Appliance
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:20th Jul '23
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**Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022 **
From the Costa Award winner, a highly inventive and and humane novel about our relationship with technology and our addiction to innovation.
This is the tale of a new technology, an alternative history that unfolds over many decades. It is a fable told through a constantly shifting cast of characters, all drawn into the world of a machine that slowly alters every life it touches.
But in this unending quest for progress, what will happen to the things that make us human: the memories, the fears, the love, the mortality? As we push towards a brave new world, what do we stand to lose?
'Such a super novel' Wendy Erskine
'A clever book...that will have you thinking about the machines in your own life' Sunday Times
Appliance is a work of peculiar genius that gives the truth about modern technology. * The Times, *Sci-Fi Book of the Year* *
A serious-minded examination of the instinctive human ambivalence towards innovation. * Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2022* *
Smart, subtle and blissfully jargon-free sci-fi stories from one of Britain's most acclaimed poets. * Daily Telegraph, *Summer Reads of 2022* *
[With] poetic precision...Appliance most succeeds is in its little riot of the real in the face of digital abstraction. * Times Literary Supplement *
A clever book, delivered confidently, that will have you thinking about the machines in your own life. * Sunday Times *
ISBN: 9781529115949
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm
Weight: 149g
208 pages