Pic de Lucrète and his expert team at a bleeding-edge research institute, discover that a climate tipping point will be reached far sooner than anticipated. They must supercharge AI to sniff out fake news and prevent a global catastrophe. But adversarial interests in the fossil fuel industry, led by a psychopath with ties to Putin and his oligarchs, will stop at nothing to prevent them from succeeding – from virulent disinformation to murderous violence. From Silicon Valley to Tokyo, St. Petersburg, Moscow and Beijing, AWE is a fast-paced and prescient technothriller crackling with… all sorts of intelligence.
Praise for AWE
I shared Pierre Schwob’s novel AWE with several of my Stanford colleagues. The reaction of all of us was similar; the novel is not only timely and informative but suspenseful. I could not put it down. The story is most intriguing, and each character is memorable and believable. I particularly liked the threads of science and explanations presented in a way that's conversational. The reader will come away both intrigued and more knowledgeable. Well done!
Peter F. Michelson, Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Pierre Schwob has written a fast-paced and well-informed technothriller in which a band of highly accomplished champions takes on modern climate change and atavistic evil. As the story unfolds, we are challenged to consider whether humanity’s best chance for surviving these twin threats lies in political leadership, civic abstinence, or individual intervention.
Roger Blandford, astrophysicist
In his enthralling novel, Pierre Schwob provides a unique, penetrating, and informed view of what many hope could be a near-term reversal of our present intellectual, moral, and environmental decay. It provides a rich and varied menu of "food for thought."
Bob Wagoner, astrophysicist
Due to his boundless curiosity, the author is welcomed into lecture halls, startups, non-profits, and workshops throughout Silicon Valley. In other words, he is knowledgeable about how the sausage of deals gets made. He uses his multicultural, lived experience, and his deep understanding of abstract mathematics to show us how it might look when the deal is about climate change. He tells a story that offers reason for optimism, amidst the doom and gloom that are the standard fare.
Jill Tarter, astronomer; founding member of the SETI Institute
Loved it!!!! Fascinating premise, exciting plot.
Steve Schmidt, Climate Reality Leadership Corps
Order this book at once - it is brilliant and absorbing. If you care about the future of our planet, if you enjoy science fiction when it's superbly written, wildly imaginative and unfailingly witty, this is the book for you. The author knows his stuff, and the impeccably researched journey through the ways in which our future can be saved from its currently terminal destiny are laid out through the adventures of an enthralling cast of characters, from the heroic to the demonic. This is a page-turner, stunningly inventive. AWE, the book's title, is not only what we are invited to feel in order to respect the miraculous universe of which we are a part - and only respect will ensure our survival as the universe's acolytes - it is what you will feel with respect to this wonderful book. Such superlative writing is a tribute to the capacities of life itself, celebrated to the full in Pierre Schwob's glorious fiction.