YES! I won a raffle from Simon and Schuster and received this advance reader’s copy after attending a virtual preview where Shusterman gave an amazing talk about the writing of this prequel, which is the first of a new trilogy, First Blades! According to Shusterman, this story takes us back to the time before the creation of Thunderhead, featuring a group of intelligent and foreseeing teenagers who were concerned with the end of Mortality in the year 2042 and of course, how AI will shape the future of the human race. The release date is December 2026.
