The Afterlife Project
Tim Weed, 2025
With humanity facing imminent extinction, a team of scientists uses technology originally designed for interstellar travel to send a test subject ten millennia into Earth’s future. Marooned in an uninhabited wilderness, microbiologist Nicholas Hindman searches in vain for remnants of the human race. Meanwhile, back in 2068 A.D., the team’s head physicist and its doctor lead a small crew of survivors on a sailing voyage to a small volcanic island north of Sicily on a harrowing quest for a second viable test subject. A finalist for the 2023 Prism Prize for Climate Literature, the novel features a scientifically plausible mechanism for one-way time travel, a post-apocalyptic wilderness setting, and a search for spiritual meaning across the inconceivable vastness of geological time. “The Afterlife Project isn’t just a story about the end of the world as we know it - it’s an exploration of beauty, and love, and hope in the darkness. If you were a fan of Cloud Atlas, you won’t want to miss this one.” — Janelle Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things. “Tim Weed’s The Afterlife Project is smart, achingly beautiful, and (yes) important: a gripping novel of climate cataclysm with a cast of characters I cared about deeply.”— Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Flight Attendant