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Extensa
A futuristic family saga
The story takes place in Green Land, which used to be Greenland. It has a steppe climate and it is in fact the last enclave of the old-type humankind in the world after the technological revolution, devouring and turning all matter into a medium of digital processes.
The protagonist comes to an old astronomer, and that marks the beginning of the boy’s journey towards adulthood – through love, marriage, fatherhood, betrayal, grief and compromises. At the same time he journeys towards the stars, towards his integration with extensa which is expanding in the far-away star system.
Extensa is a futuristic family saga, full of nostalgia and child-like wonderment with the strangeness of the world. It tells a story not only of a relay race of the generations of ancestors, but first and foremost of the very last generation, upon whose departure there will be no more generations, because there will be no humankind.
Dukaj has constructed an extremely precise structure that can be read in two ways: either with a dictionary of foreign words or by taking the author at his word. But these scientific descriptions are interspersed with incredible elements straight out of the best horror films.
Paweł Dunin-Wąsowicz
A story about loyalty, sacrifice and the very human desire to live forever and in several worlds at once.
Dariusz Nowacki
