When the Sparrow Falls
Neil Sharpson’s dystopian tale of an anti-AI hermit kingdom.
4 min readJul 1, 2021
WHEN THE SPARROW FALLS is Neil Sharpson’s debut novel, published this week by Tor Books. It’s a tense dystopian thriller about the unraveling of a paranoid hermit kingdom established as a final redoubt against humanity’s ascent to the cloud.