- Published: 29 August 2023
- ISBN: 9781529115949
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 208
- RRP: $22.99
Appliance
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022
- Published: 29 August 2023
- ISBN: 9781529115949
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 208
- RRP: $22.99
These deceptively simple tales... reveal how magical technology does people absolutely no good whatsoever... superb.
The Times, Science Fiction Book of the Month
Superbly unsettling... Reading Appliance, I was put in mind of Asimov's I, Robot, for the way each story sheds light on a different moral angle of the book's world, and of ours... gripping.
Tristram Fane Saunders, Daily Telegraph
Compelling... sketched with acid precision... Morgan's real skill is in finding the poetry of the conundrum
Stuart Kelly, Scotsman
Compelling... It is the Bildungsroman of something inhuman, and it is terrifying.
Scotsman, *Summer Reads of 2022*
A serious-minded examination of the instinctive human ambivalence towards innovation.
Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2022*
A clever book, delivered confidently, that will have you thinking about the machines in your own life.
Sunday Times
Smart, subtle and blissfully jargon-free sci-fi stories from one of Britain's most acclaimed poets.
Daily Telegraph, *Summer Reads of 2022*
[With] poetic precision... Appliance most succeeds is in its little riot of the real in the face of digital abstraction.
Times Literary Supplement
Such a super book.
Wendy Erskine, author of Sweet Home and Dance Move
Appliance is a work of peculiar genius that gives the truth about modern technology.
The Times, *Sci-Fi Book of the Year*
Morgan's real skill is finding the poetry... in this fable-like, compelling novel.
Scotsman, *Books of the Year*
J.O. Morgan's novels are unmissable for their finely-worked prose and conceptual brilliance and Appliance is no exception.
White Review, *Books of the Year*