SciFi Month 2025 - Books From The Backlog: The Destructives (The Seizure #3) by Matthew De Abaitua

  

Happy Thursday everyone! Welcome back to Books from the Backlog, the weekly linkup I'm taking part of which is hosted by Carole's Random Life in Books.  This is a great way to put a spotlight on books that I've had sitting on my shelf for awhile.  I don't know when I'll get to my weekly featured book, but I hope to some time hopefully soon.  In honor of SciFi Month 2025 (Image credit: Artwork by Yuriy Nedopekin), all this November I'm featuring sci-fi books.

This Week's Neglected Book:

The Destructives (The Seizure #3) by Matthew De Abaitua

Published: March 1, 2016

Genre: Sci-fi cyberpunk dystopia

My Copy:

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Pages: 416

Where I Acquired It: Local new and used bookstore

Summary (From Goodreads):

Theodore Drown is a destructive. A recovering addict to weirdcore, he's keeping his head down lecturing at the university of the moon. Twenty years after the appearance of the first artificial intelligence, and humanity is stuck. The AIs or, as they preferred to be called, emergences have left Earth and reside beyond the orbit of Mercury in a Stapledon Sphere known as the university of the sun. The emergences were our future but they chose exile. All except one.

Dr Easy remains, researching a single human life from beginning to end. Theodore's life. One day, Theodore is approached by freelance executive Patricia to investigate an archive of data retrieved from just before the appearance of the first emergence. The secret living in that archive will take him on an adventure through a stunted future of asylum malls, corporate bloodrooms and a secret off-world colony where Theodore must choose between creating a new future for humanity or staying true to his nature, and destroying it.

Why Did I Add It?

This sounded intriguing and I picked it up when the store was having a $5 shopping basket fill up sale.  I didn't realize it was third in the series at the time.  I guess I'll find out if it'll make more sense to read book one and two first.

Have you read this or would you read it?  Would you recommend it to me?  Are you participating in SciFi Month this year?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!