Speak
$35.95
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
26 April 2016
Summary
She cannot run. She cannot walk. She cannot even blink. As her batteries run down for the final time, all she can do is speak. Will you listen?
From a pilgrim girl’s diary, to a traumatised child talking to a software program; from Alan Turing’s conviction in the 1950s, to a genius imprisoned in 2040 for creating illegally lifelike dolls: all these lives have shaped and changed a single artificial intelligence - MARY3. In Speak she tells you their story, and her own. It is the last st…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780356506098 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0356506096 |
| Author: | Louisa Hall |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Orbit |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 26 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Tom Thorne Novels |
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Beautifully illustrates the human longing at the heart of our obsession with technology … a hypnotic read - Guardian
Comes out of nowhere and hits like a thunderbolt. It’s not just one of the smartest books of the year, it’s one of the most beautiful ones, and it almost seems like an understatement to call it a masterpiece. - NPRSPEAK is that rarest of finds: a novel that doesn’t remind me of any other book I’ve ever read. A complex, nuanced, and beautifully written meditation on language, immortality, the nature of memory, the ethical problems of artificial intelligence, and what it means to be human.Reads like a hybrid of David Mitchell and Margaret Atwood … a brilliant novelAbout The Author
Louisa Hall
Louisa Hall graduated from Harvard and played squash professionally while working in a research lab at the Albert Einstein Hospital. She holds a PhD in literature from the University of Texas, where she currently teaches literature and creative writing, and supervises a poetry workshop at the Austin State Psychiatric Hospital. She is the author of the novel The Carriage House and her poems have been published in the New Republic, Southwest Review, Ellipsis and other journals.
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