What happens when humanity finally achieves what it pursued for millennia?Artificial intelligence, medicine, and biotechnology have virtually eliminated disease, halted aging, and reduced the need to work simply to survive. People can live for centuries. Time seems to have ceased to be a problem. Tomás Vidal is 215 years old and does not consider his life incomplete. He has taught, learned, traveled, loved, and changed his interests many times.
But for more than a century, he has been building a small sailboat he could always finish later. Now he has twenty-six days before he must hand over the workshop where he began building it. Finishing the boat seems simple enough. The real difficulty begins afterward: deciding whether he still wants to do what he built it for. NOTHING NEEDS TO BE DONE TODAY is a philosophical science fiction novel about time, purpose, risk, and the way decisions change when there always seems to be a tomorrow.
There are no spaceships or interplanetary wars. The future lies somewhere else: in a deeply human question. How do you build a life when time no longer gives it shape?
What happens when humanity finally achieves what it pursued for millennia?Artificial intelligence, medicine, and biotechnology have virtually eliminated disease, halted aging, and reduced the need to work simply to survive. People can live for centuries. Time seems to have ceased to be a problem. Tomás Vidal is 215 years old and does not consider his life incomplete. He has taught, learned, traveled, loved, and changed his interests many times.
But for more than a century, he has been building a small sailboat he could always finish later. Now he has twenty-six days before he must hand over the workshop where he began building it. Finishing the boat seems simple enough. The real difficulty begins afterward: deciding whether he still wants to do what he built it for. NOTHING NEEDS TO BE DONE TODAY is a philosophical science fiction novel about time, purpose, risk, and the way decisions change when there always seems to be a tomorrow.
There are no spaceships or interplanetary wars. The future lies somewhere else: in a deeply human question. How do you build a life when time no longer gives it shape?
