Lucas Stoffel

Book Review PW BookLife: "Stoffel's experiments with memoir, fiction, and the insights of chatbots continue in this truly singular book, which stands out from the glut of human and Al literary collaborations in several key particulars. First, Stoffel contributes more to the text than just prompts, as Boy Refracted tasks his LLM, called Claude, with helping Stoffel find real answers to urgent, intimate questions about his past, his patterns, and how to find a way forward.

New York 2140 is Kim Stanley Robinson's vision of Manhattan after the oceans have risen fifty feet, and it's the rare climate fiction novel that understands the catastrophe won't end capitalism — it'll just create new markets.

2312 is Kim Stanley Robinson at his most expansive and his most strange. This is a novel set three hundred years from now, when humanity has colonized the entire solar system, and Robinson treats that premise not as spectacle but as habitat. He wants to know what it actually feels like to live inside a hollowed-out asteroid that's been terraformed into a rolling landscape. He wants to know what gender and embodiment look like when you can redesign your body at the cellular le