After one year of training, he will choose to ordain one of them to the job, while the other returns to normal life. They leave their families to live with Faraday in a modest home while he trains them in the duties of the scythe. Scythes are required to “glean” a certain quota of people in order to balance the ratio of space and resources to people.Įarly in the novel, teenagers Citra Terranova and Rowan Damisch are chosen as apprentice scythes to a man known as Scythe Faraday. However, the problem of overpopulation and finite resources persists, so population growth is maintained by a group of people known as Scythes. The Thunderhead is put in charge of the government, and rules benevolently and objectively. Because the Thunderhead has access to all that can be known, it quickly learns how to keep humans alive forever.
In the year 2042, the world’s artificial intelligences become sentient and form an omniscient network known as the Thunderhead.
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