Bestselling author Kate Mildenhall knows how to craft speculative fiction about big tech that terrifies and comforts the reader in the same breath. She leads Booker-shortlisted author Steve Toltz and debut sensation Mary Colussi in an astute conversation about AI, authorship and just how afraid we should be.
In Touch Grass, Colussi drives us to the extreme possibilities of our present moment, tracing the chronic disembodiment of Charlie — a young woman who deletes other people’s worst moments for a living — as her own consciousness starts spontaneously ejecting from her body.
Meanwhile, Toltz’s protagonist in A Rising of the Lights loses his job to an AI system, inciting an audacious comic lament for a world that no longer knows itself.
From the Booker-shortlisted author, an audacious comic lament for a world that no longer knows itself.
