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    'After On' Sees The End Of The World In A Dating App

    Silicon valley entrepreneur and novelist Rob Reid takes on artificial intelligence — and how it might end the world — in his weird, funny new techno-philosophical thriller After On.
    by Jason Sheehan Aug 05, 2017 3 minutes

    Jason Sheehan is currently the restaurant critic at Philadelphia magazine, but when no one is looking, he spends his time writing books about giant robots and ray guns. Tales From the Radiation Age is his latest book.

    Just your average summer beach read about emergent super-AI, nuclear annihilation, Silicon Valley and Amazon product reviews.

    No, I mean seriously. Rob Reid's newest novel, , is a doorstopper: 547 pages which, at the very start, he dares the reader to finish — promising a gift at the

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