in an era dominated by AI, this book serves as a beacon emphasising its importance of books and literature.

i’m sure a lot of us have seen the atrocities of anthropic’s doings, with the burning of century-old texts and works for the trainings of their AI—this book reflects a similar scenario.

we are brought into a world, whereby censorship has taken over democracy, freedom is allowed as long as its in service to the government, literature is stripped bare to only its words and never its meaning.

we also follow a book censor’s journey from being skeptical of a book’s power to being the guardian of books, but it all changes when his daughter becomes infected with the ‘disease’ called imagination. his world is challenged and very much uprooted in front of him.

this book is a cry for liberation and literacy, that books remain a powerful object in shaping the worldview, and those dialogues about the advancement of AI in literature? please use the “delete” function, because not one of us as readers are even going to bother discussing.