We Are Satellites
Autor Sarah Pinskeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 mai 2021
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781984802606
ISBN-10: 1984802607
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 142 x 209 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC
ISBN-10: 1984802607
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 142 x 209 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC
Notă biografică
Sarah Pinsker's Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon Award-winning short fiction has appeared in Asimov's and F&SF, as well as numerous other magazines, anthologies, and translation markets. She is a singer/songwriter who has toured behind four albums on various independent labels. She lives with her wife in Baltimore, Maryland.
Caracteristici
Short story collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea won the 2020 Philip K. Dick Award. Will be published by HoZ in Oct 2020.
Recenzii
Pinsker's newest is a carefully crafted sci-fi web stretched over an intensely human core... Issues of discrimination, ableism, transparency, and more weave together to create an intricately told cautionary tale'
A fascinating novel that explores how technologies can transform family dynamics
Pinsker's meticulous research and melodious prose bring readers to the heart of a family and the challenges of societal expectations, technology, and the desire to advance without fully understanding the consequences
A compassionate, richly textured look at how one ordinary family deals with the next wave in productivity technology... Best of all, the novel's futuristic premise feels as realistic and lived-in as its characters' love for one another'
A deeply empathetic story of a family struggling with everyday impossibilities. We Are Satellites will drill a tiny - entirely painless - aperture in the side of your skull, snake its way inside, and rewire how you think about the lines between yourself, technology, and those we love
This is science fiction as domestic slice of life; a gripping, believable immersion in the day after tomorrow
A book that poses interesting questions and does it with great poise itself. Wonderfully written with a realistic feeling family at the centre
A smart, sensitive unpacking of the personal, political and social assumptions that go into the development and promotion of new devices. It's all the more powerful for being painfully ordinary, down to Val blaming herself for not resisting a technology she knows will harm her family
Watching these intriguing and imperfect family members finding a way to bring their orbits together is what We Are Satellites is really about. It's such a deeply humane portrait of a family that it barely needs its SF at all - even though the SF provides an unnervingly credible hint of what challenges families might face in the not-too-distant future, if we aren't quite there already
Very clever... SF which examines the effects of a particular change on a society has a long history and this book is an outstanding, intelligent addition to that category. If there is any justice, it should be appearing in future Award lists. I'm definitely looking forward to reading more of this author's work'
A slow-burning novel... This is a book about technology with a very human core. It's a quietly compelling novel that will leave you looking at your relationship with technology with a fresh pair of eyes (but not bionic ones)'
A fascinating novel that explores how technologies can transform family dynamics
Pinsker's meticulous research and melodious prose bring readers to the heart of a family and the challenges of societal expectations, technology, and the desire to advance without fully understanding the consequences
A compassionate, richly textured look at how one ordinary family deals with the next wave in productivity technology... Best of all, the novel's futuristic premise feels as realistic and lived-in as its characters' love for one another'
A deeply empathetic story of a family struggling with everyday impossibilities. We Are Satellites will drill a tiny - entirely painless - aperture in the side of your skull, snake its way inside, and rewire how you think about the lines between yourself, technology, and those we love
This is science fiction as domestic slice of life; a gripping, believable immersion in the day after tomorrow
A book that poses interesting questions and does it with great poise itself. Wonderfully written with a realistic feeling family at the centre
A smart, sensitive unpacking of the personal, political and social assumptions that go into the development and promotion of new devices. It's all the more powerful for being painfully ordinary, down to Val blaming herself for not resisting a technology she knows will harm her family
Watching these intriguing and imperfect family members finding a way to bring their orbits together is what We Are Satellites is really about. It's such a deeply humane portrait of a family that it barely needs its SF at all - even though the SF provides an unnervingly credible hint of what challenges families might face in the not-too-distant future, if we aren't quite there already
Very clever... SF which examines the effects of a particular change on a society has a long history and this book is an outstanding, intelligent addition to that category. If there is any justice, it should be appearing in future Award lists. I'm definitely looking forward to reading more of this author's work'
A slow-burning novel... This is a book about technology with a very human core. It's a quietly compelling novel that will leave you looking at your relationship with technology with a fresh pair of eyes (but not bionic ones)'
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From award-winning author Sarah Pinsker comes a novel about one family and the technology that divides them.Get one - or get left behind. Val and Julie just want what's best for their kids, David and Sophie. So when David comes home from school begging for a new brain implant to help with his studies, they're torn.
Julie grew up poor and knows what it's like to be the only kid in school without the new technology, but Val is terrified by the risks and the implications. Soon, everyone at Julie's work has the implant and she's struggling to keep pace. It's clear that she'll have to get one too if she's not to be left behind.
Before long, Val and Sophie are the only two in the family without the device, and part of an ever-shrinking minority in their town. With government subsidies and no apparent downside, why would anyone refuse?But Sophie can't shake the feeling that something sinister is going on behind the scenes and she's going to do whatever it takes to find out - even if it pits her against a powerful tech company and the people she loves most.