Name: Users: A Novel (en Inglés)
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Author: Winnette, Colin
ISBN: 9781593767372

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Colin Winnette

Editorial

Soft Skull

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.3 x 14.2 x 3.0 cm

Peso

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781593767372

Categorías

Ficción sobre distopías y utopías
Ficción humorística
Tema narrativo: vida interior

Users: A Novel (en Inglés)

Colin Winnette (Autor) · Soft Skull · Tapa Dura

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Marrying the philosophical absurdities of life, technology, start-up culture, and family, Users is for readers of Ling Ma, Dave Eggers's The Circle, and viewers of the hit Apple TV+ original series Severance Miles, a lead creative at a midsize virtual reality company known for its "original experiences," has engineered a new product called The Ghost Lover. Wildly popular from the outset, the "game" is simple: a user's simulated life is almost identical to their reality, except they're haunted by the ghost of an ex-lover. However, when a shift in the company's strategic vision puts The Ghost Lover at the center of a platform-wide controversy, Miles becomes the target of user outrage, and starts receiving a series of anonymous death threats. Typed notes sealed in envelopes with no postage or return address, these persistent threats push Miles into a paranoid panic, blurring his own sense of reality, catalyzing the collapse of his career, his marriage, and his relationship with his children. The once-promising road to success becomes a narrow set of choices for Miles, who, in a last ditch effort to save his job, pitches his masterpiece, a revolutionary device code-named the Egg, which will transform the company. The consequences for Miles seal him inside the walls of his life as what was once anxiety explodes into devastating absoluteness. In a world rife with the unchecked power and ambition of tech, Users investigates--with both humor and creeping dread--how interpersonal experiences and private decisions influence the hasty developments that have the power to permanently alter the landscape of human experience.