Appliance

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022

J. O. Morgan

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English

Vintage
29 August 2023

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science fiction; Impact of science & technology on society

A novel for our times- the story of how technology and our addiction to innovation is eroding our human rights and freedoms
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*Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022
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From the Costa Award winner, a highly inventive and and humane novel about our relationship with technology and our addiction to innovation.

This is the tale of a new technology, an alternative history that unfolds over many decades. It is a fable told through a constantly shifting cast of characters, all drawn into the world of a machine that slowly alters every life it touches.

But in this unending quest for progress, what will happen to the things that make us human- the memories, the fears, the love, the mortality? As we push towards a brave new world, what do we stand to lose?

'Such a super novel' Wendy Erskine

'A clever book...that will have you thinking about the machines in your own life' Sunday Times

By: J. O. Morgan
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 149g
ISBN: 9781529115949
ISBN 10: 1529115949
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 29 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

J. O. Morgan is a Scottish author. His 2018 work Assurances, looking at the RAF's early involvement with maintaining the nuclear deterrent, won that year's Costa Poetry Award. He has been twice shortlisted for both the Forward and the T. S. Eliot Prize. Appliance is his second novel.

Reviews for Appliance: Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022

Appliance is a work of peculiar genius that gives the truth about modern technology. * The Times, *Sci-Fi Book of the Year* * These deceptively simple tales... reveal how magical technology does people absolutely no good whatsoever... superb. * The Times, Science Fiction Book of the Month * A serious-minded examination of the instinctive human ambivalence towards innovation. * Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2022* * A clever book, delivered confidently, that will have you thinking about the machines in your own life. * Sunday Times * Such a super book. -- Wendy Erskine, author of Sweet Home and Dance Move