Every Version of You
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verve Books
Publishing:22nd May '25
£10.99
This title is due to be published on 22nd May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
In late-twenty-first-century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside an immersive, consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile, their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments.
Across the city, in the abandoned real world, Tao-Yi's mother remains stubbornly offline, dwindling away between hospital visits and memories of her earlier life in Malaysia.
When a new technology is developed to permanently upload a human brain to Gaia, Tao-Yi must decide what is most important: a digital future or an authentic past.
Visceral, mind-bending and tender -- INGA SIMPSON, Author of The Last Woman in the World
With an intriguing blend of cli-fi, philosophy of mind and transhumanist themes, Grace Chan's novel delivers striking science fiction steeped in absurdity and dystopian menace * SYDNEY MORNING HERALD *
It's like ReadyPlayerOne meets StationEleven and Ex Machina, and it's the book I can't stop thinking about this year * TIME OUT *
Confronting what might one day be left on a ruined, 'offline' Earth is a powerful way to refocus the lens on the world we are presently creating, and the politics informing what we build - whether it's from bricks or code * GUARDIAN *
A meditative, gorgeous, endlessly imaginative take on the future of virtual reality and what it means to be human, as well as a deeply tender story of love and the immigrant experience... A transcendent debut -- GRACE D LI, author of Portrait of a Thief
ISBN: 9780857309150
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
288 pages