"One of the most meaningful reads I've ever had..."- Goodreads ARC Reader"Stalder skillfully keeps the twists and turns coming, always keeping one step ahead of the reader. Artificial Messiah probes urgent questions about the present and future. Stalder excels both at capturing a world that's come unglued and at imagining where it all could be heading, and the characters will win readers' hearts..." - BookLife by Publisher's Weekly...

More than 100 years after nuclear war, nature has reclaimed much of the world that was destroyed. The Missouri Ozarks have returned to what they once were: a vast wilderness of woodlands, lakes, and caves. Some of the descendants of those who survived the war have since emerged from their shelters to establish subsistence-based communities, relying on the traditions of their ancestors. Others remain in the highly sophisticated underground facilities into which their forefathers retreated w...