Publisher's Synopsis
Julia's memories (part 1) is a biography and coming of age novel, written from the future. Interflow of Things (part 2) is a highly realistic science fiction novel. The two powerful volumes flow naturally into one story, as Julia awakens while writing her memoires. Julia, a passionate artist and activist, writes her memoires. She does so within the year 2050. This gives us an idea how the Transition has been shaped, how the social revolution is partly achieved through her artworks, after her father fled the Netherlands in 2014. June 2050. Julia, a renowned artist, celebrates her 55th birthday. Encouraged by the mayor of Rotterdam she decides to write her memoirs. She wants unravel her past, to understand it better, and hopes that youth will be able to learn something from this candid quest in her hard-won life. Being the daughter of a born entrepreneur and businessman and partly raised by the high society family from her mothers site, being confronted with tragedy in her youth, she describes how she struggles to get a grip and slowly manages to form her own, powerful, identity. Fortunately, she gets help from her imaginary friends, from a local artist and from the Romenian secretary of her father. Meanwhile however, during her writing, fragments of another reality, fragments that increase in quantity and intensity, distract her and influence her memoirs. Earth in the year 2050. Technology, once the servant of man, has now become mankind's ruler. Artificial Intelligence, witnessing humanity's history of disregard for each other and everyone's environment, has taken control in an attempt to provide a collective solution that will stop the degradation of the planet before man totally destroys it. When Julia awakens, she finds out how the real world is currently functioning. A hyperintelligent computer entity Ypsilon has duplicated itself and slowly increases its power. The masterplan designed by Ypsilon provides a coarse segregation of homo sapiens in leaders, hard workers, creatives and relatively useless. All individuals get information on a need-to-know basis via a coloured AI filter. Can the underground FreeHackers group founded by friends of Julia save humans from this digital grip? Or is this artificial leader the best alternative available?
