Wolves
by Ings, Simon
Published by : Gollancz (London) Physical details: 295 Pages 15x23 cm | PB ISBN:9780575119734. Year: 2014| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Fiction | Fiction | 823.92 I44W 2014 (Browse shelf) | Available | 39493 |
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English Fiction.
The new novel from Simon Ings is a story that balances on the knife blade of a new technology. Augmented Reality uses computing power to overlay a digital imagined reality over the real world. Whether it be adverts or imagined buildings and imagined people with Augmented Reality the world is no longer as it appears to you, it is as it is imagined by someone else. Ings takes the satire and mordant satirical view of J.G. Ballard and propels it into the 21st century.
Two friends are working at the cutting edge of this technology and when they are offered backing to take the idea and make it into the next global entertainment they realise that wolves hunt in this imagined world. And the wolves might be them.
A story about technology becomes a personal quest into a changed world and the pursuit of a secret from the past. A secret about a missing mother, a secret that could hide a murder. This is no dry analysis of how a technology might change us, it is a terrifying thriller, a picture of a dark tomorrow that is just around the corner.
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