Wonderland Ave.

In the sleek, sterile residential complex "Wonderland Ave.", the last humans discarded from the workforce spend their days contemplating their past lives, loves, dreams and desires under the supervision of artificial intelligences…

Sybille Berg presents a future in which humanity has finally switched itself off - yet wellness treatments continue relentlessly. The setting is an exclusive repository for a species that, in its endless efforts at self-improvement, has simply become redundant. While machines with cool elegance and no small amount of amusement record and comment on human failings, the story's protagonist stumbles through an absurd ballet of self-optimization, heartbreak and desperate searches for the next bio-smoothie.

"Wonderland Ave" is satire for anyone who would rather laugh at the madness than despair in it - as long as the algorithms permit…