A Strange and Brilliant Light: Winner of the Writers’ Guild Best First Novel Award
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- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
10 May 2022
Summary
WINNER of the WRITERS’ GUILD BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD: A riveting, thought-provoking speculative literary novel exploring the impact of the AI revolution through the eyes of three very different young women.
Lal, Janetta and Rose are living in a time of flux. Technological advance has brought huge financial rewards to those with power, but large swathes of the population are losing their jobs to artificial intelligence, or auts, as they’re called. Unemployment is high, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529407747 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529407745 |
| Author: | Eli Lee |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Arcadia Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 10 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
Important ideas are wrapped in an absorbing, character-driven novel that’s also a thought-provoking consideration of the ways we might cope with something that is already happening all around us. * LISA TUTTLE, The Guardian *
Mind-bending * CAROLE STIVERS, bestselling author of THE MOTHER CODE *
A disquieting take on Big Tech’s plans for the future of work * GWYNETH JONES, author of the Arthur C. Clarke-winning BOLD AS LOVE *
If you like small, intimate fiction that asks very big questions, this is the perfect novel for you * FANFIADDICT *
Smoothly written * FINANCIAL TIMES *
a beautifully written, thought provoking novel * MUSE’S BOOK JOURNAL *
Fans of relational narratives will enjoy the interactions of the three protagonists while there is also intellectual AI debate for those science fiction readers more drawn to ideas over people
* SFBOOK REVIEWS *Lee gives the reader a massive amount to ponder as well as delivering a brilliantly written and absorbing story about some very real people * BLUE BOOK BALLOON *
Incredibly thought provoking * A LITTLE HAZE BOOK BLOG *
This is a thoughtful, interior-focused story…like Ishiguro’s Klara And The Sun
* SFX MAGAZINE *A slickly written and enjoyable novel * SFCROWSNEST *
Thoughtful… provides much food for thought * PAR SEC MAGAZINE *
Lee has created a story that feels relevant and poignant for a world on the brink of automating so many parts of our working lives
* BOOKS IN STEEL CITY *A thought-provoking novel
* THERESA SMITH WRITES *Eli Lee can write description and emotion beautifully
* BOOKS BY YOUR BEDSIDE *Often bleak, A Strange and Brilliant Light is also sad, hopeful, funny, and brilliant, such that I expect to see it on a lot of award lists. This quiet, thoughtful novel, almost entirely led by flawed but amazing women, has a lot to say about the world we’re about to be living in. It will, I hope, inspire many to think long and hard about what we want our future to be like. * BSFA *
About The Author
Eli Lee
Eli Lee was born in Dorset and is now based in London. As well as writing fiction and non-fiction for a variety of anthologies and magazines, she is fiction editor and contributor to literary journal Minor Literature[s] and has also worked for Strange Horizons.
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