Second Sunrise

A new work of science fiction, this sweeping novel exposes the fragile architecture of our modern world and offers a bold, actionable blueprint for what could come next. When graduate student Jane successfully wakes Charlie the chimpanzee from cryonics sleep, her success unknowingly offers her friends an escape from a world that feels increasingly alien. Runaway debt, exploitative leaders, broken health care, compromised scientific inquiry, and untrustworthy media lead many to believe the odds are stacked against them. They intended to fast forward into the near future where things make more sense. What they got was something different. Awakening to a world that looks more like a thousand years in the past than a thousand years in the future, they struggle to figure out first how to survive. But as the only ones who remember how broken systems collapsed their civilization, they come to grips with their unique responsibility: introducing new, resilient institutions to set humanity on a better course.