{"product_id":"every-version-of-you","title":"Every Version of You | TPB","description":"                                            In late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside a hyper-immersive, hyper-consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. Never Let Me Go meets Black Mirror, with a dash of Murakami surrealism thrown in, this is speculative literary fiction at its best.\u003cbr\u003e'Asks what it is to be human. Visceral, mind-bending and tender.' - Inga Simpson\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nIn late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside a hyper-immersive, hyper-consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise, and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments. Across the city, in the abandoned real world, Tao-Yi's mother remains stubbornly offline, dwindling away between hospital visits and memories of her earlier life in Malaysia\u003cbr\u003e\r\nWhen a new technology is developed to permanently upload a human brain to Gaia, Tao-Yi must decide what is most important: a digital future, or an authentic past.\u003cbr\u003e\r\nNever Let Me Go meets Black Mirror, with a dash of Murakami surrealism thrown in, this is speculative literary fiction at its best.\u003cbr\u003eGrace Chan is a speculative fiction writer and doctor. Her writing explores brains, minds, technology, space, and narrative identity.\u003cbr\u003e\r\nHer short fiction can be found in Clarkesworld, Going Down Swinging, Aurealis, Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, and many other places. She has been shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards, the Norma K Hemming Award, and Viva la Novella.\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThe other version of Grace works in psychiatry. She has a longstanding interest in psychology, neuroscience, consciousness, empathy, ethics, and the mind-body relationship. Every Version of You is her first novel.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nAbout the cover illustrator:\u003cbr\u003e\r\nRachel is an artist and writer who makes comics. Their work has been published by T\u003ci\u003ehe New Yorker, The Washington Post, ku!\u003c\/i\u003e and Australian periodicals like \u003ci\u003eThe Age\u003c\/i\u003e and Meanjin. Rachel's first book, \u003ci\u003eSwimsuit \u003c\/i\u003e(Glom Press, 2018), won a Silver Ledger Award for Excellence in Comics and Graphic Novels. Their next book, provisionally titled \u003ci\u003eWhat You Seek (Is Seeking You) \u003c\/i\u003ewill be published by Drawn and Quarterly in 2024. Rachel is represented by Danielle Binks at Jacinta Dimase Management.\u003cbr\u003e'Visceral, mind-bending and tender. Every Version of You asks what it is to be human. Just beautiful.' - Inga Simpson\r\n                                        ","brand":"Affirm Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42419741950143,"sku":"9781922806017","price":34.19,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/files\/9781922806017.jpg?v=1689643493","url":"https:\/\/www.popweasel.co.nz\/products\/every-version-of-you","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}