![]() ![]() She won a Pulitzer for A Visit From the Goon Squad I hope this book “wins another”.Ĭorsaid 352pp £20 The Week Bookshop £15.99 The Week Bookshop ![]() ![]() What “really astounds is the visual brilliance of Egan’s writing across these disparate tales”. But this is essentially a book of short stories, and most of them are excellent and “brain-stretching”. The sci-fi aspects of the book are neither new nor “particularly fully realised”, said Andrew Billen in The Times: memory uploads have been tackled better elsewhere. But at its centre is a new figure: the “Mark Zuckerberg-like” Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, has created an “implausible” device known as Own Your Unconscious, which lets users upload their own and other people’s memories, and “watch them all like movies”.
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