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NPR Topics: Home Page Top Stories | 'Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep' is full of beautifully written grotesqueries by Gabino Iglesias
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Paul Tremblay’s latest novel *Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep* is a wildly original blend of psychological, dystopian, sci‑fi and horror that follows Julia Flang, a former semi‑pro gamer stuck in dead‑end jobs, who accepts a lucrative but ethically fraught job: using a controller‑built‑into‑a‑phone to puppeteer a man in a vegetative state (dubbed “Bernie”) and ferry him from California to the East Coast. The story alternates between ordinary, chronological chapters from Julia’s point of view and fragmented, second‑person “fever‑dream” sections that plunge readers into Bernie’s disorienting consciousness, while the narrative constantly interrogates AI‑driven control, the nature of consciousness, corporate greed, and what it means to be human. Tremblay’s experimental layout—boxes, moving text, and meta‑writings that break the fourth wall—creates a grotesquely beautiful, unsettling reading experience, mixing dark humor with big philosophical questions, and solidifies the novel as a top‑tier, innovative horror work that confronts the growing anxieties around generative AI.
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NPR Topics: Home Page Top Stories | 'Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep' is full of beautifully written grotesqueries by Gabino Iglesias
AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.
Paul Tremblay’s latest novel *Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep* is a wildly original blend of psychological, dystopian, sci‑fi and horror that follows Julia Flang, a former semi‑pro gamer stuck in dead‑end jobs, who accepts a lucrative but ethically fraught job: using a controller‑built‑into‑a‑phone to puppeteer a man in a vegetative state (dubbed “Bernie”) and ferry him from California to the East Coast. The story alternates between ordinary, chronological chapters from Julia’s point of view and fragmented, second‑person “fever‑dream” sections that plunge readers into Bernie’s disorienting consciousness, while the narrative constantly interrogates AI‑driven control, the nature of consciousness, corporate greed, and what it means to be human. Tremblay’s experimental layout—boxes, moving text, and meta‑writings that break the fourth wall—creates a grotesquely beautiful, unsettling reading experience, mixing dark humor with big philosophical questions, and solidifies the novel as a top‑tier, innovative horror work that confronts the growing anxieties around generative AI.