Naomi Alderman

Gebundenes Buch

The Future

Beschreibung

"When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she's surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her father s fox and rabbit sermon once a parable to her are starting to come true, how much future is actually left? Across the world, in a mall in Singapore, Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, flees from an assassin. She s cornered, desperate and worst of all might die without ever knowing what's going on. Suddenly, a remarkable piece of software appears on her phone telling her exactly how to escape. Who made it? What is it really for? And if those behind it can save her from danger, what do they want from her, and what else do they know about the future? Martha and Zhen s worlds are about to collide. An explosive chain of events is set in motion. While a few billionaires assured of their own safety lead the world to destruction, Martha s relentless drive and Zhen s insatiable curiosity could lead to something beautiful or the cataclysmic end of civilization."--

Autor

Naomi Alderman is the bestselling author of The Power, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and was chosen as a book of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and was recommended as a book of the year by both Barack Obama and Bill Gates. As a novelist, Alderman has been mentored by Margaret Atwood via the Rolex Arts Initiative, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and her work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. As a video games designer, she was lead writer on the groundbreaking alternate reality game Perplex City, and is cocreator of the award-winning smartphone exercise adventure game Zombies, Run!, which has more than 10 million players. She is professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University. She lives in London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781668025680
• ISBN-10: 166802568X
• Artikelnr.: 67612958

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'Gripping' Margaret Atwood

'Compelling' The Financial Times

'Alderman has crafted characters readers will want to follow wherever they go-even to the end of the world. A smart, engrossing fable about digital technology and human community' Kirkus Starred Review

'Immensely readable' Washington Post

'Alderman has gone from promising young author to publishing phenomenon, a writer gifted with the double Midas touch of commercial success and literary prestige ... Alderman is a fabulous, witty writer on the digital world' Sunday Times

'This is a terrific novel that, for all its dystopian elements, may even make you optimistic about what lies ahead' SFX

Magazine

'The endless intrigue and surprising twists keep the pages turning' Publishers Weekly

'Playful, incisive, horribly relevant and surprisingly hopeful, The Future is a thrill ride that's also a powerful manifesto. A little Atwood, a little Gibson, all Alderman, it's brilliant and I loved it' Lauren Beukes, bestselling author of The Shining Girls

'It is the genius of Naomi Alderman to embed a smart and thought-provoking meditation inside a page-turner of a book. This is one wild (and thoughtful) ride' Karen Joy Fowler, bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

'How can a novel of big ideas be such compulsively readable entertainment? A nail-biting love story and a witty page-turner about the pros and cons of human civilization, The Future is a wow' Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room

'The Future couldn't be more timely, or more welcome ... a rollicking, fun-packed thriller with juicy stakes, constantly escalating twists, and a cast of characters who feel like they already exist somewhere out there in our fragile, free-wheeling present' Alastair Reynolds, author of Eversion