Every Version of You by Grace Chan - ISBN: 9781923135314
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Digital utopia beckons: Upload your mind, abandon your humanity?

Every Version of You

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    24 September 2024

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Summary

‘Asks what it is to be human. Visceral, mind-bending and tender.’ - Inga Simpson

In late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside a hyper-immersive, hyper-consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise, and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile their ageing bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments. Across the city, in the abandoned real world, Tao-Yi’s mother remains stubbornly offline,…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781923135314
ISBN-10:1923135317
Author:Grace Chan
Publisher:Affirm Press
Imprint:Affirm Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:24 September 2024
Weight:282g
Dimensions:29mm x 198mm x 130mm
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‘Visceral, mind-bending and tender. Every Version of You asks what it is to be human. Just beautiful.’ - Inga Simpson

About The Author

Grace Chan

Grace Chan is a speculative fiction writer and doctor. Her writing explores brains, minds, technology, space, and narrative identity. Her short fiction can be found in Clarkesworld, Going Down Swinging, Aurealis, Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, and many other places. She has been shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards, the Norma K Hemming Award, and Viva la Novella. The other version of Grace works in psychiatry. She has a longstanding interest in psychology, neuroscience, consciousness, empathy, ethics, and the mind-body relationship. Every Version of You is her first novel.

About the cover illustrator: Rachel is an artist and writer who makes comics. Their work has been published by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, ku! and Australian periodicals like The Age and Meanjin. Rachel’s first book, Swimsuit (Glom Press, 2018), won a Silver Ledger Award for Excellence in Comics and Graphic Novels. Their next book, provisionally titled What You Seek (Is Seeking You) will be published by Drawn and Quarterly in 2024. Rachel is represented by Danielle Binks at Jacinta Dimase Management.

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