I finished reading The Future and for some reason I kept going, even past the second-to-last page at the back describing the book’s fonts … after which was a final page with a cryptic note. I wonder if anyone reading the book on Kindle or audiobook finds it? I was surprised at myself that I’d read the back sections.
The rest of this post contains spoilers for the book.
Here is that final page:
I emailed Marius’s address with an almost-empty message. Nothing. I found someone on Reddit saying they’d gotten an immediate response after sending a more complete email … so I wrote a brief note as if I were Zhen. And I got my response.
For anyone else who has read it, how did you interpret it? Its big reveal is that Albert Dabrowski sent the attacker after Zhen in the mall in Singapore.
I’m mixed-up on the timelines. But I think at that point, Albert and Martha knew each other in real life and were conspiring together. My interpretation is that this confirms Martha and Albert together gave AUGR to Zhen and set up the mall attack, all to get “proof” of AUGR working so that they could convince the billionaires to buy and trust it. “Proof” in quotes because I think they were feeding Zhen content through it during the attack, and it’s not actually that capable to help her defeat the attacker.
That would imply Martha used Zhen this way despite them being lovers. Cold-blooded!
Did she romance Zhen specifically to get her set up with AUGR? I guess that jibes with Martha gently ghosting her after their dalliance.
Zhen receiving this email from Marius now that she is living happily-ever-after with Martha might cause some fireworks…
If anyone has more, different, and/or better analysis of the email from Marius, feel free to comment — I’ll approve promptly.
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