Origins - by Clay McLeod Chapman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>One thousand years after humans have gone extinct and artificial intelligence has taken over the world, a single man is brought back to life--David Adams, the genius whose technology was responsible for the destruction of his species, and who has been given a second chance at life in order to save mankind and undo his biggest mistake. </b> <p/>HUMANITY IS NO MORE. <p/>One thousand years after humans have gone extinct and artificial intelligence has taken over the world, a single man is brought back to life--David Adams, the genius whose technology was responsible for the destruction of his species, and who has been given a second chance at life in order to save mankind and undo his biggest mistake. <p/>But even with the help of Chloe, his first creation and the android that revived him, he may not be enough to reignite the spark of humanity or stop the AI overlords who plan to eliminate the last hope for mankind. <p/>Now, David and Chloe must embark on the greatest journey of their lives, as he seeks to find redemption and discover if humanity can - or should - have any kind of future. <p/>Acclaimed writer Clay McLeod Chapman (Absolute Carnage: Separation Anxiety) and illustrator Jakub Rebelka (Judas), present a stunning view of a future where humanity's last hope may be the person who created its destruction. <p/>Collects Origins #1-6.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Clay McLeod Chapman is the author of <i>The Remaking, nothing untoward, miss corpus</i> and <i>rest area, </i>as well as <i>The Tribe</i> middlegrade series: <i>Homeroom Headhunters, Camp Cannibal</i> and <i>Academic Assassins</i>. <p/>Upcoming projects include <i>Whisper Down the Lane</i>, a new psychological horror novel from Quirk Books (April 2021), and ORIGINS, an original 6-issue limited miniseries from BOOM! Studios (November 2020). <p/>Chapman's story <i>late bloomer</i> was adapted into a short film, directed by Craig William Macneill. An official selection at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, the short won Best Short at the Lake Placid Film Festival and the Brown Jenkins Award at the 12th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Their second short, <i>Henley</i>, based on the chapter "The Henley Road Motel" from Chapman's novel <i>miss corpus</i>, was an official selection at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. It won Best Short at the 2011 Gen Art Film Festival and the 2011 Carmel Arts and Film Festival. <i>The Boy</i> (SXSW 2015), a feature-length adaptation of <i>Henley, </i> co-written with director Macneill, was produced by SpectreVision (Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Josh C. Waller) in 2015. <p/>In comics, Chapman is the writer of the ongoing Marvel series <i>Scream: Curse of Carnage</i>. He has written <i>Absolute Carnage: Separation Anxiety</i>, <i>Iron Fist: Phantom Limb, Typhoid Fever</i>, as well as for <i>Edge of Spider-Verse</i> and <i>Venomverse</i>, <i> The Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man, Ultimate Spider-Man, </i> <i>American Vampire</i>, and <i>Scream: King In Black, </i>among others. <p/>He is the creator of <i>Self Storage</i> (451 Media) and <i>Lazaretto</i> (BOOM! Studios). <p/>Chapman is the creator of the rigorous storytelling session The Pumpkin Pie Show. In the twenty years of its existence, it has performed internationally at the Romanian Theatre Festival of Sibiu, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, New York International Fringe Festival, Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Minnesota Fringe Festival, Dublin-based thisisnotashop art space, IGNITE Festival, Women Center Stage Festival and Impact Theatre Festival. <p/>Chapman wrote the book for <i>Hostage Song</i> (music & lyrics by Kyle Jarrow). He is the author of such plays as <i>commencement, the cardiac shadow</i> and <i>volume of smoke.</i> His story-monologues <i>birdfeeder, undertow</i> and <i>the wet echo</i> have been featured in The Best American Short Plays anthologies. <p/>Chapman was educated at the North Carolina School of the Arts for Drama, the Burren College of Art, and Sarah Lawrence College. He currently teaches writing at The Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University.
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