About the Book
BREAKING AWAY FROM CONVERSATIONS ON WHETHER AI IS A BOON OR A BANE, GIGI GANGULY BRINGS HER UNIQUELY UNCYNICAL IMAGINATION AND CAPACITY FOR HOPE TO A FUTURE OF CO-EXISTENCE, HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN ANIMALS WITH A NON-HUMAN INTELLIGENCE.
2195: Anita, growing old in a quiet corner of Noida, finds companionship in an AI avatar of her beloved dog Lucy.
2999: Luhar s class visit to the National Museum throws her into an AI loop that she can t seem to get out of.
3809: A pitched battle between the heirs apparent to a powerful AI corporation turns up a surprise contender.
4771: Inspector Dos must live out his existence in the flesh while his now deceased family lives in a virtual world.
5823: Documentary filmmaker Grey57 chooses to live out in the physical world, away from her family in inwo.
Many, many, many years later, will these tensions find a resolution?
Endless Dream is suffused with Gigi Ganguly s luminous prose and deep empathy, and her trademark whimsy. To this third novel, she brings her capacity to upend our ideas of the familiar to create a sprawling vision of coexistence and existential wonder.
About the Author
Gigi Ganguly has a Master s in Creative Writing from the University of Limerick in Ireland. Formerly a journalist, she currently works as an editor in Delhi-NCR. Her first book, a novella titled One Arm Shorter Than the Other, was published in 2022 and was nominated for a Subjective Chaos Kind of Award in 2023. She is also the author of Biopeculiar (IF/Westland, 2024).