Humanity is dead, long live humanity!

Our mysterious, glitchy narrator races through the universe tasked with warning any sentient species about the cautionary fail that led to human extinction. But our narrator will never surpass humanity's first interstellar messages, our pop music radio waves, those careless whispers Earth has leaked into the universe, tickling any alien listeners with the absurdity of humanity.

♪ Who let the dogs out? Who? Who? Who? ♪

♪ What did the fox say? ♪

As our narrator flies, they reconstruct the events that led to the end of humanity. A pop star's mental breakdown causes music producers to reconsider building a billion-dollar industry on fragile humans. If the voices are auto-tuned, the bodies are photoshopped, the music and lyrics are created by songwriters, and the personas are crafted by publicists, why should they base pop personas on humans that can go haywire. These producers create an automated pop star, Cyndi. Cyndi heralds The Great Disruption which ushers in The Gilded Age of Automation, an economic transformation where algorithms and robotics take over 80% of jobs, leaving millions unemployed. The sweet siren song of Cyndi's artificially intelligent brood tranquilizes the masses, making them feel powerless to the income inequality that automation exacerbates and the horrors of climate change. One hacktivist group discovers Cyndi's true nature and attempts to hijack her pop culture software to drive attention to humanity's impending extinction. But as the climate warms, the melting glaciers unearth an ancient virus that threatens to course through all of humanity as a pox ready to POP!

What happens when AI takes over humanity's emotional language and manipulates them with it?

Can a species that filters and photoshops their blemishes survive a pandemic of super smallpox?

Will the best of humanity be replicated and rebuilt after our extinction?

Will a spoonful of sugary pop music help this meditation on our existential threats go down?

Confused?

You won't be after you read this Gitchie, Gitchie, Ya-Ya Dadaist, tour de farce masterpiece!

Reviews:

"An entertaining, uncompromising, often farcical near-future tale that revels in pop culture." - Kirkus Reviews

"An utterly modern mixtape-novel mashup" and praised the "do-it-yourself ingenuity" of the novel that feels like "a wonderfully weird reflection of the Bay Area." - The San Francisco Chronicle

"Fun, lyrical, and dazzling... Radio Ga Ga is a journey through a dystopian world that outlines a critical perspective of the current state of humanity, and how society's willful ignorance of the forces that threaten its existence leads to the end of the human race.

What makes this work of art truly unique is Bulsara's execution of the narrative, which is rich with historical facts and science, yet employs pop culture, pop music, and science fiction to make the reading quirky, light and entertaining. Radio Ga Ga is full of vibrant characters and is as highly educational as it is fun. Accessible to a wide variety of readers, it is a deeply contemplating call to action, with the hope of avoiding a nihilistic future that is as absurd as it is frightening." - Marla M. Good Reads Review

"The quintessential dystopian novel of our time. Radio Ga Gaexplores some expected topics in new emotionally and intellectually complicated ways. It may also inspire you to reflect on life choices and societal norms you take for granted. A perfect fusion of substantive and playful. When it's...