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鈥淭his is who I am. And it鈥檚 beautiful and mundane and miraculous and so fragile, and you weep with appreciation and grief of yourself and for all things. The clicks and the fleeting vision of the self melts away. Your tears become tears of rage, then tears of frustration because you know you are being manipulated, that the clicks are not of you. The clicks are lies. You will have to remember, force yourself to remember, to gouge rough, painful troughs into your mind so that you remember everything going forward. It鈥檚 all lies.鈥� 鈥� 鈥淒ead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep,鈥� by Paul Tremblay

Paul Tremblay is a well-known award-winning horror writer and author of 鈥淎 Head Full of Ghosts鈥� and 鈥淭he Cabin at the End of the World.鈥� In his latest novel, he pushes his boundaries, moving into the world of dystopian science fiction with 鈥淒ead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep.鈥� 

Tremblay used the classic 1968 science fiction book by Philip K. Dick, 鈥淒o Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?鈥� as the base for the novel. The 1982 movie 鈥淏lade Runner," starring Harrison Ford, is based off of Dick鈥檚 novel, a dystopian sci-fi story where Earth has been damaged by a nuclear global war. The Earth is so radioactive that the majority of animal species are extinct. Only the people who are well-off can afford to own real animals, and the poor can only afford electric imitations of animals.

Tremblay鈥檚 鈥淒ead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep鈥� is the story of a former semiprofessional gamer named Julia Flang who works two mediocre jobs and lives with an uncle she lovingly refers to as Uncle Fun. Her estranged mother, a CFO of a large tech company, contacts her with a job offer that Julia cannot really say no to.

The job seems simple. She must use a controller built into a cellphone to get a man in a coma from the West Coast to the East Coast. Julia calls her subject 鈥淏ernie鈥� after the movie 鈥淲eekend at Bernie鈥檚.鈥� She must maneuver him through cars, crowded airports and onto two planes by using this controller.

The novel鈥檚 chapters alternate from Julia to You (Bernie鈥檚 chapters are titled 鈥淵ou.鈥�) Bernie is being controlled by an AI device that is planted in his head, allowing Julia to control him. As the book moves along, we see Bernie developing a stronger consciousness, becoming more aware that he is being controlled. This story delves into the embodiment of self, memory and the discovery of autonomy.

鈥淒ead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep鈥� is a warning sign of technologies and their grip on our minds and bodies. It鈥檚 also a cautionary tale on the effects of AI and the fear that AI robots can possibly be humans and can reshape society as we know it. In the end there is still humanity and an understanding that humans are also capable of breaking the technological strongholds that control our lives.

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