Picador jun 2020 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A tour of the lurid fringes of the tech world' - The Times'Entertaining . . . like Louis Theroux channelling Margaret Atwood' - New StatesmanWhat if we could have babies without having to bear children, eat meat without killing animals, have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise or choose the time of our painless death To find out, Jenny Kleeman has interviewed a sex robot, eaten a priceless lab-grown chicken nugget, watched foetuses growing in plastic bags and attended members-only meetings where people learn how to kill themselves.Many of the people Kleeman has met say they are finding solutions to problems that have always defined and constricted humankind. But what truly motivates them What kind of person devotes their life to building a death machine What kind of customer is desperate to buy an artificially intelligent sex doll - and why Who is campaigning against these advances, and how are they trying to stop them And what about the many unintended consequences such inventions will inevitably unleash Sex Robots & Vegan Meat is not science fiction. It's not about what might happen one day - it's about what is happening right now, and who is making it happen. In the end, it asks a simple question: are we about to change what it means to be human . . . for ever.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Reading The Harpy I was utterly spellbound. Her dark humour and pointillist prose puts her in league with Lydia Davis and Jenny Offil.' Olivia Sudjic, author of Sympathy'It's utterly compelling and I read it without pause. So precise and darkly truthful. I thought it succeeding in illuminating - with flair and originality - the damage done by betrayal.' Esther Freud'Both timeless and timely, The Harpy is a taut and lyrical novel about cosily calibrated lives coming spectacularly undone. Compulsively absorbing yet otherworldly, both a fever dream and a gorgeous and alarming howl of rage.' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti'The Harpy is brilliant. Hunter imbues the everyday with apocalyptic unease. A deeply unsettling, excellent read.' Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under'A beautifully written, viscerally disturbing novel that turns the narrative of the cheated-on wife on its head.' Laura Kaye, author of English Animals'In hungry, restless prose, Megan Hunter tears apart the seam between motherhood and the monstrous. She confronts the fear of female anger and asks us what happens when pain that has been swallowed through generations begins to rush to the surface.' Jessica Andrews, author of Saltwater.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Richly atmospheric, by turns coolly satiric and warmly romantic, Alexis Schaitkin's brilliant debut novel Saint X imagines a chorus of voices in the aftermath of the alleged rape/murder of a privileged American girl vacationing in an exotic Caribbean country. Part 'true-crime' thriller and part coming-of-age novel narrated by the deceased girl's younger sister, Saint X is irresistibly suspenseful and canny.' JOYCE CAROL OATES.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The Blind Light is a page-perfect and impeccably structured portrait of Britain's troubled, post-nuclear generations, and the pressures which have both tugged them apart and cemented them together. Stuart Evers has written a powerful and affecting novel which excels at being as true to Family and the personal as it is to Nation and the universal, a rare and potent combination.'Jim Crace, author of Harvest'The Blind Light reads like a British Don DeLillo, telling the social history of Britain through two generations of a family.'Alex Preston, Observer.…