Speak - Softcover

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Louisa Hall grew up in Philadelphia. After graduating from Harvard, she played squash professionally while finishing her premedical coursework and working in a research lab at the Albert Einstein Hospital. She holds a PhDin literature from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Trinity and Speak and lives in New York.

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She cannot run. She cannot walk. She cannot even blink. As her batteries run down for the final time, all she can do is speak. Will you listen?

Speak is the story of artificial intelligence; of those who loved it, hated it and created it. Spanning geography and time, the novel takes us from Alan Turing's conviction in the 1950s to a Silicon Valley prodigy imprisoned in 2040 for creating illegally lifelike dolls. From a pilgrim girl writing her diary to a traumatised child exchanging messages with a software program; all these lives have shaped and changed a single artificial intelligence: MARY3. In Speak, she tells you their story, and her own. It is the last story she will ever tell, spoken both in celebration and also warning, a warning against creating and abandoning beings with the ability to feel as deeply as we do.

When machines learn to speak, who decides what it means to be human?

"Speak is that rarest of finds: a novel that doesn't remind me of any other book I've ever read. A complex, nuanced, and beautifully written meditation on language, immortality, the nature of memory, the ethical problems of artificial intelligence"
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL, author of Station Eleven

"Speak reads like a hybrid of David Mitchell and Margaret Atwood; a literary page-turner that spans four centuries and examines the idea of who and what we define as human. Louisa Hall has written a brilliant novel"
PHILIPP MEYER