We Are Satellites

We Are Satellites
Sarah Pinsker
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 400pg
3 Feb 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781800243903
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When Val and Julie' s teenage son comes home one day asking for a Pilot, a new brain implant to help with school, they reluctantly agree. This is the future, after all. A novel about one family and the technology that divides them. From award-winning author Sarah Pinsker comes a novel about one family and the technology that divides them. Everybody' s getting one. Val and Julie just want what' s best for their kids, David and Sophie. So when teenage son David comes home one day asking for a Pilot, a new brain implant to help with school, they reluctantly agree. This is the future, after all. Soon, Julie feels mounting pressure at work to get a Pilot to keep pace with her colleagues, leaving Val and Sophie part of the shrinking minority of people without the device. Before long, the implications are clear, for the family and society: get a Pilot or get left behind. With government subsidies and no downside, why would anyone refuse? And how do you stop a technology once it' s everywhere? Those are the questions Sophie and her anti-Pilot movement rise up to answer, even if it puts them up against the Pilot' s powerful manufacturer and pits Sophie against the people she loves most.
PRAISE FOR A SONG FOR A NEW DAY: ' Sarah Pinsker has written a wonderful epic about music, community, and rediscovering the things that make us human' Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky. ' The combination of technothriller, rock-and-roll novel, and rebellion in a dystopian world make for a riveting, sweet, funny, angry, gorgeous read' Cory Doctorow, author of Walkaway. ' A compelling book about the importance of music - and any sort of art - in a world where it seems like the least essential thing. This is an expertly drawn post-catastrophe world peopled by compassionately written characters' Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary Mercy. ' An all-too plausible version of the apocalypse, rendered in such compelling prose that you won' t be able to put it down . . . A lively and hopeful look at how community and music and life goes on even in the middle of dark days and malevolent corporate shenanigans' Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble. ' Woven through Pinsker' s meticulously crafted future of technology-enabled isolation and corporate-consumerist powerlessness is a stirring anthem against the politics of fear. A dazzling tale told in multiple voices, with not a single note out of place. This is the lyrical protest song that we have always needed, perhaps more so now than ever' -- Ken Liu, author of Grace of Kings
Sarah Pinsker is a singer, songwriter and author. Her short stories have won the Nebula, Sturgeon and Philip K. Dick Awards. Currently finishing her second novel and fourth album, she lives with her wife in Baltimore, Maryland and can be found online at sarahpinsker. com and twitter. com/sarahpinsker.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781800243903
Published: 3 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 400

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