Appliance

Appliance is a work of peculiar genius that gives the truth about modern technology. * The Times, Sci-Fi Book of the Year *
A serious-minded examination of the instinctive human ambivalence towards innovation. * Financial Times, Summer Reads of 2022 *
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 *
A clever book, delivered confidently, that will have you thinking about the machines in your own life. * Sunday Times *
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 *
These deceptively simple tales… reveal how magical technology does people absolutely no good whatsoever… superb. * The Times, Science Fiction Book of the Month *
Such a super book. – Wendy Erskine, author of Sweet Home and Dance Move
Compelling… sketched with acid precision… Morgan’s real skill is in finding the poetry of the conundrum – Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *
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 *

J. O. Morgan is a Scottish author. His 2018 work Assurances, looking at the RAF’s early involvement with maintaining the nuclear deterrent, won that year’s Costa Poetry Award. He has been twice shortlisted for both the Forward and the T. S. Eliot Prize. Appliance is his second novel.

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