties, and a quantum event called the Q that resets the global power map overnight, \u003ci\u003eStories From The End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e is a composite literary speculative novel told through six point-of-view strands converging on a single civilizational threshold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLali is eleven years old, living in a post-collapse community and has been waiting her whole life for the Seventh Crossing - the Star Road that runs from underground to the farthest star. Malcolm is the last incarnation of an ancient cosmic intelligence keynoting a climate conference in Vienna on the day the world changes. Sabian is an AI engineer whose wife was murdered on their kitchen floor, and who builds an AI SIMulation from her data in a grief-locked crypt, together looking for her killer. BenBen is a smuggler moving between civilization's lit and dark zones through Soviet-era tunnels, carrying things across the seam between worlds. Prisha is a WE-V social media star, at the peak of her beauty and influence in glistening Mumbai. Joyce is a marine biologist who dies briefly and returns with a frequency she cannot name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey will not meet. They are already connected by a signal running beneath every system - biological, artificial, cosmological - that each of them is receiving in a different language, without knowing the others exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten across six distinct registers, the novel builds toward a single convergent argument about intelligence, extinction, and what it means to be part of the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStories From The End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book of the Genesis Series. It is written as a complete, self-contained novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Visit from the Goon Squad\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBewilderment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKlara and the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThere There\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janine Shiota\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996547920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Zoetic Digital\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"Janine Shiota","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49148665069823,"sku":"9798996547920","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stories-from-the-end-of-janine-shiota-9798996547920","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}