THE INFINITY COURTS

Artificial intelligence has taken over the afterlife, and humans are in trouble.

Eighteen-year-old Nami Miyamoto has her whole life ahead of her, until bad timing sends her to Infinity, where humans go when they die. Infinity, Nami quickly learns, is under the control of Ophelia, the AI humans developed to work as their personal assistant. To cement her power, Ophelia created more AIs, known as Residents, who control the Four Courts: Victory, Famine, War, and Death. Each is ruled by a prince, and humans are subjected to an array of torments, including making them mindless servants—much the way that humans used Ophelia. Nami evades the Residents and finds shelter in the Colony with a band of free humans. They have a plan to defeat the Residents, but Nami has her doubts and can’t help remembering how much she trusted Ophelia when she was alive. Could Residents and humans possibly co-exist? Nami intends to find out, but she must navigate relationships with ice-cold Prince Caelan of Victory and Gil, the only human to survive War. Bowman asks readers to question what it means to be human and to forgive. This satisfying novel offers plenty of room for a sequel to explore whether Nami has once again fallen prey to mistaken assumptions. Nami is cued as biracial (Japanese/White), and human characters are ethnically diverse.

An intriguing speculative world that interrogates consciousness and humanity.