- Blurb -
Marrying the philosophical absurdities of life, technology, start-up culture, and family, Users is for readers of Ling Ma, Dave Eggers' s The Circle, and viewers of the hit Apple TV+ original series Severance Miles, a lead creative at a midsize virtual reality company known for its "original experiences," has engineered a new product called The Ghost Lover. Wildly popular from the outset, the "game" is simple: a user' s simulated life is almost identical to their reality, except they' re haunted by the ghost of an ex-lover. However, when a shift in the company' s strategic vision puts The Ghost Lover at the center of a platform-wide controversy, Miles becomes the target of user outrage, and starts receiving a series of anonymous death threats. Typed notes sealed in envelopes with no postage or return address, these persistent threats push Miles into a paranoid panic, blurring his own sense of reality, catalyzing the collapse of his career, his marriage, and his relationship with his children. The once-promising road to success becomes a narrow set of choices for Miles, who, in a last ditch effort to save his job, pitches his masterpiece, a revolutionary device code-named the Egg, which will transform the company. The consequences for Miles seal him inside the walls of his life as what was once anxiety explodes into devastating absoluteness. In a world rife with the unchecked power and ambition of tech, Users investigates-with both humor and creeping dread-how interpersonal experiences and private decisions influence the hasty developments that have the power to permanently alter the landscape of human experience.
- Author Bio -
COLIN WINNETTE' s books include Coyote, Haints Stay, and The Job of the Wasp, which was an American Booksellers Association' s Indie Next Pick. Winnette' s writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Playboy, McSweeney' s, The Believer, and The Paris Review Daily. A former bookseller in Texas, Vermont, New York, and California, he is now a writer living in San Francisco.
- Full Details -
Status: | No local stock, title imported to order |
ISBN-13: | 9781593767372 |
Published: | 21 Feb 2023 |
Published In: | United States |
Imprint: | Soft Skull Press |
Publisher: | Soft Skull Press |
Format: | Hardback |
Height: | 216mm |
Width: | 148mm |
Spine: | 25mm |
Weight: | 448g |
Pages: | 288 |
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