The
future is bright…or is it?
Step into a high-tech vision
of the future with the author of Quantum
Confessions and Fluence, Stephen Oram.
Featuring health-monitoring
mirrors, tele-empathic romances and limb-repossessing bailiffs, Eating Robots explores the collision of
utopian dreams and twisted realities in a world where humanity and technology
are becoming ever more intertwined.
Sometimes funny, often
unsettling, and always with a word of warning, these thirty sci-fi shorts will
stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page.
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Stephen Oram writes thought provoking stories that mix
science fiction with social comment, mainly in a recognisable near-future. He
is the Author in Residence at Virtual Futures', once described as the
'Glastonbury of cyberculture'. He has collaborated with scientists and
future-tech people to write short stories that create debate about potential
futures, most recently with the Human Brain Project and Bristol Robotics
Laboratory as part of the Bristol Literature Festival.
As a teenager he was heavily influenced by the ethos of punk.
In his early twenties he embraced the squatter scene and was part of a
religious cult, briefly. He did some computer stuff in what became London's
silicon roundabout and is now a civil servant with a gentle attraction to
anarchism.
He has two published novels - Quantum Confessions and Fluence
- and several shorter pieces.
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My review:
A collection of sharp little short stories, or episodes, set in the near
and pretty horrible future. It’s not absolutely clear if it is one future
vision or several related ones, but it’s certainly fairly dystopian in a way
that makes it all too clear how we got there from here. These stories will make
you think, shudder, and perhaps even modify some of your behaviour, just in
case … Included at the end are several responses to the questions asked by some
of the stories, submitted by academics, which makes an interesting if
unexpected counterpoint to the stories themselves. Well-written and
disturbingly imagined, these stories will live with me for a while. Definitely worth reading.
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