UnWorld Reading Guide & Discussion Questions

Book Club Discussion Questions

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For supplemental discussion material see our Beyond the Book article, Could Mind Uploading Become a Reality? and our BookBrowse Review of UnWorld.

Please be aware that this discussion guide will contain spoilers!

These are original discussion questions written by BookBrowse.

1. UnWorld explores very topical issues surrounding artificial intelligence and its role within society. Did you have any concerns about AI before you read the book? If so, did you finish the book feeling more or less optimistic about AI?
2. The novel explores the idea that consciousness is separate from our physical bodies. In what ways do you agree or disagree with this concept? Did UnWorld make you think about the question in a new way?
3. Did you find Greene's fictional future and its technologies believable? In what ways do you think—or hope—that our future may be similar to or different from the one portrayed in UnWorld?

Unless otherwise stated, this discussion guide is reprinted with the permission of Vintage. Any page references refer to a USA edition of the book, usually the trade paperback version, and may vary in other editions.