Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep
Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable from the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie.
Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesnât like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the worldâs largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia canât refuse. One sham interview later, sheâs offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative stateâone with proprietary AI implanted in his headâfrom California to the East Coast.
To sum up in Juliaâs own words: âYou want me to remote control this dead dude across the country.â In a word, yes. But heâs not dead dead.
Meet a middle-aged man who wakes within a disorienting hellscape filled with monstrous grotesqueries. Worse than the fluid, morphing reality in which heâs trapped, he has no memory of who he is. He certainly doesnât remember getting the rabbit tattoo on his arm. He only knows that he must find a certain person. Who? He canât remember.
Using a cell phone modeled after a video game controller, Julia fumblingly navigates the man she calls âBernieâ from the company campus and onto planes and through one of the largest airports in America. All the while, the man endures an ever-changing and worsening nightmare that offers clues as to who he wasâand who he must track down. And as their two lives intertwine, Julia and Bernie become unlikely allies and fugitives on a collision course with reality.
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep is a heady, horrific genre-bender from one of the most groundbreaking voices in fiction today.
Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable from the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie.
Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesnât like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the worldâs largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia canât refuse. One sham interview later, sheâs offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative stateâone with proprietary AI implanted in his headâfrom California to the East Coast.
To sum up in Juliaâs own words: âYou want me to remote control this dead dude across the country.â In a word, yes. But heâs not dead dead.
Meet a middle-aged man who wakes within a disorienting hellscape filled with monstrous grotesqueries. Worse than the fluid, morphing reality in which heâs trapped, he has no memory of who he is. He certainly doesnât remember getting the rabbit tattoo on his arm. He only knows that he must find a certain person. Who? He canât remember.
Using a cell phone modeled after a video game controller, Julia fumblingly navigates the man she calls âBernieâ from the company campus and onto planes and through one of the largest airports in America. All the while, the man endures an ever-changing and worsening nightmare that offers clues as to who he wasâand who he must track down. And as their two lives intertwine, Julia and Bernie become unlikely allies and fugitives on a collision course with reality.
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep is a heady, horrific genre-bender from one of the most groundbreaking voices in fiction today.
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Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable from the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie.
Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesnât like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the worldâs largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia canât refuse. One sham interview later, sheâs offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative stateâone with proprietary AI implanted in his headâfrom California to the East Coast.
To sum up in Juliaâs own words: âYou want me to remote control this dead dude across the country.â In a word, yes. But heâs not dead dead.
Meet a middle-aged man who wakes within a disorienting hellscape filled with monstrous grotesqueries. Worse than the fluid, morphing reality in which heâs trapped, he has no memory of who he is. He certainly doesnât remember getting the rabbit tattoo on his arm. He only knows that he must find a certain person. Who? He canât remember.
Using a cell phone modeled after a video game controller, Julia fumblingly navigates the man she calls âBernieâ from the company campus and onto planes and through one of the largest airports in America. All the while, the man endures an ever-changing and worsening nightmare that offers clues as to who he wasâand who he must track down. And as their two lives intertwine, Julia and Bernie become unlikely allies and fugitives on a collision course with reality.
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep is a heady, horrific genre-bender from one of the most groundbreaking voices in fiction today.
