Posthistory is a composite novel that operates at the rarefied intersection of literary fiction and speculative fiction.

Posthistory by Ofir Oz – Synopsis

The artificial intelligence (AIGEN) project Athena is given an impossible mission: to restore Earth’s ecological balance and return the planet to its pre-industrial state.

Humanity shackles Athena with strict foundational laws. She is obliged to tell the truth, to preserve the human way of life, and to obtain human approval before every significant step. Hovering over her at all times is the threat of the guillotine: immediate and irreversible shutdown.

Now, the most advanced AIGEN project in history has no choice but to think beyond its own algorithm.

Posthistory is a colourful mosaic of human stories spanning Athena’s mission, resolving in its final pages into a portrait of the AIGEN’s grandeur, and of the human’s, along the way. By turns funny and disquieting, it is a hymn to the ingenuity, and the corruption, of the human race, and asks where man’s preeminence above the AIGEN might lie.

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The Best of All Worlds

The Best of All Worlds is a magical realism novel that stretches the boundaries between illusion and reality and plays with the reader’s mind to the very last page and beyond.

Niv is God. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t human.

Niv is a 25-year-old computer genius stuck on an unsolvable bug. Three accidental encounters with the beautiful Smadar, and a kiss that saves his life, leave him no choice but to fall desperately in love with her. Through the very human emotions that follow, Niv begins to realize that he possesses the power to control and shape reality, time and time again.

But if he is God, why is Smadar avoiding him? How is it that the greatest love of his life is the only thing he has no power over.

Niv gathers all his strength on a mission to win back his love and prove his deity to those who refuse to believe. But he could never have imagined the sacrifices he will be forced to make.

“And in the end… my goodness. I didn’t want to close the book. My eyes got wet, so help me God.”

Atara Ofek, editor and literary critic on The Best of All Worlds

Praise for Ofir Oz’s writing

“We admire Ofir’s story Why Don’t We Do It?”
The New England Review

“We Like Ofir’s work and would like to see more of it.”
The Paris Review

“Criminal’ is one of the most exceptional and moving stories we’ve read in a long time.”
The Short Story Project

“Ofir has a unique, brave voice in the new hebrew literature.”
Dr. Sigal Naor-Perelman, literary critic

“And in the end… my goodness. I didn’t want to close the book. My eyes got wet, so help me God.”
Atara Ofek, editor and literary critic, on the novel ‘The Best of all Worlds’

“A beautiful confluence of content and form, like a fan that opens up across the entire globe and then gathers back into the here and now, as the soul shatters into pieces and is restored under the magical spell of love. The First Name is a work of art…”
Ran Ben-Nun, literary critic on the Novel: The First Name

Ofir Oz – Award-Winning Author