Several People Are Typing is the first novel I've read that feels written of, about, and inside the internet. Several People Are Typing is a dirge for bureaucracy told by one of the funniest new writers * Hilary Leichter * It asks the important questions, like what it means to be a person, but also, what it means to be a gif.
* Liam Brown *Īn existential romp with a wicked sense of humor, Calvin Kasulke's debut novel is a Greek chorus of modern strife, a workplace of woebegone souls. * Pandora Sykes *Ī deadpan allegory for the autocorrect generation - less of a novel, more a full out-of-body experience. It wears weighty themes - surveillance and robot takeovers - so lightly and somehow manages to be touching and funny, as well as eerie and prescient. Why doomscroll Twitter when you can blissscroll this book? * Adam Roberts * Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division ISBN: 9781529358384 Number of pages: 256 Weight: 189 g Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 20 mm MEDIA REVIEWSĪ laugh-out-loud funny horror novel! * The Times *Īn absurd, hilarious romp through the haunted house of late-stage capitalism * Carmen Maria Machado *Ī smooth and funny read that does something smartly original both with the form of the novel and the tropes of science fiction. Hilarious, irreverent, and wholly original, Several People Are Typing is the perfect remedy for any idle fingers waiting to doomscroll: a satire of both the virtual office and contemporary life, and a perfect antidote to the way we live #now. Meanwhile, Gerald's co-workers are scrambling to stem a company PR catastrophe like no other, their CEO suspects someone is sabotaging his office furniture, and if Gerald gets to work from home all the time, why can't everyone? But when Slackbot discovers a world (and an empty body) outside the app, will it hijack a ride into the 'real' world? wherever he says he is.įaced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists co-worker Pradeep to care for his body and Slackbot, the service's AI assistant, to help him navigate his new digital reality. He posts for help, but his colleagues assume it's an elaborate joke to exploit the new working-from-home policy, and now that Gerald's productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from. Whilst working on a spreadsheet for a New York-based PR firm, Gerald has his consciousness uploaded into his company's Slack channel. Is it still WFH when you're now just binary code?
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